Letter arrived via postal service yesterday. I have been promoted to manager of my department at work! FINALLY!!!!!
My official start date is next Monday, and I will be 7:30 am to 4 pm shift with weekends off. Actually working like a normal human for the fist time in 3.5 years! The best part will be being able to do heavy bench with the guys on Saturdays. I have no doubts now that I am going to bench 500+ by years end.
The downside: up at 5 am every day to get ready for work, but I am a morning person anyway so it wont be too bad after a week or so. Also, I have to wear a tie now. Ugh. I am not the dress up type and I always have a hell of a time finding clothes to fit me. My wife and I were in Old Navy a couple weeks back and we looked for the largest dress shirts they had. They were 3xls, so I figured they had to fit me. I got it on, but almost couldn't get it off. Not even close to fitting me. She got online and ordered some 3xls from a big and tall store with my neck size. I figure those will fit. I hope they will anyway...
I often wonder how men like Donnie Thompson, Chuck Vogelphol, or Andy Bolton find dress clothes.
No lifting this morning. My alarm went off at 530 am and I thought to myself, "why go this early and try to deadlift when next week I can go at 5 pm." Always thinking. Always lazy.
-Rick
Congrats on the promotion!
Posted by: E | March 19, 2008 at 04:19 PM
Rick,
Congratulations on the promotion, but too bad about the whole wearing a tie thing.
Posted by: Brian L. | March 19, 2008 at 05:46 PM
Congrats Rick. More money = more equipment! haha...seriously, well done brother.
Nick
Posted by: Nick McKinless | March 20, 2008 at 06:43 PM
Nice job on the promotion Rick!
Theo..
Posted by: Theo Burrggraaff | March 20, 2008 at 10:53 PM
Congrats on the promotion!
If the collar size is the problem, you can leave that last button undone and use the tie to hold the collar together. It doesn't work on all shirts, the next button down has to be close enough to the collar button or the gap can be noticeable. But on the right shirt it can buy you an extra inch or so. Good luck!
Posted by: AP | March 21, 2008 at 02:48 PM
Congrats on the promotion!
If the collar size is the problem, you can leave that last button undone and use the tie to hold the collar together. It doesn't work on all shirts, the next button down has to be close enough to the collar button or the gap can be noticeable. But on the right shirt it can buy you an extra inch or so. Good luck!
Posted by: AP | March 21, 2008 at 02:50 PM