rampant nepotism

Well, it finally happened. BF was officially "demoted" due to corporate "restructuring". As expected, he was "ranked" among the bottom 6 of his peers and given the talk yesterday.

Today, he went in and asked for the following:
– a specific training class, starting January 5th (instead of staying until Feb 2nd)
– his salary until Feb 2nd
– $14.50 per hour rate after Feb 2nd (instead of $13.25)
– a steady 8am – 4:30pm shift
– time off after December 24th until he starts the training class in the new year.
 

He got it all!! woot!!

Fishy huh? Definitely not covering their asses… noooooooooooo….

lol

What’s new with this bunch of idiots.

The bitch also told him she will be happy to go over with him "in great detail" all of the reasons why he was ranked so low. There is absolutely NO ligitimate reason for this ranking so it should be interesting – and infuriating – to hear what she has to say. One of the other managers apparently asked to see the results of the ranking system as he should be entitled to see where exactly he stood on this list and (surprise surprise) he was told they didn’t have it written out. No kidding. I hate them. I hate them all. I can’t believe they are basically telling him his is worse at his job than two people who were promoted ONE MONTH ago (he’s been doing this for 2 years), worse than the guy BF TRAINED personally to be his co-manager (and who will be his new immediate boss)… it just doesn’t make any LOGICAL sense. Throw in this chick’s rampant nepotism and suddenly it all becomes clear. Slut.

The good thing about this is all of the stuff he asked for he is getting AND it likely won’t make TOO much of a difference in our monthly budget. What a hell of a scare though until we figured out all the money. He also will have less stress, won’t have to work with the whore and her cohorts and will be envigorated to look for work elsewhere. Hopefully we’ll find something for him in Ottawa. I’m just scared about all this changing job/moving business with the economy so sucky lately. Every day I see four more companies on the news who are cutting employees. Bah.

As prepared as I was for the news of this "demotion," I was more upset than I thought I would be after hearing about it officially. Now I think it is sinking in and reality is coming back.

The reality of Christmas is also smacking me in the head lately. I have about 3 more presents to wrap – just waiting on boxes. Then I have maybe 5 more to find and purchase (and then wrap). I still have to make all of my Christmas crackers. UGH. The tree only has lights on it… I wanted to make my two Christmas cakes this weekend so I can decorate them next week. I may only get to one of them. Our laundry is STILL not done. Our cookie baking stalled after 2.5 kinds were complete… I will have some major vacuuming to do when the tree is finished and a little more organizing/cleaning once all the xmas boxes are put away…

Yeah. I’m waaaay behind.

But the dishes are pretty much still on track!! That’s success!!

I think I’m way behind because I was feeling so icky over the weekend. I had a major mental breakdown on Sunday. I was SO depressed. I thought I was going crazy. I couldn’t figure out why I was SO down, thought for sure I was going to have to go back on antidepressants. Then the next day my uterus exploded and I got a hugely painful period. AHHH yes. PMS. Loverly. Now I feel back to normal mentally. Thankfully.

I’m just a tad upset that my party may not work out next week. One of the girls wanted to change days, no prob. But then another girl is having car problems. I asked if she could carpool with the other chick but haven’t heard back yet. So I’ve decided that whoever shows up, shows up. It’s not like we’re doing anything exciting. I think it just gave me a reason to get into the holiday spirit.

Doesn’t look like we will be having a New Years party either. I don’t know what we’ll be doing but I’m bound and determined that I will NOT be doing anything with the crazies. When CFMIL asked BF what we’re doing for New  Years since we were going to be back home from Ottawa at that point (we might not be now that he got the time off), he told her we might go out somewhere or maybe have some friends over. She was not impressed. "oh… that will be nice". She honestly believes that we should spend New Years with her because she "has no one to spend it with". That’s bull first of all. She has a sister whom she spends the evening with usually and -some- friends; she could go to a party or have people in. Her other son will likely shun his own friends to stay home with his mommy because she will be "all alone" anyway. But I mean REALLY. She is an ADULT. New Years is NOT a big holiday. It’s not a family holiday like Christmas. She really feels that we should spend all our spare time with her, making her happy, doing things with her – YES, to the EXPENSE of our needs and wants because it would be "for the family". And we’re "against the family" if we don’t do so soley because she is not getting what she wants. It’s always the same. Everything is about her and how she feels and how things affect her. She honestly doesn’t care about BF other than that he’s alive and healthy (and seeing her regularly). Anything above and beyond that, to her, is superfluous. 

When BF told her there were going to be cutbacks at work, her first question was "are you losing your job?" That was good at least but before BF had even said "no" in attempt to go on to explain further she demanded to know whether Jason was going to be losing his job. BF didn’t even know who she was talking about at first but Jason is CFBIL’s ride to work everyday. (Yes, BF and CFBIL work at the same place – at first, they wanted BF to drive to the next city over to pick up CFBIL and drop him off after his shifts. More than once they have requested BF pick up his brother as a "one time thing". riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight). Anyway, not even a second passes and she is worried more about herself and how everything affects her. If CFBIL can’t get a ride to work (cuz apparently he is incapable of taking the bus and/or a cab or even posting for another carpool on the board at work) then he doesn’t get paid and they have no money and blah blah blah. The fucker never gets to work anyway because she tells him it’s okay to stay home for even the slightest headache. Took me forever to break BF of that habbit. You don’t get to stay home from work just because you don’t feel 100%. HELLO!?!?! But she liked having them home from school and from work because then she wasn’t so lonely. So their well-being was pushed to the backburner.

Bah. Enough about THEM.

Time to think about dinner… (BF’s on the late shift, should be home soon… )