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Memories of a trip to the mountains
Apr. 30th, 2018 12:20 am
I'm not so good drawing but I like how this page of my bullet journal turned out
I'm not so good drawing but I like how this page of my bullet journal turned out
Mountains, fog and umbanda rituals
Apr. 27th, 2018 08:16 pmSaturday morning. I woke up at 7 am and packed my things. I went to the restaurant for breakfast and to wait my coworkers to leave. Smelly guy was late as usual... I should sleep 1 more hour if I knew it was going to happens. our first stop was Mendoza, the province where the seller lives. They decided to take an alternative road for me to see the mountains.
There are areas where they exploit the mountain to remove rocks and lime. We also could see old mines, those that get inside the cave and they haul the rocks in train cars.
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At night it was foggy. I was very sleepy trying not to fall asleep because my coworker was driving fast and it scared me. For some reason that I don't remember he asked me what my opinion is about him. I told him I think he's very destructive and he lives in his past. He told me the story of his life which included cocaine addiction, alcohol abuse, depression, failed marriage, etc etc etc. I let him talk trying not to give an opinion about things he was saying. In some point he started to cry and I was afraid he lost the control of the van. I asked him to stop the car twice but he said he was ok. He also told me that he has joined the umbanda religion (aka called "sect") but that he is not active now. The few I know about that sect is that they sacrifice animals to wash people body with the bood. There in the news I hear often umbanda leaders raping or killing other people. I wanted to know how much inside this religion he was without he feels I was judging him so I asked him to explained to me what they do since I don't know hat doctrine. For all the things he told me it's clear that he believe on them and he is not so inactive how he wants me to believe. He said he believe he has 3 spirits and those are very fuckers like he is, and he accept that he is spiteful and vengeful person but he said he doesn't make his spirits work. i was very stressed with the whole situation and wishing to get home. I didn't show to him I was worried, and said to him he is a young man and he should get his shit together and try to do something productive and good for himself even if he fails time to time. He said that he admire how strong I am and that he appreciate me so much, then invited me and my daughter to his house when his birthday to celebrate with his family. Oh no, thanks.... I don't want him attached to me.
I got home by 2 am, tired as fuck and very stressed then I went to bed and I slept for 10 hours. On Sunday I had lunch with my sister and niece, then I spent the rest of the day feeling tired and doing nothing
Trade show ending
Apr. 27th, 2018 04:01 pmBefore to write what happened yesterday I want to write how the trip for the trade show went. The second day we woke up early, we had breakfast then we went to a hydropower plant to see a customer. The plant is next to Ullum dam and I enjoyed the view. I took a lot of photos :)
This was one of the place I wanted to visit, here you can do a lot of activities: sailing, diving, windsurfing, kayaking, fishing, wakeboarding, paragliding, horse riding, mountain biking, trekking, etc.
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The meeting at the hydropower plant was fine. Again who saved the situation with his experience was smelly guy, even if we don't like him the guy knows so much. I could not walk around so much because we didn't have all the personal security elements needed to be there but I went inside the room where the turbine engine is.
After the meeting we went back to the hotel, we had lunch then we drove to the trade show area. Smelly guy and the seller were to business meeting room so I stayed alone in the trade show the first 2 hours. I made many contacts there. That day smelly guy took me to the stand of our compititor to talk to them since they came to our stand the previous day (I didn't know it because I was at the cafe drinking coffee :D ). There was a girl who it turned out to be the daughter of the company owner. Her father and her uncle were there working too. She told me it's a family company and they all work together. She's in charge of the Torque wrenchs division. She was very nice to me and we were drinking coffee and talking about how hard it could be working with relatives, controling coworkers, etc. I wish my boss's daughter was so committed to the job :(
At 9pm trade show closed doors so we went to the restaurant for dinner then to the hotel to sleep, I was very tired. Next morning it was the last day of the trade show, hurra! It was bloody hot as usual, and some exhibitors didn't even wait to 9 pm to leave the trade show. There were not many people around so we decided to start to dismantle the stand by 8 pm. We left the place at 9pm though. To celebrate our excellent job we went to an expensive restaurant where we had to wait 1 hour to get the food.... that night I fell asleep by 2 am.
