♥~♥such fragile moments we share♥~♥: Work

Friday flop...

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:55:50 GMT

Well yesterday they told me that my sick leave was on hold cause when I gave them my mothers maiden name they said it doesn’t match what they have in their system. How does anyone ever give their mothers maiden name wrong?

They have also recommended again that I get a new SIN with my married name on it to help the process, but in order to get a SIN card I need a birth certificate cause still the stupid people at the office can’t read mine cause of a smudge.

I am still waiting for the arrival of my new birth certificate but found out that it will be a little longer cause I had to refax something to them, as the fax that I sent them didn’t go through the first time a few months back.

I had acid in the back of my throat from all of this crap so I decided to take some Gaviscon and when I when to shake it the lid was not on right and so then I have to clean the whole kitchen cause it is covered in antacid.

If had a job Friday might be looking a little better right about now!

The smudge...

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:57:30 GMT

So not much is new. This whole I am not working thing doesn’t give me much to blog about. I have spent most of my days cleaning the house, feeding grandma lunch and visiting with friends and family. Which is good, really good when you think about the fact that I haven’t had a bad day since I left work…or was forced to leave…whatever!

The paperwork that it takes to get my sick leave coming in is making me pull my hair out, mostly due to the fact that the people at Service Canada seem to think that I am made of money and that they don’t have to be polite to people. Oh ya and they are stupid!! I looked up what I needed to bring in on the internet and I took it all down there. Everything that it told me too and I guess they are too stupid to make a website properly cause it turns out that I also needed more info like Kenny’s SIN. Why I don’t know? It’s me applying not him!! The snotty lady at the counter (who by the way should really dye her hair again cause her roots were 10 miles long) also told me that I should change my SIN number. So I went all the way home just to get my birth certificate and brought it back. It had a little smudge over my last name , it always has. It never stopped the guy who used it to give me my passport?! But it was not good enough for the b!tch behind the counter, so $35 later and a wait of 15 days (to get the new birth certificate) I then hear from a friend that I don’t even need to change my SIN card from my maiden name. The lady at Service Canada was just out helping the government get thier money grab…again...it figures...it is the government!!

Busy bee...

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 15:27:37 GMT

I have actually been pretty busy as you can see, as I had no time to make an entry yesterday. I actually have a lot to get done today as well but thought that I would try to catch up on things. Who knew that you could fill your days up so fast with visiting and a few errands? Next week will get busier I know as I will have to start filing my claims for sick leave and such as I have been emailed that my ROE is ready for pick up. I have come to the conclusion that I really don’t mind being off work as much as I thought I would. I guess that would be different if I was sick or couldn’t leave the house, but right now I am enjoying what I have always missed and catching up on everyone’s lives.

My conclusion is that really there needs to be more than 24 hours in a day...even if you aren't working!!

Finding the good in it all...

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:33:09 GMT

Yes I have decided that instead of stressing myself out trying to fight a battle I will just take care of baby and me. I know it’s not me, but I think it’s best. It seems that every time this company does something to their employee that is wrong, somehow they get away with it. Why would it be any different now? By the General Manager stating that I was not capable of doing the job that I was doing in the office over the phone to me today, I can only imagine what would be said to the Ministry of Labour. With that said, of course they can get away with what they have chose to do to me.

My only question to that is if I wasn’t capable of doing it then why the hell did I train the new girl??

It’s ok I am going to try to look at the bright side of things. I can clean and organize the house, hang out with Randy, make sure that grandma eats her whole lunch, have coffee with a friend, spend a day with Eva, clean the windows, sleep in, finally finish addressing the Thank You cards from the wedding, possibly even mail them, do a bit of light yard work, go through our junk for Spring clean-up, hang some pictures on the walls, or possibly help Amy out with Brookelyn. Funny I was laid off at the time when my sister-in-law had her first child too, in fact I saw Tori everyday for the first month of her life.

Maybe this is all just what I need in order to get myself ready for this baby?! Whatever it is I have to keep looking at it as being a good thing. I have to stop stressing myself out. Everything will work out in the end if I just relax and go with it. As I always say everything happens for a reason!!

Stressed...

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:10:24 GMT

I would like to thank all of you for your comments and concerns. I have been up since 4am tossing and turning waiting for it to be time to get up. I have one more hour to wait and I am trying to keep myself focused and not too worried. As much as I want to say that I am not stressed out about this…I am…very much. I am sure that my husband did not sleep much last night either cause each time I got up which was about every hour, he woke too. I have done some research and I am pretty sure what my boss is trying to do to me is very illegal, but I won’t know until some Government offices open and I can talk to someone. I have a few numbers that I will be calling this morning in order to find out what my rights are.

I can't believe it...

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 12:18:28 GMT

Wow. Where do I start! What I thought was going to be the start to a fun weekend has turned into the start of a weekend of my life being turned upside down. I got called into the General Managers office at about 3pm-ish and informed that I was going to be laid off. You see I brought them a note from my Dr on Tuesday stating that I was not to be near any weld or paint fumes. This has given them the right I guess to inform me that they have no work for me now. I have no idea how legal any of this is. I do however plan to find out ASAP. The hard part is that I have to wait until Monday to get more info as we all know that the government doesn’t work weekends and I can’t seem to get it off my mind.

I am worried that I will have to start my maternity leave now and that will be 3 less months that I should be having with my child that will be taken away. It also makes me angry because of all that I have given them of myself. I have done nothing but try to help them as much as I could to get that company through all of their rough spots and now they tell me basically “thanx for coming out” but we are not going to even try to help you out.

