Death by meeting

Yesterday we had to attend a meeting for our part time job. This was a mandatory meeting so there was no opting out of it in any way if you wanted to keep the very part time job.

Not only was this meeting on a Saturday but it started at 9:00 AM in the morning. So for me that meant getting up at the same time that I get up every day for work.

We were the first ones there as Randy has this thing about being late so in order to avoid that we are always the first to arrive someplace. But it was good for getting a seat at the table in the back of the room so that we did have a little bit more room since they had crowed 6 huge round tables with with 8 chairs per table into a room that was not all that big plus a very long table that they were later to put "food" on and for me I use the term food very loosely.

Well they started the meeting with some very mindless dribble and then showed a drawing on an overhead screen showing the new area that they will be moving this department. This drawing was actually the schematic drawing so to actually see anything. So we finally moved on from that and onto the awarding of certificates to people who have actually survived at least two years on this job. "Heaven help them"

OK, so now we are to the purpose of this actual meeting. This is to inform us that they way we have been scheduling our hours every two weeks is no longer going to be used. They have probably now spent a ton of money to use some sort of online scheduling system and we have to schedule our hours online. But the kicker is that these hours will now need to be scheduled every other Thursday at 4:30 PM. That might be great for the few people actually about 3 who work there that do not have a computer at home and need to come to the work place to use the computers there when no one else is working to schedule their hours. But for the majority of the group who actually have computers at home and who surprise surprise have a day job as well and work until 5:00 pm every day and then have to drive home this is a major issue. The reason it is such an issue is that there are only so many shifts available for any given week and they actually have people who want more shifts. So the people who get online at 4:30 will get what ever shifts they want and the people who work and don't get online until almost 6:00 will find out that all of the shifts have been taken. Plus for us I have to schedule for two people and to try to get both of us working the same days appears to be the impossible dream.

This is not a lot of money for a part time job that we are looking at but it was budgeted every week to pay a particular bill that we need to pay. So if we can't get our hours I don 't know what we are going to do.

So besides being bored to tears for "FOUR" hours we now may be out of our job. OK it is a job that neither one of us particularly like but we do need the money. So we will try to hang on to this as long as possible I guess.