When I first hired on at my night job I made it crystal clear to my "stupid visor" I really didn't care what 2 nights I had off as long as they were 2 in a row. Remember I told y'all last month I told him I wanted the 2nd week of September as my vacation? It didn't happen. Next week's schedule was posted last night and "Pedro" is on vacation. He took 2 weeks in July to visit his family in Mexico and I haven't had any time off since January. For some idiotic reason I'm off Tuesday and Friday the week of Pedro's vacation and we have plenty of other hairy legs to cover everything w/o him. My 2 nights in a row? Didn't happen. Last night we got a butt load of freight in and snapper head in charge didn't manage man hours effectively. No surprise there as he is almost an idiot. About 30 minutes before my quitting time he comes moaning about all that hasn't been done and suggesting he'll have to stay until it is complete. I guess he was too proud or showed a spark of semi intelligence by not coming right out and asking me to stay. But his words and body posture said he wanted me to volunteer to stay and help bail his ass out of a jam. Guess what? It didn't happen! He screwed my vacation and my weekend. Now instead of a happy redneck w/ 1 week of vacation on the books he has a disgruntled redneck w/ 2 and no one to thank but himself! Holiday season is right around the corner, the big dogs don't want us taking time off because we're so busy but almost all of us have time to be taken before year's end and I have the last laugh when I tell him I have an extra 40 hours coming to me.
I was talking to one of the few at work I actually talk to and we agree it seems like the dumb SOB is trying to piss me off but why? I'm not as fast or strong as I used to be but I can be counted on to be there 8 hours even when a tornado misses my (then) trailer house by only a few hundred feet. Hell, I was 15 minutes late because the police wouldn't let me out and onto the main roads.
Anyway, as angry as I was for 7 and 1/2 hours at work the last 30 minutes was all worth it!
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