Bellyaching!
I think this might be the beginning of the end for the hotel job. I'm working there part-time right now, but today has been...my head is still half-ready to explode. I was furious. I'm still mad. It's ridiculous.
I went part-time on September 6 - roughly 2 weeks ago. As of that date, my hours are capped (under 30) and I have no benefits, etc. Typical part-time stuff. My availability is limited to Friday and Saturday nights; this was agreed upon by the supervisor, and I was assured that would be perfectly fine. Schedules are supposed to be done on Wednesdays; Thursday I had no schedule, so I emailed her and asked to know when I'd be working. Friday I received an email with a schedule that had me working 3 nights - Sat/Sun/Fri. Sunday is not a day I have agreed to work. I do not want to be tired/sleepy and short-change my students. I called her today on my way to work at the school, and told her I could not work Sunday nights. She then spent 10 minutes (glad traffic sucked so I had the time to listen) telling me about how the other part-time person they hired to fill in my hours flaked off and disappeared, and how she really could use tonight off and would be willing to swap days with me (Friday for Sunday). Taking it as a peace offering, I accepted. I wouldn't get any sleep beforehand, but I would be able to make it work. She then ended the conversation telling me they hired a full-time auditor but not to worry, I'd still get hours or be on call. I said it's hours or nothing, I will not do on-call. She said okay. (But who knows what that's worth?)
Got into work tonight, and there was a different schedule posted with me on it for 4 nights. FFS. I immediately called her, woke her up, and refused to work Thursday night. She was like "not even for half a night?" to which I said "absolutely not." She said okay, and hung up. If she'd bothered asking me ahead of time, I might have tried to make it work. But she jerked me around on the scheduling numerous times this week, they've hired a full-time replacement, and I'm pretty much all out of concessions. It doesn't help at all that work tonight was a huge, ginormous pain in the rear with obnoxious guests and an annoying desk clerk driving me insane.
New guy apparently starts in 2 weeks. She said she wants to keep me on payroll because with the amount of trips she takes to Kansas, she needs me to fill in. I know she has 2 trips planned in October. And the new guy will need training time. I'm rather fed up now; I don't know if I'm even willing to stick around that long, at this point. I'm still pretty pissed off. It's like today's crap was a catalyst. This isn't the first time she's jerked me around with the schedule. This isn't the first time she's said one thing and done another. Argh. Just, argh.
I emailed the lady who hired me for my teaching job and mentioned that my other part-time job looks to be ending soon, and to ask her to keep me in mind if there's a chance I could go full-time. If that happens, awesome. If not, I can make things work financially with just the part-time teaching job. I like the extra income this one gives me - it's funding my PC-upgrade plan. :P But I'll be damned if I hang around getting treated like that when I don't need it.
That aside, I've been feeling like a slug lately, so I've been making myself go out and take long walks. They help clear my head. In fact, despite being super tired, I was all set to take one when I left the hotel this morning. Unfortunately, it seems to be raining. -_- I don't need a cold from wandering around in the rain, even if it is kind of warm out regardless. Plus, droplets on my glasses would irritate excessively. I'm debating a cheapo-gym membership. There's one place that's on my way home from work at the school, and it's $10 a month with no contract. There's a sign-up fee ($29). But it would give me a place to do something to de-slug-ify myself when it rains like today. :P They're open 24/7. We'll see.
I went part-time on September 6 - roughly 2 weeks ago. As of that date, my hours are capped (under 30) and I have no benefits, etc. Typical part-time stuff. My availability is limited to Friday and Saturday nights; this was agreed upon by the supervisor, and I was assured that would be perfectly fine. Schedules are supposed to be done on Wednesdays; Thursday I had no schedule, so I emailed her and asked to know when I'd be working. Friday I received an email with a schedule that had me working 3 nights - Sat/Sun/Fri. Sunday is not a day I have agreed to work. I do not want to be tired/sleepy and short-change my students. I called her today on my way to work at the school, and told her I could not work Sunday nights. She then spent 10 minutes (glad traffic sucked so I had the time to listen) telling me about how the other part-time person they hired to fill in my hours flaked off and disappeared, and how she really could use tonight off and would be willing to swap days with me (Friday for Sunday). Taking it as a peace offering, I accepted. I wouldn't get any sleep beforehand, but I would be able to make it work. She then ended the conversation telling me they hired a full-time auditor but not to worry, I'd still get hours or be on call. I said it's hours or nothing, I will not do on-call. She said okay. (But who knows what that's worth?)
Got into work tonight, and there was a different schedule posted with me on it for 4 nights. FFS. I immediately called her, woke her up, and refused to work Thursday night. She was like "not even for half a night?" to which I said "absolutely not." She said okay, and hung up. If she'd bothered asking me ahead of time, I might have tried to make it work. But she jerked me around on the scheduling numerous times this week, they've hired a full-time replacement, and I'm pretty much all out of concessions. It doesn't help at all that work tonight was a huge, ginormous pain in the rear with obnoxious guests and an annoying desk clerk driving me insane.
New guy apparently starts in 2 weeks. She said she wants to keep me on payroll because with the amount of trips she takes to Kansas, she needs me to fill in. I know she has 2 trips planned in October. And the new guy will need training time. I'm rather fed up now; I don't know if I'm even willing to stick around that long, at this point. I'm still pretty pissed off. It's like today's crap was a catalyst. This isn't the first time she's jerked me around with the schedule. This isn't the first time she's said one thing and done another. Argh. Just, argh.
I emailed the lady who hired me for my teaching job and mentioned that my other part-time job looks to be ending soon, and to ask her to keep me in mind if there's a chance I could go full-time. If that happens, awesome. If not, I can make things work financially with just the part-time teaching job. I like the extra income this one gives me - it's funding my PC-upgrade plan. :P But I'll be damned if I hang around getting treated like that when I don't need it.
That aside, I've been feeling like a slug lately, so I've been making myself go out and take long walks. They help clear my head. In fact, despite being super tired, I was all set to take one when I left the hotel this morning. Unfortunately, it seems to be raining. -_- I don't need a cold from wandering around in the rain, even if it is kind of warm out regardless. Plus, droplets on my glasses would irritate excessively. I'm debating a cheapo-gym membership. There's one place that's on my way home from work at the school, and it's $10 a month with no contract. There's a sign-up fee ($29). But it would give me a place to do something to de-slug-ify myself when it rains like today. :P They're open 24/7. We'll see.