In order to continue to carpool, and to continue being able to see Josh on a regular basis (i.e. to avoid working nearly polar opposite shifts which would mean hardly ever seeing one another) that means I have to move to days as well.
It also means, either: a] losing a day at the yarn shop, because the day shift is a five-day work week (as opposed to our current four-day work week)
or b] having to quit the yarn shop altogether if they don’t want to move me to Saturdays (the only day on my new weekend they are open).
I hope they’ll work with me. I warned them that job#1 rotates shifts every three months and that while I usually get to keep my evening 4-day shift, sometimes things change that require me to be moved to something different…
The only thing that may throw a wrench into the whole job#2 thing (other than they possibly not being willing to work with me on the schedule change), is that both the owner & manager are going to Nevada for some sort of conference at the end of this month… which would leave their full-time gal all by herself (apparently no one else has been hired other than me) for the good part of the week, with me to help on Monday & Tuesdays, and for a few hours on Wednesday morning for two weeks. And I can’t remember if their little out-of-town trip rolls over into October or not… If it goes past October 4th, then they will be sans Niki on that Monday & Tuesday.. since that is when the new schedule at job#1 will kick in.
Grrr. Well, the extra money was nice while it lasted I guess. If job#2 decides to keep me even though it be only on Saturdays, I’ll go from getting about $300 extra a month to about $150. Still not bad I guess, extra money is extra money. And maybe we may be able to squeak out a tiny bit of OT from job#1.
Crap. That just reminded me of something else that sucks about going to day shift….. working on swings we get an extra 5% differential bonus (10% for working graveyards). Day shift gets 0%, so we’ll be losing our 5%. That’s four hours of extra pay, gone. :-( It’s not calculated as OT, but just a flat extra 4 hrs regular pay. So I guess if we can get 2 hrs of OT a week that will definitely make up for it.
I wonder if they’re still forcing people to take their whole lunch hours away from their desks? Or if we can just mark down 30 minutes and get the leftover 30 as OT? I guess we’ll have to see what happens on all accounts.
That's all, folks...
