I found myself getting all excited and fluttery this afternoon on the way home from the office.
The reason?
I was listening to Man in the Box by Alice in Chains. I really don’t like Alice in Chains, but I found the bass guitar in this song breathtaking.
Like I said… I’m weird.
I think I just received had that discussion @ work which basically says; “do well and the rewards will be plentiful”.
I think.
I found the moron that was trying to fax my information yesterday. The union told me who it was. I even know the intended recipient. Union told me that too. They also said my write up was “long winded”, that I would lose at all 4 grievance levels and that I could / should sue after it gets to it’s highest level. My first level is being held MAy 5th.
Such confidence…
Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.
I’m sure I have bitched before about how I feel my former employer has been intentionally leaking personal information about me in order to discredit me. Well today… They did it again.
A “source” found a copy of a letter I received – confidentially – sitting on the fax machine, having not been sent to it’s intended recipient. Nice. This letter clearly outlined my former employers fictitious reasons for asking me to resign, and also had all my personal information, like mailing address.
Yet another confidentiality breach.
This time, I am going to speak to the union and make sure they pay!
The shit has hit the fan… Look out.
Given a choice last night between his Daddy and nobody, my 2 1/2 year old boy chose nobody.
He was laying in his toddler bed at 9:30pm – 2 hours after his bedtime – restless, he was calling for his Mummy to stay with him. Having worked that evening, she stayed for a bit but I wanted to hang with him for a bit more. He wanted Mummy.
She gave him a choice.
He chose nobody…
5 minutes later, I heard this…
“Daddy… I want you to stay with me…”
I did.
He did, however get up at 3:30 this morning for me to stay with him some more, then finally just past 5am he was up for the day.
No more naps!!!
That is how I feel today… A wee bit tired, a wee bit exhausted.
This week has been non-stop, starting with a bunch of meetings @ the office and a ball-hockey playoff game at 10pm that night to more meetings the following day and yesterday while working downtown, a day full of meetings and another late night ball hockey game.
What did me in last night was the little one getting up at 11:30 wanting a book read to him and not getting back to sleep until 1am. YAWN.
It’s no wonder, as I look outside wondering when I can go for my next run, that I know it wont be tonight… Or tomorrow night, or probably on the weekend. I just can’t find the time or the energy, or keep the kids in bed long enough to enjoy a late evening run.
Tonight, for example, we were supposed to meet our real estate agent for a drink. He’s cool and we like just hanging out with him every now and then, but we had to cancel because Stewie was having tummy troubles while asleep. He ended up in our bed, while our agent wound up @ our place. We all chatted until 11pm.
Figuring at that point that I would then be able to hop into bed until my 6:30am wake up, boy was I disappointed at the 5am wake up call because the older boy, Linus, was having tummy troubles too.
So @ 6:30am, in my prime time for getting ready for the office, I have 2 boys running around the house keeping mummy awake and preventing daddy from leaving the house at 7:15 for the office. I can tell it’s already going to be one of those days…
Spent all day @ the office working on my unit’s risk registry.
Boy was that fun!
We have some very applicable risks, such as the risk of incorrect tax filing should the government change legislation and we miss it, and we have some really crappy risks, like the risk that someone could get hurt walking up the stairs… That’s a risk, right?
So after risk-fest, I hopped in my car hoping to get some quickly, only to get stuck behind a… house on the highway. Who moves a house during rushhour?!?
Then to ball-hockey where a confused team lost 2-1 in the first game of our playoffs… UGH.
Now it’s home, showered, kissed UM goodnight, doing some work in order to wind down then bed.
I’m not really sure I do either nut that’s not my job. I’m all ready to take my grievances all the way as far as needed – if that means to the Prime Minister’s office, then that’s where they will go!
I wrote an accompanying document with my grievances – outlining the wrongdoings of my colleagues as they held back my career aspirations over the past 5-6 years leading to my resignation. I thought this document – requested by the union – was going to give the union president some “history” to make her familiar with my case. It was 14 pages. Now I find out from a former colleague that my document is now public record and as the grievance process goes on and every allegation is investigated, that more and more of my claims and facts become available for the world to see.
- insert loud evil cackle here -
Oh, that would make me SO happy. Can anyone confirm or deny this?
Stay tuned!
Why is it that I can look at every situation and be able to see and justify both sides? I’d love to be so firm in my beliefs that I could look at a situation and only see it one way. I can’t.
Take for example the proposed merger between the Chrysler car company and Fiat. The Fiat CEO basically told the Chrysler union leader that the deal wouldn’t go through unless the Chrysler employees took a wage reduction to put them in line with their counterparts in Canada and Japan.
The Chrysler union rep was furious, and initially I totally agreed with the Fiat guys. Over-paid union workers. Make too much. They need Fiat or their bankrupt. How dare he force Chrysler to close down because the staff are asked to take a pay cut…
Then I heard the union guy talk.
He said salaries make up only 7% of a car. So why focus on that cost? Is the Fiat CEO trying to really keep salaries in check because they are concerned their employees are going to want raises, I mean their employees are working at presumably lower wages for a company that is not on the verge of bankruptcy, and to have Fiat purchase Chrysler and then pay them more would be very hypo-critic, no?
Then again, maybe the Fiat management team knows they have Chrysler over a barrell and are just sending a message to the soon to be Fiat employees that the union does not run the show…
So I see both sides…
But being anti-union, I hope Fiat follows their path and gets those Chrysler workers to accept the pay cut.
I remember as a kid, my parents owned a Dodge Chrysler and during the winter the doors would either freeze shut or freeze open. We drove many a place with my sister and I holding the doors shut until the car would warm up and the doors would shut.
Crap car. Crap company, maybe? Over-paid worker, for sure, according to Fiat.