I took over a few positions while trying to do my own when I was running the floor cause there was no one to do it. I worked three different jobs at the same time the best that I could right up until a few weeks before my wedding. Then after training someone to take over one of those jobs continued to do two for a while longer. They had me train my maternity leave replacement way too early and now there is no job left for me.

It’s sad to say but I now think that no one should ever give to a job what you don’t think you will get back!

I am sure that this is one of those learning lessons that my mother would tell me would make me stronger in life. I am sure it will. You can bet that after my maternity leave is done that I will be looking for a job somewhere else. I can’t help but wonder how people can run a business and act like they care so much about their employees when they really couldn’t give a rats a$$. Even more hurtful was the fact that people knew and never even prepared me for it. People I thought were my friends.

I hoped that this entry this morning was going to be about how awesome it is to have Kenny’s family all down visiting to see the baby. And it still is. How Natalie and I have been raiding 7-11 for their Slurpees. Which we did last night. About how much fun we are going to have this weekend. And I am sure that we will. But I know that while I have time to myself like right now while they are all sleeping, I can’t think of anything else. I am so stressed out that I can’t even sleep. I know that we will make it through. I know my baby and I are healthy and that is what matters. I can’t help but feel that after all my hard work I have been made to feel like a piece of crap!!

Yesterdays entry...

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:33:03 GMT

cause I didn't have time last night to post.

I woke up at 4am this morning cause I thought there was burning eggs in our house. I really smelt them too. Even after I woke up and checked that the stove was off I could still smell them. It was weird to have a smell so real in your nose that you had to have created from your mind. This allowed me to wake up 100% and just lay in bed and stew about work. I never got back to sleep. I am so tired.

I would like to take this time to admit that I do analyze life too much sometimes and even forget that there is some good in people. After racking my brain laying in bed from 4am until about 7am when it was time to get up to get ready for work, I decided that I had to talk to someone to figure out what this job change is all about. So this morning after break I talked to the general manager, who tends to be a bit more human then the owners and asked him WTF? It turns out that it is nothing more than the fact that I hate my job (and he sees that) and they are making some changes before I snap, walk out and leave them screwed. I mean I used to run the floor (for those of you that haven’t been reading along for a while), and when I came back from my honeymoon they decided to give me a new position. It was more of a choice to help them out of the hole they found themselves in. You see I had be doing a lot of data entry and purchasing since the other lady left in August as well as trying to run the floor before the wedding and kind of let them know that they had to choose one job for me out of the three. One only!

They chose to have me entering the orders cause I had already taken the time to teach myself and they just used one of the guys off the floor to run the shift. I thought it was great when i became pregnant that I was safely sitting at a desk, but at the same point I sit at my desk each day entering in orders like a brain dead zombie, and I wait for the clock to hit 5pm so that I can. I just wanted to make sure that as soon as I trained the new girl that they weren’t going to kick my butt to the curb. I have been assured that this is not the case.

I also have laid down my own rules;

I do not go near the paint booth or the welders.

I do not pick anything up.

They need to keep the shop cleaner so that I do not fall over anything.

And I get to sit down whenever I need too, even if that means coming in the air-conditioned office for a while.

I was told that I would just be trying to remove all the bugs from the system that I have found during my time of order entry. I will basically be training and telling people what to do again. Guess only time will tell if this was a good idea?! And a trip to the Dr!!

A letter to my boss...

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:22:36 GMT

Dear Mrs B!tch

I liked working 7am – 4pm. It made sure that I had time to clean the house before Kenny came home, or in some cases take a nap that I so needed before he got home. This meant that I got to spend more time with him and less time doing things that needed to get done, sometimes I would even have supper ready. Now with me done at 5pm and Ken done at 5:30pm there is no chance of that happening. After working those hours for two years I decided that they weren’t so bad cause I got to pick up a friend on my drive and catch up on his life. I enjoyed his company, I guess with all the overtime that we are now working cause things are so messed up since I stopped running the floor I will just have to enjoy the time that I get with him on our rides home after he works overtime each night. Ha ha ha!!

One day when I was leaving and it was 4:10pm you asked if I had some information for you. I replied with the fact that I did have similar information but not what you needed, not to mention that I had just shut off my computer and was half way out the door. If I had a computer that only took 5 minutes to reboot instead of 20 minutes cause it was made in 1749 than I might have actually got that information for you. However you are too cheap to get me that computer so I told you that I would get you the information tomorrow but reminded you that it really wasn’t what you needed. The next day first thing I sent you that information and you replied with the fact that it was not the information you needed!!

A few days later when you didn’t get your way about something petty I am sure, you demanded that my hours be changed from 8am – 5pm, which are the hours that you are usually there. You didn’t even come to me yourself but sent a messenger, I guess it was better than having you stomp your feet in my office like the last time you talked to me cause it was rather funny that you act like a 2 year old and you for sure have to be in your 50’s. Rather than shoot the messenger I laughed and said that I was not surprised (because of what happened before) and agreed to it. This would actually give me the chance to get to the gym in the morning. I even made sure to thank you for the changes just to burn you a bit on thinking that I might be mad about it. I was more likely to go to the gym in the morning than in the afternoon so really you did do me a favour.

But then you realized that things Monday morning weren’t getting done in time for when you walked in that front door because you had changes my hours. Things that should actually be done by the person that took my old position who is in at 7am daily I must mention!! For a few weeks you put up with this, I knew that it irritated you and so I took my time getting these things to you kind of as a reminder that you chose to make these changes to my hours. I guess it sucks when you demand something that only burns you in the end. When I brought you these documents I even had a big smile on my face and would say, “sorry it took so long”. Really I was not sorry, not one bit!

