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May 06, 2005
Breaking a Promise to Myself
I had promised myself that I would no longer gripe about work on my blog. Today was one of those days that has made me break that promise. Since I take Fridays off from running, I can't take my frustrations out on the road. Instead I'll write some of it here.
The nurse at school is 70 years old and takes care of me all the time. The students give both of us a hard time, neither of us get any respect from these students. My supervisor is completely unprofessional. In fact, she is rather uneducated. Her supervisor lets her do whatever she wants and never stands up to her. Due to his actions, I have very little respect for him because he never puts the supervisor in her place. My supervisor talks about all of the staff behind our backs, I know it and don't let it bother me. It does bother some of my co-workers, but I have resigned myself to the fact that this happens. When one of the staff was completely out of line, she told my co-worker that it was her duty to pull him out of the class and tell him that he was out of line, in front of the students. This totally infuriated my co-worker. None of us can ever do anything right. As far as she is concerned, it is only her way. The stipulations she has put on us makes it nearly impossible to do our jobs, so none of us to what she wants us to do. My position is completely misunderstood not only by her, but by everyone else because the way she explains it is wrong. This complainng is just about the supervisor. On top of that, our health insurance was terminated and we were not informed of that until 7 weeks after the fact. Our paychecks have bounced, so we have to cash them at the bank they are drawn on as soon as we are paid. I know that I need to get out. Work makes me so unhappy and miserable. I was ready to pack up all of my belongings this morning and never go back. The nurse had to talk me into at least staying until the end of the school year.
Today was payday, so I had to run to the bank and cash my check. After depositing the cash in my account I went to buy plants. I think that I bought too many tomato plants, but if I did we can give some to my aunt. I bought 9 tomato plants and 2 pepper plants, as well as a basil plant. This is one of my favorite things to do during the summer. Fresh veggies that I grow taste so much better than the ones you can buy in the grocery store. I went to the running store to let the owner know that the shoes I got were so much better than the previous version I had worn. After that I bought the wine for Mother's Day, as well as some for dinner tonight, I feel that I deserved it after today!
Sunday I'm going to the horse races and breakfast before hand. I plan to have a good ol' time...this means that I may be missing out on work on Monday, darn. The forecast was originally for 80, but now it is only supposed to be about 70...brr. Tomorrow I'm volunteering all day at a high school track meet and it is supposed to be in the 50s and wet, I'm going to be one grumpy girl. I'll probably be missing Mother's Day dinner with my family, but mom said it was OK. She knows how miserable I've been with work and she wants me to go out and have fun. I may be able to stop over at the dinner, but it could be very unpleasant. My crazy uncle is coming to visit and my brother will be around too.
Hope that everyone enjoys their weekends!!!
Posted by Blondie at May 6, 2005 04:39 PM