They knew before we left on Friday

Yep, they knew. On Friday.

What did they know? They (BossMan and Silverback) knew that Silverback would not be teaching “Intro to Hourly Management” this week and that I would be. The fact they didn’t bother to let me know so I could be mentally prepared to teach when I came back on Monday staggers me. And what is Silverback doing all week instead of doing what he was scheduled to do? Sitting in the back of a class that will never be taught again after Friday so he can “be familiar with it”. Why? The specialty training will be complete as of Friday and we’ll never have *this* class again, anyone new to the positions that changed will just be trained the new way, they won’t need an explanation of what’s changed from the old way. He just doesn’t like teaching the hourly managers. Basically he seems to think he’s too important to teach them. His whole attitude is “Me important trainer person. Me no teach clock-in clock-out people. Me teach important manager people.” He’s a jackass. Especially considering Trainer II’s (me) are not even supposed to teach this course and BossMan had to get special permission from corporate to let us because we (allegedly) aren’t the average for Trainer II’s (until it comes to eval time when we all receive “Meets Expectations” every year).

I need to get the homestead up and running so I can at least feed myself off of it and then maybe just work part-time at a local business to pay the bills if I can’t sell my excess produce/eggs/meat. I got part of my Home Depot order today, I’ll be getting more tomorrow, more Thursday, and the rest on Monday. The surprising thing is none of it is coming freight, it’s all UPS. That’s surprising due to the bulk/weight of the last two items, but maybe UPS has changed their limits since the last time I was using them from the shipping side as opposed to the receiving side. I’ll be glad to have some time off next week to get the back fence started and at least the North side of the front fence finished. I may be able to completely finish the back fence as well, I’m not sure. I still haven’t gotten the survey back that I commissioned this time last year. They finally put stakes in the ground about six months ago so I know where the lines are but I don’t know any dimensions. I’m buying twenty 16ftx60in cattle panels, so assuming I do everything perfectly that should get me 320ft of back fence.

I’m going to go now. Silverback said he might be in the class for a bit tomorrow so I should get rested up and ready to teach all day.