Today you have decided that I should work from 7am – 4pm Monday and then 8am – 5pm Tuesday to Friday, just so that you can have those documents that you want as soon as you get in that door Monday morning. Just like you used to I must add!! You once again did not come to tell me this yourself but sent that messenger of yours. I could have choked that messenger with my own hands. Instead I said that I would think about it. Its funny cause when you changed my hours I decided Monday, Wednesday and Friday are my gym days. This causes conflict in my life, BUT since I am nice, something you know nothing about, I offered to come in and work 7:30am – 4:30pm on Monday. This way I can still get to the gym for a quick work out!! I don’t care if you don’t like it that is as far as I am willing to meet you on this subject. I always making changes for you and you are never willing to thank me for those changes or anything else I do for you for that matter. In fact you aren’t even willing to accept that I need to make appointments during the week to see my Dr about my unborn child. Sorry that is the only time they are open!! Duh!!

I just wanted to say that you are really a real piece of sh!t, I don’t even know if I would put you in the human race category, who gets off on making peoples lives miserable anyway?! Karma my friend…karma!!

Your stupid worker who should have taken the last job offer given to her…

SkRuMshZ

Guess what I did today...?!?!

Fri, 22 Jun 2007 01:54:15 GMT

I worked. I bet you are so surprised aren't you. I am just leaving now. It's late. I am not impressed. I painted so much today that my arm and back are just killing me. I don't think I am cut out to be a line painter. This weekend is looking mighty good. I can't wait. I have been granted the ability to leave early tomorrow. Only an hour but it's still will help when it come to the fact that I have not even started packin or picked up food for our weekend. Did I mention that we had the two machines that have been giving us grief go down again today. One Kenny helped me and my boss get running and the other one hasn't quite died yet but I am sure that it will soon. That is what we get for over working the machine. Guess they do have limits for a reason. I think I will have to drink for sure just to make this week go away!

Song of the day: You Make Me Sick - Pink

In the category of work...

Thu, 21 Jun 2007 01:40:21 GMT

Cause I don't have much else to talk about. So I worked again late. Until about 8pm. I was there for more than 12 hours! Of course I only get paid for 8. I guess if I want to go up north for the weekend this is what I have to do. I do have to get some painting done. I am trying very hard to relax, so I am actually having a beer. Kenny was awesome enough to make steak and shrimp. It tasted so good. Mmmmmmmmmmm!! I hope they will remember this someday. Someday soon like when I ask about going on my honeymoon!!

Song of the day: Something I Can Never Have - NIN

Every day is exactly the same....

Mon, 18 Jun 2007 23:44:48 GMT

So it’s almost 8pm and I am just getting ready to leave work. *~*whoot whoot*~* I am waiting for a few things to print off and thought I would let you know that I am alive. I have not been able to visit anyone’s site I think in the last week, but please know that I have not forgotten about any of you and hope that soon I will be able to catch up on your lives.

Work was long today and I am so tired. I guess taking the day off wasn’t worth it cause that is why I am here so late. We are just so far behind that I don’t see us ever getting out of this hole that we have dug ourselves into. Well I can see it I guess, for now it's just miles away!!

I am going home to make some supper for Kenny and I. He took off out to mom's to cut the grass. I think after we eat I will have a shower and go to sleep….only to get up and do it again tomorrow!!

Song of the day: Everyday Is Exactly The Same – NIN

Sweaty day....

Sat, 16 Jun 2007 01:54:15 GMT

So I was in the paint booth again today and well it was a million degrees of course. I for sure sweat out more water than I took in, but my paint suit is made out of a paper/plastic/rubbery substance so my underwear was there to collect the sweat as it rolled off my back. I drank about 1/3 of Woodstock’s city water and after I rang out my gitches I could have given twice that back! So in drinking all that great Woodstock water I should be pregnant within the next few hours. Oh hold on I am not 12! Anyway, just had to let you know that I am still alive but heading for a quick shower and then bed as tomorrow marks my 20th day in a row that I have worked in a row and I will need some sleep to make it through that one. I then have a wedding shower to go to and races at night. I will try to get that picture taken of the new hair colour at some point in time!!

Song of the day: Hot In Herre - Nelly

Working late...

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 02:10:40 GMT

So today was also very hot! About 29*C outside…of course in the plant I bet it was more like 1 million *C. I was in the paint booth for the most part of the day. It sucked!! What sucked more was going through drive-thru at Timmies and not having change for my iced cap, well I did but I handed the chick a couple handfuls of dimes, nickels and pennies. I felt pretty stupid. She didn't seem to mind. I just laughed. So did Amanda (mine) as i was on the phone with her at the time.

I then worked until about 6pm and then went to supper. I was so hungry but the heat made it impossible to eat. I basically went home to a shower and bed. I haven't had time for much else as you can see this entry is included in that!!

Song of the day: Hot Hot Hot - Buster Poindexter

What is a weekend...??

Sun, 03 Jun 2007 23:16:27 GMT

Well I do hope that everyone enjoyed their weekend. I never really got much of one and when I did I was just drained. My house is a mess and the laundry hasn't been done. I am going insane cause I don't have enough time to get to it. I knew that when the big press got up and running that things would be a big mess. I guess I just didn't know how much of a big mess it was going to be. I'm not wanting sympathy or for you to feel bad for me, I'm not really even b!tching, it's just that I haven't done anything else but work so I don't have anything else to write about. Even when I finished work today I went out and helped cut mom's grass.

