Down To The Ground To Get Out of The Rain in Book Two: The Fifteenth Year of the Third Millennium of the Common Era

The sequel… thus the musical line addition.

Training today. It’s going to take quite a lot to train Pedro. Good kid. Spanish Speaker. Not a lawyer or law student. Very laid back. All good things. But… he came at a bad time. We’re SUPER behind… and having more issues.

BOSS told Work Crush that they won’t pay her the 40 hours they agreed to pay her. What?! Yeah. They said they were very upset that she wasn’t able to do her job PLUS direct supervisor’s job last week; so they won’t be paying her 40 hours a week anymore. Uhmm… she’s technically classed as a Supervisor. There are requirements you’re blatantly ignoring. You’re being asses. Ultimately… it has become super apparent to me. Work Crush is a lot like me. In a lot of ways. Which makes the crush stronger. Because Wife is very different from me. And… I liked that, at first. I enjoyed that as a pair we were well rounded but still enjoyed sci fi and fantasy and stuff. But… yeah. Work Crush ultimately being very much like me… enhances that crush.

Anyway, after that… met our new hire Pedro. Early issues… like… stuff I probably should have caught but I’ve been working in Corrections so long it slipped my mind. Like… you are given an ID badge that must be worn at all times. They say that when they hand you the badge. He wasn’t wearing his. I didn’t catch it. Whoops. Problem is… he wasn’t going to learn much today anyway. We had too much to do. And things got worse.

Weathers, our Pro Se individual has created quite a mess. The kind of mess that took 3 hours to deal with. When I’m already behind. AND have a meeting scheduled with a bunch of bosses. Grrrrreaaatt. Finished that out, did some paperwork, went to the meeting.

Two Takeaways from the Meeting:
(1) NO OVERTIME UNDER ANY REASON!
To which I smugly smiled and said “huh. You know that with no overtime and no other employees, the mandated required hour of law library access won’t be met.” They didn’t care. Apparently, saving a few Labor Dollars is more important. We’ll see how long that lasts. I anticipate two months of being behind schedule will have them hopping mad and I’ll just say, “Hey… at least I didn’t work any over time.”
(2) We KNOW the Law Library is inordinately dangerous… we’re just not sure where we’re going to find the money to change that.
Right. You just got a grant so that Correction’s Officers can wear Body Cameras but you can’t put the teeniest security device in the law library? Must be good to have a union!

Then I came back up to the Law Library. Work Crush is fuming because they told me that I could have as much overtime as I needed to keep the Law Library working. I shrugged it off and said… frankly, I’m at 40 hours in about two to three days around here. A few extra days off by order of the bosses? I won’t complain until they have to reap what they’ve sowed and start blaming me.

So with all of that completed. Time to call Mods? Sort of. I still had 4 Emergency Interviews to do. Plus calling Mods. But not THIS week’s Mods. We’re still calling LAST week’s Mods. I’ll be calling LAST week’s mods all of tonight AND tomorrow.

Tomorrow should be interesting in its own right. A 5 hour work day, a two hour drive, a one hour doctor’s appointment, another two hour drive and… back home by 8 pm. Home by 8… what a strange and novel concept that will be!