So I debuted a new look for the site today. It's drasticly different and yet fundamentally the same. I really want to change the layout completely, but I'm not an html whiz-kid. I'm merely a frontpage loser with a knack for photoshop effects. Yeah... so... not much going on. I'm currently having more work done on my car. I wish that meant I was getting some cool new mod, but I'm not. I backed into my dad's truck about two weeks ago, so I'm having to have my rear-bumper repaired. I think I could have come up with someething better to spend $225 on if I were given the choice. But oh well... what can you do.
On the relationship front, me and Melissa are still together and I still love her just as much as ever. I think I could definately see us getting hitched if we can ever afford to sustain ourselves on our collective paychecks.
I really never thought I would see the day that I stepped back and looked at my job and considered myself underpaid, but after over four years at the hospital and still making less than a buck more than when I started... then realizing what the operators who worked there before me, or even the operator who works nights, still brings home... it just makes me ill. Add to that the fact that I'm constantly asked to perform duties that not only fall outside my job description (and that my highly paid predecessors were not asked to do) but would actually be considered part of someone else's job. Oh, and that someone else makes AT LEAST 50% more than I do. I understand that those people are married and have mortgages and families, but shit ... I want that stuff to - I just can't afford it!
Of course, I can't mention this to anyone except for those in the same boat as I am. That sort of thing will only get you accused of "not being a team player." They have no idea how lucky there are that we're being outsourced. Otherwise I would have already been looking for another job... and I know I'm not the only operator that feels this way. At least with CSC there is the potential for fair pay scales.
Oh, and for the record, I make 11.14/hr currently, for anyone who wants to know. I believe I started at about 10.25/hour in May of 2000. Well... at any rate, I guess that's enough ranting for today. Ciao.
On the relationship front, me and Melissa are still together and I still love her just as much as ever. I think I could definately see us getting hitched if we can ever afford to sustain ourselves on our collective paychecks.
I really never thought I would see the day that I stepped back and looked at my job and considered myself underpaid, but after over four years at the hospital and still making less than a buck more than when I started... then realizing what the operators who worked there before me, or even the operator who works nights, still brings home... it just makes me ill. Add to that the fact that I'm constantly asked to perform duties that not only fall outside my job description (and that my highly paid predecessors were not asked to do) but would actually be considered part of someone else's job. Oh, and that someone else makes AT LEAST 50% more than I do. I understand that those people are married and have mortgages and families, but shit ... I want that stuff to - I just can't afford it!
Of course, I can't mention this to anyone except for those in the same boat as I am. That sort of thing will only get you accused of "not being a team player." They have no idea how lucky there are that we're being outsourced. Otherwise I would have already been looking for another job... and I know I'm not the only operator that feels this way. At least with CSC there is the potential for fair pay scales.
Oh, and for the record, I make 11.14/hr currently, for anyone who wants to know. I believe I started at about 10.25/hour in May of 2000. Well... at any rate, I guess that's enough ranting for today. Ciao.