The one thing that I was actually looking forward to was rained out. The race will now be on while I am once again at work Monday at noon. Part of me wants to ask if I can go home for the afternoon so I can watch it but I know the answer so why waste my breath!!

Song of the day: Working For The Weekend - Loverboy

Falling apart...

Fri, 11 May 2007 02:23:39 GMT

So since we had a deep entry yesterday I will now just complain and make fun of my day cause well if I don’t make fun of it I might just end up drinking a lot of alcohol and being to hung-over too work tomorrow or worse yet have a smoke. Knowing that I am about to drink means that today was not a good day cause I hate the taste of alcohol.

So I had my largest press in the shop stop working yesterday in the afternoon which wasn't a huge surprise cause we don't really do preventative maintenance there and we have been working the machine pretty hard. There have been several times that the press locks up an we just shut it off and give it a break and go right back to it. LOL I know it is very silly but it's the way things work there. I have no idea how long it will take to get it fixed, in fact the three people that were looking at it today have no clue.

One electrician and two hydraulic guys can't figure out what it is, and I have another hydraulic guy coming in the morning. I am not much use to them cause all I can say is make the thing move up and down and I will be happy. Of course it's the biggest press so most of my parts need to be run in it and can not be run in anything else. The stupid part is that about the same time as the big one quit yesterday the smallest press stopped working today. It’s kind of doing the same thing as the big one, but not quite the same. Maybe they sit too close to each other and are spreading the press-no-workie virus around?!?!? The small one usually works after you just let it cool down, so I am sure that by morning it will be ok.

The funny part is that I didn't have enough labour before to run all the machines that I needed to run. Now after doing some hiring and a bit or training I finally got enough labour to make all the stuff I have been weeks behind on and then the machines go down. I just can't seem to get ahead. Oh well my day did get better when we had family supper tonight. I got a few pictures of Payton and Logan. They were the only ones that would stay still long enough to take pictures. I will try to find some time tomorrow night to upload them. For now I am heading to a hot bath to relax. I have a long day ahead of me tomorrow!!

Song of the day: Brain Stew - Green Day

Chart this....!!

Thu, 03 May 2007 00:34:04 GMT

Today I would like to complain a bit about work, ok a lot. It ended up being a lot longer but a lot funnier that I thought it was going to be. I don’t normally make entries about work, for fear that someone might stumble across my blog and get offended at what I have written about. Well guess what. This is my opinion and everyone is entitled to an opinion, especially if it’s mine! These are my thoughts! This is how I feel about my workplace after today and if you don’t like it than you should have came here in the first place!

So anyway.........I am sick of charts. I want to talk about them an maybe make a chart later about charts. If you have a fear or problem with the way that charts make you feel than you may want to stop reading now. The chart at the end of this blog may not be suitable for all readers.

I made a chart this morning about some material that we were using that I could clearly see as we were running was three different kinds of material. This chart took me two hours to make and I was basically yelled at because I didn’t do it in the first place before talking about the fact that the material was three different kinds. I mean how could I prove it when I had no data to back it up? Well the fact that I could see with my own eyes that there was for sure three different types I figured would be enough. Wasn't I wrong?! I made my conclusion based on the fact that that one was really shiny, one was really oily and one was really hard. Two I could see and one the fact that we had to up the tonnage on the press and I also saw this told me all the answers. What did the chart tell me?? Not much, I collected a lot of data that I was told has now made me smarter. Like hell!!

I now know that we usually receive the material we use about 2 - 3 weeks before we cut it. We have three vendors that we purchase the material from so far. We have ordered three different types of material before. The guy that drives the trucks name and drops off the materials name is Ted, he likes long walks on the beach, prefers winter over summer, has coffee with his bagel for breakfast, hates peas, is a real momma’s boy, hopes to one day buy a nice trailer, saw the roll of duct tape on the counter and asked who was fixing the pannels of their car, is proud of the fact that he can burp the alphabet but doesn’t like to fart in public. I learnt nothing except for the fact that if we used the material that came in we should have half left over. This does not tell me why there was three different kinds of material does it?!?!? Or the fact that we used three different kinds of it?!?!? So in my opinion I wasted 2 hours!!

In the afternoon I was asked about why we didn’t run a part in a particular press. I mentioned that it never seemed to run them good that we could never get a proper bend. That we need to shut one of the features off cause it ran fine before when it was unhooked. None of us know how to do it and the last guy that was in looking at something else on that machine hooked it back up thinking that he had done us a favour. He asked me what the rating was for that material, as to the tonnage needed. I told him I didn’t know. He told me about this chart on the wall that I should be using to figure it out. I looked at the chart. The parts need 98 tons and the press is capable of 105. I guess I should once again feel like I have learned something...but the fact remains that the parts still can not be run on the press until that feature is turned off cause they aren’t made right. The chart was useless.

So since I have wasted my day with charts here is a chart that I have made for you. This is a pie chart of my day!

-brown indicates how much time I ate during the day, I have been snacking a lot since I quit smoking!

-pink indicates how much of the day I thought about Kenny, it’s pink cause I love pink and I also love him!

-orange indicates how much time I put into the charts, although it was the biggest waste of time!

-yellow indicates how much time I spent wishing I could have a smoke!

-purple indicates the time I listened to people talk about charts, which I think is a lot more than it should have been!

-green indicates the amount of time I spent in the bathroom, I do have a small bladder you know...and water is my replacement for smokes so I spend a lot of time in the bathroom

-blue indicates the time spent wondering why these people think that charts are so great, I guess I just must not be management material....too much common sense?!?!?

