I should be studying for the next exam on Thursday, but, a quick update on current things. I finally made an appointment today with a program advisor for next week. I have to give credit to my boss for helping me scrape my way out of this job. He doesn't have a problem with this. But other than that, if there are problems he doesn't want to hear about, then it would do just as well to keep quiet. Eric says bide my time.

I actually like what I do. That is the funny part. They can make an easy (but physical) thing hard by requiring us to jump through all their stupid hoops. It is a bureaucratic and managerial thing. Wouldn't it be nice if there were companies who (gasp) actually had managers who worked for and with the people who actually DID the work, thus making the whole operation more efficient and productive? It is easy for a person to sell their soul to an employer/owner and thus be the knob who throws each and every stupid requirement at the workers with little consideration for morale or material compensation. I actually believe my boss when he says he is trying to get me and others our raises. Here, the owner is being uncooperative.

Where I work now it is all adding up; the stalled raise, the stalled overtime for getting up at 2 AM for snow removal (mandatory), the new mechanic who surprises me in that no one in his whole life up until now has killed him (I am truly surprised he is alive he is such an asshole, for real), the new requirement that the drivers all check their trucks every day when the mechanic is there a half hour before us -- they want us out of the yard as fast as possible, the inconsistency in wanting the whole job done but not budgeting the hours to do it, making us pay for our driving record when it is needed for the job...

There is probably more but I need to wrap this up. Last year when James asked me how I standed it there, I kind of thought for a time and answered that, "I worked at the hotel". I thought of it and realized it and it hit home all at the same time; that I had worked at the hotel and that I could put up with anything. The key now is that I choose what I put up with, I hope.