Busy and bored at the same time
For starters, to get the big rant out of my system right away.
Why, the, hell do I never have a good experience with a Union? Seriously.
Brief background, I have a new job at the Sobey's distribution Center and work as a Material Handler. The jobs really busy all the time, but the pay is nice. The really crappy part about all of this is that my 'weekend' now is Wednesday and Thursday, I'm sure you can see where most of my dilemmas will come from.
So, August 8th, there was a plan to be going to see a concert with Chris, Darcy, Gina and Cory, so I grabbed the needed paper work, filled it out, and handed it in to my supervisor for his approval/denial of the one day Leave of absence. I handed this in on Sunday, and just got it back today that I was denied the day off. Now, in a way, this could have been karma's way to kick me in thew ass "for rationale I put that I had a family obligation, and when asked in person I said I needed to drive my sister to some appointments.. not that far off actually, my dad will be doing that. The reason I didn't get the day off? Well, the day is already fully booked off by other, higher seniority employees booking it off. When I asked if there was nothing I could do to get the day off (even if it meant working both Wednesday and Thursday before the day in question) and got a simple, "Well, if you REALLY need the day off, you could call in sick." To which I replied, "I'm a new hire remember? I won't offically be part of the Union by that point, so, if I called in sick, the company could, if they wanted to, fire me for it." "Oh yeah, I suppose that's true. Well, you know, sometimes it sucks, I had to miss my buddy's wedding because I couldn't get the day off when I started you know."
In all, It's just making me dread if I'll ever be able to get any kind of weekend off what so ever. I mean, if I'm having this kind of trouble getting one unpaid day off, how likely is it that I'll be able to actually get a whole FA event off. It's really bad when I'm already thinking I need to be looking for a new job that's Monday to Friday.
I mean, if it wasn't for that kind of stress/annoyance, the job would be great. It's fast paced, always something to do, I work on my own, and it pays well. Still, with the way I'm feeling already pay day will be the only thing making me happy.
In other news the FA event went fairly well. Saturday, in my opinion was a real piss off with all the bloody rain. I don't mind some rain at LARPs (anything under an hour then passes through is cool with me), but the roughly 15 hours straight of rain we got was just bloody rediculous. Just made me really tired, and the wet just made me feel kind of sick. I know those fights in the rain are wicked epic, but I could have done without it. I know it's far too much to ask for just overcast or for clear weather. Just shows how old I'm getting now, I remember when I started out I loved the rain and got all hyper about it.
Today I also came to a good realization that I'm just a flirt by nature. Most people don't take me seriously about it at all, but I do do it a whole lot. Put in any kind of thought on a relationship though and I get all freaked out. Sometimes I wish I could be really dumb, and not over think just about everything sometimes. Ah well, such is life.
In other news, banged my nose good at work and have started to smell more things recently. It's actually really freaking me out that I might start not liking some foods because of the smell.
Haven't even had time to write, really want to though, but think I might have to push it off for Wednesday.
Thursday night I might be going to Toronto with Alana and her family to Jazz Festival. Finalizing if that's actually going to happen (as I think it was one of those just polite asking if I'd be interested). Guess I'll see.
Why, the, hell do I never have a good experience with a Union? Seriously.
Brief background, I have a new job at the Sobey's distribution Center and work as a Material Handler. The jobs really busy all the time, but the pay is nice. The really crappy part about all of this is that my 'weekend' now is Wednesday and Thursday, I'm sure you can see where most of my dilemmas will come from.
So, August 8th, there was a plan to be going to see a concert with Chris, Darcy, Gina and Cory, so I grabbed the needed paper work, filled it out, and handed it in to my supervisor for his approval/denial of the one day Leave of absence. I handed this in on Sunday, and just got it back today that I was denied the day off. Now, in a way, this could have been karma's way to kick me in thew ass "for rationale I put that I had a family obligation, and when asked in person I said I needed to drive my sister to some appointments.. not that far off actually, my dad will be doing that. The reason I didn't get the day off? Well, the day is already fully booked off by other, higher seniority employees booking it off. When I asked if there was nothing I could do to get the day off (even if it meant working both Wednesday and Thursday before the day in question) and got a simple, "Well, if you REALLY need the day off, you could call in sick." To which I replied, "I'm a new hire remember? I won't offically be part of the Union by that point, so, if I called in sick, the company could, if they wanted to, fire me for it." "Oh yeah, I suppose that's true. Well, you know, sometimes it sucks, I had to miss my buddy's wedding because I couldn't get the day off when I started you know."
In all, It's just making me dread if I'll ever be able to get any kind of weekend off what so ever. I mean, if I'm having this kind of trouble getting one unpaid day off, how likely is it that I'll be able to actually get a whole FA event off. It's really bad when I'm already thinking I need to be looking for a new job that's Monday to Friday.
I mean, if it wasn't for that kind of stress/annoyance, the job would be great. It's fast paced, always something to do, I work on my own, and it pays well. Still, with the way I'm feeling already pay day will be the only thing making me happy.
In other news the FA event went fairly well. Saturday, in my opinion was a real piss off with all the bloody rain. I don't mind some rain at LARPs (anything under an hour then passes through is cool with me), but the roughly 15 hours straight of rain we got was just bloody rediculous. Just made me really tired, and the wet just made me feel kind of sick. I know those fights in the rain are wicked epic, but I could have done without it. I know it's far too much to ask for just overcast or for clear weather. Just shows how old I'm getting now, I remember when I started out I loved the rain and got all hyper about it.
Today I also came to a good realization that I'm just a flirt by nature. Most people don't take me seriously about it at all, but I do do it a whole lot. Put in any kind of thought on a relationship though and I get all freaked out. Sometimes I wish I could be really dumb, and not over think just about everything sometimes. Ah well, such is life.
In other news, banged my nose good at work and have started to smell more things recently. It's actually really freaking me out that I might start not liking some foods because of the smell.
Haven't even had time to write, really want to though, but think I might have to push it off for Wednesday.
Thursday night I might be going to Toronto with Alana and her family to Jazz Festival. Finalizing if that's actually going to happen (as I think it was one of those just polite asking if I'd be interested). Guess I'll see.