So I haven't been great at posting much of anything here (already). I know. I get it. I'm a horrible person and deserve time out. I get it.
Life's been... messy lately.
I'm getting screwed over at work on a daily basis and there's not much I can do about it. I've been looking for a job with comparable pay but there's very little opportunity for employment out there right now. Being in the Detroit area, with all the layoffs from the Big Three, everyone's looking for work.
Myself included.
Let me back up by saying that I like my job - or rather, I like the work. I enjoy it. It's all the hoopla and bullshit that surround that I can't stand. I work for a local municipality, and while they'll all claim it doesn't, politics (or more appropriately, politicians) play into every decision made.
I'm tired of being told that there's no money to hire me full-time, officially, and give me the benefits (I need health insurance people!) that EVERYONE else is getting, while they expect me to still work full-time and let them screw me over.
But what to do? File a grievance with the union when no grievance we've EVER filed has gone our way? File a grievance and get shit on even more from management for making a fuss and taking it up the ass quietly like a good little employee?
My immediate supervisor told me today that he is quitting. He's gotten another job offer, accepted it, and gave his notice.
You have no idea how badly I wish I could follow him out that door.
I want to work, I like to work. I don't know how people can stand sitting around doing nothing all day. I guess I don't have the typical 'union mentality' that the laborers all say I should have. Maybe it's because I'm not a laborer. I'm clerical, and working my ass off for a city that doesn't think it's necessary to have even a single fulltime Building Dept clerk, DURING THE SUMMER. Height of construction season. I was ready to scream all less summer becuase it's an impossible task - having EVERY SINGLE THING cross my desk. A year ago, they had two full-time clerks in my department. Now, they won't even hire one.
But I'm not supposed to be angry or upset or feel cheated by this.
How do I want it to work out? Mid-June, our busiest time, on a Monday morning - our busiest day of the week - I'd like to just walk out.
Just leave.
No warning. No hints.
Just me. Gone.
But then again...I guess that doesn't make me different from anyone else.
Life's been... messy lately.
I'm getting screwed over at work on a daily basis and there's not much I can do about it. I've been looking for a job with comparable pay but there's very little opportunity for employment out there right now. Being in the Detroit area, with all the layoffs from the Big Three, everyone's looking for work.
Myself included.
Let me back up by saying that I like my job - or rather, I like the work. I enjoy it. It's all the hoopla and bullshit that surround that I can't stand. I work for a local municipality, and while they'll all claim it doesn't, politics (or more appropriately, politicians) play into every decision made.
I'm tired of being told that there's no money to hire me full-time, officially, and give me the benefits (I need health insurance people!) that EVERYONE else is getting, while they expect me to still work full-time and let them screw me over.
But what to do? File a grievance with the union when no grievance we've EVER filed has gone our way? File a grievance and get shit on even more from management for making a fuss and taking it up the ass quietly like a good little employee?
My immediate supervisor told me today that he is quitting. He's gotten another job offer, accepted it, and gave his notice.
You have no idea how badly I wish I could follow him out that door.
I want to work, I like to work. I don't know how people can stand sitting around doing nothing all day. I guess I don't have the typical 'union mentality' that the laborers all say I should have. Maybe it's because I'm not a laborer. I'm clerical, and working my ass off for a city that doesn't think it's necessary to have even a single fulltime Building Dept clerk, DURING THE SUMMER. Height of construction season. I was ready to scream all less summer becuase it's an impossible task - having EVERY SINGLE THING cross my desk. A year ago, they had two full-time clerks in my department. Now, they won't even hire one.
But I'm not supposed to be angry or upset or feel cheated by this.
How do I want it to work out? Mid-June, our busiest time, on a Monday morning - our busiest day of the week - I'd like to just walk out.
Just leave.
No warning. No hints.
Just me. Gone.
But then again...I guess that doesn't make me different from anyone else.
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