-red indicates the time that I spent looking for a spoon to gauge out my eyes...I could not find one...I am actually glad....I like to be able to see so that I can apply for jobs in other facilities where people aren’t so stuck on charts!!!

Song of the day: Uncharted Talent - The Muse

The tale of Peter the rabbit...

Wed, 25 Apr 2007 01:00:21 GMT

or the story of the end of three bunnies lives.......?

I don’t know if what I did today was good or bad. I found a rabbit outside the shop, the same rabbit I see each morning that goes running across the parking lot when I pull in. Today it was sitting by the concrete step outside and as I came near her she didn’t run away. She was hesitant to leave. When I looked closer I realize that there was a little baby bunny not too far from where she was. I picked it up and petted it for a while, it had a big nip taken out of it’s ear so that it had pretty much only half an ear. I named him Nippy.

Later in the afternoon I came back I noticed that there was two, the other one was hopping around wildly so I named it Hoppy. I played with them and left some carrots and celery behind for the mother. She would leave when I came to play with the babies but she would come back for the food and to make sure they were ok.

I was silly and mentioned it to the owner. She was furious! About bunnies? My boss wanted to kill them cause they eat her flowers. She is a very evil woman. I used to think she was ok until she told me that she didn’t care how I got rid of them just get them out of there. She even mentioned that if I didn’t she would get her husband to kill them.

I went outside to gather them and realized that there were three of them up at the end of my shift and took them to a very forested park and released them. I ended up naming the last one Nubby cause it only had a nub for an ear. I don’t know if they were big enough to take care of themselves, and I couldn’t find the mother to take her with us. I feel horrible that I took three babies away from their mom and left behind some food. I want to cry. I don’t know if they will live. I was only trying to help. I am a horrible person....but not as horrible as the woman I work for!!

Song of the day: A Bad Dream - Keane

PS. I have been sort of smoke free for 7 days, 2 minutes and 50 seconds...105 cigarettes not smoked...ok about 103 cigarettes...minus a few drags that I have stole from Kenny...maybe 102 cigarettes...they maybe equal a smoke or two...ok or maybe three...so about 100 cigarettes...it's still a lot anyways....I have saved us about $42.00 and gained about 19 hours of my life!

No one likes a quitter....

Wed, 18 Apr 2007 22:24:40 GMT

Well I suck. I had a smoke. I could not help it. I had just had enough. I was in fear of losing my job. I made it through the one machine not working properly when of course it makes the parts that are needed right away. I made it through getting chewed out several different times for random things that I should have been able to read peoples minds about. Did you know I was phychic?? I made it through the first break where I sat with the usual people as they smoked and I watched. I made it through the people bitching about the fact that they are being told what to do more now, since I have been informed that I must be firmer. I even made it through the one guy who likes to make my life a living hell bothering me to do things he knows are impossible. I made it through being told that my plans for the floor were not right cause they were not done the way that someone else would like them done. My response was they don't run the floor do they?? I made it through the paint on the parts that we needed yesterday started peeling off in big huge strands.

I did not make it through the meeting where I got told that I was pissy earlier at my boss when in fact I wasn’t. I did not make it through the fact that he made me look stupid in front of everyone cause he is too stupid to listen to me, or for that matter even ask. I did not make it through the fact that when I told him that I was doing all I could to make the paint stick now that it was wrong. And I finally lost it when I had been bugging to get the parts sent out for sandblasting so that we could repaint them and when I shared that information the person I shared it with they went off to the big boss and claimed it as their idea.

It was only one. I didn’t even smoke the whole thing. I could make excuses up all day but the reality is that I failed first day. Well I guess I didn’t fail completely. I didn’t have one until 4pm which is when I was supposed to be on my way home but was still stuck at work. So I guess I did pretty good, and since it wasn’t a whole one I think I did ok. I will try again tomorrow.

Kenny is not here tonight for supper probably a good idea since I am so grumpy. I think I will have nachos and cheese...something good has to come out of my day today!!

Song of the day: I Hate Everything - George Strait

What to do...?

Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:33:07 GMT

Today was a better day for the most part at work. There was no water flooding the place when I got there, no need to dig trenches so I figured that the day should run a bit smoother than Saturday. For the most part it did, except that this hour ahead thingy has confused my body. I wasn’t hungry at lunch but I ate anyway, when it came time to go home I was figuring I had an hour more of work to do. The whole day was just confusing. I got told that we are not where we should be. I have been trying so hard to get us caught up and I have no idea what else there is left to do to get the employees motivated enough to work harder?!

I myself have been out on the floor working as hard as I can to get us where we should be, washing parts, assembling parts and making sure that I still had a few chances to get my paperwork caught up in the end (like today). I was told I should have been on the floor more today and I thought that getting the reviews done was more important, since that is what I was supposed to get done Saturday before the flood. Guess I was wrong. I even worked overtime all last week and Saturday. Maybe I am just not cut out for this job, or the job is not cut out for me?! Maybe I should I have stayed where I was!

On the better side of things and yet at the same time the worse, tonight we babysit for a friend so that she can have some time with her family as her grandmother passed away. Although it is going to be a hard night for her I am kind of looking forward to spending some time with the little guy so that I can ready myself for us having kids. LOL Lets just hope that I will be able to do that job when it is time!! Hunter just loves Kenny, although what kid doesn’t. I mean when you can play with all of your toys and have someone 5 times your size play with you, that is cool!! So I imagine that I might get a few good pictures of them playing together, I might even be so nice as to take them in colour. Guess you will have to wait and see.

