My Job
Well I promised to start writing about some more appealing subjects besides my normal posts of how my previous day went and what I watched on TV. I asked Dwight to give me some topics but he came up blank, well he actually had one suggestion. To write about our baby issue and me getting my tubes tied and that whole deal. I told him I already wrote about it. He was like huh? You can’t be writing that kind of stuff, I don’t want my business all over the internet!! I was like, look it is anonymous and it’s not like anyone I know reads it anyway. This is my diary- I won’t give anyone I know the URL. This is a place I can talk shit about people when they get on my nerves-I don’t want to offend anyone or hurt anyone’s feelings and at the same time I want to be completely free to write how I really feel. So even though strangers read my posts- you are essentially the only ones who know what really is going on in my brain-kind of ironic huh?
So Lets see…….lets start with my job.
So I moved to Delaware about 4 years ago and when I first moved here, it was really hard to find a job. A good one that is. I worked at a gas station 3rd shift for a few months because I couldn’t find anything else, and I needed money bad. Then I couldn’t stand that anymore so I quit and finally found a secretary job. I worked there for a while till I couldn’t take that anymore either. Then I worked temp jobs because they were paying 18.00 an hour. I did the temp thing for the next 3 years. I got tired of that too, even though I loved the money. It sucked every time an assignment ended to have to worry how long I was going to be out of work until they found me another assignment. So I finally started looking for permanent employment. Over the 3 years of temping I had some really good companies on my resume, I have an associates degree in Computer Information Systems and have some financial background. So I got the job where I am at now and I make 32,000 a year. With an extra 7,500 in child support and my tax return is usually 5,000. So you add that together and I am looking at 45,000 a year. Wow, I make more than either of my parents ever have, and I am only 27 so things are only going to go up from here. I like where I am at now. It is a very small company. Well not that small, but the office staff is small. We are a pallet company, we are a recycle center, we repair and sell back repairs and we are also like a pallet broker, where we find the customer and the mill and charge more than the mill and make the profit. We have over 5 million in profit each year. We have about 60 recycle center workers, 5 sales persons, and 5 office workers. I have direct contact with the owner on a daily basis and work very closely with the CFO. I am not sure what my official title is, but I do a lot of auditing and financial spreadsheets and I also handle all of the accounts receivable. All of the office workers collectively answer the phone, but I no longer am someone’s assistant. I have been doing that for a couple of years and hated it, I kind of felt degraded because I knew my skills were much higher than that.
So I started here on March 7th. I can get benefits on June 7th, really soon. We don’t have anything great because we are pretty small, but medical and dental and time off. I get 5 days vacation and 5 sick days in my first year. I actually have already used some of this time, The insurance is paid 75% by them, so that seems pretty good. But it sucks there is no kind of 401k or pension or profit sharing or life insurance. I opened an account an ING to save on my own at 3%, it is taxed but oh well. I love the fact that this is a small company, I feel more important than in a huge corporation like Dupont. I work 8-5 with an hour for lunch. I usually go home for that hour and either take a nap for 40 minutes or watch TV or do chores
I have more flexibility here too. That reminds me I have to email my boss about time off needed.
Well now for the people I work with. First is the owner, his name is Bob. He is a 40 something tall guy, good looking for his age I guess. He is married with 2 kids I think. He is in the office like 7 days of 20 a month. He averages like 2 days a week since I have been here. He is on vacation the rest of the time. He has a yacht and is in the Florida keys all the time. He does work from the boat via his blackberry and laptop, and makes sure we all are on track doing our job. His office is like 20 feet from me. Next is my immediate supervisor, Kevin. He is the CFO. He is also married with 1 or 2 kids. I work very closely with him, doing audits on inventory, general ledger accounts and whatnot. He is also 40 something. He reminds me of my dad a lot!! He is short like my dad, his hair is just like my dad’s, built like my dad, a sense of humor just like my dad, and swears like a sailor just like my dad. He is hilarious, when we sit together and work, he has me laughing the whole time, making fun of people in the office. His office is way in the back of the building, I hardly ever see him, unless I go back there. That is it for people above me. So you see, the work environment is very lax, I don’t have someone watching over my shoulder 24-7. Which allows me time to blog when I am out of things to do. Some times I can blog all day. Sometimes I fell like I am getting paid to blog.
So for the people working around me. I have 4 people who work around me. First, the closest, is Jonny. She does accounts payable, payroll, benefits and general office management stuff like order office supplies. She is a large women who laughs like a……I don’t know, all I know is it is the most annoying laugh I ever heard, and so loud, so can’t escape it. I know, it is like a hyena. Well she has been here the longest and is in her late forties, so she is the oldest. Because of these 2 factors, and the fact that she is a miserable bitch, she thinks she can tell everyone here what to do and how and when to do it. She tried it on me, and I put her in her place. She leaves me alone now and we only communicate when it is work related. She got pissed at me for reading the newspaper and was like “As a co-worker, it pisses me off that I am working as you sit there and read the fucking paper, the least you could do is answer the god damn phone.� And I’m like, “Look every time I try to answer the phone, you already have it, it is not like it is ringing more than once and I am ignoring it, stop answering it first and I will get it, and by the way I come in 20 minutes early everyday, if I want to take 10 minutes to read the paper, than I have every right.� She is like, “That doesn’t matter� And I’m like, “the hell it doesn’t, I don’t get paid to be here 20 minutes early everyday, so I’m going to take 10 minutes to read the paper, get over it.� Well the whole thing was heard by the owner and he didn’t say anything to me. I did tell Kevin about it and he told me not to worry about her, that she acts that way to everybody. I told him, I don’t mind being told what to do by him or Bob, but I refuse to be TOLD what to do, or especially be swore at by co-workers. I think the swearing is what pissed me off the most. She is not married and never has been and has no kids. She does have a live-in boyfriend. But he is smart enough not to marry her and she was smart enough not to procreate.
Next is Vanessa, She is cool as shit. She does all the invoicing. She and I get along the best I think. She is my age, I think a year younger than me. Her and I are the only ones with a college degree. We both have 2 little girls. She just started seeing someone. I think we have a lot in common and we are close in age, so we get along great. We talk to each other about our drama and about shit in general. She sits about 10 feet from me. I have nothing bad to say about her.
So next is Laurie, she is pretty cool. I think she is in her late thirties. When I first met her, she was wearing a glove on one hand in the middle of the day at the office. So I thought that was pretty weird, but then I found out she has Lupus and it apparently makes just her one hand cold. She is usually the first one here in the morning, and handles inputting all the sales orders into the computer and getting the orders to the mill and the recycle center manager. So she is very busy. She is married and has 2 kids, 1 of which she shares custody with her x-husband. She can get bitchy sometimes, but all around is pretty cool.
Then there is Greg and Bill. Bill is the salesperson for this area and Greg is the recycle center Manager. I really don’t work with them at all. Bill is on the road sometimes and I really never see Greg unless it involves getting inventory numbers.
That’s the gang. Then we have like 60 recycle center employees (all illegal Mexicans) that work outside in the plant, and I see them when I go outside to smoke, but never have anything to do with them.
So that is my job.
posted by Jaime @ 4:11 PM
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