A Roll Of The Dice

Lately things have been crazy at work. Everyone is worried about their job and it feels like las vegas, almost like the odds are against you and at any moment you could lose everything you have. No one is really sure if seniority means a thing. I guess when they decide it is your time, then it is your time. I hope we make it through the end of this year. Nobody wants to be with out a job right now, Thanksgiving, Christmas they are just weeks away and I can't fathom what it would be like to not have a job. As of right now I am trying like hell to squirrel some money away. It is so hard to save money, bills are ridiculous and the truck payment is what kills us out side of rent. What kills me even more are food prices. Yesterday I went to the grocery store, Stop and Shop and I was looking at the yogurt. They had their brand of yogurt in sale, 8 for $4.00, ok, sounds like a good deal right? WRONG...a good deal is when they keep the amount of ounces the same and lower the price not when they remove 2 ounces and keep the price the same. Stop and Shops yogurt went from 8 ounces to 6 ounces and the price never changed a bit!

Ugh..it so frustrating, I guess I should be happy that gas has dropped like a rock, consudering I drive a Ford Expedtion. It is nice to know I can save a ton of money at the pump. But for how long??

Life, What Can I Say?

Things around here have been crazy. Z is doing wonderfully. I just got his report card and the it looked very good. One A, three B's and one C and I couldn't have been happier! His birthday is tomorrow, he will be 13! I can't believe how fast it has gone by. A week from today he will have his party and I can't wait.

I have decided that it is time for me to look for a new job. My new boss makes me miserable and the company I work for seems to be holding it's own for the most part. I have really had enough of the favoritism and backstabbing. I have decided that I need to lose 20 more pounds and then I will be ready for a job search, plus I need to wait for my bonus check!. I want to look my best! I have managed to lose 10 lbs already and I am feeling great. I am hoping by March I will be 20 lbs or at least close to 20 lbs lighter. It has been hard work, eating right and trying to exercise. I wonder if hoodia would work..nah, I'll keep doing it the way I have been.

Damn I wish they would fix spellcheck!

Well, I am off to see what my fellow blog peeps have been up to!

Today At Work It's Review Day

yea..(can't you see the enthusiasm)

Once a year I am evaluated on job performance and if I have been a compliant employee I will receive the "standard across the board" 3% wage increase. The last two years I have received that bonus with a 1/2 assed smile and tried to show how grateful I was even though inside I wanted to bitch slap them into next year. Sitting in front of a firing squad with a smile is not pleasant when all you feel is sheer disappointment.

This year there will be no smile. I get the 3% it will barely cover the increase on my my medical insurance. 4% would cover the increase and 5% would be start on showing how that they thought I was doing a great job.

I will be back later with either a rant or a rave. Time to go an get ready for work!!

Happy Blogging!!

What Does Your Company Pay You To Do?

What do you get paid to do at work?? What I mean is - What is your company paying you to do when you are actually not working on job related things? Come on you can tell me, I won’t tell!

Me: I get paid to blog. I try not to but it is really hard not to. Some day’s I have a ton of ideas and a whole lot to say. Other days not very much but I still have the need to blog!!

Officemate #1: She gets paid to sleep! She is the inspiration behind this post is and I dedicate it to her!! Personally, I think it is time for her to retire, at 70 years old if you are falling asleep at work at 11:00 a.m, either you need to see a doctor, just in case something is wrong or you are just so physically tired and need to sleep a little later.

Today was extra special because she got caught by a lead person #1. Lead person #1 actually thought it was so funny, he had to leave the office. Officemate #1 has HUGE and I mean HUGE breasts. So she is sitting in her chair sleeping and her chin is on her chest. It kinda looked like a pillow….. LOL

Officemate #2: He gets paid to surf the Internet and write long ass emails that NOBODY ever reads. BTW, he doesn’t sleep or have huge boobs!!

So tell me your secrets…What does you company pay you to do????

Happy Anniversary To Me!

Today I have been at my job for 3 years! Not to bad, not the longest job I have ever had, but none the less, it is an accomplishment. Seeing as when I started here, there was absolutely no one to train me on the job. I knew the basics because I have been in Quality Assurance for ever! So 50% of it was a cake walk.

As for the other 50%..well that was a little less than desired. There was no one to train me on parts of the job that were new to me. There was no one to say these are the reports you need to take care of.

