This week was mandatory 6 days. HQ wanted to fix all the scheduling issues and they figured 6 days was a way to do it. From what my bosses boss said yesterday, this was a temporary thing, since they have to at the same time give a certain number of people time OFF, because we only have so many machines, and it wastes money to have extra people sitting around in a room. So today we get our schedule for next week, and I am slated for SIX days. I check the wall o' schedules and see that that not everyone has six days. What the hell. One of the scheduling complaints was that people who wanted overtime weren't getting it. I don't want it. But now I have it. How did that problem get fixed?
And of course. My day off is Sunday. Fuck. Makes sense since I worked last Sunday and Sunday is 1.5x base rate. But that means I work Monday-Saturday. So I can't go to Ag Progress Days, since I work right in the middle of the afternoon. I can't go to the Genealogy library monthly meeting, I can't go to the monthly LUG. I can't get my hair cut. I won't have time to laundry, which means I'll either have to go naked or buy more clothes ( which I need to do anyway, but being forced to do so sucks ). If my schedule was not in the middle of the god damn afternoon, I could do a lot more of these things. But nooooo, I'm too low on the seniority list to get my preferred morning tour. ( I'd not even complain if I got 6:30a-2:30p ). Ahh Seniority.
Since the first class, which I am in, all started the same day ( although we were hired differently, depending on when the drug test passed )our seniority was decided by management to be by birth month. So I got screwed, since I am a Halloween baby. So one of the union stewards wants to change it and if we vote on it ( 100% needed ) we can change it. Now this jackass, wants seniority to be based on last names, alphabetically. I'm a P. So I'm still screwed. Now what really gets me ( and almost everyone who talks about it ) pissed off is this jackass's last name starts with a B. Well no fucking wonder if wants it that way. Now the logical way to do it is to base it on hire date ( which would be after the second round of tests ). They did a year's worth of testing, so even though I'd get screwed, it's the only really fair way to go about it. Of course some people are against that as well. For whatever reason, I do not know.
A few people said they'd quit if seniority was changed, which seems odd to me, since they imply that they'd think they're schedules would change. Not surprisingly these are all people with kids, who can't get daycare at 10PM. Well. That sucks. I can't go do things I enjoy doing, but you don't hear me threatening to quit. Quit. You'll just move me up on the seniority list. Of course, these people forget that the job description stated "ability to work around the clock" when they applied.
Apparently our sister office in Eastern PA, had a LOT of people quit this past week. The job market in NE PA must be a lot better here, since I won't quit this job until I have another lined up. Or at least til I have some cash saved ( which would be well over a year from now ).
A coworker may be leaving for an IT job with a local company. This company is expanding it's IT department. I need to work on the resume, and hope that he gets hired and they need more people. It'd be internal support, but it's IT, and it's not assholes looking for a ChuckECheese that isn't there ( she had the GALL to ask if I was spelling Chuck right ).
I had a quality review today. My reviewer smelled like Doritos, I hope that was because she had been snacking, but I have a feeling it wasn't. I'm still 'branding' my calls too much. But I have good tone.
Kittens. The second litter, three of them, are mobile. So they're growing up. Now I need to get them all adopted, or at the least to be permanent outdoor cats, since my computer shit was all knocked over this morning, and the kittens shit and piss where they please.
Anyway. Time for bed.
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