#mike is def her favorite one of wills friends

[literallymikewheeler]

can we PLEASE just talk about how confused joyce probably was during season 3 whenever hopper would shit talk mike

hes over here literally calling mike the spawn of satan and joyce is probably thinking "mike wheeler...? wills mike wheeler...?? the mike that stayed with will for a week straight while he was possessed and in the hospital??? the mike that never gave up on trying to find him even ONCE while he was missing?? the mike that quite literally said befriending my son was the 'best thing he has ever done'????"

[path-of-my-childhood]

USA Today: What Is Taylor Listening To?

Below is the list of all the songs that originally appeared on Brian Mansfield’s USA Today article “Taylor Swift is listening to...” (from November 12th 2008). Article and list of songs can still be accessed with the help of Wayback Machine, if the Flash is enabled in your browser. Enjoy!

A Fine Frenzy - Almost Lover

Acceptance - Different

Aerosmith - Dream On

Alana Grace - Black Roses Red

Alana Grace - Paranoid

Alanis Morissette - Hands Clean

Alison Krauss & Union Station - If I Didn't Know Any Better

Alison Krauss & Union Station - New Favorite

Amos Lee - Colors

Anna Nalick - Breathe (2 AM)

Anna Nalick - Catalyst

Anna Nalick - Forever Love

Anna Nalick - In The Rough

Anna Nalick - Paper Bag

Anna Nalick - Wreck Of The Day (Live)

Aslyn - Be The Girl

Augustana - Sweet and Low

Avril Lavigne - Fall To Pieces

Avril Lavigne - Why

Backstreet Boys - All I Have To Give

Backstreet Boys - Climbing The Walls

Backstreet Boys - Crawling Back To You

Backstreet Boys - Incomplete

BarlowGirl - Never Alone

Ben Folds - Landed

Ben Folds - The Luckiest

Ben Folds Five - Brick

Ben Jelen - Come On

Ben Lee - Catch My Disease

Better Than Ezra - Breathless

Better Than Ezra - Our Last Night

Beyoncé - If I Were A Boy

Beyoncé - Irreplaceable

Beyoncé - Me Myself And I

Beyoncé ft. Bun B, Slim Thug - Check On It

Big & Rich - Holy Water

Big & Rich - Save A Horse [Ride A Cowboy]

Billy Currington - Why, Why, Why

Billy Gilman - Clueless

Billy Joel - Uptown Girl

Billy Mack - Christmas Is All Around

Blake Shelton - Austin

Blake Shelton - Don’t Make Me

Blake Shelton - It Ain't Easy Bein' Me

Blake Shelton - Nobody But Me

Blink-182 - Feeling This

Blink-182 - What's My Age Again?

Blu Sanders - Like the Movies

Blu Sanders - We All Lose It

Blu Sanders - You By Her Side

Bone Crusher ft. Killer Mike, T.I. - Never Scared

Bonnie Somerville - Winding Road

Boys Like Girls - Hero/Heroine (Acoustic)

Boys Like Girls - Thunder

Brad Paisley - It Did

Brad Paisley - Whiskey Lullaby

Brandi Carlile - Fall Apart Again

Brandi Carlile - The Story

Brandi Carlile - Throw It All Away

Brandi Carlile - Turpentine

Brandi Carlile - What Can I Say

Brett Dennen - She's Mine

Britney Spears - (You Drive Me) Crazy (The Stop Remix!)

Britney Spears - Do Somethin’

Britney Spears - Everytime

Britney Spears - I Love Rock 'N' Roll

Britney Spears - I'm A Slave 4 U

Britney Spears - Lucky

Britney Spears - My Prerogative

Britney Spears - Outrageous

Britney Spears - Sometimes

Britney Spears - Toxic

Britney Spears ft. Pharrell Williams - Boys (Co-ed Remix)

Britney Spears ft. Ying Yang Twins - (I Got That) Boom Boom

Brooke Fraser - Deciphering Me

Bruce Robinson - All Over But The Cryin'

Bruce Robinson - Virginia

Cartel - Honestly

Chamillionaire ft. Krayzie Bone - Ridin'

Chantal Kreviazuk - In This Life

Chingy - Holidae In

Chris Brown - Gimme That

Chris Brown ft. Juelz Santana - Run It!

