Monday morning coffee break

Good morning and Happy Monday everyone! How much coffee do you drink on Monday mornings? This morning was about a 10 cup day for me, and right now I could use more to warm me up, as peppermint schnapps is frowned upon during work hours.  

They are predicting that we will have a little snow tonight and tomorrow, were I live there might be 4-7 inches of the white fluffy stuff. Not that I mind the snow, I am enjoying it less and less in life. You have to clean the windows off, wear extra cloths, lace up your boots, find gloves from last year, or buy a new pair. You always seem to need them when you have no time to find them either. 

Fall Sundays

Good morning everyone! The trees are almost done displaying their brilliant colors for this fall, many are shedding their leaves like a dog after a bath, the branches moving up, down and sideways in the wind. Everyone was raking, mowing and trying to coral the leaves yesterday. Today is almost as windy and much cooler than yesterday, the rain is holding off, but the snow looks to be coming to North West Indiana on Tuesday. I hope that everyone has a wonderful day, enjoy the time you have with the ones you love, friends, family and those you care about the most. 

Thursday Morning

Good morning everyone! Thank you for stopping by my blog. 

With all the talk about the Affordable Care Act 'Obamacare', what is your take on it. From what I can gather, the least expensive tier of coverage will cost me over $300 dollars a month. That is something that I cannot afford, with the cost of everything else, gas, rent, food, and utilities there is not much left. 

Does your employer offer you health insurance, or have you been told that policy will end when Obamacare take effect?

Are you going to sign up for the Affordable Care Act "Tax"? 

Pay check

Hello everyone and thank you for reading my page. 

I very much enjoy my job as director of media, being responsible for posting to Facebook, Twitter, a Word Press blog and reviewing and uploading You Tube videos. It is rewarding, challenging and even frustrating at times, but it a great job. 

One thing I do not enjoy about my job, is being told that despite being paid on the 1st and the 15th; being told on the 4th that I cannot have my pay check it a little disturbing! I show up on time for work, and stay to the appropriate quitting time, I work on the weekends, I do my job well, as I take pride in my work and feel that I should be compensated for this work.  I complete all of the tasks that I am asked to do in a timely manner, and I do them well.. I just cannot believe denying us are checks is right. If you cannot afford to pay us at least tell us so we can find other meas of supporting ourselves.. 

I know I am going to start looking right away. If you know of anyone needing a director of media or a social media person send them my way.. 

Borrowing Stuff

Hello everyone, when someone you know is nice enough to lend you something to use, do you use it and return it promptly? Do you let the person that you borrowed the item from when you are done and make arrangements to return it? Do you let them know that you will need it for an extend period of time? Or do you never bring it back, but take it to your local pawn shop and pawn it or sell it? 

This happened to me recently, I let someone borrow a floor jack to work on his vehicle, and then to work on his sisters vehicle, but then when asked about it he said he returned it. When clearly he did not return this item, because it is not in your possession. Especially after searching everywhere for it when you needed to work on your own vehicle. 

How often do you make an honest mistake when borrowing something and forget about it, then find it or remember it and make every effort to return it to the rightful owner? This has happened to me, you realize you borrowed an item and realize oh crap I forgot to return that. So you make hast, go out of your way to make sure it gets back to it rightful owner and apologize profusely about forgetting the item. 

You DO NOT pawn or sell the item, then claim you returned it, that is just being a bad person, rotten to the core.  Well you can bet that someone will never borrow from me again. 

Would you let someone borrow something from you that you know you would not get back? 

Do you Bicycle?

As an adult do ride your bicycle anywhere? Do you still have a bicycle for that mater or is it in the back shed, all the cable rusted, the chain in need of lubrication and the tires aired up? I have been riding a bicycle for many years, just for fun and exercise. Now I have been riding for not only exercise but transportation as well. Most of the trips that we make to the store or other places are less than two miles from home. With the weather being nice, I have been riding here and there, to the store to pick up a few items, to the auto parts store for small things, to the post office, and other places. I find it is enjoyable and saves on gas money, with the price of gas hovering around $4 a gallon, my Jeep is not the picture of economy. 

Cycling is faster than walking, it does not pollute the atmosphere or use any fossil fuels. It is great exercise and even fun. Get out that old bike, go buy yourself a new one and get out there and ride. 

Do not mess with my pay check

I think it is crappy when your boss decides on a whim to mess with how you are paid. When I took this position, I was to be paid a salary so holidays were paid when we did not work. On the other hand when you had to stay after work those extra hours were not paid either, works both ways. 

Last week I was informed that will not be getting paid for the 4th of July holiday. How un-American is that? I thought that meant now we are hourly employees, I was wrong, my boss just wanted to pay us our normal amount, except when we did not work then she would deduct those hours, sounds like hourly to me. So when I submitted my hours for this week, and they were significantly higher than a normal week, she questioned my hours, I explained to her, that was my understanding since we were not getting paid for the holiday, now we are hourly. She tried to back peddle and say no I want to pay your regular check, but the hours you do not work I will just take out. So I said we are hourly now, and she said no, but then she had to stop and think about it. Do not try to have your cake and eat it as well, if you are going to pay me hourly then every couple of months there is a 3 week pay period. If you are going to pay me salary, then the good come with the bay for both parties, I get paid for the holidays, but I also do not get paid for the extra hours I work. Do not mess with my check!!!! I like what I do, and I can take a lot of crap, but when you start messing with my check, now we ramp it up a few notches. If you expect me to do my job, and I take great pride in what I do, I am early for work, I stay late if necessary, and I do most anything that is asked of me. I always try to go above and beyond what is expected of me. I get along with everyone in the office, I have good ideas about many things, and I contribute to the focus of the project at hand. 
If you promoted me to this position under the agreement of a salary employee, you must take the good with the bad. How crappy is it to just switch how we get paid in mid stream without any prior knowledge of this. On top of that, do not pay us for the 4th of July, if it was Labor Day or Memorial Day, Easter, Thanksgiving, I might have taken it better but on the celebration of our country's Independence. That might be one reason our country is going down hill, all those with the money just want to take advantage of their workers.