Why can’t I think of anything smart today?
Y’know through
Christmas and New Year it feels like I worked my ass off. For example
from Boxing Day to Friday 4th I had New Years Day off and that was it!
The week before christmas I worked an extra hour every night. I also
worked on two public holidays. Now for all that extra time, what did I
get paid? £38!! What was the point! If I had worked it out I would have
told him to shove the extra hours where the sun don’t shine! And they
have the cheek to ask me why I didn’t look interested at work?
Actually, when he asked me that I told him why, and, supposedly he was
absolutely stunned. Basically I told him I hated the job and wanted out
as soon as I could find a new one, and trust me the criteria for work
are lowering all the time!!!!!!
Y’know, maybe if he managed to change a few things there, I might enjoy
my job! At my work, if you do not meet the ladies high standards (yeah
right!!! as if they’re that good!) you are bitched about and generally
abused, in my bosses own words “there are a couple of wars going on”.
Now I am not the main recipient of most of this and I don’t know how
the poor girls that are can handle it. If you are not part of their
clique (sp???) and do anything different from them they moan, if you
get what is thought of as an easy job you are a target, indeed one of
their own number had a “easy job” and had to put up with badgering and
bitching about it.
That’s only the first point. If I am a few minutes late, the manager
knows about it!! “He always the last in and first out”. Well I have
news for you! Just because you come in early and fart around at the end
of your shift don’t expect me too! I am paid from 7 till 12, I don’t go
in early on a point of principle because I was once told to be there
for ten to the hour, not if you ain’t paying me pal! Now that’s fair
enough, but what about certain members of the night shift? Who are
supposed to start at ten, yet rarely start before 10.20?? And not a
word is said to them, normally. One time the assistant manager collered
one of them and was ignored, what d’you think would happen if I tried
that?
Tea-breaks! We get a fifteen minute tea break. Fair enough. 10.15:01 we
normally have the Assistant Manager breathing down our necks to get
back to work, fair enough. Then what about when that same manager goes
back to the smoking room and my collegues there are allowed to stay and
smoke with him? Does that sound fair?
That’s only a couple of my gripes and I’ve vitually vented my
spleen!!!! But does that sound like a happy, team orientated
enviroment?
Last quote from my boss, “Morale on shift is lower than a pubic hair on
a worm”. Well said pal!!!