Christina Aguilera - Beautiful

Christina Aguilera, Lil' Kim, Mya, Pink - Lady Marmalade

Ciara - Get Up

Coheed and Cambria - The Suffering

Colbie Caillat - Battle

Colbie Caillat - Feelings Show

Colbie Caillat - Magic

Colbie Caillat - One Fine Wire

Colbie Caillat - Oxygen

Colbie Caillat - The Little Things

Coldplay - Sparks

Coldplay - The Scientist

Coldplay - Trouble

Coldplay - Yellow

Concrete Blonde - Joey

Corinne Bailey Rae - Put Your Records On

Courtney Jaye - Can You Sleep

Cyndi Thomson - I Always Liked That Best

Damien Rice - 9 Crimes

Damien Rice - Delicate (Live)

Damien Rice - The Blower's Daughter

Daniel Cage - Catch Me When I Fall

Daniel Powter - Bad Day

Daniel Powter - Jimmy Gets High

Dashboard Confessional - As Lovers Go

Dashboard Confessional - Ghost Of A Good Thing

Dashboard Confessional - Hands Down

Dashboard Confessional - Rapid Hope Loss

Dashboard Confessional - Secret

Dashboard Confessional - Stolen

Dashboard Confessional - Vindicated

Dave Barnes - Until You

David Banner ft. Magic, Lil Boosie - Ain't Got Nothing

David Gray - This Year's Love

David Mead - Nashville

Deana Carter - We Danced Anyway

Def Leppard - Armageddon It

Def Leppard - Bringin' On The Heartbreak

Def Leppard - Foolin'

Def Leppard - Hysteria

Def Leppard - Let's Get Rocked

Def Leppard - Love Bites

Def Leppard - Miss You In A Heartbeat

Def Leppard - Photograph

Def Leppard - Pour Some Sugar On Me

Def Leppard - Rocket

Del Amitri - Roll To Me

Dem Franchize Boyz - Ridin' Rims

Dem Franchize Boyz ft. Peanut & Charlay - Lean Wit It, Rock Wit It

Diana Anaid - Last Thing

Dido - Here With Me

Divinyls - I Touch Myself

Dixie Chicks - Cold Day in July

Dixie Chicks - Cowboy Take Me Away

Dixie Chicks - Easy Silence

Dixie Chicks - Godspeed (Sweet Dreams)

Dixie Chicks - Goodbye Earl

Dixie Chicks - Long Time Gone

Dixie Chicks - Lullaby

Dixie Chicks - Not Ready To Make Nice

Dixie Chicks - Top of the World

Dwight Yoakam - The Back Of Your Hand

Eagle-Eye Cherry - Save Tonight

Eamon - I Don't Want You Back

Emerson Drive - Fall Into Me

Eminem - Lose Yourself

En Vogue - Don't Let Go

Enrique Iglesias - Bailamos

Eva Cassidy - Songbird

Faith Hill - The Lucky One

Faith Hill - This Kiss

Fall Out Boy - Grand Theft Autumn

Fall Out Boy - Sugar, We're Goin Down

Family Force 5 - Love Addict

Fastball - Out Of My Head

Fefe Dobson - 8x10

Fefe Dobson - Bye Bye Boyfriend

Fefe Dobson - Don't Let It Go to Your Head

Fefe Dobson - Everything

Fefe Dobson - Revolution Song

Fefe Dobson - Rock It 'Til You Drop It

Fefe Dobson - Stupid Little Love Song

Fefe Dobson - Take Me Away

Foo Fighters - Best Of You

Fort Minor ft. Holly Brook & Jonah Matranga - Where'd You Go

Fountains of Wayne - All Kinds of Time

Frankie J ft. Baby Bash - Obsession (No Es Amor)

Gabrielle - Out Of Reach

Gary Allan - Life Ain't Always Beautiful

Gary Allan - Nickajack Cave

Gary Allan - Promise Broken

Gary Burr - What Mattered Most

Gavin DeGraw - (Nice to Meet You) Anyway

Gavin DeGraw - Belief

Gavin DeGraw - Chariot

Gavin DeGraw - Chemical Party

Gavin DeGraw - Follow Through

Gavin DeGraw - I Don't Want To Be

Gavin DeGraw - Just Friends

Gavin DeGraw - Meaning

Gavin DeGraw - More Than Anyone

Gavin DeGraw - Overrated

George Strait - Blue Clear Sky

George Strait - Carrying Your Love With Me

George Strait - Heartland

George Strait - I Can Still Make Cheyenne

George Strait - One Night At A Time

George Strait - Run

George Strait - The Best Day

Gin Blossoms - Found Out About You

Goo Goo Dolls - Here Is Gone

Goo Goo Dolls - Iris

Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc.

