Work BS in Parenting

There’s nothing I hate more than when people say Oh if you hate it so much, find another job or quit. Yes because my 1300$ mortgage is going to pay its self. I’ve been at my job for almost 10 years. I CAN NOT walk into ANY place and get paid even remotely close to what I’m making now. Trust me, I live here. I KNOW! Now this place isn’t so bad when you look at the pay, the hours, the benefits, the actual work is easy. It’s the politics and the way upper management treats you that is just SHITTY!!

I’m the only one on my team with a young child. But we have flex schedule. We can come in anytime between 5:30am-7:30pm as long as we make our 40 hours. And they said not to work more than 11.5 hours unless APPROVED. Because work productivity does go down. I come in at 5:30-2:15 on 4 days a week and one day a week I might do 10-6 or just take off a Friday. Sometimes we have mandatory overtime. Now, I can’t do mandatory overtime during the week bc I HAVE A BABY AND MY HUSBAND AND MOM HAVE JOBS!! So that’s left with me doing Overtime on the weekends. You know, the only free time I have to spend time as a family. If it’s not mandatory, I don’t do it. If it is, I have no choice. So I try not to plan things at the end of the month bc every end of the month they take advantage of me and have me do everyone’s work. It’s been happening for 5 years and theyre either blind, which I don’t think, or they just won’t admit it. I get told all the time I’m so great and fast and appreciated. Hmm, then how come I don’t feel like it?

The last day of the month, it was not specified what we had to work. Luckily my mom was off or I would have had to leave sooner. But since she was off, she kept Norah later than usual. Around 2pm, I asked when I could leave bc I was finished and there wasn’t that much work.

Keep in mind My que is clean. Other people have TONS of batches left. There’s only 3 poster. I’m the fastest and we post millions of dollars a month. I can get my work DONE without the overtime, yet they can’t even get there’s done WITH the overtime. So the least day my new supervisor said shed ask Manager. The bitch who everyone hates but she’s the boss, well apparently no one can leave until they find and post ALL the money and EVERYONES done. I was pissed. I kept asking at 3, then at 4, then at 5. At 5:45. I said fuck it and I left. I had been there for 12 hours. FUCK THEM!!!

The next morning, I get called in the office and asked why I left without telling anymore. I went off, between crying because I was so PISSED and I cry when I get pissed because I’m so pissed that I can’t do what I really want which is to bash your fucking face in! So I said I was tired, I hadn’t eaten since 10 am, I missed my baby, I DO EVERYTHING and I was over it! I said I’ve been asking to help other team members for 2 years but they won’t give me access. I told her there’s only so much I can do before I’m done. I’m not a robot, IM A HUMAN WITH FEELINGS!! I told her I knew I’d get in trouble but I didn’t care. She said next time just come and tell her I really need to go. Um I DID, LIKE THREE TIMES!! I wasn’t going to keep asking to being kept saying no. Other team members told me they stayed until 8pm. BUT THEY GET IN HOURS AFTER ME!!!!

So I said something needs to be done where its more fair. If we have flex time for a reason, I have a schedule for a reason. I have a LIFE, I have obligations!! So then we had a meeting with the whole team where they said the new process is we all have to stay until everything’s completed. I said well are people going to have the same schedule so one person isn’t working more than the other. She said well I don’t suggest you come in at 5:30 since you’ll probably have to stay later.

So after the meeting, I went up to her and asked her suggestion on what I should do with my child since the reason I work the hours I work is what works for us. My husband is needed at his job and my mom at hers. She said she would talk to the manager. I still don’t think she as. I think its bull shit and I will bring up in our next stupid “huddle” (where they ask us our advice and to change things but then have excuses why they can’t make something happen or don’t want to do what we asked) about why processes are changing, why we’re getting MORE work, but LOSING more employees (they REFUSE to hire anyone and said they will NOT and will continue to pay overtime) Yes the work needs to be posted. But guess what? MY family NEEDS me, I NEED my family. MY LIFE is more important than this job and theyre dam well going to know it.

You’d think working for a Famous Children’s hospital would be fun and easy. It is, If you’re not the red headed step child in the business office. Only the people at the hospitals, clinics and UPSTAIRS of this building get treated with any dignity and respect around here.

I could go on and on about all the stupid shit they do but I don’t have time as I’m writing this in a frenzy at work while pissed off. Everything has gone to shit even worse since my supervisor left. That always happens.