Casual Work Culture
Thursday, October 12th, 2023 12:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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57F and overcast today. It was raining when I went to bed, and everything was soaked when we got out there this afternoon. I think it rained all night.
The storm windows have gotten their first weather test, that's for sure!.. and that new hatch door's already gotten rained on quite a bit since it was installed.
Colleen & Sheila will be here in six days! Tim & family in seven!
Cleaning the house is gonna be a huge undertaking. It's hard to just get up and go to work this week.
Feels like I'm wasting time, but that's how the bills get paid.
Speaking of that, I just checked the portal and the new pay rate of $16.23 per hour is shown there. One cent less per hour than we agreed on, but... I guess I'm not gonna quit over a penny.
Also, I don't see any shift differential for working past 5PM.
It is what it is, I guess.
At least the pay raise seems to have been retroactive to the previous pay period.
Chantele had approved my extra two days on Tuesday. She was by the school that night and said she was leaning on Jeremy to do some overtime to cover for me next week.
And she said he was upset, because he wanted time off next week.
Then Wednesday he left four hours into his shift, and today he called in.
So, like... dude!.. I wanted to call in on a Monday a few weeks back and couldn't do it because you called in four days in a row!
And I gave a month's notice for most of this coming week! And the only reason I got two more days added to it on such short notice was... I had to put in a goddam resignation!
But there was still notice for those days! I can't remember the last time I actually just called in!
I think even for taking Yvette to the vet last spring I put in for the day off, right?
On the other hand he may have also been pissed about the boiler leaking down into the shop, because the last thing he did before leaving on Wednesday was remove the ancient carpet in there that got soaked overnight.
And that boiler water has chemicals in it.
The deal with that leak was that it just kept moving around. We'd put buckets down and then an hour later it's dropping somewhere else. Move the buckets... the leak moves again.
So I extracted that carpet before I left on Tuesday night, but it was a losing battle. It was still soaked in the morning.
That's because the maintenance guys waited 8 fucking hours to respond to the call, so the upstairs was flooded so much, the water just kept coming down, even after they, "fixed," the leak.
Their fix was to jury rig everything so it leaked mostly into a drain.
A guy explained to me that they can't fix the bad seal on the pump because the water valve to isolate that pump also won't hold... so there's no way to shut off the water to it.
Wow!.. too bad there's not a time of year where no boilers run where maintenance men could check things like this and take care of them before it's a problem!
I mean, replacing a main water valve like that could require the entire school to be shut down for two or three days! And when would there ever be a good time to do that?
It's like it could only be done in a hot period of time where there was no school for many days!
When does that happen?
After working 14 years in engineering at a hospital, this is a huge joke to me!
There should be a man who has Cloud on his weekly rounding schedule... who comes through to check all the plumbing, electric, doors, windows... etc... and asks people if they know about anything being a problem.
And then he'd fix those problems.
And that same man would have to do a thorough check of the boiler plant every summer, to discover things like valves that don't hold, etc.
That guy would probably have three or four schools to round on regularly.
But not in public education!
In public education these guys don't round on shit or ever do work orders.
And they don't even respond to emergencies the same day, if they can avoid it!
So... you got Jeremy calling in, because he's ticked off about it raining in his shop, because the maintenance guys don't know what they're doing
And you've got Darnise, showing up for... less than two hours today?
There's no way she could've hit her whole area in two hours!
Does she even know what all she's supposed to be doing in that area every day?.. because a lady in an office complained today that nobody ever gets her garbage.
So I asked Darnise if she knew that office was part of her zone, and she said, yes, she knows, and she gets that garbage every Tuesday.
I didn't even bother trying to explain that we're supposed to get all garbage every day, because... that's janitor 101!
Every Tuesday's when she's supposed to, "100%" that room... meaning... dusting and disinfecting the surfaces.. in addition to the normal daily stuff like garbage and vacuuming.
So I think she may be only doing garbage and vacuuming in a few rooms every day... thinking that's the program.
If so, it's no wonder she keeps leaving early! She's probably wondering why GeoStaff thinks it should take four hours a night!
And if so, it's because she was never trained... because she called in so much her first two weeks... and then they just gave up on her!
It's ALL very ridiculous!
The casualness of GeoStaff is one of the reasons I stayed... because for me it means I can get away with smoking.
But I'm only starting to appreciate HOW casual it is!
Like... no wonder Kristine & Chantele came in person to talk me out of leaving!
I'm the ONLY person in the whole corporation who just shows up on time, stays the whole shift, never calls in, and... halfway cares about my areas!
I gotta make this work, because asking for part time summers, in this culture... is nothing of a sacrifice to them!
Okay... one more damn day and then the show gets on the road!
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