Grace Potter And The Nocturnals - Apologies

Gwen Stefani - Hollaback Girl

Gwen Stefani - The Sweet Escape

Heidi Newfield - Johnny And June

Hellogoodbye - Here In Your Arms

Hillary Lindsey - Over You

Hinder - Better Than Me

Hinder - Lips Of An Angel

Hope Partlow - Don't Go

Howie Day - Collide

Howie Day - She Says

Ingrid Michaelson - The Way I Am

Jack Ingram - Hold On

Jack Ingram - Make A Wish (Coming Home Again)

Jack Ingram - Maybe She'll Get Lonely

Jack Ingram - Measure Of A Man

Jack Johnson - Better Together

Jack Johnson - Good People

Jack Johnson - Taylor

Jake Owen - Eight Second Ride

Jake Owen - Ghosts

Jake Owen - Hard Not To Love You

Jake Owen - Startin' With Me

James Blunt - Carry You Home

James Blunt - Goodbye My Lover

James Blunt - You’re Beautiful

Jann Arden - Insensitive

Jason Aldean - Why

Jason Mraz - I’m Yours

JAY-Z ft. UGK - Big Pimpin'

Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah

Jem - 24

Jesse McCartney - Beautiful Soul

Jesse McCartney - Just So You Know

Jesse McCartney - The Best Day Of My Life

Jessica Andrews - Baby To Love You Once

Jessica Andrews - More To Me Than You

Jessica Andrews - More To Me Than You (acoustic)

Jessica Andrews - Second Sunday

Jet - Look What You've Done

Jewel - Good Day

Jewel - You Were Meant For Me

Jimmy Eat World - Hear You Me

Jimmy Eat World - If You Don’t, Don’t

Jimmy Eat World - The Middle

Joanna - All I Want For Christmas Is You

Joanna - Screaming Infidelities

Joanna - Ultraviolet

John Mayer - Comfortable

John Mayer - Slow Dancing in a Burning Room

John Mayer - Waiting On the World to Change

John Mayer - Your Body Is A Wonderland

Johnny Cooper - Everything

Johnny Cooper - Texas To You

Jon McLaughlin - Beautiful Disaster

Jonas Brothers - Burnin' Up

Jonas Brothers - Tonight

Jonas Brothers - Year 3000

Joseph Arthur - Honey And The Moon

Josh Kelley - Amazing

Josh Rouse - It's the Nighttime

Justin Timberlake - Cry Me A River

Justin Timberlake - What Goes Around Comes Around

K-Ci & JoJo - All My Life

KT Tunstall - Other Side Of The World

Kanye West - Diamonds From Sierra Leone

Kanye West ft. Jamie Foxx - Gold Digger

Kari Kimmel - Notice Me

Katie Herzig - Fool's Gold

Katie Herzig - Sweeter Than This

Katy Perry - Hot N Cold

Katy Perry - Thinking Of You

Keith Urban - Better Life

Keith Urban - I Told You So

Keith Urban - Making Memories Of Us

Keith Urban - Somebody Like You

Kelis - Brass In Pocket

Kelis - Milkhake

Kellie Pickler - Best Days Of Your Life

Kellie Pickler - Didn't You Know How Much I Loved You

Kelly Clarkson - Low

Kelly Clarkson - Miss Independent

Kelly Clarkson - Some Kind of Miracle

Kelly Clarkson - The Trouble With Love Is

Kenny Chesney - Big Star

LFO - Every Other Time

Landon Pigg - Can't Let Go

LeAnn Rimes - But I Do Love You

LeAnn Rimes - Damn

LeAnn Rimes - The Right Kind Of Wrong

LeAnn Rimes - This Love

LeAnn Rimes - You Are

Leigh Nash - Last Christmas

Lenny Kravitz - Again

Lenny Kravitz - American Woman

Lifehouse - Everything

Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz - Kings Of Crunk

Lil Scrappy - No Problem

Lil Scrappy ft Young Buck - Money In The Bank

Lil Wayne - Go DJ

Lisa Loeb - I Do

Little Big Town - Boondocks

Little Big Town - Bring It On Home

Liz Phair - Everything To Me

Liz Phair - Why Can’t I

Loretta Lynn - Fist City

Lori McKenna - Your Next Lover

Mandy Moore - I Wanna Be With You

Mannie Fresh - Real Big

Mark Wills - Take It All Out Of Me

Maroon 5 - Harder To Breathe

Maroon 5 - She Will Be Loved

Maroon 5 - Shiver

Maroon 5 - Tangled

Maroon 5 - This Love

Mat Kearney - All I Need

Mat Kearney - Nothing Left To Lose

Mat Kearney - Where We Gonna Go From Here

Matchbox Twenty - If You're Gone

Matchbox Twenty - Long Day

Matt Nathanson - I Saw

Matt Wertz - Everything's Right

Matt Wertz - Red Meets Blue

Melissa Etheridge - I'm The Only One

Meredith Brooks - Bitch

Metro Station - Now That We're Done

Metro Station - Shake It

Michelle Branch - Breathe

Michelle Branch - Goodbye To You

Mike Jones - Flossin'

