RANT TIME: If you do not want to read my rant stop reading now. It is amazing to me how inconsequential one can become to an employer when an employee decides for a lot of reasons to go from a gung-ho full time employee to a part time employee. In my case, as many of you know, I decided several months ago to do the semi-retirement thing. The decision was made first because I am (now) 64 years old and decided it was time to slow down and smell the roses. Second and maybe more importantly, medical reasons. I started to suffering from migraines (again), stress related headaches and stiff necks, shoulders, and back. My arthritis has been flaring to the point I am not able to take enough ibprophine to ease some of the pain in my back, hips, legs, and feet. My acid reflux disease has reactivated which in turn caused my esophageal ulcer to flair up. My employers (for some reason) decided to not take me seriously so put off hiring a replacement until after the first of July - I let them know that after August 1, I would not be able to work more than approximately 24 hours per week. It was also my understanding that I would be working either Sunday night - Tuesday nights or Monday nights - Wednesday nights as I would be able to catch up on any important items that came in over the weekend and still get everything accomplished for the rest of the week. Tonight at 11:08 PM, work called me to tell me I was on the schedule for tonight. I have suffered from a migraine all day and have spend most of the day in bed enveloped in darkness so I could get rid of the blasted thing. It took a lot of peace and quiet but finally managed to bring my head and body back into alignment so I could open my eyes with pain, my hearing had also stepped down form supernormal strong to just mildly strong, and my stomach finally didnt react to whatever odors floated my way. Needles to say my migraine is back, my eyes dont want to work, and my supernormal hearing is back. I really hate to say this but I really dont like my bosses any more. After spending the last 6.5 years doing everything I could to make sure the hotel was taken care of, I feel like they have no respect for me as person or an associate. I feel used, humiliated by some of the comments the AGM (who is currently working another hotel for a few months) made regarding my age and how I had no business being tired at my age (she is 30 years younger than me and was complaining how tired she was one day). When I asked for vacation time, she would only allow me to take it if I agreed to work 6 nights a week for the month of July. She gave me the time off but it was without pay. She did NOT okay my vacation pay! I am very unhappy right now. I truly didnt really want to look for another part time job as I know I will have to work more hours to get the same amount of pay Im getting now but I may have to rethink my decisions. I have some job leads and may need to follow up on them more fully. Okay, I guess that is enough of a rant for now. I have my pounding head, roiling stomach, and rage controlled enough that I can probably go to bed and if not sleep at least rest. Love and hugs to all of you.
Posted on: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 07:23:57 +0000
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