[Sca-cooks] kinda OT, my life and Pennsic

[Kirsten Houseknecht]

oh, right. you folks dont know........

here is a highly abbreviated version. there is a cooking reference in
there....

i had a new age store. aphrodite's dove.  i was 40% owner and heather was
60% owner.
i had repeated problems with her not telling me about the finances until
they blew up in my face. usually stuff i could have fixed if i had known
early...

Feb  (valentines weekend) i went to an sca event in a howling blizzard and
found out that the cell phone (company paid for) had been turned off due to
overdue bills..... when i asked heather how she could send me off out of
state in a loaded van in a snowstorm with no cell phone, she said she
thought she could "fix it before i found out" which is exactly what she had
sworn up and down she wouldnt do again......

i told her to either buy me out, or start telling me what was up with the
finances (this is the third or fourth time i said this in two years)
she fired me
yes she can do that

i made a generous offer of financial setlement (pay me for my loan i took
out the last time i had to bail you out, pay my parents back for the two
times they paid our sales tax bills, and give me a buck for my shares.) she
agreed.

then every two weeks it was "ill have the money next week...."

then in late April it was "dont talk to me or set foot in the store, call my
lawyer"

her lawyer got pretty fed up with her too....

anyway i finally got what i had asked for in the first place in  early June.
so i no longer have any involvement with that store.
just stil paying MY legal bills..

MEANWHILE...

i got a job a week after she fired me as a cashier in a fast food resterant.
got promoted to shift manager
gave my two weeks notice in May
got begged not to quit and promised all the issues would be solved....
they kind of were....

got put to work for a 7 hour shift with no breaks, while i told the manager
i was getting sick and needed food..... (i am hypoglycemic, and they knew
that)
fainted at work
told "not to act like that in front of customers"
quit
got begged to come back by District Manager (who is a fairly cool guy)
reluctantly agreed

got fired the day after pre-reg closed....  for complaining about a food
safety and company policy violation. (details available if you care.. )

the DM has been talking about just moving me to another store in the chain,
but at this point i dont know if i can.. stress levels, you know?

anyway....so its back to being just fabric dragon.
after not pre-regging for pennsic, and skipping at least two conventions
because of the job.


Kirsten Houseknecht
Fabric Dragon
kirsten at fabricdragon.com
www.fabricdragon.com
Philadelphia, PA     USA
Trims, Amber, Jet, Jewelry, and more...

I worry about you, wear a reflective sweater...
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stefan li Rous" <StefanliRous at austin.rr.com>
To: "Kirsten Houseknecht" <kirsten at fabricdragon.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 7:49 PM
Subject: [Sca-cooks] Pennsic


> Greetings Kirsten,
>
> Yes, that timing sucks.
>
> I thought mine was bad. I got laid off in the middle of May when they
> decided to end the program I was on. However, things do appear to be
> much better than they were a year ago. I've had a pair of interviews
> and a number of strong inquiries, but not actual offers yet. Still,
> although I went ahead and registered for Pennsic on June 15, it
> doesn't mean I'll be able to go. Where ever I end up may not want me
> to disappear for a week or two right after joining. But then I
> skipped Pennsic last year for this same reason and I've lost more of
> that "company loyalty" stuff since this last job only lasted nine
> months.
>
> If I don't go, I don't know if there is a way you can get that space
> or not. (I'm registered for the SPCA camp). I sometimes register my
> wife, who never goes, to give SPCA some more room. Now I wish I'd
> done that this year, but I thought that was pushing it a bit this
> year, with being laid off and all.
>
> I think all of your messages made it to the list, even if you didn't
> get them.
>
> I don't remember seeing much discussion on this list about Pennsic so
> far.
>
> And shsssh on no one being here. A week or two ago we were sometimes
> getting 12 digests a day!!! I still haven't caught up on some of those!
>
> Didn't you open a store? Do you still have it? Were you working this
> job as well as the store?!
>
> Yeah, on those addictive merchants. Both in and outside of the SCA.
> Johnna posted a message about a book on nutmeg at Amazon and by the
> time I got through (well, I stopped because of the amount of money),
> I had placed two orders for about nine or ten books in all.
>
> Stefan
>
> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 10:52:16 -0400
> From: "Kirsten Houseknecht" <kirsten at fabricdragon.com>
> Subject: [Sca-cooks] Pennsic
> To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
>
> i cant seem to recieve my emails, and cant get to the webpage to
> change my
> settings, but hopefully this is going out........if you *need* to
> reach me
> cc me off list please.......
>
> i had told most people i would not be at Pennsic because the evil day
> job
> wouldnt give me the time off.
> <surprise>
> the manager fired me the day after pre-reg closed.
> the district manager is trying to have me work at a different store
> within
> the chain, but at this point i dont think so.
> oddly on topic, i was fired over a food taste and safety issue....
>
> anyway, i have asked to be put on the wait list for booth
> space....but even
> if i am not merchanting i have enough friends who need merchanting
> help that
> i could work all Pennsic.
>
> (sadly, the ones who might actually pay me i would still end up owing
> money
> too.. darn those addictive merchants!)
>
> and of course i am now mostly stuck in singles camping unless i get
> space in
> a camp i didnt pre reg for! (growl) timing on that was just too
> "convenient".
>
> so what are the cooks doing?
> potluck?
> classes i should know about?
> Kirsten Houseknecht
> Fabric Dragon
> kirsten at fabricdragon.com
> www.fabricdragon.com
> Philadelphia, PA     USA
> Trims, Amber, Jet, Jewelry, and more...
>
> I worry about you, wear a reflective sweater...
>
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