Sorries! & Payrate issues..

Blogger had been having issues the last couple weeks, so no updates as of late, but tis all fixed now.

Secondly, newhires at Charter Communications are being paid $13.50/hour starting out, while there are people who have been working here for 3 years who are only making $12.50/hour. That's even after they received their full 6% possible raises each year, highly unfair I say.

Heck, when they were hiring into VAS this past group, they were promising $13.50 to those individuals. This was lower than I got moving over here to VAS, because I was already at that rate from my yearly raises, and promotion to TTM before. Otherwise I would've been at $12.91 at this time.

Rumor mill has it that AT&T is negotiating a new contract with higher payrate for the call center they recently built in Louisville. The guesstimation is somewhere near $14.00/hour to be competitive to Charter's current newhire rate. This only went up because of AT&T and other call centers increasing their rates to match, but it's still unfair to long time employee's still making less than that.

I was supposed to go out and have lunch with my dad today at 4 PM, but Norma took the Jeep as she left early on VTO. My dad didn't check his email before he left and went on out to eat and never came to get me.

It was cold standing outside for an hour.

I then went to the vending machine to try to get something to eat, but the vending machines here refuse to take the newer new 10 dollar bills. I haven't eaten in over 24 hours, go me! Oh well, I needed to loose weight and go on an even more level of mental instability at this job.

I think I'm going to continue on this slightly depressed route and walk home tonight. I know Norma will be out back waiting for me at 10 PM, but I'm just not feeling it today. I'd rather walk and be really cold, but jamming to my portable XM radio, than to be riding in a car with my loved one and not talking because I'm upset.

Getting information from IUS this coming week about classes and continuing my education finally. In addition I'll call them to set up an appointment to speak with a counselor in the next couple weeks or so. Yay for furthering my education, even though I already know everything! YES! I AM THAT SELF-ABSORBent.

Anywho..

I did a practice online test for CCNP certification, and I passed it with a 97%, I just don't want to pay the money for the test cause I'm poor.

I think part of my problem may be that Norma takes so much VTO. It's not that I have to pay for everything, cause she manages her money well and always has enough for what she needs. So here I am practically begging for overtime so I can afford my bills and to live and what-not, and it irk's me immensely that she takes so much VTO. If she didn't take is every chance she had, then she'd have additional free money to buy things she'd like, to save up for a house, buy a new car, get a TV larger than 13 inches. Her reason for taking VTO so much is because she hates her job and Charter. What does she think? That I don't hate my job or Charter? I'm displeased with both immensely, but I will work because it's a job that helps to pay the bills. If I called in every time I didn't want to go to work, I wouldn't have a job here any more. I also only have 0.5 occurrences, compared to her 6 occurrences, again not because I love my job, but because it is a Job.

A Prairie Home Companion is on Public Radio right now, go listen!!!! NOW!! OR I'LL KILL A MOUSE!!!