Mindy Smith - Come To Jesus

Miranda Lambert - Bring Me Down

Miranda Lambert - Greyhound Bound For Nowhere

Miranda Lambert - Gunpowder And Lead

Miranda Lambert - Kerosene

Miranda Lambert - Mama, I'm Alright

Miranda Lambert - More Like Her

Miranda Lambert - What About Georgia?

Missy Higgins - Warm Whispers

Mozella - You Wanted It

Morgane Hayes - If Ever There Was

Morgane Hayes - Lonely Anywhere

Morgane Hayes - Train To Tupelo

Mr. Big - To Be With You

My Chemical Romance - Helena

Nelly - Grillz

Nick Lachey - I Can't Hate You Anymore

Nick Lachey - What's Left Of Me

Nickelback - Far Away

Nina Gordon - Tonight And The Rest Of My Life

Norah Jones - Turn Me On 

Oasis - Wonderwall

OneRepublic - Apologize

Our Lady Peace - Somewhere Out There

Pink - Just Like A Pill

Paramore - When It Rains

Paris Hilton - Nothing In This World

Pat Benatar - Anxiety (Get Nervous)

Pat Benatar - Fire And Ice

Pat Benatar - Heartbreaker

Pat Benatar - Hell Is For Children

Pat Benatar - Hit Me With Your Best Shot

Pat Benatar - I Need A Lover (live)

Pat Benatar - In The Heat Of The NIght

Pat Benatar - Little To Late

Pat Benatar - Looking For A Stranger

Pat Benatar - Love Is A Battlefield (demo)

Pat Benatar - My Clone Sleeps Alone

Pat Benatar - Precious Time

Pat Benatar - Promises In The Dark

Pat Benatar - Shadows Of The NIght

Pat Benatar - Treat Me Right

Pat Benatar - We Live For Love

Pat Benatar - Wuthering Heights

Pat Benatar - You Better Run

Patty Griffin - Burgundy Shoes

Patty Griffin - Christina

Patty Griffin - Goodbye

Patty Griffin - Heavenly Day

Patty Griffin - One Big Love

Patty Griffin - Peter Pan

Patty Griffin - Rain

Patty Griffin - When It Don’t Come Easy

Phil Collins - Can't Stop Loving You

Pitbull - Ay Chico (Lengua Afuera)

Pitbull - C**o

Plain White T's - Hate (I Really Don't Like You)

Plumb - Blush (Only You)

Plumb - Stranded

Rachael Yamagata - Be Be Your Love

Rachael Yamagata - Worn Me Down

Rachel Proctor - Didn't I

Rasheeda ft. Lil' Scrappy - Rocked Away

Ray Charles - I've Got A Woman

Rebecca Lynn Howard - Forgive

Rihanna - SOS

Rihanna ft. Jay-Z - Umbrella

Rilo Kiley - Portions for Foxes

Rob Thomas - Ever The Same

Rogue Wave - Eyes

Ronnie Day - Outside

Ronnie Milsap - It Was Almost Like A Song

Ronnie Milsap - My Life

Ronnie Milsap - Smoky Mountain Rain

Ronnie Milsap - (There's) No Gettin' Over Me

Ryan Adams - Come Pick Me Up

SHeDAISY - In Terms Of Love

Santigold - L.E.S Artistes

Sarah Connor - Bounce

Sarah McLachlan - Fallen

Sarah McLachlan - Stupid

Savage Garden - I Want You

Savage Garden - Truly Madly Deeply

Seal - This Could Be Heaven

Secondhand Serenade - Maybe

Semisonic - Closing Time

Shakira - Don’t Bother

Shakira - Underneath Your Clothes

Sheryl Crow - It's So Easy

Sheryl Crow - The First Cut Is The Deepest

Shop Boyz - Party Like A Rock Star

Sia - Breathe Me

Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars

Snow Patrol - Chocolate

Solange - Sandcastle Disco

Something Corporate - Ruthless

Space Girls - Wannabe

Staind - Everything Changes

Stephanie Chapman - Cowboy, I Tried

Stevie Nicks & Don Henley - Leather And Lace

Sunny Sweeney - Please Be San Antone

Survivor - Eye Of The Tiger

Susan Haynes - Bottle Rocket

T-Pain ft. Mike Jones - I'm N Luv (Wit A Stripper)

