i work with adults with disabilities who are in a day program Monday through Friday. for extra money - i also work with a lady who has autism. i stay with her Thursday overnights and random other days - days that don't have coverage.
my normal boss (Monday through Friday) i love. my other one - - - hes a different story. he has been with the company for over 20 years - and it does not show. strange . . . one of the guys that he trained is now above him, his supervisor. the other thing is that he is the most incompetent supervisor i have ever known.
here is how my week has been.
Thursday morning - my phone is acting up and i realize that i can not make or receive calls. so i try to fix it all day and have no luck. i take it to Verizon and they say a master reset (which will erase everything) MIGHT help.
*the only good thing is that i can text . . . so i am not completely out of the loop*
Friday - i spend writing down ALL my contacts. annoying proceses. after work i take my phone back to verizon and they do the master reset and it does crapity nothing. NADA.
Friday night - i see mummy. its okay. it was strange to me from the beginning that they were making another mummy....and the movie didn't change that opinion.
Saturday (today) - my phone is in my living room (no where near my bed...not needed because it doesn't work. and i want to sleep in). so at 10am i wake up and check my phone out of habit. lots of missed calls and texts. from my annoying boss. i was supposed to be at work at 7am. i was to work a 7am-3pm shift at work. since i only work random days - i didn't check my calendar and had no idea that i was working. so i text my boss and coworker and find out that the person who did the overnight was still there and my boss was trying to relieve her by 11am. fyi - there are about 10 people who work with this lady. my incompetent boss could not find someone to cover....for 3 hours. oh...and the person who was to cover 3pm-11pm and overnight had called out sick the day before and he still could not find anyone to work those hours.
so back to my ranting story. so i text and find out information - and he still wants me to go in - whatever...it was my shift. in the same text asks me if i can do 3-11 or overnight. ... where am i now....at work. i am pulling an 20 hour shift. got here at 11am and not leaving till 7am. i really want to yell at him right now.
yeah- he could not find anyone else to cover - and if i had not checked my phone - - - they would have been in a complete bind.

oh and on Friday, my cool boss told me the company made a decision not to give us our extended mileage checks and just to give it to us on the 16th paycheck (when regular mileage comes in). which was completely screwed up. i need to go make my case to them on Monday - and hopefully walk away with a $250 check.
here's that deal.

people who drive around everyday for work get a certain amount of money reimbursed to them every 16th paycheck. those who only drive occasionally record mileage and get reminbursed that way on the 3rd thursday. so people who drive all the time - and go somewhere extra far that qualifies them for extended milage - get double checks.  i was expecting one with the 16th check - but got told that i got extended mileage this month since i just started driving every day. so this past thursday was the day we were to get extended mileage checks - they decided not to give them to us. (i asked on friday for my check). so i got annoyed when my boss told me this....i had plans for that money. so i walked out of work annoyed on friday. i was taking clients home and thinking about my nonexistentcheck. since i had plans for the money, but nothing pressing - it really didnt effect me financially - but can they do this. withhold money and say "oh by the way  - we will give it to you in 3 weeks" what about the people who possibly had bills to pay with that money. and now because they didnt get it - those bills will be late. or even a simple thing as bank amounts running low and needing to fill up gas *especially at these prices. (which are thankfully running a bit lower).
a better approach would be to say "here is your extended milage check (on the 3rd thursday) and we are making a change for here on out - it will come with your 16th paycheck" that way it gives people a heads up and time to adjust their thinking and if need be - financial mindset.
so on monday morning, i will make my case - and hopefully walk out of there with money. i, to some degree, dont care that much - but yet - i really not think it is a clear judgement call on their part.
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so this month, my friend and i took a much needed fun road trip to pismo beach. she had just finished moving 2 weeks prior and i needed a vacation. her family has a trailer and bought a spot for a month. we adopted it for the weeked. i got to see her adorable less than a year old cousin- whom i adore, as they were leaving the day we were arriving. we had for missions for the trip  1* eat famous clam chowder at splash cafe *2*go to a used bookstore *3* eat cinammon rolls at old west *4*make smores. all of these we did...and more. we ate too much. i slept a lot - it was a sleep weekend for me. went to avila and got roasted corn and yummy food. had a picinic lunch at avila. walked on the beach / piers. didnt go horseback riding. which will not be out of my system until i cannot walk from bouncing on a pretty horsie. it was a almostly famtasmic weekend. oh and i unfortually had to be back in la by 10 to cover for an overnight shift at work 11-7am sunday night.  perfect weekend.
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= i am reading wyerd sisters by terry prachet
=my dad wants me to get rid of millie
=we are going to a ren faire by s.f in october and i am attempting to make a costume without help.....cool and i have no idea what i am doing --->my solution ...  a co worker might have a gorgeous costume i can wear.
=i kinda want to go to a gay bar. not getting hit on. being treated with respect. and dancing - sounds like a wonderful night to me.
=im tired and have 9 hours left of work...........ahhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!! (oh...11 gone ...yiippie.i o. ki. a.)
=buffy is great. finished watching season 4  and realized i dont think i saw season 3....i dont i didnt see the finale (must reserve at library)

thanks for reading my ranting.....
 

