I am always somewhat amused in an ironic sense just how much organisation and difficulty is involved in my trying to get a few days off work with PG to do anything.
Bear in mind here that my contract of employment is only for 15 hours a week, apparently my services are not required for more than that and yet whenever I need to be off, such as for the impending 'parental visit', suddenly my attendance seems to be a matter of life or death and to extricate myself from the place for a day or two is a feat of endurance in itself.
I have to be honest here and say that my boss has bent over backwards to accommodate me this festive season and it is not her fault that my plans where suddenly thrown into chaos by a change in PG's shift rota but as luck would have it, or not in this case, the one time my parents can visit I was scheduled to work for one day and nothing could be done. I suppose I should be flattered (she says with tongue very firmly in cheek) that I am so indispensable........or should I be a little miffed that the company that will only offer me a contracted 15 hours a week ask that I be available at their convenience 24/7 and at the drop of a hat!?
Thank goodness for friends is all I can say, as I saw my parents visit disappearing as quickly as it had appeared through my inability to be able to actually be here when they had planned to be, a friend offered to cover my shift at work! Hurahhh!
This colleague and I have an understanding that is separate from management and other colleagues in so much as where we can, we help each other out by covering shifts for one another on the occasions the other really needs the time off.
We both understand that if the other asks then it is important and we go out of our way to do it. What an employer considers a necessary reason to be absent is often very different to what the individual does......a situation I am sure we have all been in!
And so it is thus that courtesy of my friend the 'parental visit' at New Year is all systems go..........it's actually gonna happen, I had my doubts for a while yesterday but we got there in the end! Yayyyyyyyy, I can't wait!
Thank goodness for friends!
Thursday, 25 November 2004
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test
I enjoy your ramblings, but are you really out of the City?
Sounds like you are still trapped by having to work when you are told to!
I do live so so far away from a city, my time is my own in respect that I can choose to take some time off (if I really need to), but I have to work every day, you cannot really win can you?
Lloyd
and I miss your kitties!
I knew you would get there! Make it happen, G! :)
Anon: Lol @ test!
Lloyd: Well physically I am most definately out of the city but unfortunately the lack of a private income dictates that I must earn a living, I may have escaped the rat race but even in the middle of nowhere the reality of emploment is the same everywhere. The cats will be back! :o)
TW: I intend to :o))
Well done you! You'll have great time!
WTG, Scottie! That's fantastic news, eh?
Oh, and "Loud and clear, anon. Over." LOL!!
Dale/Jenny: I can't wait :o)
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