Song of the day: From The Ritz To The Rubble - Arctic Monkeys

PS. I added the pictures from tonight, they turned out about 50/50 for colour and b/w cause Kenny took some in colour.

A flood of feelings...

Sun, 11 Mar 2007 04:29:20 GMT

is the best way to describe this week, and I thought nothing else could go wrong?!

So today at work wasn’t quite what I wanted it to be. I did not get to sit at my desk and relax doing paperwork accompanied by the occasional email or blog walking. Instead just after I got everyone organized and working I started some paperwork. Then I had to pee. The bathroom was flooded. At first I thought it might have been the toilet. I opened the door to the electrical room and next thing you knew the water was rushing in. I came to work in the same clothes pretty much as you seen me wearing in the head shaving pictures. Hair down and thinking that I wasn’t getting dirty. That changed into coveralls as you see in the picture. My office became my change room as I mentioned the ladies bathroom was flooded.

I sucked as much of it up with the shop vac at the shop until it died. I then went and rented the biggest thing that Matty had at the shop. It barely fit into the SRKUMSHZ mobile. We had to lay it on it’s side and then it just fit, the attachments had to go in the front in the passenger seat. I got most of the water sucked up and it just kept coming in. This meant hours of digging trenches. I was cold and tired when I got home. Kenny picked up supper and we watched a movie and the end of the Busch race. Got a huge laugh when #5 went into the wall. Looks like the redone track might become a new favorite of mine right next to Bristol. Tomorrow promises to be a smash up derby, oh I mean good race. LOL Oh and Kid, Gordon might have won a lot of races here but I think the wall might be calling his name.

Song of the day: Ain't That A B!tch - Aerosmith

Rubber bits...

Fri, 24 Nov 2006 22:01:44 GMT

Well today was nothing much for excitement. I spent the day putting stupid little rubber things into parts cause the company that paints them, their paint line went down and they had to send their people home. So instead of having the parts back Wednesday like usual we got them today at noon. Just a little late eh? I just wondered why they didn't get the employees to hang onto the parts and walk them through the wash and paint systems instead of sending them home. LOL I mean come on now they should be bending over backwards for their customers...us! (I do hope you know that I am joking here) It didn't help that they had 26 bins of our product to paint, which is the most we have sent them at one time.

The rubber things have to be put in after they get painted and they are not the easiest to maneuver. Two of them go in each part and they have these little tabs so you can pull them through the slots with bent needle nose pliers. Needless to say that my brain is now mush cause it's a mindless job, my wrists are on fire (like that chick in the commercial) but I do always tell the guys that there is nothing that I make you do that I wouldn't do myself. With this I have to be true to my word, so today, tomorrow morning and Monday morning before the truck leaves to take these parts I will probably be helping.

I did manage to escape to my secret place that gives me a break from the craziness. It is not as beautiful now that fall has killed off all the flowers or weeds I guess, there is just dead plants, gravel and garbage. There are no bugs to watch to take my mind off of work while I have a smoke and without the sun out it's freezing cold. Guess I have spring to look forward to for more reasons than NASCAR.

Still training...

Wed, 15 Nov 2006 17:19:40 GMT

well today is the day. I take my test just shortly after I return to class. Wish me luck, I might need it cause there is so much to remember!!

2:30pm

I passed!! I guess I took in more than I thought I would. Now I am tired. I think I will go and take a nap or just watch TV.

Training today...

Tue, 14 Nov 2006 17:29:43 GMT

Today is day one of my first aid training course so I don't think you will see me out blog walking as much over the next few days. I have quite a bit of studying to do....wow am I learning lot's!! Hope my old brain can handle all this new information. LOL I am told that if you pay attention that it just comes to you like second nature, gosh I hope so. I am not the person that panics too much in a situation but for the most part I am not big on seeing your blood. Mine is fine but your is not!!

Oh so hungry...

Mon, 06 Nov 2006 23:36:46 GMT

Today has just been one of those days. I was hungry by about 10 am. I am not too sure why but my stomach sounded like a lion was stuck in it. Seriously it roared!! I tried to calm it down with a bran bar but that didn’t seem to be enough and by the time lunch rolled around I couldn’t wait to get to my cereal. I ate it like I was never going to get another meal again. Honey-nut Cheerios have never tasted so good. LOL I even ate the two chocolate bars left over from Halloween and a bag of Cheesie poufs that Kenny added to my lunch. Lately I have been trying to give them away to the others in the office cause I think it’s only fair that I try to make them fatter before myself. I also ate the bag of Cheesie poufs that I found stashed in my drawer from last week. I downed my chocolate milk and was still looking for more. It’s crazy. I have been drinking like a million cups of green tea to keep my hunger down, so trying to fill up on water I guess, none the less it didn’t work.

Speaking of work, today has been something else. One of our customers has been changing their mind all day and it’s been screwing with my schedule. I had a great schedule set for this week, and when they called I had to make a new one. No sooner did I get that in place and then they call to change their mind. So I go back to the old one and what do you know, they call back saying that they really do need the parts sooner, but for sure this time. I just want to scream, but the customer is always right.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Well that feels better!!

As for tonight, I think I am going to try to pick up some stuff that I know that we need. Like a new lightbulb for downstairs. Maybe even pick up the primer and paint so that I can get the hallway started tomorrow. There once was a leak in the roof and the paint is peeling off the ceiling so I have to sand that area before we do anything. The last thing I want is paint not to stick again.

I had three days off...??