What I can say about these days working away from the office is that coworkers still calling me nonstop for I help them with stupid shit. One of my coworkers called me to tell me "Nati... I just logged in in our system and everything looks different! I don't know where to clik to do a quote now" Oh.. do you remember I told you 3 weeks ago that they were going to update the system and I also sent you the link to log in to the beta system to try and learn it?????. Administrative boss also messaged me to tell me that 2 weeks ago when I sent sellers commission I fogot to send the commissions of one seller. Wait a fucking minute... you got the commissions and didn't pay anything to the guy when every month we pay commission to him, and you didn't realize something was wrong???? and also you wait 2 fucking weeks to ask me what happened when I am out of the office and I can't do anything about?
In the other hand the new seller (he's working with us for 2 or 3 months I think) spoke to me about how he sees the company, what experience he had in other companies, etc. He can't believe that we hire him who has not experience on sales at all. He also can't believe that nobody control what he does, nobody ask to him for the info of the customers he visit, nobody control him how he spend the money of the company. He also told me that the first day he met salesmanager he was about to quit because the arrogant way that sales managment treat him. For 2 days they were together and sales manager hardly ever look at him nor talked to him. He also complain that sales manager push him to sell but when customers need a solution to the problem with our tools sales manager doesn't answer. He ask me to talk to my boss to tell to her all those things because he feels the company will fails in this way... see? I'm not the only who feels like that... but what I can do about? I know this guy will quit in the next months.
The trade show
Apr. 22nd, 2018 11:10 pmOn Wednesday I woke up at 8 am, I took a shower and I went to the restaurant for breakfast. I spent the morning looking for a place to print a label and looking for a post office to ship something that I sold in the auction website. Because someone asked me last Sunday if I had the product in stock I knew that this person was going to buy it where I was traveling, so I took it with me.
I designed for a while then we had lunch. At 2 pm we went back to the hotel to get ready for the trade show. It started at 3 pm and we were a little delayed because we stopped to buy coffee. We got the place and walked in, and instantly we started to sweat... even me! I hardly ever sweat, maybe because my slow and lazy heart, but this time I did. I was wearing a undershit and I had to go to the restroom, take it out and just wear the shirt of my uniform. My two coworkers who have overweight were dying because it was so hot. There was not air conditionar nor fans in he place and everyone was complaining about this. Really the organization of the trade show was terrible. By 5 pm I was fine but the other guys were still suffering because the heat.
The seller, who joined the company a couple of months ago, has not confidence yet to talk to people so the other coworker and I had to support him. I talked to people and explained to them how our tools work, and I also did live demonstration more than once. This always works... when a man see a tiny woman like me doing using a tool to do the work that a muscle man does with a hammer this take all his attention. Anyways we did a good team and everything went well.
The trade show ended at 9 pm. We drove to the city center to buy empanadas in a place that the seller knew and I took photos in the way.
Next to the legislature building there is the public library then one of the museum that I wanted to visit but I could not because it's far away from our hotel and of course it was closed at night.
We bought food to take away to the hotel. I overfeed myself so all I was able to do after dinner was going to sleep.
From Mendoza to San Juan
Apr. 22nd, 2018 09:15 pmAfter picking up the other coworker we take the route 40 and drive to San Juan. This route goes parallel to the Andes mountains. On the sides there are vineyards and olive crops.
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We arrived to San Juan at noon then we went to the hotel to let our things and moved to the trade show to set our stand. When we found our spot it was not in the same place than the plane that we had. They changed the blueprints without tell us and sent our stand in a corner in front of one competitor. I claimed to the people who organized the trade show and they gave me a bigger stand for the same price that we paid, so it was a win.
Weather was 90ºF and the site was very very vey hot. My coworkers sweat so much but they didn't smell :D
This is how our stand looked after we organized it:
We did our best to make it looks good although the problems I had to deal with while sales manager and boss's daughter were organizing this show. If you wonder what our company sell, we sell industrial bolting systems. I love these tools :)
Outside the place there where an exhibition of machinery for mining. The caterpillar was really big but this model is not the bigest they sell.
( Photos )We left the place and went to buy food to a shopping mall by 4 pm. There was a store which sell things from other countries but sadly they didn't have any others markers or pens. After lunch we went to the hotel and I settled in my room.
Since I had to work in designs I went to the lobby of the hotel and started to work in my tablet. My coworkers joined me and every one were working in something.
We had dinner in a small restaurant which is in the other side of the street. I wanted to continue designing but I was so tired that I went to sleep.
