Work

Here I am, bored again at work. TGIF holds a lot of meaning when you have nothing to do. On off quarter months, I finish my work within 7 business days of the month, and don't have enough left for 8 hours of work every day for the remaining days in the month. This is ridiculous. I went to another department and will learn additional things to keep me busy for the next 2 weeks, and my boss is on vacation at the end of the month, so I might be ok to make it through until the quarter end month. I have an employee gone next week, so with just the two of us, I might have a little more to do. There were times before I was promoted that my coworker would call in sick and I would have all her work and all my work done by 10:30 and not have anything else to do. After being promoted, there have been a few times both my employees have been off, and I've had to do all their work and mine and still had an hour or so available at the end of the day. My husband says I'm too efficient. My boss says to slow down and pretend that I am the final check of my work and not her.

In October, I'll have 1o years here. One more Tiffany gift, and one more week of vacation, making it 4 total for the year. If we end up moving, I'll be here until then so they can pay me for the accrued vacation I haven't taken. There's much I have to do/look into before I leave. I want to learn new things, but most of all, I want the management perks - the bonuses, early Fridays, salary pay - give me all that, and I'll do my CFO's job. I want the perks. I hate being left out and put in my place because I am just an employee. Title is everything here. Always has been. If you don't have a title, you are nothing.

School

I hope I pass my tax class. That's all I can say. I read, and my mind goes wandering after 10 pages. I should be studying now while I have nothing to do at work. Or the words are just words on a page and have no meaning. I have a lot of trouble concentrating on school. I don't like it, but I'll need it to stay ahead. By the time I turn 40, if I didn't have a graduate degree, I couldn't compete with today's kids. And I've only been out of high school 9 years. I feel as if I'm falling behind. I wish I could retain more. But there's so much I'd rather be doing instead - yard or house work, caring for my animals, talking to my husband.... life is out there, and I don't want to miss it.

This class should be easy enough, but I'm not retaining any information. The quizzes for each chapter are at the beginnning of the class before we discuss the chapter. A 40 page chapter and the quiz has at it's least been 2 questions. I have gotten them both wrong. The classes are long, 4 hours once a week, but he's a great instructor letting us out early. Most times I have left on break, because I've taken the quiz and read the chapter and don't feel like listening to him lecture. I'm spoiled this term. Next term, in the middle of summer, I may not be so lucky.

If we end up moving, I'll see what classes I can take from afar online, and if I have to switch colleges to finish. But I've always wanted to graduate from this school and I finally get the chance. If we move, it won't be a big deal, I will finish regardless of where we're at. If he's happy with his work, then I support that. I'll follow him, because the only way to make more money in my career is to be management, and I don't think I want that.

Ex-husbands

I just have to say something about my coworker's ex-husband. The guy is a complete jerk. And that's being nice. He will go out of his way to upset and inconveinence his ex-wife. Today, he was supposed to pick up his kids for the weekend. His own son headed out of the house because he didn't want to go with him. His daughter, though, won't stand up to him. She had told her mom that her dad should drop her off at our work so that my coworker could have her car for her ride home tonight. Well dad, being the asshole he is, made his daughter drive her mom's car up and drop it off at our work, and she had to rollerblade home. He would not come here to drop off the car. Instead, there aren't any sidewalks on the busy 3 mile trek rollerblading home. If she were to get hit by a car, he would blame his ex-wife. The guy is a jerk. At her age, I had already told my father enough was enough and I wanted nothing to do with him. Someday, I hope she learns that. Here her mother is buying a used car for both kids to use, and it's going to be a disaster. Her ex will now say her kids can drive to see him and that they had better because he no longer needs to come and pick them up. It's over an hour to his house.

From the things that myself and the other member of our department have been told, I cannot believe him. Granted, she isn't the person I would want to live with either, but as a single mom, I think she's doing ok. Watching every penny, making sure her kids have stuff. And her ex just retired from a $300K a year job, and barely pays child support for thier son under 18. As soon the daughter turned 18 he went to court to stop child support on her. She's still in college, but I guess Michigan doesn't abide by that. He calls himself a good dad, but I think he's dilussional. If she could just afford an attorney to represent her and take him to the bank. I also hope her kids also realize and one day will get tired of his shit. I know I couldn't possibly put up with hearing my dad call my mom nasty names and think he's always in the right and she's not, and what a joke. I gave her some tax advice because he claims them on his taxes and does not provide 50% of the support for them. I will have to bring in my book on Monday. He constantly puts his kids in the middle. He even wanted his son to come live with him after he bought his farm and his son said no way because all I am to him is cheap labor. That's all he wants me for. Nice, huh?

He even called his son just to tell him he thought he was worthless and never going to amount to anything, and he was such a loser. And the son had the speakerphone on because the cordless was dead and all his son's friends heard exactly what dad had to say. What a jerk.

I hope she's able to take him to the bank for all the crap he has put her and her kids through. Enough is enough.