T.I. - Top Back

T.I. - What You Know

Teddy Geiger - I Feel Like Dancing

Teddy Geiger - Try To Hard

The All-American Rejects - Dirty Little Secret

The All-American Rejects - Swing, Swing

The Ataris - The Boys of Summer

The Calling - Wherever You Will Go

The Cardigans - I Need Some Fine Wine And You

The Corrs - Breathless

The Corrs - Summer Sunshine

The Fray - How To Save A Life

The Fray - Look After You

The Fray - Over My Head (Cable Car)

The Killers - Read My Mind

The Killers - When You Were Young

The Lemonheads - Into Your Arms

The Spill Canvas - All Hail The Heartbreaker

The Veronicas - 4ever

The Veronicas - Everything I'm Not

The Veronicas - When It All Falls Apart

The Wallflowers - Closer To You

The Wreckers - Cigarettes

The Wreckers - Crazy People

The Wreckers - Lay Me Down

The Wreckers - Leave The Pieces

The Wreckers - Stand Still, Look Pretty

The Wreckers - The Good Kind

The Wreckers - The Good Kind (acoustic)

Third Eye Blind - How's It Going To Be

Third Eye Blind - Semi-Charmed Life

Three 6 Mafia - Side 2 Side

Three Days Grace - I Hate Everything About You

Thriving Ivory - Angels On The Moon

Tila Tequila - I Love You

Tim McGraw - Angry All The Time

Tim McGraw - Can't Tell Me Nothin'

Tim McGraw - Guess You Get Used To Somebody

Tim McGraw - Telluride

Tim McGraw - The Cowboy In Me

Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - American Girl

Tori Amos - A Sorta Fairytale

Trace Adkins - Every Light In The House

Train - Meet Virginia

Trillville - Neva Eva 

Trisha Yearwood - I Don't Paint Myself Into Corners

Tyler Hilton - How Love Should Be

Tyler Hilton - Kiss On

Tyler Hilton - Missing You

Tyler Hilton - Up Late Again

U2 - One

U2 - With Or Without You

Unkle Bob - Swans

Vanessa Carlton - Who's To Say

Vertical Horizon - You're A God

We The Kings - Check Yes Juliet

Wheat - I Met A Girl

Yellowcard - Only One

Young Buck - Shorty Wanna Ride

Young Jeezy - Air Forces

Young Jeezy - Bottom Of The Map

Young Jeezy - Get Ya Mind Right

Young Jeezy ft. Bun B - Trap Or Die

Young Jeezy ft. Akon - Soul Survivor

Young Jeezy ft. T.I. & Lil Scrappy - Bang

Yung Joc - I Know You See It

Yung Joc ft. Nitti - It's Goin' Down

[clusster]

put your music on shuffle and answer the questions abt each artist!

tagged by @awstn !!

because im lame and on mobile the formatting will def be funky sorry!

artist: set it off

what genre are they? uhhh thats hard, lil pop, lil punk, lil rock, some like theatric orchestral stuff, yeet

how long have they been active? shoot i had to google this, 2008

have you ever heard them on the radio? NO AND IM MAD

have they made any new music in the past year or two?: duh midnight

male or female vocalist? male

artist: modest mouse

would you recommend? HECK YEA...

what are your favorite lyrics of theirs? "Good news for people who love bad news/We've lost the plot and we just can't choose/We are hummingbirds who are just not willing to move" from bury me with it

what are their album artworks like? very differing imo

if they stopped making music, would you be sad? eh i dunno, im not a hardcore stan

if you didnt know what they looked like, what would you think? oh man i dunno like normal people ig

artist: marianas trench

how popular are they? apparently pretty popular in canada but when they play my state they play a 500 person venue so... yeah take that as you will

have you seen them live? yes twice! i loved it

how did you find out about them? when i was like 12 or 13 i had an internet friend from canada who suggested them

whats their sexuality? they appear to all be straight

is their music easy to dance to? many songs yes!