okay i never post so here it is....bullet form again
-swing dancing is amazing. i went two weekends in a row. one is sacramento at midtown stomp and one in whittier,ca at memories. memories was fun but way too empty. us friends that went were two guys and five girls. it was interesting. the other people there were not really asking people to dance - so that meant sitting around a lot. as opposed to sacramento where i had to sit down to take a rest.  i think i have dancing in my blood now! :)

-my friends and are are complete dorks. there was a friends birthday this weekend. there was a war between that guys and the girls gift. the guys got him an ipod touch - - - so course ours had to be better. this is the gift that comes out of 4 girls who have had too much sugar, not enough sleep, and a girls night. we got up super early and made oursleves cute. went to a park that has a very unique playground and made a video and took a group pictures. the video had pictures of him, us girls, and us 6 girls singing happy...happpy....happy birthday to him. half us the girls were from russia so we did a combo russian-english version of happy birthday. it was soooo much fun.

-if you have not watched "north and south"....GO WATCH IT. now! its four hours long. very similar style to 'pride and prejudice' and has richard armitage (very cute) in it.

-i am very white and fair and get burned way too easily.saturday a couple of us went on a 20 mile bike ride and i forgot to put sunscreen on my back. i got scorched. i was wearing a tank top - so only the top half is burnt to a crisp. now it is peeling (disgusting) and is still red underneath. i cant figure out if it is just my skin, or that my sunburn was so bad, that, it burned the next layer of skin.
oh, and smart me - - i am going to the beach again this weekend. i try to remember to be smart and wear a shirt.

-my younger brother is getting his masters in san diego. after graduating in 3 years from santa barbara - now grad school right away.

-i am staying so busy - if you couldnt tell.  i look around my house and see everything that i want to do - but there is never time to complete any of it. i need to stay home for a weekend and finish my house but i dont see that happening any time soon.

-millie is good. she has gotten into this strange habit of eating the paper that i have under her bedding. she will move away the bedding and eat the paper. i cant figure of why, she never did it before. and she is a very picky eater. she wont eat the corn or the little red things in her food.

- i have been constantly tired from doing too much and not enough rest.

on that note,
good night

-i think thats it.

Current Location: work
Current Mood: tired

my friend and i got back from a road trip to the sacramento area. it was so much fun. friends are just amazing. a synopsis....the easy way since im being to lazy to do more.
-watched dr. who "blink" and whenever i saw statues.......
-ate more ice cream than normal
-saw old town sac which has very cool boardwalks and cobblestone streets
-swing dancing....need i saw more (except that i must go again)
-discussing the best was to kill yourself with a dam
-star gazing twice (big dipper, little dipper, cassiopeia, jupiter, and finally found the northern cross(it ended up being my star gazing mission for the weekend)) there are actually a lot of star in davis....but lots more in the mountains of lake county
-watching 'hancock' at a drive in theater (been years....since ive been to one. i think i saw superman or batman last time)
-picking wild blackberries
-having a nice walk around town with friends and finding a pond and had a lot of life to it
-hanging out at a cafe/bookstore (i need to go back to the library in long beach,ca)
-met a friends boyfriend who bought us an italian lunch and danced swing with us.....very much a keeper man
-petted the cows at uc davis and wandered around the arboretum
-finding a park and being younger than our years with swings and slides and pictures
-adventures in lighting a bbq-er
-driving 9 hours on sunday (at least being in the car)
-not wanting to say good bye to dear friends
-eating home made yummy peach cobbler
-sushi and Chinese food in the same day

i think thats it....all in 4 days

Current Mood: tired

* i have been busy the past couple of weekend (ask ANY of my friends)
*my 18 year old cousin in engaged and i am going to an engagement party this weekend for her. it is really strange
*i watched the movie "dead poets society" with robin williams and was wondering why in the work i had never seen it before in my life. i loved it. i also have "chitty chitty bang bang" right now and am very excited to watch it.
*my brother graduated UCSB which was cool (in 3 years)
*for father's day we went to the beach (all the boys in my family surf) and i got so sunburned. i always get sunburned. which also means i had fun....which i did
*i am loving my guinea pig, millie. she is adorable. she is sitting on my bed next to me chilling as i type. if you stand her up on her two hind legs, she looks like the beavers in "chronicles of narnia" and she keep trying to bite my finger and refuses to eat her carrot.

now im off to work.

see ya all later

okay - i have never...NEVER done this before. but it seems interesting....so here i am. on livejournal. let us see how it goeseth