super cool news!!!!

 I just got the best news this morning!!!

My boss (the one going crazy and stressing out, poor thing. She sent emails at 4 AM on SATURDAY… she needs a vacation!!!)…

anyway, my boss is actually pretty damn awesome and she has been fighting for us to get our old schedules back. What this would mean is that we would end up working 4 day weeks (we are forced 8 hours of furlough time and working 9 hour days gives us another day off… so that would be one day off each week!)… but they were fighting it. They ONLY took schedules like that away from US (within the union I’m in) and not others. It wasn’t fair. Meanwhile, our subordinates were working an extra hour each day with no supervision (and a lot of poor decisions were made and crap happened) and it was causing a lot of problems since they had changed our schedules.

So I guess she wrote up a really iron clad proposal which they couldn’t say no to and she told us this morning that they had accepted it!!!

So… guess who is going to get EVERY FRIDAY OFF for at least the next couple of months (they could change it up at any time, which will suck, but I’ll enjoy it while it lasts!)… MEEE. I GET THEEEMMMM!!!

There were some issues as far as people not getting every Friday or every Monday, but I don’t think it applies to my supervisor and I. We cover each other on the days off that we’ve chosen so it shouldn’t be an issue.

I’m super jazzed because it will be SO NICE to not work on Fridays. It’ll save me gas money and all sorts of things.

And imagine all the extra video games I’ll get to play *dork dance time*

oh yes.

I can also schedule more appointments and things on those days and meet with Jonathon’s teacher more often (I hope he’s doing well and not in need of more conferences though, it’s his first day back after the break today)…

but yeah.

It’s gonna be awesome.

and guess when it starts?

NEXT WEEK!

Let me give you a little run down of how this is gonna rule.

So I have Friday off THIS week. Monday of next week off courtesy of Martin Luther King day. AND THEN I’d be off on the following Friday, meaning I’d only have to work THREE DAYS next week! oh hell to the yeah ding dong diggidy!!!!!

This will happen every time there is a holiday.

I guess I have to get my butt in gear and stop hating work so much. It’ll be nice to have at LEAST that perk since they docked my damn pay!

I also learned that on Thursday my cubical is getting moved. It has it’s pro’s and cons.

Pro’s:

*More privacy and less noise

*A cute plant from previous occupant

*Closer to my supervisor so I can bug her all day

*Personnel section is more streamlined (we are all in a row instead of all over)

Cons:

*Closer to my supervisor (so she can see what i’m doing! damn!)

*Near the second big honcho muckety muck and my computer will face his office so when he comes out he’ll be able to see what i’m doing! ugh!

*Everyone will know when I come and go because we are all in a row now (I’m sorta on the side where nobody really knows when I’m here or not. lol)

*I have to move all my junk! ugh! The files are the worst part!

but yeah, it should be alright.

I just had lunch and I feel sorta funky, like I’m gonna barf.

I hate that.

I think it’s when I eat too fast.

blargh.

so anyway, do the happy dance with me! Four day weeks! Hell to the yeah!!!!

Back to the trenches.