People Who Need People Wednesday, October 23, 2002

GayJay is my daytime manager @ Hudson, and he's the best!  I'm actually his favorite new trainee.  That might not be saying too much...  Some of my co-trainee's are a bit on the uh, dim side.   Roxie is a stunningly gorgeous girl but she has absolutely zero interest in learning any of the procedures.  She has somehow managed to get away with not having learned a damn thing during the last 2 weeks of training.  Oh, she's REALLY GOOD @ being personable and social and she has a beautiful smile but if you put her in front of a computer, she'd have NO IDEA what to do and all by her own choosing.  I can't tell you how many times I've heard her say, "I should just stand @ the front area and greet the guests as they wait in line!  There should be somebody who does that, don't you think?  They should pay me chit chat and be social with them, like a PR rep or something.. don't you think?"  *sigh*  Shut up, Roxie.  And get a real name.  She has this irritating habit of talking to me in this baby voice, the way you'd probably find yourself talking to a four year old.  She annoys me almost as much as Mr. Clean (b/c he's tall, brawny, and bald), the bitchy queen who's late every single day.  For some reason, he just annoys me.  He talks in one of those voices that I can only describe as how someone would sound if they were constantly making offhanded, "tongue-in-cheek" jokes.  Roxie thinks he's hysterical, which I'm sure he just RELISHES, since it's every fag's dream to have a beautiful sassy black girl as his Hag.  Whatever, it keeps him off my back so more power to Will & Grace there...  The only other new trainee is Robbie, a 31yr old Fillipino man who I swear looks about 12yrs old.  Robbie's actually very chill and has caught on faster than any of us, but he's got a 2nd full-time job (where he's a union member), and so he's never actually paying attention to anything.  I like him though, he's cool, and one of these days, I will come to terms with the fact that the boy eats rice & DOGMEAT for lunch (no, i'm not kidding).

We all had a formal Orientation today, which was really cool.  There were ppl from other departments there too, so it was cool to meet and greet.  Remember that whole conference-room, slide-show presentation, "Welcome to Hudson!" image that I had envisioned earlier?  Well, this was it.  Jax ran the whole thing and it was so cool to watch her in action.  She's just amazing.  This is a girl who I watched perform a sappy, crappy scene from "Steel Magnolias" in acting class just 2 years ago.  Obviously, Jax was the most ambitious of all of us and her drive led her to the fabulous, Sex&theCity world of Executive Management.  Well, we were all given an in-depth introduction to All That Is Hudson, and it was very fascinating.  We met different department heads and took a tour of the property and were even treated to a private lunch by the hotel chef.  I ate steak --- STEAK!   What am I, suddenly, a king?  It was thrilling!  The entire day was really cool.  I'm a big nerd and I get enthused by shit like this.  If I wasn't excited about working here before, I definately am now.

Sidenote: I heard that GayJay told Jax that I'm his "little star" which was kinda cool made me feel good about my progress.  But I think he might've only said that b/c I sorta remind him of little latin boytoy back in Miami (I've seen the pictures on his desk.. it's sort of a spooky comparison).  Could just be my ego... whatever.  Shut up, Spriteboy.  Okay.

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