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Big changes for me at work. I won a bid on a job after a couple of other people with seniority turned it down. I have mixed feelings about.
Good:
Job security for several months
New job that hopefully I’ll do well at unlike my current job
Bad:
Second shift. Ugh. I’ll see nobody and never see TV shows I want to watch.
Less pay. It’s a pay cut.
Mandatory over-time. For an unknown amount of time I’ll be working 6 days a week with Sundays being optional to work.
I’ll miss my current supervisor the most of the people I work with. I’ll miss a couple of my co-workers too.
I’ll be training on first shift for awhile and then get booted to second shift. I was to start this next Monday but it’s been pushed back to next Wednesday instead. I asked if I could just have Tuesday off instead of working. Nothing like doing third on Monday, was suggested second on Tuesday and then first on Wednesday. So like I said, I’ll just stay home Tuesday.
What I expect to happen with this new job is that I’ll be married to my job which sucks. I don’t expect to see my friends for quite awhile as I’ll be using Sundays to visit my parents. I should make decent money despite a paycut because I’ll be working more hours. If I do both Saturdays and SundaysI should gross somewhere around $350.00 for the two days. I would expect $200 take home from that after taxes. So that should give me some money to get a big screen TV and hire an artist for my comic. I may also work more on my comic quite a bit because everyone will either be at work or asleep during my non-work hours.
I have one week to decide whether to stay at the new job or return to my stamper job. It is unlikely I’ll return to stamping because I truly believe that stamping could lead to health problems related to stress. Although it’s slow as hell right now I’ll eventually have to stamp again since it is my job. Either way I’m stuck wherever I go for 6 months or more. I lose my bidding rights whether I take the job or not. This has also screwed up my call backs rights to my original room. This really sucks because they will be bringing something like 12 people or so back to work there because of the area I’m going to. It wouldn’t surprise me that if I hadn’t won the bid I may have been called back to my old room.
Because it is so slow in my current room I’m paranoid about another lay-off sometime in November. If I go out on lay-off I think I would be out for several months. There are a number of senior stampers that took the voluntary lay-off earlier that would be called back before me. I also haven’t seen a lot of people laid off from other jobs come back at all. So all of that has led me to accept this new position that’ll have a ton of hours and for less pay.
It’s been really slow at work. This was further complicated by our plant in Carlsbad being shut down for a couple of days because of the smoke and fires in California. Carlsbad sends us our orders to print/stamp. People go home left and right. I don’t know how they can afford it. Some people that bitch about money problems go home at the drop of a hat. That kinda kills their argument about needing money.
I’ve been able to get some decent drawing done at work.
Tom Brady of the New England Patriots continues to power my fantasy football team to a 6-1 record in the league I really want to win. In the second league I’m in I just played the guy that has Brady. He also has several of the guys I have on my team in the league I really want to win. So I got destroyed by him. I’m 4-3 in that league and my opponent is undefeated. He also won the league last year.
In the league I really want to win it is because I won the league in the first two years. Because of a then new job I missed drafting my own team and finished out of the play-off’s last year. My team did decently after I jettisoned most of the players drafted by the computer. So I want to dominate the league by winning it three out of four years.
On a different subject, I’m a little bit pissed. I had a big crush on a girl at work. She’s a lesbian but because of rumors I suspected she might be bi. We had a lot of fun flirting but she wasn’t interested in me enough to go beyond it despite my hopes. So now, with me having only a couple of days left in the area she tells me on back to back days that she’s had boyfriends. This after several times of me being told “I like girls” by her with what really felt like a strong hint of ‘I don’t like boys’ in her tone. So now I really don’t know what to think about this person. Her life has a lot of drama in it including getting into a text argument with her girlfriend this past work night. While I still have a slight crush on her I’m actually starting to dislike many aspects of her. She seems to play the victim a lot but also seems to cause all her own problems. She also doesn’t seem to resolve her problems or even really try to. I think I really believe what another friend told me about her – ‘you know she insane, right?’ At this point, I’m inclined to agree.
The Red Sox being in the World Series is pretty damn cool since they are my favorite baseball team. They have cramped some of my other TV watching time though since the average Red Sox play-off game seems to last 4 hours. Seriously. I also try to watch Kid Nation and Bionic Woman. Kid Nation is pretty cool. Bionic Woman is okay and not ‘live or die’ TV viewing for me. I seem to always forget about Supernatural even though it’s probably my favorite TV show. It’s on late in the week when I start to get tired because of third shift and sleep quite late.
I’m starting to lose interest in hanging at out at the You’ll All Be Sorry comic book forum. There are some people that are really fun there but it seems there are also about 8 to 10 people that just say the same shit over and over to the other same people and it’s really getting boring. The same thing happened at Jinxworld. But I’ll always love Jinxworld because it’s where I met Sara and Sara is cool as shit.
Big changes for me at work. I won a bid on a job after a couple of other people with seniority turned it down. I have mixed feelings about.