Tue, 08 Aug 2006 14:10:12 GMT

man those long weekends just aren't long enough!!

Satruday night as you read I had a few drinks. LOL Actually a couple, cause that is all it takes. We had a great night over at Kenny's parents with some of his family and friends showing up for a bit of a birthday party for his grandfather. We finally got to make smores, I have been waiting for that one since I wrecked the work truck. I was even sure to be the person that went and picked up the graham crackers. They tasted great!! Kenny and I walked home, which was fun cause it has been a long time since I had to do that. Being that I am almost always sober.

Sunday was a very exciting day, I was also a little hung over. LOL Saturday on the way to cut the grass out at mom's I stopped by a house being sold privately that was having an open house. It was beautiful, and I want it!! So we decided that when we would go out to look at it cause Kenny had not seen it, we would take his parents. Both Kenny and I love the place. The owners took the house completely apart and EVERYTHING in the place is new. It is so perfect but of course I am not going to get too excited cause we still have to go and talk to the bank before someone else snags it.

Later that night we went to the drive-in with Mattie, Hil and Hunter (and some of their gang). It was great. I think I paid more attention to Hunter than I did the movies, we played and carried on for a while. I had him just laughing away and then suddenly he just passed right out. I enjoyed him falling asleep in my arms very much so. We watched "Cars", which was not too bad, cute little movie, "Pirates 2" which I enjoyed very much. Then everyone left and we thought that we would stay to watch the other 2 movies, as it was a dusk till dawn night. The next movie was "Fast and Furious 3", please people don't waste your money just wait until it comes out on TV. I just could not get into it, so we went home which was ok cause we were starting to get kind of tired!!

Monday we did nothing and it was perfect!!

Here I am again...

Sat, 22 Jul 2006 11:54:54 GMT

working on a Saturday...for free...

So I will be sure to work hard......blog surfing.... LOL

Last night we had supper over at Randy and Jo's. I expected all of us women to be there so that the women could rule, but Jess was working, so I guess I will have to wait until next week. Amanda, Kenny's cousin, and yes I know you are wondering how in the world I could know so many people named Amanda, seems to be settling in and quite content. She is quite excited that she has come to live here. I am still wondering why, after all I have lived here for 28 years and still wonder why I have never moved far far away.

Amanda and I went out for a drive and chatted. I think that we have a lot in common, mostly stupid X boyfriends, but that is always a start of a friendship when you are a girl. Going to see what I can do about helping her get a job at Shoppers, since that is where she worked when she lived in Kingsville.

We all stayed out after midnight talking and drinking with the neighbours, I am actually a little tired this morning. Well I sat there and talked...everyone else drank, well not Jess and Amanda they went to bed early...and took Matty the party man with them...well they didn't all go to bed together either....yuck...anyways...party poopers!!

So anyways I am going to need help with the latest problem, which really isn't much of a problem for myself, but has become a problem for others, especially in my blogs.....we have to figure out a way to straighten out the Amanda problem. There are now three, would be four if I ever went by my real name...we Amanda's like to make life confusing!! So anyways, we need a way to distinguish between the three, I have my own way but it seems to be a little confusing for others.

First there is my best friend, which I usually refer to as "my Amanda", "the real Amanda" or the "baby maker". She is the one with the three kids that I like to draw pictures of pulling her hair out.

Then there is my brothers wife Amanda, I usually refer to her as "my brothers Amanda" or "the fat broad", not fat in a mean way, she weighs like 100lbs, she is just always pregnant, she is on her third as well.

Now there is Kennys cousin Amanda and I have been refering to her as "Kennys Amanda" just because she is Kenny's cousin, have yet to come up with a nick name for her yet, although I hear that some people like to call her Dave.

I just want to make it easy for people to keep up that is all...any suggestions??

I like wiping with pizza pizza napkins?!?!

Thu, 29 Jun 2006 16:34:05 GMT

well not really but I am kind of being forced to...we have no toilet paper at work again!!

We have problems ordering things all the time....and for that matter on time...like steel and components...but seriously when you can't keep toilet paper in stock you have some problems with your inventory system!! We were out on Monday and I got Kenny to bring me a roll in, but now we have gone through that and I am back to the Pizza Pizza napkins that I found in the cupboard. Trust me there is no cotton softness to these bad boys!!

Speaking of inventory that is what we are doing today, we are counting everything here in the building. Man does that suck!!

I am going to try to get some packing done tonight for our weekend away. I am looking very forward to it, actually that is all I can think about. Really that is what drives me to get this inventory done, I know that I get to go away when I am done.

Have you ever had enough...

Wed, 28 Jun 2006 16:44:22 GMT

..and wanted to call in to work dead?

Yes, it's year end inventory! Yeah! Not quite sure why they do it in June but they do....I thought that would be something you would do at the end of the year, but hey what do I know? So for the rest of the week I get to count things?! LOL Guess I should bring my brain with me to work!!

In other news I have lost my big battle over trying to get my money back for the camera mom bought me for Christmas. Kodak has informed me that they can fix the problem and that the only way that they will help is becuase it's under warrenty I can send it away for repairs. I informed them that I would but I sure the hell wasn't paying for the shipping and handeling. This leaves me without camera for a while, according to them just 7 days, but we all know that the 7 days will turn into 7 weeks. I might have to occasionally steal Randy and Jo's if they will let me.

