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November 15, 2004
Awakening & The Weekend
To start with today, it was a day of awakening. To back up a few days, and fill you in, my grandfather passed away Saturday morning. I am not too sad because I knew he was getting older and knew that eventually the day of his passing would come. With that news upon waking up, I tried calling Josh and he wasnt in his room and he hadnt called when he got back to heartwood the night before like he had said. With this I was now worried about him as well as my situation. Eventually I got a hold of him which eased my mind a little. I was still a bit confused about the funeral.
So I have to admit, my first reaction was to think how this would mess up my trip to NY and get in the way of plans that I may have. My fun and my friends. I made a decision not to go to the funeral even though I would be in NY, and justified my decision by telling myself "I wouldnt be expected to be there if I wasnt already going". I also thought about the transportation situation and figured it would be hard to get to Moravia.
Today all that changed. I realized today how important it is that I make every effort to be there. Not for the reasons that I *have* to be there but I want to be there more now than ever, if not for myself, but for my mom and my grandmother. For the sake of family being there through such a time. Now to figure out how to make it happen. With this realization, it brought my spirits down and I feel like such a jerk for not realizing this before and being so selfish. I really hate myself for that.
I emailed my boss and the director at work to see if I could change my vacation time to bereavement time. They never emailed me back which upsets me a bit. Perhaps they didnt get a chance to read their email but I think all emails should be read for importance within the course of the day. Either way, I now realize that regardless if it was neglect in getting to their email or their insensitivity to my situation, this may not be the place I want to work. I at least expected an email saying "sorry to hear about your grandfather". Nothing came.
To add insult to injury at work, my department got called in one by one to discuss a transition to our grade levels. The company decided that our department should not be salary any longer and therefore are changing us all to hourly employees. This to me isnt so bad with the exception of the strict *law* enforcement they are planning to do.
To explain my work day a bit, I can pretty much come and go as I please. I work my 8 hours but sometimes will split breaks which is nice. Its also nice to have the option of leaving after 5 1/2 hours and calling it a day if theres something I need to do. Ive gotten used to coming in at 7:30 and leaving at 4 or getting there at 8 and leaving at 4:30 and everything in between.
Now, they want us to choose our start time and end time, choose our breaks and lunches, and will be enforcing the 15 minute break rule and lunches would be up to us if we want to take 30 minutes or an hour. We would have to physically work 8 hours and there really isnt no flexibility in the schedule except the fact we get to make our own.
The reason they did this? In my opinion its because many people (and I mean most of the department) comes in late, leaves early, takes over an hour lunch, and pretty much get no work done. I, on the other hand, work my 8 hours (most of the time), limit my breaks, do more than the average work load, and Im efficient. Oh well, Im sure Ill get used to it otherwise search for a new job.
So that was work today. Other things, I received my $4 check from the laundry matt, talked to Kym on the phone for a bit and Im getting more excited to see everyone again.
Other weekend stuff.... Friday night was the Pilsner with my friend Jay from Rochester as well as my friend Ron (who was celebrating the fact he found a job after living here for about 4 months without one). It was a good time. We started at the Pilsner, went to The Edge, then The Mix, and finally ended up at Moby Dicks. Ron was a bit tipsy and stayed the night.
Saturday I went with Jay apartment hunting. We looked at a few but both of us agreed that this one loft apartment was probably the best even though the area isnt the greatest. It was kind of nice because I didnt have the opportunity to do that when I moved here and its also nice to know another friend from Rochester is moving here as well.
Sunday, I went to the Eagle for their beer bust. I went to meet up with my friend Tom who is in town for an art exhibit. The exhibit ran at Somart and is titled visual aids. It was a benefit for people with AIDS and from what he told me Sunday it was a success. To sum it up, drunk by 6, home by 6:30, asleep by 6:35 *chuckle*, awake at 4am.
Well that about sums it all up. I cant wait for vacation.
Posted by Des at November 15, 2004 07:03 PM
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