artist: thirty seconds to mars

what is their most prevalent instrument used? oh hell i dunno

does your family listen to them? whenever theyre on the radio i guess

are they still making music now? i think so

would you want to meet them? i mean i kinda met jared leto

how represented in your library are they? uhh idk i use spotify. i dont listen very often anymore

artist: lorde

when did you discover them? uhhhh

how many albums do they have? like 2 or something

which member is closest to your "type"/find most attractive? i mean theres just lorde so

have they gone through any lineup changes? no???

is their music more fun or serious? serious for sure

artist: All Time Low

is their genre typical to your taste? absolutely, considering they were a staple of my teenage years

what would a human version of their music look like? i dunno man you tell me

could you see yourself getting along with the members personally? well i dont know them personally enough to say so, since we arent on any kind of terms

did someone recommend this artist to you? no idea

of all their songs, what would you play at a party? probably like lost in stereo or something i dunno i dont consider them a party band

artist: waterparks

how many people are in this group? THREE BEAUTIFUL BOYS

when did they start making music? dont kill me ok i think 2012-2013?

do they have any well known songs (which ones)? uhh i would say like crave, made in america, lucky people, take her to the moon, 21 questions, tantrum. some are more known by stans, but a nonstans would also probably recognize these

do you listen to this artist regularly? probably like daily

how would you describe their music? oh uh. hm. awsten??

artist: patrick stump

do they use a stage name? not that im aware of no

do they regularly make the pop charts? he does when hes with the rest of fall out boy

have you ever met them? nope

if they toured in your city would you see them? oh absolutely yes

artist: linkin park

are they known for anything other than music? they used to do a lot of charity work and mike is a great visual artist

what is their nationality? well theyre an american band but the members are of various backgrounds iirc

are they a guilty pleasure? no bc i dont feel guilty listening

what age group are they most popular in? hm probably like my dad's generation and their kids who are like 15-20.

have they ever toured your location? yes and i saw them when they did

artist: panic! at the disco

do you need to know their personal life to understand their music? not essential no

have they ever gone on hiatus and when? sorta? between a fever you cant sweat out and pretty odd kinda, and between too weird to live too rare to die and death of a bachelor too. i dont think either were official iirc?

what instruments do they use? lotta horns these past albums

what city are they from? las vegas boiii

what are your experiences with their fans? well a lot are really rude or seem to feel entitled to getting what they want at the concerts, some online are also like that kinda but more online seem to be chiller

tag others? i might come back to this part later

[tellemanca]

Under the cut because I’m honestly really upset right now and just need to get it out and it’s okay if you don’t read it. It’s just really pissing me off to the point of tears. Mobile users, scroll quick to skip!

[Names are changed to protect everyone tbh]

Okay, so, at my Job, there’s a whole flowchart of contacts and departments (I summarized it below, tbh)

Basically, in the next 2-3 weeks, I am going to be placed on one of the two teams. I would really LIKE Team 1, because all the guys are absolute NERDS. But I will go wherever I’m told to go, because the two teams share the same space, because we’re all Software so it’s not like I would be far. It’s just the different Account Rep I would work under. I’ve been training with both teams every other day, switching from the Resa (Team 2) and Mike (Team 1) who are both training me to do that team. But it’s actually so I am also capable of backfilling the other team if they are down a member (which we actually are super short staffed in Software, so I’ve been doing backfill on those teams when I’m with them). 

And Software is actually like, the BEST to work for, because we get a LOT of perks with the job (free software, swag, vacations paid for by the vendors if we meet their quarter goals). But also SUPER Elite and small (even smaller with all the people we’re down).

ANYWAYS with that out of the way. Let me tell you a bit about the situation.

So, honestly, I’m working my ASS off. Because they both want me. Like, joking that “When you are on our team...”  to get a rise out of the other, and just passing jabs at each other and it’s really sweet, and motivating me to be the one they want (I asked if they wanted to hunger games it in the aisle with nerf guns). 

And the office manager asked me, the person who had been here for a little less than 2 weeks at that point, to suggest my friends and have them apply, because she wants people who share my drive. I got her three names, adding a few more this week, I’m sure. I’ve been pimping it on my facebook and filtering people and legit saying ‘This is serious. If you are serious and willing to work hard for a great job with great pay, benefits and serious next level perks, then let me know and apply so I can pass on your info so my Office Manager can pull your resume and expedite you to the interview stage.’ Mike is 90% sure I’ll be replacing him when he moves to product management, because I’m absorbing shit like a sponge and taking notes. Mike has the harder job of the two teams and works with the most accounts. So we’re kind of sure, but like I said, I’m willing to go where they want me and where I will best fit to do as much as I can and kick ass at it.

