My husband’s work schedule will be changing in a couple of weeks, he’ll be going back to swing shift so there will be a few days where we only see each other while we’re at work for a couple of hours but not at home since I’ll be asleep by the time he gets home.  And the Kiddo won’t even see him at all those days unless I let her give him a goodbye kiss in the morning while he sleeps.

On the plus side he’ll be getting 5% differential, which is good since there are rumours that no one is getting a raise at all this year, which I think is stupid but that’s for another post.  And he’ll get three days off from work again, plus won’t see much of his boss – who he hates – since he’ll be coming in about three hours before the boss leaves for the day.

Unfortunately this means no more carpooling for me, so I won’t be able to snooze on the way into work.  On the other hand, I’ll be able to go back to telecommuting once a week again, which will be nice and help save on gas.  And as long as the gas prices don’t skyrocket again we’ll actually see the benefit of the extra 5% of his pay rather than it all being drained away in the gas tank.

My iPod nano will be happy as it’ll be getting used again during my drive to and from work since I don’t have satellite radio in my car and let’s face it… regular radio is pretty lacking these days.

I can just feel my blood pressure rising, and my nerves becoming frazzled.  And if it’s due to someone else’s mistake, then I just plain get pissed off.

I take pride in my work – as boring as it can be at times – and I really hate it when I inadvertantly screw up.

Excuse me… I think I am going to go stomp on something now.

Every now and then when our group gets buried with orders, our managers ask us to work extra on the weekend in exchange for comp time (since we are salaried, we don’t get OT). This is one of those weekends.

We’re getting one comp day for so many orders, and a 2nd if we work so many additional more than the first one.

I’ve got almost just enough for one comp day, and I’ve been at this for maybe an hour. Of course the orders I had sitting in my queue were fairly easy and fast, which helped a lot. I really don’t feel like doing a whole lot this weekend, so I may just stop at the minimum. I haven’t really decided yet. Two comp days would be nice, but… the rest of the stuff sitting in my queue is just annoying stuff, the kinds of things I’d rather put off until it’s just not possible to put it off any longer. Bleh. I’d rather be playing WoW or surfing for fun.

Currently my husband and I carpool, working five days a week.  In his department, they have the option to work four 10 hour days on either side of the week.  He used to work that shift pretty much consistently.  I don’t even remember why he switched to my schedule anymore, maybe it was to start carpooling, maybe it was to try to save some money.  Since working in the evenings in his department garners a 5% shift differential and there is no such thing on days, and when he worked that shift before, the Kiddo only went to daycare part time… ultimately it did not save us any money.

What money we saved in gas for only having to drive one car, was immediately turned and given to the daycare for full-time attendance.  Plus I think he was starting to go a little more nuts working five days a week in there, as opposed to working only four and having three blissful days away from the pits of hades.  Heck, I was starting to go nuts because his job sucks so bad that he vents about it daily – to me.

So when his manager announced they wanted to do the schedule change a few weeks early, we discussed his options.  He could continue to work the shift he is on, and still only have two days off, and see the dreaded manager all day.  Or he could chose a 10 hour swing shift, get three days off, see much much less of the manager, and get 5% extra pay.

The only problems now are that the Kiddo is going to pre-school, and we really don’t want to put her back on part-time where she could possibly miss whatever lessons they may have on the days she doesn’t go.  So we’ll still be paying full-time on that.  Plus, I’d be driving my car by myself again (instead of it sitting in the driveway, saving it from wear and tear), which would pretty much suck up whatever extra money he will get for working the evening shift.  *sigh*

On the flip-side, in my job I can telecommute one day a week, and while we were working the same shift and carpooling, I had forgone that option and saved my telecommute days for emergencies – like, if he was sick and I didn’t want to waste the gas to drive my lone self to work, like what happened last Friday.  So if he goes back to a swing shift, I can start telecommuting once a week again, and save a day of gasoline.  My car gets pretty good gas mileage usually, so I can usually get away with filling up my car maybe three times in a two week span if I telecommute.  Four if my gas mileage happened to be in the crapper.

So for the sake of our sanity, we’re just going to swallow whatever little extra money we may end up paying more of for him to switch to a four day work week.  And hope that in the meantime we can figure out other ways to earn some extra money on the side.  Like selling off our unused electronics and junk. Or hope that my jewelry store sales start picking up.

Recently, we have been bombarded with orders.

Today, the total queue of assigned & unassigned orders looks like this:  1123

My queue alone is 85.

The unassigned queue, is 498.

*sigh*

I think there are maybe 12 of us, including our boss.  New orders come in every day, so we barely make any headway.

Upper management complains that our numbers are too high, yet took away the job reqs we had open.

We need more bodies, you imbeciles!!

So that I can spend my afternoon goofing off.  Well, not completely goofing off the entire time.  I’ll still do some work here and there.  Geeze, what do you think I am?  I total slacker??  Hardly.  ;)

Yes, this is bathroom talk, so if you don’t want to read, avert your eyes.

Anyway.  Squatters are ladies who don’t sit on the toilet, but instead, hover over it, to go potty.  I don’t know if anyone has noticed?  But women are not that great with aim when it comes to going potty.  That is why we sit!!  But if you hover… it is quite likely you are going to splatter onto the toilet.  Gross!!  There is little I hate more than to walk into a stall, and see pee on the toilet seat.  In a women’s restroom.  I mean, come ON!

The company provides these neat little covers for the seats if you’re paranoid about setting your tushie on a public toilet!  USE THEM!!   GAAAH!!! *insert runs-away-screaming-smilie here*

No response.

And supposedly the order is slated to go live in 23 minutes.

*sigh*