This and that
Aug. 25th, 2010 07:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ostarellaWell, did it again. Dead tired, went to bed - slept 4.5 hours. I thought maybe today I'd have better luck - decided to actually go upstairs, sleep in a real bed with pillow (and blanket since it's COLD today) instead of just flopping down on the couch like I normally do. But it didn't help. So now I'm just going to diddle around, take a shower, and hope that I don't suddenly need to sleep just as it's time to leave for work - which is what usually happens on days like this. Oh well.
I am getting into a bit of routine now that I've reconciled myself to certain facts of life. Like, Wednesdays and Saturdays are Waste Days. Meaning, I get home at 8 in the morning and have to (try) to get at least six hours sleep before going to work at 9 that night. So, no heavy duty chores, and nothing that takes a great deal of time or thought, and nothing that can't be interrupted if the sleep mode suddenly kicks in. Which means basically diddling around on the computer or watching tv or reading (although that tends to put me to sleep). It's maddening when there's stuff I really want to get done but my mind/body just won't deal with anything else. The other days are okay because I don't have work on both 'ends' of the day.
Good thing I'm not working full time. I can't decide if I've suddenly become a wuss or if it's just a combination of shift, physical labor and age. A year off from that kind of work certainly hasn't helped any. I almost applied for a similar position in another town, with the hours in the evening instead of overnight and not so many - but it's another 10 miles commuting distance (1 way) which means another 20-30 minutes commute each day and I don't need that.
I just really need to find another job where the physical and mental stress isn't so great. I'm just soooo tired of listening to people bitch about each other - and then having managers come around acting like everyone's just been goofing off when, in fact, we've been working our asses off. The last two nights I worked we got *everything* done and ONE manager actually said something appreciative. But we keep getting compared to other areas in grocery and general merchandising - and they don't have to downstack their own pallets or sort for the aisles themselves. Plus they get help when they need it - nobody wants to work frozen so, on those rare occasions when we do get help, the people work slowly or suddenly disappear. And if we do get freight done with time to do all the zoning - we end up being sent elsewhere to help out and THEN they want us to finish zoning after that. Like WTF????
I certainly do my fair share of bitching about work, don't I? :p I guess it's just not the way I expected things to be. Or maybe because it is. I was uneasy about going to work there right from the start, just because of the whole 'cultish' atmosphere. And that's still there - everything is so artificial. The managers act like cheerleaders during the nightly meetings and then turn into bastards during the night. Guess it's just been a long time since I dreaded seeing management come around.
See - this is what happens when I don't get enough sleep. Everything's a bitch...
I am getting into a bit of routine now that I've reconciled myself to certain facts of life. Like, Wednesdays and Saturdays are Waste Days. Meaning, I get home at 8 in the morning and have to (try) to get at least six hours sleep before going to work at 9 that night. So, no heavy duty chores, and nothing that takes a great deal of time or thought, and nothing that can't be interrupted if the sleep mode suddenly kicks in. Which means basically diddling around on the computer or watching tv or reading (although that tends to put me to sleep). It's maddening when there's stuff I really want to get done but my mind/body just won't deal with anything else. The other days are okay because I don't have work on both 'ends' of the day.
Good thing I'm not working full time. I can't decide if I've suddenly become a wuss or if it's just a combination of shift, physical labor and age. A year off from that kind of work certainly hasn't helped any. I almost applied for a similar position in another town, with the hours in the evening instead of overnight and not so many - but it's another 10 miles commuting distance (1 way) which means another 20-30 minutes commute each day and I don't need that.
I just really need to find another job where the physical and mental stress isn't so great. I'm just soooo tired of listening to people bitch about each other - and then having managers come around acting like everyone's just been goofing off when, in fact, we've been working our asses off. The last two nights I worked we got *everything* done and ONE manager actually said something appreciative. But we keep getting compared to other areas in grocery and general merchandising - and they don't have to downstack their own pallets or sort for the aisles themselves. Plus they get help when they need it - nobody wants to work frozen so, on those rare occasions when we do get help, the people work slowly or suddenly disappear. And if we do get freight done with time to do all the zoning - we end up being sent elsewhere to help out and THEN they want us to finish zoning after that. Like WTF????
I certainly do my fair share of bitching about work, don't I? :p I guess it's just not the way I expected things to be. Or maybe because it is. I was uneasy about going to work there right from the start, just because of the whole 'cultish' atmosphere. And that's still there - everything is so artificial. The managers act like cheerleaders during the nightly meetings and then turn into bastards during the night. Guess it's just been a long time since I dreaded seeing management come around.
See - this is what happens when I don't get enough sleep. Everything's a bitch...
