I just got my reminder notice that I have training tomorrow at 8:45 am. This means I will get off at 7am and have to hang around for a few hours before getting to go home. It does not make me happy. I won’t get paid for the time between getting off and the training – then the training could last 90 minutes which means I won’t get home till 10:30 am.
Obviously I can’t let the dogs stay cooped up in the kennel for this long so I suppose I will have to run home, walk them and then come back in for the stupid meeting.
Why is the meeting stupid, you may ask. The thing is, we are not allowed to do anything with the alarm program itself so whatever they “train” us to do, we aren’t going to be allowed to do anyway. Only two people are allowed to mess with the alarm program – the rest of us just acknowledge the alarms. So why should we go to that training???
I don’t understand going to training for training sake. This week long training we went to a couple weeks ago is probably a mute point too because now they have decided they can’t afford to pay us to be trainers. But they didn’t “just” decide this, apparently they decided it last month so why didn’t they cancel our training?
I’m sorry, I don’t feel like wasting my time on pointless training even if I do get paid an hour of overtime. I figured by moving to days and not getting my raise I will be losing $100 a month in shift differential pay. Is it worth it? I just don’t know.
Ok, so I’m disenchanted and grumpy. I know I should be thankful I have a job and all that good garbage. But how great is it to have a job when you feel like the job is sucking your life away?
My job takes most of my energy for five days out of the week – I have to sleep or come into work. That leaves two days to clean, see family and friends, relax, read, write, run errands, etc. I realize that is the way it is for everyone usually. But most people work 8 hour days so they have at least 4-6 hours each day for themselves. Working 12 hour nights (or days soon) means there is no time for anything else but getting home, sleeping, checking a few emails, walking the dogs and coming back to work. I don’t sleep well – wake up tired all the time.
So yes, having to come in for crappy training, barely getting any sleep and having to be back in to work just pisses me off. I have got to get published or something but when is there time?
I’m sorry, I know I’m complaining. It is 3:30am and I am so very tired – nothing looks bright and cheery when I’m this tired. Like this coming weekend I work 5 days instead of 4 because I agreed to work for my coworker Friday night. I thought I would get the following Tuesday night off so I’d still only be working the 4 days but I was wrong. Sunday is November 1st so it would be two different months to do it the way I thought. Ugh.
My sister said it seems like I’m having a bad year. I wouldn’t necessarily say it was a bad year but it certainly isn’t where I wanted to be at this juncture of my life. 
