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Things not to do: Pace around and worry, sit outside and just call the dog over and over. Stay proactive and just keep up your hopes.
We don't associate with my mother's parents anymore; they've basically decided we're not worth their time (which is ridiculous, since my mother is the best (person on the planet) kid they have). Nevertheless, Momma's sister-in-law calls (whom we adore) and says Momma's dad is in the hospital and that she thought Momma should go because she thinks Momma'd regret it later. So we went.
I'm not sure if it went well or not. I had no real intentions of actually going back and seeing my grandfather, but Momma kind of cornered me and made me go - I'm not sure if he even realized who I was (they took him off of pain meds he was on to get his potassium levels back down, so he was basically going through the DTs). It was good in that I got to see my aunt and sit and talk with just her for awhile. But generally stressful. And now what? If he dies, how am I supposed to feel? Ennui is a great word to describe how I feel right now. Ennui and burnt out.
When it rains, it pours.
So, last weekend was a convention that I'd been planning on going to. Due to lack of funds, interest, and a few other factors that involved my nana being sick, I opted out. However, I was the one that reserved the hotel room. Keep in mind, the hotels in the area were sold out for weeeeeks so I had to snag this time a few months back. Everyone was going to chip in. When I told everyone, they offered to take care of everything since they still wanted the room so I called and switched the check in names, no issues at all.
They didn't use the room. They found a closer hotel with a cheaper room by someone that must have cancelled... which, in itself, is not a bad thing. What IS bad is that they never TOLD me, never CANCELLED the reservation, and because of that.. I got the entire charge of the hotel room on the card that I told them I couldn't afford. This after them swearing up and down the wall that they'd take care of it by switching to a different card. Apparently, they didn't think there was going to be even a charge for not showing much less the entire cost of the room. Caused me to go into overdraft mode and making it difficult to recover. I mean, I'll be fine but that was a lot of money suddenly gone right when I was planning on using it.
I have no idea how I'll be able to go the entire time without coughing and messing things up.
Sorry Yarrbre.
"To be awkward or unkempt, to talk or move wrongly is to be a dangerous giant, a destroyer of worlds...any accurately improper move can poke through the thin sleeve of immediate reality." - Erving Goffman
As a manager, if you flipped out like that on me, I probably would of let you go. My job is to look out of the company first, and try to accomodate you, the employee, second. But, situations arise where things happen and you have to change schedules. They're in a tough spot because someone is quitting, and they're looking for the staff that they pay, to help out. If the staff can't do that, then it's time to move on and find another staff member.
As an example, I'm looking at moving one of my midlevel managers and swapping him with another guy, to get my most experienced guy on the most important shift. One of the people the midmanager had hired overheard my conversation with him and told me that if I moved her boss, she would quit. I looked at her and said 'no problem, I'll put out an ad for your job tomorrow'. And then I did. Because in the end, the employees need the job a whole lot more, especially in this economy, than I need you. No one is above replacing, even me in my job of which I'm very secure.
And that's my rant. Employees who think threatening me with quitting is actually a threat. I'll laugh as I just go find a new employee to replace you, because there are literally thousands of people out there looking for a job who are going to be a lot less hassle than anyone who thinks work should revolve around their life.
(and I'm not trying to attack you Val, that's just my stance. I get that you're in school and school is the most important thing, and if that's the case, it's time to move on)
Message #17059 Sent By: Oleis Received On: 1/03/2014/17:24
"If it makes you feel better, just checking your artifact list threatens to crash my mudlet."
"To be awkward or unkempt, to talk or move wrongly is to be a dangerous giant, a destroyer of worlds...any accurately improper move can poke through the thin sleeve of immediate reality." - Erving Goffman
All that attitude shows is that the person in question has their head so far up their own ass that they don't realize they're dealing with people. People with lives, and hopes, and goals, and bills to pay and mouths to feed. If you have a productive and capable employee, you should do everything you can to keep that employee and make them feel wanted. Not just say, "LOL I changed the rules without notice, deal with it. Next peon please."
Honestly, I would like to see every single person with that outlook spend three months under the very management style they so blissfully espouse. How would you like it to have important appointments that you went through all the proper channels and protocol to set up get ruined because HR doesn't care about you? How would you enjoy it to get screwed over on raises and promotions because of corporate politics? How about you try juggling school and work and your entire life while barely being able to scrape by.
Protip: If the roles were reversed, they know they'd be just as bitter and pissed off and frustrated, but they don't care because they feel they're somehow better than those they're over because they managed to slime their way up the corporate ladder a couple rungs.
Alright, end of rant. Go ahead and reply if you want to, though I already know how it will go. Casual dismissal based on semantics, followed by misdirection through cries of hypocrisy, and utter denial via some condescending, nebulous concept of experience and real-world, practical thinking.
Ok a few points -
1) Florida is a right to work state, which means you can be dismissed for any reason, or no reason
2) I have the lowest turnover in my department of *any* department in the entire *company*. However, I went to school full time, and worked a job fulltime, and I worked my way up from the very part time position they're whining about doing, when I've made the job a lot easier than it ever was when I had it. I eliminated the bullshit parts of the job and all they have to do now is what matters.
The point, however, is that in the end, you work for the company and no manager should ever be held hostage by an employee. At that point, you've lost control. Yes, it's always preferable to work things out, and I'll be the *first* to work a double shift to help someone out if it means it. I worked the day after Christmas this year so one of my guys could go on vacation to see his sister he hadn't seen in 2 years, and did a job I haven't held in 3+. That being said, had someone quit, I would of been out of bodies and he would of had to work. That's the point I'm making.
In the end, it's a job. You work for them, not the other way around. I've held my job for 10+ years, and I've paid my dues, and worked for some good bosses and some terrible ones. At the end of the day, however, no one can question my work ethic. Do you know what I hate? I hate hiring people my own age, because their work ethic and sense of entitlement, that seems to come with the current sub-25 Generation, is appalling and disgusting. I've had a job since I was 14 years old, and I'll probably work until I'm 114, because I enjoy work.
Is it a job, or is it a career? Because I have zero time for people who simply want a job. I want people that want to build something great, work towards a goal, and make a career of it.
This has nothing to do with 'sliming my way up a corporate' ladder as you put it, which is quite frankly, hilarious. I know where I'm at in life, the work I've put in, and I don't need anyone's approval, especially not a bunch of internet trolls. Yes, it sucks, but in the end, again, it's not the responsibility of an employer to keep a job open for you if you can't work the hours required. And I don't care where 'here' is but I'd wager that's pretty much universally held.
Message #17059 Sent By: Oleis Received On: 1/03/2014/17:24
"If it makes you feel better, just checking your artifact list threatens to crash my mudlet."
"To be awkward or unkempt, to talk or move wrongly is to be a dangerous giant, a destroyer of worlds...any accurately improper move can poke through the thin sleeve of immediate reality." - Erving Goffman