buckytom
Chef Extraordinaire
well, i'm not a happy camper.
i was promised last year that i would be able to either work the midnight shift or get christmas day off for the next few years, while my son is young. "don't worry, we'll work something out" was the expression.
but now, between vacations and new people in my dept., i have to work a christmas dayshift. the other senior engineer decided that he wants the day off and has seniority over me. the only other guys in are inexperienced, so my boss decided that we couldn't leave the fate of the network to them.
i beefed and belly-ached about it, so he is unofficially allowing me to be on call in the morning so i could be home, and then "mickey mouse" (a union term meaning splitting a shift) the day with one of the new guys.
so, i'll be in by noon and out by 4-ish, depending on if the systems cooperate.
i was promised last year that i would be able to either work the midnight shift or get christmas day off for the next few years, while my son is young. "don't worry, we'll work something out" was the expression.
but now, between vacations and new people in my dept., i have to work a christmas dayshift. the other senior engineer decided that he wants the day off and has seniority over me. the only other guys in are inexperienced, so my boss decided that we couldn't leave the fate of the network to them.
i beefed and belly-ached about it, so he is unofficially allowing me to be on call in the morning so i could be home, and then "mickey mouse" (a union term meaning splitting a shift) the day with one of the new guys.
so, i'll be in by noon and out by 4-ish, depending on if the systems cooperate.