But Sean, the other guy in the newbie pool with me, is not really working as hard, but he’s honestly trying. He’s not doing well with learning the program, even though we had a whole week on it. He is SUPER nice, but he kind of ignores me when his buddy is around (they both came in together). I’m helping Sean wherever I can, but I’m not giving him the answers because he needs to work it out for himself or it will just be this fucked up downward spiral of him not actually being able to use the system.

The buddy, Jake, works in Mid Range, and has already fucked up orders (like, -$40,000 fuck up to the company, and I’m not sure how he managed to place the order since we were supposed to be in the training module) and is an all around fuck boy. He went to my school, I’ve seen him around. He’s a budweiser drinking fuck boy, people. But I really have no reason to be mean to him. Even after everything that happened below -- read onnnnn.

He dropped by to chat with Sean today on his break, I guess (honestly, I didn’t realize 15 minute breaks were a thing until someone told me we had a few throughout the day, mostly I’ve just been running, getting a drink, going to the bathroom and/or coming back in under 5 minutes, or just getting up to stretch my legs for a bit but not leaving the area or just standing at my desk. [they have a stand/sit monitor stand for me to use eventually, which I definitely will get])

So Jake comes by, and asks me how I’m doing. I’m being nice and I said ‘Okay, just trying to figure out this practice quote.’ and he goes ‘Heard you were the overachieving suck up in Software. Word has been floating on the sales floor.’ And I fucking froze and just looked at him for a moment and said “I’m working my ass off, is that wrong?” It went dead quiet. Mike, four desks down from me, fucking loses his shit. Mike’s Account rep (who is super into AOS and TWD and all the same shows I am and we just click really well [why I want to join his team]) fucking starts choking because he’s laughing so hard. Resa, who is on the other side of Sean, covers her mouth and giggles. The lady between Sean and I snorts.

Jake just glares at me, gets up and storms off. Sean mutters a ‘Sorry.’ I say ‘It’s okay.’ And we leave it at that.

We went to a lunch and learn from Microsoft (they feed us, we listen to a presentation about a program they want to offer-- everything is super focused on Wan/nac/ry and Rans/omw/are this week, for obvious reasons). One of the people I’ve made sort of friends with, Don, who is in the small accounts side, calls me to sit with him and we are eating our food and everyone’s chatting and he goes ‘So, you’re kicking ass, huh?’ And I have a fucking brussel sprout in my mouth and nod and kind of smile, because Don saying it THAT way makes it sound like a positive thing (because God Damnit, it IS). And he goes “Sounds like my OM might try and steal you out from your OM, but a lot of OMs are thinking about it. I heard them talking to [the new hire manager] and [the trainers] when they were checking evaluations.” And I just go “Oh. Well, I def want to stay in software, because I don’t have to deal with shipping conditions.” (everything is emailed. I will literally never have to ship something, it is my favorite joke tbh) And he laughs and I compliment his kicking ass, because I’ve heard my OM talking about trying to steal him and some others and we keep going on and eating.

Some of my other sort of friends (I honestly say it like this because we legit don’t work near each other and we’re just starting to chat and I’m sure we will be friends for real later) catch me in the 15 minutes or so we have before we’re supposed to do a meet and greet with execs (who all turned out to be hiring than OMs on the totem pole, but more about that in a bit), and they are just like ‘They said you’re fucking badass!’ And now I’m highly aware that Jake was right and people were talking about me and it spread from the OMs to the other ASRs. But at the same time, I’m hearing my friends are kicking ass, too. People are trying to steal us into their teams while keeping the ass kickers they got. It’s kind of funny. And really flattering.

I brush it off, again with ‘I’m just busting my ass. I need to be good at this job. It’s what I want.’ And then I steal a piece of gum from Rick, because he’s like a damn candy store and he’s probably the one I’m closest with.

My other friend Lee, who is on the hardware side of nationals and also kicking ass because she’s been placed and firmly claimed by her team and has an official desk (I’m floating desks tbh, all my shit is in a box haha), jumps in and she’s just smirking like ‘I think Jake has an inferiority complex when it comes to you.’ And it was literally Rick, Gray, Lee and I all trying to look sneaky over our shoulders at Jake while Patty ACTUALLY turned full body all the way around to stare and Jake is sitting on his phone and being obnoxious and talking at full volume and Sean is just sitting there reading over his notes.

I make Patty turn back around and just shrug because it shouldn’t bother me. But it’s clearly pissed off Lee and now Rick who goes ‘Well, you’re doing really well, and he’s a fuck boy who wants to take your spot, so I think that’s all that needs to be said about that.’ 

