I briefly contemplated that open invitation for the travelling bandwagon down under with Among the Stars but it seems like too little too late on my part. Here's hoping to some flight deals to Vegas today instead. Two quick days on the strip would be a cool getaway. Any longer there would feel like overkill I think. And maybe nothing will blow up back home if I should be away somewhere. God when is the company gonna just call it quits?
On Friday one of my managers tried to give me the low down on the companies situation. Unfortunately, all his supposed words of wisdom was not news to me, again. Same with the other manager in fact. These guys seem to think that the staff is still that clueless. It's funny seeing both sides of the coin. While they revealed to me that one of our re-hired contractors pulled the plug on the current project, they didn't know that it was us the staff that had advised the contractor to do so. This was our way of helping the other employees from being left high and dry which the company has done so before. I had gotten flack from the company in the past for protecting our outside contractors as the company has always chosen not to make them aware of the likelyhood of them not getting paid for their work. I don't care anymore. I'm tired of the companies business practices.
I even watched my manager act coy with the contractor when he pretended to not know why the contractor should think that there could be any reason why she would not get paid for her work. Score one for the staff against my managers unethical ways.
While my manager attempts to be helpful and compassionate towards the rest of us full time employees, his true colour shows. Talk is cheap. Money talks and in the past, he has shown us that he is reluctant to pony it up when requested.
I've been spending less time in front of the computer at my desk and more time, what little it may be in the back building and modifying all the components for the current project. Drilling, painting and assembling with some newly acquired equipment. My manager asked that we finish all of the remaining units for shipment by wednesday. Had we all been fully paid employees, he probably would have shown his disappointment in my response but seeing how things are, he could not dispute me. To add to this, all of the modifications which he wants done could not be completed as to his schedule due to various miscalculations and unexpected delays. Many as of which were beyond my control. Instead, he came back to apologize for the current predicament which the project is in. Score two for the employees.
On average, I think I've been putting in about two hours of actual work per day doing whatever at the office. Well at least, it just seems that way. The rest of the time has been spent tending to the family nursing home business, the rental property or just hanging out with friends and taking care of my own errands. Life should be better.
Some of my friends went or wanted to go camping this long weekend. I declined naturally not really being the hardy camper type and boy am I glad I did. So far it has just rained...and rained...and rained. If I want to get wet on my time off, I'd rather do that on a surf board in Hawaii. I'm glad I didn't go camping with any of them.
What a weekend to stay in and just watch sports though. English football, Formula One racing, Memorial Cup junior hockey and NBA playoffs, there's so much good stuff on right now.
I couldn't believe the saves that the Arsenal goalie made in their 5-4 win over Manchester United. There were some blistering shots from close range which by all measures had a very high probability of going in. The game ended up being decided in penalty kicks after a scoreless draw in regular time.
The Ferrari reign is over. This weekend saw the Mercedez Benz powered car of Kimi Raikkonen win the Monaco Formula One race. Neither of the two Ferrari's finished in the top five while the two Williams-BMW cars finished second and third. Renault has returned jumping out to an early points lead at the beginning of the race season. Toyota is doing much better this year and the woes for canadian Jacque Villeneuve and Team Sauber continue. In what seemed like a failed attempt to negotiate some tight turns just behind fellow driver and teammate Felipe Massa, he lost control going over the warning curb bumps and ran into the track barriers head on. Felipe Massa ran of the track as a result of this losing precious time.
The defending champion Kelowna Rockets lost tonights game to the Ottawa 67's while star Sidney Crosby of the Rimouski Oceanics lost to top seed London Knights who had a record setting unbeaten streak during the regular season.
Although I like the fact that canadian Steve Nash is having a stellar playoff run for Phoenix, I am ever so slightly in favour of seeing Tim Dunkin and the rest of the San Antonio crew take it all. They won the first game in the new series so far.
Posted by LeanPorkLei at May 23, 2005 02:16 AM | TrackBack