Let me tell you a tale. A tale of one person's idiocy. That person is me.

I recently started using Myspace because of my brother. I decided to join the CompUSA group and met other disgruntled employees of CompUSA. Let me give you a background before I tell you the story:

In this immediate area there are two stores, one in Orlando (where I work) and another in Altamonte Springs, about 25-30 minutes away from here. When I introduced myself as somebody from Orlando, one guy started going on about how "we sucked donkey ****", etc. and that the only cool person was one of the managers. Well, I posted a reply to him saying that he was probably bitter (seeing as we were almost always #1 in the region, and the top 25 stores in the company.) I also mentioned that my boss, Ryan, was a nutjob. Jokingly, of course.

That was my mistake.

I came in today, and he said something to the effect of "If you're going to tell me to look at myspace, don't write shit about me!" At first I was a bit confused, and then when he told me, I swear I turned beet red. I explained to him that it was a friendly jab. And besides, he's called me worse. Hell, he's flipped me off more than once.

See, the thing about Ryan is, he's pretty cool. I've never had a manager quite like him. And he's also insane. By insane, I mean on halloween when we were closing he donned a huge black wig. Or on Monday when my friend Shafik and I were in laptop lockup with him, he started humming and singing for no apparent reason. Those are the reasons why I called him a nutjob. XD It's a good "nutjob" though, ha.

I'm grateful to have a manager like him. Most of the managers back in Melbourne are complete slugs compared to the ones here. And I haven't gotten a performance review ever since my 90th day review at October of 03, and I'm supposed to have one every June 26th on my hiring anniversary.

Well, to conclude this, I'm sure he knew the whole time that I didn't mean any harm. In fact, he seemed to have been laughing the entire time. But be warned -- I probably lucked out this time. Be careful what you say on the Internet, because nine times out of ten, somebody will find it. And if they do, you might not get as lucky as I did.

This has been a public service announcement from a red-faced idiot that was caught red-handed. XD