Not what I needed to hear at 9 p.m. on a Friday after another banner week
Made it home from work in time for the end of “Undercover Boss” last night. A guy was just given $20K to buy a new car because he stays late and has a long commute. I almost choked on my cold dinner.
The nice dinner mom lovingly made at my request with the expectation I’d leave work at 6 and be home at 7. Something that never happens in my world but God a girl’s got to strive toward something
On the same day the CEO bugged me again about when am I going to go lease a new car. Whereupon I reminded him again that you can only put 12,000 miles on a lease and I drove 35,000 miles just last year to work.
He’s in the process of moving the office closer to civilization. But not close enough. I said if he can get it closer to my neighborhood, I’ll finally be able to get a safe car that I can afford.
Of course, then that would fuck up HIS lease with added miles. But he didn’t say that and I thank him for being classy enough not to.
I see this Undercover Boss shit also on the same day I finally had enough and went to H.R. about the unfairness of losing 168 vacation hours when I work 12-hour days and not only do we not have the staff to back me up, but now that I DO have a person who can learn how to do my job, WE DON’T HAVE THE FUCKING TECHNOLOGY to make it happen.
So yeah. A guy works late and has a long drive and gets a new car. I get reminded on a weekly basis that I should really go lease a new car and everyone’s eyes glaze like Krispy Kreme when I say “day off.”
Like I told H.R., I like what I do. I am just tired of hopping from job to job, working myself into the ground, losing vacation days, being promised bonuses, and in the end I am just burned out and my only vacation ends up being the days off between old jobs and new. It’s time I started preserving me and I want this to be the company that cares enough to let me do that.