Fast forward through the meet and greet. All the execs we met are higher up and on salary in the sales department and explaining moving up in the company and how to go about it, which in short is “Give recognition where recognition is due, even if it’s just a quick ‘thank you’ e-mail to someone to helped you. We support each other. AND KICK ASS AT WHAT YOU ARE DOING AND YOU WILL BE RECOGNIZED FOR IT” and Jake, who is sitting behind me goes ‘Or kiss ass‘ under his breath. I brush it off. I’m writing notes on all of these execs so I can remember them if I see them in the halls and shit AS WELL as taking notes on what they are saying, because it’s brand new info! (You can apply for another position after 18 months, but that doesn’t mean you can’t get a new position before 18 months is up kind of deal. The undertone is ‘officially, you can’t ask for a different position, but we can damn sure put you in one!’) And I have tons of physical thank you notes that I use for real estate and I’m supposed to write 3 a day anyways, so this works out perfectly for me, because no one sends ACTUAL thank you cards anymore (like when is the last time you got one or sent one?) and my Broker has drilled it into my head and I’ve been writing absolute bullshit thank you notes lately to fill the quota.

Then, we go around the room and introduce ourselves. And this is where I know shit is going to go. General things: Your name, what team you’re on, what you did before this.

Like I said, Sean is a sweetheart (legit brought me the Cap pez dispenser from the vendor room before they all disappeared and I couldn’t get one since I went later. I brought him a vitamin water and dippin’ dots when I got to go to the vendor room today.) He stands, says his name and says ‘thank you for speaking to us today’ and says he’s in Nationals on the Software team and the execs nod and smile and say ‘Software is hard as Hell and you gotta work hard on that’.

Then it gets to me, I stand, say my name, that I’m in nationals on the software team and two of the execs both go ‘ah’ right before I say before I worked here I was the personal assistant and office manager to a mobile marine mechanic as well as presently being a Realtor and then sit down. Jake just goes ‘Overachiever’ in a normal voice and a few people laugh and Rick tenses up right next to me and I just elbow his arm. 

So, we’re dismissed, head upstairs, I go back to work. Sean takes his hour lunch (since we don’t clock out for the lunch and learns, but tbh, I need the overtime and I’m allowed to do it, so Idgaf) and Jake swings by, looks around for Sean and goes ‘Hey, suck up, where’d he go?’

I didn’t respond, so he walks over to me and asks me directly and I say ‘I think he took his lunch, I’m not his secretary. He should be back soon though, since he probably clocked out after the meet and greet.’ Jake leaves and Mike rolled his chair over and goes “Hey, don’t let that jerk get to you. If he calls you ‘suck up’ again, call him a ‘fuck up’” And our OM called from her desk “We want you, not him.” And I just nodded and said “Okay.” But it’s not worth it.

After that, I just went back to work, finished the activity we were supposed to have done by Friday and start working in one of the programs and sending stuff over to Resa to review and taking her commentary on things I need to check since I was with her today.

I get an IM on the company Skype/Messenger program that said ‘Hey suck up, tell Sean to mark himself available so I can talk to him’. I don’t click on it to mark it read, I just close it. It’s not worth it. I’m tired. It’s almost 7. I tell Sean that Jake wanted to chat with him, finish my work and send it off to Resa. I check my e-mail. I’m getting ready to leave when Jake shows up to walk with Sean out. He says “SEE YOU LATER, ASS KISSER!” 

Mind you, there’s very few people left around 7. About a 1/4 of what there usually is on the sales floor around say 11am to 5 (shifts are 8-5, 9-6, 10-7 (my shift) and 11-8. But everyone looks and I have my keys in my hand and I was about to clock out and I just froze and looked up at him and said ‘I’m doing my fucking job, what are you doing?’ He looks stunned, Sean looks embarrassed, Mike and the account rep are looking at me worried and I just grab my stuff, clock out and storm out the door and down the stairs and march right to my car and get in. 

But of course, it’s my new car and I’m not fucking crying in it. So I waited until I got home, and then fucking cried for thirty fucking minutes and decided to write this.

This took me an hour and ten minutes to type up and I already feel better. And I bitched in a 40 minute skype call to my cousin who understands the company I work for and resources part of the IT department. She told me to tell him to go fuck himself, or as our Grandma used to say ‘eat pucky and die’

Anyways. 

I’m getting what I want and fuck anyone who thinks that I’m sucking up or being an overachiever for doing what I’m supposed to be doing, working hard and being motivated.