Good:
Job security for several months
New job that hopefully I’ll do well at unlike my current job
Bad:
Second shift. Ugh. I’ll see nobody and never see TV shows I want to watch.
Less pay. It’s a pay cut.
Mandatory over-time. For an unknown amount of time I’ll be working 6 days a week with Sundays being optional to work.
I’ll miss my current supervisor the most of the people I work with. I’ll miss a couple of my co-workers too.
I’ll be training on first shift for awhile and then get booted to second shift. I was to start this next Monday but it’s been pushed back to next Wednesday instead. I asked if I could just have Tuesday off instead of working. Nothing like doing third on Monday, was suggested second on Tuesday and then first on Wednesday. So like I said, I’ll just stay home Tuesday.
What I expect to happen with this new job is that I’ll be married to my job which sucks. I don’t expect to see my friends for quite awhile as I’ll be using Sundays to visit my parents. I should make decent money despite a paycut because I’ll be working more hours. If I do both Saturdays and SundaysI should gross somewhere around $350.00 for the two days. I would expect $200 take home from that after taxes. So that should give me some money to get a big screen TV and hire an artist for my comic. I may also work more on my comic quite a bit because everyone will either be at work or asleep during my non-work hours.
I have one week to decide whether to stay at the new job or return to my stamper job. It is unlikely I’ll return to stamping because I truly believe that stamping could lead to health problems related to stress. Although it’s slow as hell right now I’ll eventually have to stamp again since it is my job. Either way I’m stuck wherever I go for 6 months or more. I lose my bidding rights whether I take the job or not. This has also screwed up my call backs rights to my original room. This really sucks because they will be bringing something like 12 people or so back to work there because of the area I’m going to. It wouldn’t surprise me that if I hadn’t won the bid I may have been called back to my old room.
Because it is so slow in my current room I’m paranoid about another lay-off sometime in November. If I go out on lay-off I think I would be out for several months. There are a number of senior stampers that took the voluntary lay-off earlier that would be called back before me. I also haven’t seen a lot of people laid off from other jobs come back at all. So all of that has led me to accept this new position that’ll have a ton of hours and for less pay.
It’s been really slow at work. This was further complicated by our plant in Carlsbad being shut down for a couple of days because of the smoke and fires in California. Carlsbad sends us our orders to print/stamp. People go home left and right. I don’t know how they can afford it. Some people that bitch about money problems go home at the drop of a hat. That kinda kills their argument about needing money.
I’ve been able to get some decent drawing done at work.
Tom Brady of the New England Patriots continues to power my fantasy football team to a 6-1 record in the league I really want to win. In the second league I’m in I just played the guy that has Brady. He also has several of the guys I have on my team in the league I really want to win. So I got destroyed by him. I’m 4-3 in that league and my opponent is undefeated. He also won the league last year.
In the league I really want to win it is because I won the league in the first two years. Because of a then new job I missed drafting my own team and finished out of the play-off’s last year. My team did decently after I jettisoned most of the players drafted by the computer. So I want to dominate the league by winning it three out of four years.
On a different subject, I’m a little bit pissed. I had a big crush on a girl at work. She’s a lesbian but because of rumors I suspected she might be bi. We had a lot of fun flirting but she wasn’t interested in me enough to go beyond it despite my hopes. So now, with me having only a couple of days left in the area she tells me on back to back days that she’s had boyfriends. This after several times of me being told “I like girls” by her with what really felt like a strong hint of ‘I don’t like boys’ in her tone. So now I really don’t know what to think about this person. Her life has a lot of drama in it including getting into a text argument with her girlfriend this past work night. While I still have a slight crush on her I’m actually starting to dislike many aspects of her. She seems to play the victim a lot but also seems to cause all her own problems. She also doesn’t seem to resolve her problems or even really try to. I think I really believe what another friend told me about her – ‘you know she insane, right?’ At this point, I’m inclined to agree.
The Red Sox being in the World Series is pretty damn cool since they are my favorite baseball team. They have cramped some of my other TV watching time though since the average Red Sox play-off game seems to last 4 hours. Seriously. I also try to watch Kid Nation and Bionic Woman. Kid Nation is pretty cool. Bionic Woman is okay and not ‘live or die’ TV viewing for me. I seem to always forget about Supernatural even though it’s probably my favorite TV show. It’s on late in the week when I start to get tired because of third shift and sleep quite late.
I’m starting to lose interest in hanging at out at the You’ll All Be Sorry comic book forum. There are some people that are really fun there but it seems there are also about 8 to 10 people that just say the same shit over and over to the other same people and it’s really getting boring. The same thing happened at Jinxworld. But I’ll always love Jinxworld because it’s where I met Sara and Sara is cool as shit.
posted by DungeonMasterJim at 5:40 AM
2 Comments:
I find Kid Nation fairly interesting too. The religion episode had a good conclusion to the conflict (when they kids all got together and shared prayers that were from different faiths, and then when the Hindu boy shared his prayers with others).
RED SOX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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