Once every nine or ten months or so I get so frustrated with my job that I threaten to quit unless I'm compensated for all the additional things I've taken on to cause such frustrations.
This is not one of those times.
Yes, I'm frustrated that my company is saving $40,000 a year by combining my my position with that of my supervisor who retired last year. And I got a $5,000 a year increase for pretty much doubling my responsibilities. Plus they made me salary after I begged, pleaded, threatened, and reasoned my way into a tiny bit more money.
(Unless I work over 45 hours a week, in which case I'd have made more money at my old hourly rate. I'm smart enough to figure that out. )
No, my frustration is that I have worked for this company for eighteen months, and before that I worked for my boss several other times throughout high school and college. I go back about ten or twelve years with this guy. And Tony passed twelve days before he would have been my legal father in law and instead of paying bereavement, I was charged the balance of my vacation pay for the year.
Was I vacationing in Tulsa? No, I was helping plan a funeral.
It's not even about the money at this point. It's the principal.
And that Ass had the nerve to ask if I was having a good day.
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