Working hard for that $$$

I love my job.  I really do.  I just hit my 1 year anniversary working there.  The thing I don't particularly like about my job, though, is the fact that there isn't much team work that goes on between the units/shifts.  I work graves, and have always worked graves.  When we've become short staffed it's been a pain in the tush to get anyone to cover shifts on the graves, and there was one guy we moved from days to graves and he promptly quit.

Thanks for the support, asshole!

It's not just graves that has difficulty gaining coverage.  It's the swing shift in the control room.  Honestly one of the most fun areas to work in, and there's enough to do that the shift flies by...but we had 1 month to find coverage for the 2 weekends that our swing shift guy needed off and not ONE single person offered to cover.  NOT ONE!

So guess who decided to volunteer and get the overtime?  Yours truly!  I've also been helping cover the graveyard shift on my days off because no one else is willing to pick up the slack... not even the part time people, or those who are on call.

Our last work meeting involved everyone saying we have fantastic team work, we just have a few things to work on... and I feel, in all honesty, that the supervisors who put the team work meeting on were only looking at their actual unit.  The other units don't really work together.  You have the polynesian crowd who like to congregate together, and that's cool.  But the other day when I was working a double shift I was totally passed over, ignored, while the polynesian posse got together and had a feast of delicious polynesian food.  It wasn't until I asked what they were having that anything was offered to me... and there was MORE THAN ENOUGH for the entire workforce to have been fed.

Thanks for ignoring the white girl.

Also - day shift and swing shift like to try and make it look like it's the graveyard shift that causes the most issues with the bed-check reports.  I'm sorry...say what?  Graveyard shift on the units involves us doing bed-checks every 10-15 minutes, hitting every door that has a youth behind it, and doing it EVERY 10-15 minutes throughout the night.  We also get the laundry for the entire facility done on the graveyard shift.  But whenever there are issues with the reports on bed checks it's never the day shift or swing shift, who happen to RARELY do bed checks...it's always blamed on the graveyard shift.  Our job is bed checks...unless we're sleeping (which YES, some of the staff do...pisses me off...but that's another story for another day) our bed checks are always on time, in order, and never missed.

AUGH!  The team work that our company needs is to actually cause all 3 separate units to come together at the end of their shifts, fill in on how the shift went, and work on building up a relationship between everyone.  We also need to know that us graveyard people will be recognized for all the work we do... I've been with my job for a year and have yet to get any recognition for attendance, work ethic, the fact that I go above and beyond my job to make sure the other shifts have it easier...thanks for the recognition.  Just because they don't recognize me doesn't mean that I slack, though.  I keep doing what I'm doing, and maybe one day the recognition will come through.  This is the first job I've thoroughly enjoyed doing... it's just that some of the people I work with are complete doofuses.

AUGH!

So here's to having 130ish hours on my next paycheck.  Because I'm awesome.  Or something.

Rambling updates

So hubby did not get the job we'd been hoping for.  He passed the interview, was offered the job, passed the criminal background check but the company cancelled the offer based on D's credit report.  :-(  So we're still stuck in a horrible financial situation.  We'll survive, but there's so much of a struggle going on and I'm just so overwhelmed with all the scenarios running through my head.  I'm lucky to have the family I have because they are here to help in any way they can, so I know that we'll be ok.

I didn't initially get the part time job I was hoping for, but they've given me a chance to try the testing process one more time.  I am really not looking forward to working a 2nd job, but I need to do something to make sure that my family does more than tread water.  I desperately want to take my kids to the local theme park at least once this summer... have something fun for them to remember that isn't based solely at home or the immediate surrounding area.  At least once.  ><

I met my Aunt and Uncle on my biological fathers side of the family.  They stayed in my home from Sunday to Wednesday a week ago.  I am so glad to have had the chance to meet them, get to know them, and finally have a positive memory to associate with the last name.  The Aunt and Uncle also contacted a cousin I have living in a neighboring state from me, and he came down for the visit.  He stayed for a day, and it was just awesome to have 3 people I'd never known existed suddenly break down many of my preconceived ideas of the family name...

Also - apparently I'm 1/4 Native American (Abenaki).  I am the whitest freaking Indian I know, but I do think it's cool that I've been learning a lot about my heritage.

School is going well.  Other than the fact that I'm in a team that is full of older ladies that can't seem to grow out of the petty beyotch stage.  But I managed to get them to pull their heads out of their hineys long enough to get the assignment for last week done.  Here's hoping the following weeks go smoother.  I'm getting an A in this class.  I'm getting my GPA up there.  If I keep going on this track I might actually hit a 3.75 GPA for my Masters degree graduation!  :-)

There.  Small tidbit of the things going on in my life.  More updates will follow.