it's official
It's official! I hate my job! Actually I don't! I was pulled to the side today by another worker and told to get out of dodge. Not a good sign. I have talked with 4 people and 4 people have told me to look for another job! I actually like my job. especially now. I am in a backroom cleaning, stacking, organizing (not my forte) and kicking ass. Today my boss said she was surprised at how much I had done. I was "ahead of schedule". What the hell? I am sorry that I work and have a goal set to get this shit organized and things that don't belong out of there. I should be done tomorrow if I really kick ass instead of jerk around a bit.
I am rather pissed that I don't get paid more. I am starting a whole new program and building it from the ground up and won't advance or even get paid that much more anytime soon. I now feel like a 9 year old boy in Indonesia...working for pennys a day. I still haven't even worked enough to cover my medical coverage yet. Not to mention taxes.
I will just keep plugging along and unfuck their stockrooms in the meantime. I am really hoping to hear back from that oil place soon. I was called today and was asked to send them my high school diploma. The company doing my background check doesn't leave to many stones unturned I guess. So fingers are crossed with that.
I called the oil place today to write down how the schedule works again. It really isn't too bad but not fun on the family life. The good thing is that I gate fifty-cent pay hike for working afternoons and $1 for working midnights. So there is the potential to be making up to $4 more an hour than what I am making now. Not to mention there is advancement within this place. So I would be getting paid more money as I worked my way up. Plus, the guy I chatted with sounded eager for my background check to come back soon...so maybe I could work for them??
Well, enough about me and my rotating jobs. Just wish me luck and as always I will keep you posted on my wonderful life.
posted by cackmandu at 6:21 PM
2 Comments:
Interesting that all your coworkers are trying to get you to quit, but they don't seem to be making a move...maybe they want your job. Since you are doing so well, maybe you could negotiate a bonus of a certain % of the money you save them after one year. Plus, what are you doing all this for? your family right? Shift work sucks for family life. No amount of money is worth the strain and family time missed with shift work.
And, GO TO COLLEGE!!! The pitance you will save with the oil job is nothing compared to future earnings/savings with a college degree. It took me years to convince my DH that the loss of cash during college would be more than repaid in future earnings, career flexability,improved quality of life with all that extra knowledge rolling around in your brain, etc. He finally listened and is really happy about it now. Major in what you love. Unless you want to be a specialist, people just care that you have a degree. I majored in English with a minor in religion and got a job working with the homeless. My DH majored in history and got a job teaching science. My best friend majored in Peace Studies and got a job as an editor for National Geographic Magazine. You get the idea. No matter how far you can advance at the oil company, there is an end in how high you can go without a degree. Also, moving to another state is easier with a college degree. O.K. I'm done preaching...for now...
February 25, 2006 11:05 AM
None of these people want my job! They all look at the mess that I had to clean up over this past week and don't want it. The thing is that I am not going to be making enough to even support my family! I understand the whole college degree thing and know that all they want to see is that I have a degree.
I am a total underachiver I know this. I mean really how many people like me attend writers groups, watch animal rights movies? Well, maybe there are a lot but I know I am way more capable of doing something better than being a stock boy. I guess we'll have to wait and see what comes my way and how things pan out.
February 25, 2006 11:37 AM
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