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9th

Looking at Both the Dark and Bright

Category: Life & Family, Mama Kelly's Musings | Written by Mama Kelly

I am hosting a Mary Kay facial party tomorrow night. The Mary Kay representative is the step-mom of one of Miss Artistic’s best friends and as she just started I am trying to help out. I am a little disappointed as I originally thought I’d have 5 or 6 people coming but now its looking like it will only be 3. But, “C” is happy and that’s what counts.

I have done a lot of tidying/cleaning in the past couple of days trying ot make my house presentable for company and tomorrow I will be doing the last bit of dusting and picking up a cheesecake at Sam’s Club as a nosh. On the bright side this cleaning included tackling the downstairs hall closet and saw a huge lawn & leaf sized garbage bag go out to the curb and purging always makes me happy.

What doesn’t make me happy is my job. Work is in a word awful. Hours are no longer guaranteed as people are being sent home right and left* for not making “production”, more people have been fired, and people’s pay continues to be cut. Miss Artistic works 4 days in my department and was shifted to a different one. She’s rather happy about it, the people are nice to her, it is a less hateful form of telemarketing, and the supervisor thinks she’s wonderful. Tomorrow she picks up her first paycheck ever, for 17 hours of work last week, and when we walk out at 1pm she will have worked 34 hours this week – quite a feat for a 14 year old.

On the bright side though I am no longer working Sundays. There are downsides to this (namely more time doing cold-calling and the risk of dropping stats as I adjust triggering a pay cut all my very own) but the benefits should outweigh them. I will get to have a weekend that corresponds to my children’s, two days that allow me to sleep in when there is nothing planned, and the potential of actually making plans more frequently. This means being able to do things like attending a nearby (45 min away or so) Unitarian Church (that has an active CUUPS group) or even open Sabbats held by a local Pagan organization.

Things are shifting in my life, I am thinking that room is being made for something new and good and soul-feeding. May it be so!

Blessings

Mama Kelly

* Even I, who am considered (by my stats) one of the top 10 in my department lost 2 hours this week as I was sent home after having an unacceptably low result for an hour and a half of work.

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2 Responses to “Looking at Both the Dark and Bright”

By brahnamin on Jul 9, 2009 |

T is in a similar situation at work. They don’t cut her hours – in fact, if her stats are bad they make her work OT. But, yeah, a fair chunk of her pay (in the way of expected bonuses) is tied in with overall performance and her ranking among her peers.

Add on top of that the fact that her bosses are constantly giving her contradictory marching orders and she’s constantly stressed.

And the worst part is, she trained the very people who are supervising her.