Time for a vent. Well possible a couple of vents.
So here is a subject that I don’t talk about much. My husband. Well today is a day I am going to vent. Not so much about what he has done, but more about his work.
So a little background, my husband has been in his job since May 1974. Now to date most of us would say that is 34 years. But some how I must have skipped a class in high school, because according to his work that is only 33 years. If anyone could explain it to me please do.
My husband will be the first to say that he isn’t smart, and sometimes gets confused a lot. Possible because he dropped out of school as soon as he could, which back then was allowed when he was 14 yo. For the next couple of years he had odd jobs until he was employed at his present job. There are many reasons for his lack of school, but the main reason was he lost his mother at the age of 13 and never dealt with it, and the fact that his father was not around anymore after been kicked out by his mother when she was alive because of him being and alcoholic. So with 3 sisters and him his grandmother took over the job of raising him and his sister. I must say under the circumstances she did a great job. But my husband was a teenage boy, who discovered alcohol. On one of his drunken states his grandmother had to mean to be kind and this is how he landed this job.
Any way back to the rant, last week my husbands pay was short changed by $200 in his pay. They had taken some allowances off him. These allowances have been payed to him for the last 10+ years. But due to some changes in the allocation of jobs, he no longer gets these allowances until he is back in that position, which apparently is now done on a rotating rooster basis. Apparently there is 6 workers for this postioin according to the supervisor. But if you ask my husband or any other perosn who does this job there are only four other workers. As there always has to be 2 men at all times .
Now personally I don’t think that is right that they can just do this, and in the past when he hasn’t been on doing this practically position he would still get the allowances. Subsequently when questioned them about it they said they would get back to him about it. Well over a week has gone by and still no answers on what it going on. Consequently on Friday he had forgot something and I had to drop it in for him. As he wasn’t in the area that day I took it in to the office for him.
When I get there his supervisor was there we made small talk, we compared football tipping results. Then I asked him had anything been resolved about the missing allowances and what was going to happen in the future, as I needed to know to work out the budget and make changes if this was going to be a recurring thing. So he explains it to me. Information that I had not heard form my husband. Even though I still don’t agree, at least I sort of know where we stand and can budget for the changes. And that was it, I didn’t argue or yell or get mad. I spoke to him civil.
So jump to today, and was informed by hubby that supervisor said that I ranted and rave and caused a scene and that the only reason he was in this position this week was to keep me happy. This was apparently said in front of other staff members who were shocked at what he had said. As most of them know me, and no I wouldn’t do that.
Why is it that people have to totally turn everything around to be more than what it is? I am not happy; Hubby also informed me that possible the union would be getting involved in this. All for asking what I thought was a simple question.
Ohhh and I did say this was going to be two rants in one, but this ended up longer than I thought it would so the other will follow in the next few days.
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