Tiring weekend.

Thursday and Friday, I did a bunch of overtime, nothing huge, but still getting up earlier then I'm use to.

Friday night a bunch of people went out to see Ultraviolet. We went to one theater on the far side of town, since it had an earlier show time. They were showing it in a back theater with a screen that was about a tenth the size of a normal screen. We were thinking of leaving, but since we were already there, we decided to stay. But then a mob of teenagers came in just as the show started, and were loud and rude through the entire opening, so we bolted, and after we got up, about ten other people followed us. They offered to stop the movie and kick them out, but we were going to see it at a better theater, so we just got our money back. As it turned out, it probably would have been more entertaining to have stayed and watched them get kicked out. What ever you do, DO NOT SEE ULTRAVIOLET, awful, awful, movie.

Saturday was long, got up at 6:00am to go to work, worked until 1:00, got home and played D&D until 8:00, since it went long, and didn't get to mtffms birthday party until about 10:00, so I didn't get a chance to try turducken. There were lots of people there, most of whom I didn't know. I'm probably not going to remember most of the names. Everyone sat around and talked, it was very fun. Stayed there until about 1:30 in the morning, got home around two, wasn't very tired, so I started surfing the net for a bit, and didn't realize what time it was until 5:00 in the morning, I still wasn't feeling tired, but forced myself to go to bed, to reset my sleep for Monday. Sunday was just resting, so I'm just find today.

Later
Nekura

Getting Screwed at Work...

Looking through the job bank at work, I found a posting for a job that is exactly the same one of the jobs down here, actually the base job. And when I say exactly, I mean exactly, the work that the posted job will be doing is going to be coming to me to scan. And the screw part? It's TWO PAY GRADES HIGHER THEN MY PAY. At that pay level, including raises, I'd be making about $5,000 more a year, and it would be a step down in duties! WTF? I can take a demotion, and make more money!? I talked to my supervisor, and he's going to "look into it," what ever that means. I'll see what happens with that. There are a lot of people down here that are going to be angry about this.

And this is after my "personal" performance evaluation came back with glowing praise and "We'd give you 'Exceeds,' but we're only able to give so many of them out, so you get a 'Meets.'" So apparently, weather I meet or exceed my personal performance expectations is now dependent on how well other people meet or exceeded their personal performance expectations . . . What The F*** is that all about, when the H*** did "personal goals" become a team competition?!?! "You got the maximum raise for the 'Meets' category." Which is less then the minimum for "Exceeds."

I like my job down here, and the pay is good enough for what I need. But it angers me when I see that I'm getting screwed out of money when either: 1) HR determines that the value of this job is significantly higher then what I'm being paid for it, or 2) I work hard to help improve the department, and don't receive any addition compensation for it then the guy who sits there and just does the letter of his job description.

Nekura