Craziness
What a week!!!!!
As good as last week was, this one was nuts. I have meant to post all week, but time just slipped by. If it wasn't problems at work, it was arguments with the wife.
I had to suspend Knucklehead today at work for being absent too much. So now he will be off 3 days without pay. The part that saddens me, is I sincerely like the guy. Other than the fact that he is 6'5" and 260 lbs, he reminds me a lot of me at that age. He is only 22, and still in party mode in life. One big difference, though, is I always went to work. I may have been hung over, I may not have gotten much sleep, but I went to work. He keeps telling me how much he needs his job, and how much he needs money, but he has missed 30 % of his scheduled work time this year. Granted, a big portion was vacation or bereavement, but he has missed over 80 hours of unexcused time. I don't think I ever missed that much in any 4 year stretch.
Then to top it off, we got word that a union may be targeting our facility. I don't have anything against unions for the most part, except that they really are no longer necessary. Everything that unions were founded to help in the workplace is now policed by various government agencies. Overtime, safety, discrimination, and benefits are all in place. I have supervised union shops before, and found them more of a hindrance than a help. Oh well, we will fight that battle when we get there.
My wife had PMS this week. Boy, did she have PMS. I couldn't do any thing right. And everything was my fault. A problem at her job, my fault because I am not wealthy enough that she doesn't have to work. Her mom giving "advice" on our landscaping, my fault for some reason. My daughter threw up the other night because, while I was at work, my wife let her eat half a container of cottage cheese, my fault. Are you beginning to see a pattern here? The thing that gets me is that there is plenty of stuff for her to mad at me about without her attributing all of this other stuff to me. She didn't get upset when I spent too much money at lunch with a coworker the other day, she didn't get upset when I forgot to pick up milk on the way home the other night, she didn't even get mad when I left my dirty clothes on the floor. Everything else that was OUT of my control, she blames me for. I love her dearly, but for one week out of the month, she is hard to take.
Oh well, hopefully next week will be better.
Deej
As good as last week was, this one was nuts. I have meant to post all week, but time just slipped by. If it wasn't problems at work, it was arguments with the wife.
I had to suspend Knucklehead today at work for being absent too much. So now he will be off 3 days without pay. The part that saddens me, is I sincerely like the guy. Other than the fact that he is 6'5" and 260 lbs, he reminds me a lot of me at that age. He is only 22, and still in party mode in life. One big difference, though, is I always went to work. I may have been hung over, I may not have gotten much sleep, but I went to work. He keeps telling me how much he needs his job, and how much he needs money, but he has missed 30 % of his scheduled work time this year. Granted, a big portion was vacation or bereavement, but he has missed over 80 hours of unexcused time. I don't think I ever missed that much in any 4 year stretch.
Then to top it off, we got word that a union may be targeting our facility. I don't have anything against unions for the most part, except that they really are no longer necessary. Everything that unions were founded to help in the workplace is now policed by various government agencies. Overtime, safety, discrimination, and benefits are all in place. I have supervised union shops before, and found them more of a hindrance than a help. Oh well, we will fight that battle when we get there.
My wife had PMS this week. Boy, did she have PMS. I couldn't do any thing right. And everything was my fault. A problem at her job, my fault because I am not wealthy enough that she doesn't have to work. Her mom giving "advice" on our landscaping, my fault for some reason. My daughter threw up the other night because, while I was at work, my wife let her eat half a container of cottage cheese, my fault. Are you beginning to see a pattern here? The thing that gets me is that there is plenty of stuff for her to mad at me about without her attributing all of this other stuff to me. She didn't get upset when I spent too much money at lunch with a coworker the other day, she didn't get upset when I forgot to pick up milk on the way home the other night, she didn't even get mad when I left my dirty clothes on the floor. Everything else that was OUT of my control, she blames me for. I love her dearly, but for one week out of the month, she is hard to take.
Oh well, hopefully next week will be better.
Deej
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