Ummm....yea, about that
Ok...
Here's the deal. I have a 2nd job, as most of you know....or maybe not.
I hate the place, I used to be basically happy there, but no longer. I also opened the place 8 years ago and would like to stay there for 10 years, problem is, that is no longer going to happen anymore. I worked Friday night (can we all say EWW to High School Musical on Ice II?...yes cry for me) and the new policies and procedures manual for the 2007/08 season was handed out. Turns out that my department has taken a page from a different department and we are required to work for days a week. Not really a big deal, except that my primary job is off the 405 freeway and if anyone is familiar with this parking lot, it is pretty much impossible for me to get to my 2nd job on time! Hey on Fridays, I get off of work (primary) at 2:30 and it takes me 2 hours to get to the 2nd job! Not to mention they've moved all the parking for us peons to BumFuckEgypt and will take us 20 minutes to walk (they got rid of the shuttles). So now I only work 2 days a week, which was fine because that was the twelve hours they required...see they got sneaky and changed the language from hours to days...... I can get to work at 6:30 on Mondays no problem, its the other days that worry me, except Saturdays.
The BIG problem is during the summer, my primary job hours change from M-Th 8:30-5:00, F 8:30-2:30 to, M-Th, 8:30-6:00, Fridays - Closed. It really doesn't matter that the 2nd job is pretty much dead during the summer, except for WNBA and concerts, they will either fire me or force me to quit. I'm thinking they want me to quit, they have been attempting to get the old people (there from the beginning) out of the place. It doesn't matter that my department has a high turnover rate and they would want established reliable (or in my case, almost reliable...I'm being honest..cause I do hate the place) employees, they don't want to pay us AT ALL. My department is the 2nd highest paid, next to Security, we are also Union...There was a HUGE scandal/shake up/firing a few months ago, I'm talking the Head the Department (the guy who hired me), major department head at a professional sports team (that the company owns ...and as an aside if my dad had gone straight instead of making a right turn, in the city I grew up in, a guy I would have gone to high school with) and peons like me (but not me).
I need a second job, I don't think I could get one where I could possibly work only weeknights, have my weekends and possibly go back to school So even though I hate my 2nd job, it has its advantages, not a lot be some; I could probably put up with a little more Bullshit that they dish, in order to get paid and go to school
Wow, this is a novel, but as you can see...I'm a bit confused, relived and sorta happy and very sad.
Here's the deal. I have a 2nd job, as most of you know....or maybe not.
I hate the place, I used to be basically happy there, but no longer. I also opened the place 8 years ago and would like to stay there for 10 years, problem is, that is no longer going to happen anymore. I worked Friday night (can we all say EWW to High School Musical on Ice II?...yes cry for me) and the new policies and procedures manual for the 2007/08 season was handed out. Turns out that my department has taken a page from a different department and we are required to work for days a week. Not really a big deal, except that my primary job is off the 405 freeway and if anyone is familiar with this parking lot, it is pretty much impossible for me to get to my 2nd job on time! Hey on Fridays, I get off of work (primary) at 2:30 and it takes me 2 hours to get to the 2nd job! Not to mention they've moved all the parking for us peons to BumFuckEgypt and will take us 20 minutes to walk (they got rid of the shuttles). So now I only work 2 days a week, which was fine because that was the twelve hours they required...see they got sneaky and changed the language from hours to days...... I can get to work at 6:30 on Mondays no problem, its the other days that worry me, except Saturdays.
The BIG problem is during the summer, my primary job hours change from M-Th 8:30-5:00, F 8:30-2:30 to, M-Th, 8:30-6:00, Fridays - Closed. It really doesn't matter that the 2nd job is pretty much dead during the summer, except for WNBA and concerts, they will either fire me or force me to quit. I'm thinking they want me to quit, they have been attempting to get the old people (there from the beginning) out of the place. It doesn't matter that my department has a high turnover rate and they would want established reliable (or in my case, almost reliable...I'm being honest..cause I do hate the place) employees, they don't want to pay us AT ALL. My department is the 2nd highest paid, next to Security, we are also Union...There was a HUGE scandal/shake up/firing a few months ago, I'm talking the Head the Department (the guy who hired me), major department head at a professional sports team (that the company owns ...and as an aside if my dad had gone straight instead of making a right turn, in the city I grew up in, a guy I would have gone to high school with) and peons like me (but not me).
I need a second job, I don't think I could get one where I could possibly work only weeknights, have my weekends and possibly go back to school So even though I hate my 2nd job, it has its advantages, not a lot be some; I could probably put up with a little more Bullshit that they dish, in order to get paid and go to school
Wow, this is a novel, but as you can see...I'm a bit confused, relived and sorta happy and very sad.