I can remember being in this position for 2 months and I get a call from the VP of Sales asking me why I hadn’t done the RMA Charts for June, July and August. The same person wanted to know where my end of fiscal year report for RMA’s was. HUH?? The fiscal year ended in June, it was now the end of August.

Then 3 weeks after that I received a tag team call from the Purchasing Manager and the Finance Officer wanting to know why I had $150,000.00 in the nonnettable stock location for RMA’s & MRB’s..Ummm

About the same time I was supposed to be closing and authorizing the closing of these said RMA’s. I’ll tell you I was lost and no one was there to help me. I came from a Heat Treating Facility, we offered a service, we didn’t make anything. So the RMA’s were a new thing for me.

I can say that it has been an interesting 3 years, some good times and some bad times. People come and go, one day they are here, the next they are gone! Well, here is to another year!!!

(I hope :0)

Have A Chore You Don't Want To Do??

So I checked out Domystuff.com. I personally think this is a great way to get the stuff done that you really don’t want to do yourself. Would I use it ? I am really not sure. If it was something that wasn’t important to me then yes, but if it involved my money or my house, well then I don’t really know. I mean imagine having someone you don’t know coming into your house for cleaning. To me it is like asking any joesmo who is walking by your house and stopping them and saying “Hey, I am to lazy to clean my house, wanna do it for $50.00?”

I would possibly do chores for other as long as it wasn’t cleaning or doing laundry. It is nice to see that there is an escrow fund set up for the task. It takes the worry away about being paid for the task you are doing. The only concern really is, what if you did an awesome job and the person you did the job for doesn’t think so, then you don’t get paid? Makes me a little nervous that way.

The long and short of it all is, if there is something you really don’t want to do, like maybe, wrapping Christmas presents then Visit DoMyStuff.com now! Get someone to do it for you! Hmmm..I’m keeping that idea in the back of my head!







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Perfume At Work

HOLY CRAP...CAN YOU POSSIBLY WEAR ANYMORE PERFUME? I walk into my office at work and it smells like the perfume counter at Filene's. My office is located off the inspection room. I have 2 office mates, one being a guy, so I know it didn't belong to him and a older lady who doesn't bath in perfume. In the inspection room there are 2 more guys, and again being men, don't wear perfume either. Well there are some sizing machines in the room as well and low and behold there is a lady in there working. JACKPOT!! Get a grip lady, normal people don't need that fuckin' much perfume! Now if I thought my office was over bearing it is 200% worse out there. Shouldn't there be a law as to how much perfume someone can wear? I mean when you just about get a instant headache from the smell, that's a problem.

It's Monday

and I am back at my dead end go nowhere job! Yeah for me...I am really starting to think it is time for a new job.
Apparently Motor Mouth came in on Saturday..for what??? All she does is milk the company Monday through Friday...she spends 1/2 her day bullshitting and nobody seems to care enough to say anything. Why?
You have the Kiss Ass who has his head so far up management's ass you are not sure where he ends and they begin. He is another one who has weaseled his way into doing pretty much nothing all day.
You have Big Man who is pretty much milking the clock too...All though he is not a kiss ass he sure likes to gossip and talk about who ever he can ...whether it be good or bad.
The there is Wee-Man..he is having a tough time with his mom and really is about the only one who does not irritate me to the core.
Then there is one more...Maple Man...he works pretty hard while he is here, is personality sucks and you can't trust him as far as you can throw him but he pretty much is ok..

ARRRGGGGHHHH

Today has been one hell of a day. My son is still sick, I am so proud of him though, he did go to school. My hubby is being a PIA, was pissed off at me this morning because I fell a sleep before he decided he was ready to bump uglies last night. He forgets that I get up a 5 a.m. and he gets up at 7:30 am. Makes a big difference in bed times. Never mind he drives so if he feels like taking a nap in the afternoon by all means he does!!! Go figure, if I got that much sleep I would be able to stay up till midnight also!!
So anyways, work is the same. still dealing with that useless woman in my office. I don't know how she has managed to keep her job so long. I think it is the grandma syndrome, she acts like a sweet little old lady but when it comes down to it she really isn't. She is very sneaky and undermining. Although people are starting to see what she really is I don't think it will change much....oh well...No use bitching here at work, nobody wants to hear it anyways.