Hopefully tonight we can start to get ready to go to mom's cottage for the weekend. I am really really looking forward to getting away again with Kenny. We have started doing more things that consist of just the two of us but it will be nice to be able to just get away and have nothing planned. Well I guess it won't be just the two of us all the time cause we are taking up my brother and his oldest Tori, and we are going to visit with family. The drive shouldn't be too bad cause Kenny is stealing the portable DVD player from work and then Tori and I can watch movies all the way there. Might make that 5 hour drive feel a little shorter!! I figure that for the most part we should get some fishing in cause I know that Kenny has been dying to do so, and then make sure that we get some time to just relax together, maybe go fo a nice drive or walk or somthing!! I can't wait!!

Oh and I have been out blog surfing so I have decided to add a few things to the space just to change things up a bit, guess it helps fill in the spaces that are left empty from the lack of camera use.

Again....

Sat, 10 Jun 2006 14:05:05 GMT

I am at work and not gatting paid for it! I guess that just comes with being salary, but somehow I don't think that not getting to sleep in two weekends in a row could ever get made up for. LOL

I guess it's not that bad. I ran parts for the first two hours and now I am going out to sweep the floor for the last 45 minutes. I did a lot of blog surfing for most of the mornin so I really can't complain. It's amazing how you can get sucked into so many people lives.

Oh well, as you can see I am working hard again! In fact I think I will take a smoke/Timmie's break....

Everybody's working....

Sat, 03 Jun 2006 12:20:27 GMT

on the weekend!!....

What??....

That ain't right!!

OK maybe not everyone, but for some reason I got suckered into it. As you can see I am working oh so very hard!! Don't be fooled though, I am not getting paid though so it's ok.

Well....

not ok....

but I guess that is part of being a supervisor.

I was informed that somehow it balances out...

not really sure how....

cause it's Saturday morning and I didn't get to sleep in....

but I guess I paid for sick days??

and somehow that replaces a Saturday morning of sleeping in??

Ya right!!

I am just here to make sure that the people on the floor are doing what they are supposed to be doing, so that is all I hope to be doing. Guess it's not all that bad, I mean all I have done for the last hour is email a few people to find out what is new, ate some breakfast, had a smoke, made sure people were doing what they should be, call a few people back that I haven't gotten back to through the week, I did however do a bit of paperwork that I was behind on (so I am doing something), then I thought my blog could use an update.

So my week as ok, not very eventful but ok. Wednesday night at about 7 the power went out....and it stayed out....all night!! I didn't really relaize how much we depend on electricity, especially to keep us entertained. I can't say that I think it's a good thing either, what did people do before all of this technology?? We even had to drive to another city to get smokes cause all the stores were closed. We tried to keep ourselves busy but when we finally got bored at 9 we just went to sleep.

Was our usual weekly family supper Thursday night, but only half of us showed up, so I guess it wasn't really our usual?!? Supper has been changed from Wednesdays cause Tori has baseball, which is great cause now we don't have to make anything for two nights in a row...Aunt Lynne made tuna-macaroni salad, mmmmmmmmm! The most exciting thing was the discovery of the racoon poop on my grandmothers roof, so we made my brother climbing up on it to clean it up.

Then last night was supper at the Archer's, as usual it was full of good food and a lot of laughs. Matty was cleaning the fish bowl (his Omni), when we got there. For an '83 Omni it looks like it's in incredible shape. Matty and I later went cruising the dig in the fish bowl to get Randy smokes. Jo BBQ'ed the best pork and asparagus. Yes....asparagus is excellent on the BBQ!! We enjoyed the cooler weather outside and had a few beers, well they had a few beers, I had water. Kenny worked on his truck and ended up spraying himself in gasoline, man did he ever smell good. (weird I am I know! LOL) Then we went home to bed so we could both get up for work this morning.

As for the rest of the day I am not too sure. I do know that I have to help my mom take a bunch of stuff to the dump. I guess whatever happens after that I will have to wait and see.

Pancakes...?

Tue, 28 Feb 2006 21:31:29 GMT

OK, so I forgot that is was pancake day and I ate a bran bar and drank a chocolate milk for breakfast. Who cares? It's not the end of the world is it?

I washed parts again all day and I have decided that if I keep inhaling the amount of varsol that I have over the last few days, my kids will have three heads and possibly other horendous deformations. Hopefully tomorrow is better casue the guy that washes the parts should be back!!

I have still not made it to the gym, but at the same point I have been lifting parts all day for the last week and a half and that has to count for something. I mean I have lost a few pounds and I can see a bit more definition in my arms. It's better than sitting on my butt all day at my desk!!

Oh and I almost forgot....sometime between today and tomorrow I would like to wish Blika a Happy Birthday! Leap year babies have it rough eh?!

Weird day...

Tue, 28 Feb 2006 00:25:33 GMT

Yesterday was quite the quiet day....until the last 30 laps of the race. LOL Once again I found myself getting excited and yelling at the TV while watching the race. It's weird. Like I said before I think I can get into almost any racing.

Today was quite boring at work cause I ended up washing the big heavy parts all day. The guy that normally washes parts made it in today but his grandmother passed away over the weekend. He told me that it was very unexpected in his mind and that he needed to go home, of course I never hesitated. I mean the guy was crying and I felt horrible for him.

His mother also works with us so I asked her if she wanted to leave, and she said "no"!! I was really surprised, this was her mother, then she told me that her mother was 98, there wasn't going to be a service so she really had nothing to do, and really her mother had told her that she wanted to go.

It was weird for me to see someone react that way! I don't care, even if my mom was 98 I would still be devastated if she passed away. (Hello, she is my mom!!) On the other hand, I guess when you have lived for 98 years you must feel you have had a full life.