I Thought Union Jobs Paid Better
Today's Writing Effort
I should have gotten up early and gone to Biolife for my donation, but I slept in until 8:00am. I was so sore and tired that I could have slept the whole day away easily. But I did go, and then I withdrew all the money from my Biolife card that I could and deposited it into my new bank account to help with rent and bills and such. And then I went back to my dorm room for a couple of hours to defrost and gear up for another night at the salt mines.
Work at the store is just hard on my poor little body. My whole body just hurts. I wasn't as cold this time because I was wearing my usual two pairs of pants, plus two shirts, the stupid apron, and a fleece vest.
I also had to sign up for the Union and found out that the Union fees are around $40.00 a month, plus the initiation fee is like $40 a month too. And if I want insurance, it's ANOTHER $40 a month. I can't afford that, so I said no to the only thing I could ... the insurance. But that's going to bite me in the ass at some point too, when it comes time to pay taxes. But I can't worry about that now or I'm just going to fucking loose it. Oh, and they don't start giving people PTO until after they've been there a year. A FUCKING YEAR!
As it is, I'm so ready to quit and it's only the second day. I don't just want a nice office job, I NEED it. I need benefits and decent hours and decent pay where half of my paycheck isn't taken for no good reason. Tomorrow I'm going to call Austin at Allegiance back again to ask about the Health Claims Examiner job. It's a whole lot better than this shitty Albertsons job.
I really don't want to be a complainer, but it's better that I put this here instead of whining to maxheadwidth about it. I'm sure he would be okay with it, but I don't want to be a baby about all of this to him. He knows this stuff, but I tried to be more positive about it all.
So he'd offered to pick me up after work tomorrow, but he's got class with his teacher, Mark S., until late, and he wouldn't be done at 9:00pm when I got done, so we moved it until Thursday. Besides, Jenny was going to leave for Bozeman on Wednesday afternoon, but delayed it until Thursday morning and I wanted to make sure that they had Wednesday night together before she's gone for ten days.
We're going to do Christmas in January on Saturday the 14th, and hopefully she'll be back for that, though we might have to do part of it in the morning if I have to work that day. The schedules don't come out until Fridays after 1:00pm, so I won't know for a little while if I have to work that day. And there's a Union meeting that I have to go to on Wednesday the 11th for new members and if I can make it to that, then I'll be able to get my initiation fee cut in half.
Please, oh ye Gods whom I worship and adore, help me to get a better job. Please. Please.
I should have gotten up early and gone to Biolife for my donation, but I slept in until 8:00am. I was so sore and tired that I could have slept the whole day away easily. But I did go, and then I withdrew all the money from my Biolife card that I could and deposited it into my new bank account to help with rent and bills and such. And then I went back to my dorm room for a couple of hours to defrost and gear up for another night at the salt mines.
Work at the store is just hard on my poor little body. My whole body just hurts. I wasn't as cold this time because I was wearing my usual two pairs of pants, plus two shirts, the stupid apron, and a fleece vest.
I also had to sign up for the Union and found out that the Union fees are around $40.00 a month, plus the initiation fee is like $40 a month too. And if I want insurance, it's ANOTHER $40 a month. I can't afford that, so I said no to the only thing I could ... the insurance. But that's going to bite me in the ass at some point too, when it comes time to pay taxes. But I can't worry about that now or I'm just going to fucking loose it. Oh, and they don't start giving people PTO until after they've been there a year. A FUCKING YEAR!
As it is, I'm so ready to quit and it's only the second day. I don't just want a nice office job, I NEED it. I need benefits and decent hours and decent pay where half of my paycheck isn't taken for no good reason. Tomorrow I'm going to call Austin at Allegiance back again to ask about the Health Claims Examiner job. It's a whole lot better than this shitty Albertsons job.
I really don't want to be a complainer, but it's better that I put this here instead of whining to maxheadwidth about it. I'm sure he would be okay with it, but I don't want to be a baby about all of this to him. He knows this stuff, but I tried to be more positive about it all.
So he'd offered to pick me up after work tomorrow, but he's got class with his teacher, Mark S., until late, and he wouldn't be done at 9:00pm when I got done, so we moved it until Thursday. Besides, Jenny was going to leave for Bozeman on Wednesday afternoon, but delayed it until Thursday morning and I wanted to make sure that they had Wednesday night together before she's gone for ten days.
We're going to do Christmas in January on Saturday the 14th, and hopefully she'll be back for that, though we might have to do part of it in the morning if I have to work that day. The schedules don't come out until Fridays after 1:00pm, so I won't know for a little while if I have to work that day. And there's a Union meeting that I have to go to on Wednesday the 11th for new members and if I can make it to that, then I'll be able to get my initiation fee cut in half.
Please, oh ye Gods whom I worship and adore, help me to get a better job. Please. Please.