Thanksgiving Weekend
Thanksgiving was good this year. We went down to Ron's (Tom's brother's Father-in-law) as usual, but this year Mom & the kids joined the gathering. The kids had a blast playing with Tom's nieces, and Mom enjoyed having the chance to hang out with adults. The food was delicious and plentiful.
Friday was my last day at ACS. There have been a lot of changes there over the last few months, the biggest of which was a new pay system. Instead of paying us a straight amount an hour they had started something called ABC (Accomplishment Based Compensation, I think). Under ABC, they pay us a few cents for each form we enter into the computer, they pay us one rate for the time we spend working but not on countable things, and a different rate for breaks and other times we aren't doing anything work related at all. It worked out in such a way that pretty much everybody's average income went down by about a dollar an hour. They also created new draconian rules about what we could have on the floor, and started enforcing rules that had existed but that they had never enforced before. Overall in the course of about 2 months it went from a pleasant environment in which to do boring work for a reasonable wage to the next thing to a sweatshop. I put my two weeks notice in, and will be doing temp work until I find something new.
Yesterday our friends Mark and Christina had us and Sunny & Jaime over for a second Thanksgiving dinner. They cooked, and everything was very good. Afterwords we sat around and talked for a couple hours.
Today is a lazy day. I have no plans, and I don't think Tom has any either.
Friday was my last day at ACS. There have been a lot of changes there over the last few months, the biggest of which was a new pay system. Instead of paying us a straight amount an hour they had started something called ABC (Accomplishment Based Compensation, I think). Under ABC, they pay us a few cents for each form we enter into the computer, they pay us one rate for the time we spend working but not on countable things, and a different rate for breaks and other times we aren't doing anything work related at all. It worked out in such a way that pretty much everybody's average income went down by about a dollar an hour. They also created new draconian rules about what we could have on the floor, and started enforcing rules that had existed but that they had never enforced before. Overall in the course of about 2 months it went from a pleasant environment in which to do boring work for a reasonable wage to the next thing to a sweatshop. I put my two weeks notice in, and will be doing temp work until I find something new.
Yesterday our friends Mark and Christina had us and Sunny & Jaime over for a second Thanksgiving dinner. They cooked, and everything was very good. Afterwords we sat around and talked for a couple hours.
Today is a lazy day. I have no plans, and I don't think Tom has any either.