I love you too sis

How are you today?

I am good sis thanks for asking doing your helpful advice and keeping my eyes and heart open . How are you? Any good juicy steaks lately?

Dang, I was just at the store and forgot to look

I'm okay, thanks. Just going through some strange emotions right now. My inner self seems to be releasing... it's been an emotional last two days. I'm still trying to figure out how to time it better to go along with my days off... hasn't worked very well, lol.

I'm glad you're doing well

That's for sure

If I can only go steak shopping with you that would be so I can’t imagine the fun we will have

Definitely, that would be a lot of fun.

isn't it fun how speaking up about doing things the right ways can often make you out to to be the one in the wrong...that somehow that makes you be the bad guy???

smdh.

hope it works out well for ya and that you end up being appreciated for it.

Thanks dub

Yes, tons of fun.. It's one of those you're damned if you do and damned if you don't. If I walk away and ignore it, it tears me up inside and I'm just as guilty. If I speak up, it becomes a hostile environment and I'm told by the young supervisors that it's not a problem so ignore it.

that's one of the reasons i always chose self employment. no one to watch out for but me.

sorry i haven't been around but real life is getting in the way of sitting at the puter steady. between the shop getting a bit busier and needing to pack it up and find it a new home.

Morning P! Chin up!

It's called real world work ethics that they don't teach kids/young people anymore..

Wait til they move to something else....hopefully what you demonstrate might get through to one of them and they will become better employees.

Of course it is supposed to be the supervisors job, so,... maybe they should make you supervisor...

Ironically some of them are here with the Trek program, it's a program for first time workers and part of their training is to be the supervisor. They go through training and are normally college students studying business management.

Turns out I wasn't really made an assistant supervisor like I thought, I was just made the assistant to the supervisor to help train the new employees that are coming in.

Yesterday one of them came in for lunch, he wasn't on the clock and doesn't start until tomorrow. Nick, not a supervisor but also responsible for training new employees took him in the back and hung out for 20 minutes gabbing. I ignored that part, when he also took him behind the grill line while preparing a meal for a guest, I spoke up.

No one is allowed behind the grill line or really in the kitchen unless they are on the clock. It's a major safety issue, especially behind the grill line where the floor is covered in grease.

I was told it was fine, and when I said no it's not, I was told I'm not the supervisor and to leave it be. I mentioned that I am on the schedule to assist the supervisor when he's not here and to train the new guys and was told "Yeah, well so am I and I say it's fine".

I walked away, cried as usually And then the department head happened to be coming in so I had a talk with him. And he had a talk with Nick and told him he was in the wrong and not to do anything to "get back at" me for speaking up.

Nick complained to Issac...the supervisor and Issac came to me and said he doesn't have a problem with and that it shouldn't have been an issue. I took a break and went to HR and spoke with the YMCA director and according to her, and the food service department head, it is a problem and I was right for speaking up and for my good work practices...

I get to be relocated! Why is it the big mouth gets moved instead of the ones violating the rules? They're putting me up there where the children are monitored more closely, which will be less stress for me. But the one who needs monitoring gets to stay behind and teach a new employee to give away free food and product and break all the other rules.

Holy cow, I need to start my own business... but that's not likely to happen at my age.

Oh were you gone?

Just kidding

Any luck finding a new home?

no luck yet and the pickins are slim at best

That sucks! Hopefully by the end of April you'll find one.

i hope so to but i have already put bugs in the ears of a couple of guys that i think i could work for. maybe it is time to go back to punching a clock

That should be interesting. Being able to work with others is a good thing, but can be a royal pain in the butt if they don't have the same ethics as you, or any ethics at all.

I can work with most people but every now and then I come across a personality that just doesn't mesh, no matter how hard I try. Hence my frustration now.

Reminds me of back in the Keys living with my sister. I can speak up, but doing so puts me smack dab in the middle of hostile territory.

Ohhh.... I got a whole lot to say about your long post, BUT, I don't feel like typing out my experience in having to "train" someone on a job I had done for years but was no longer qualified because of a BS degree, but was expected to not only help create and learn a new position AND train the new guy on contracts and Government law.

Damn, I said it anyway.... there is more but I'd rather be working on the boat while it's wonderful outside...

Well all in all, one of the things I'm working on is to speak up for myself and what is right, in my eyes... in a productive manner, without letting my emotions take over.

So as usual, the Universe has given me an opportunity to practice that. I get to practice today with my manager and the YMCA Director.

It's been an ongoing struggle my whole life. To speak up and for it to be okay that I speak up. Seems when I do speak up, I get sent away. I spoke up as a child and got taken from my mother. I spoke up in relationships and got left or beaten up. I spoke up to my sister, and had to leave the Keys or deal with her wrath.

Maybe I'm the problem! Maybe I should just keep my mouth shut and everything will be okay!

No! Not gonna happen. It might be okay for them and the status quo, but it's not okay with me. I have a voice and it's okay that I use it. If others don't like it, that's their problem and issue.

I've learned to discern nit picking from what's really important. Some things I can keep quiet about, it's not really that important. Other things... when it comes to being abused, seeing others abused, and more ethical things that go on at work that are a direct violation of the contract I signed.... those things I will not shut up about.

If I lose my job or get relocated as a result of it, then so be it. Doesn't feel good. It feels like I'm being punished for opening my mouth.... just like when I was a child and got taken from my mom for telling on her... I guess the key is to not take it personal. And to remember that it's the here and now, I'm an adult, not the helpless child I was growing up.

hey you didn't expect not to get homework did you?
and you aren't being punished, but it takes less effort to move you than actually address the issue. so go figure. besides addressing the issue would be the smart thing to do. and we all know how likely it is for bureaucracy to do the smart thing