A night out with the boys November 9, 2009

Saturday was our annual social night, at the glenmore in the rocks, they have a rooftop bar which is a little scarey, everyone had a really good time, some didn’t make it to work today

There was a fair bit of this
Followed by lots of this
And some more

I eventually was escorted to the right train, my boys worry about me too much and I’ll admit perhaps there were a few too many schooners involved but it was all paid for by our social club Friday BBQ and there was plenty of great food floating around too Oh and an awseome view

Wordless weekend November 7, 2009

Dont’ fall asleep while the toddler is awake November 4, 2009

I seem to have caught something, it may be that I have caught the bug miss has, or perhaps just that since the coffee I had on Monday night made me feel sick I haven’t touched any coffee at all, but I feel absolutly rubbish, I have the worst head ache and every now and then I feel like I either should sit on The loo or lean over it but nothing comes of doing either ……… Any way back to the toddler, I got home from work and crashed on the lounge miss was very good about it, she got herself a drink from the fridge for me to open and occasionally came and snuggled or just gave me a quick hug and kiss then back to putting the bear in the bus and talking about the bunny rabbit or the horses or whatever was on tv……..eventually my quiet dozing turned into sleeping, now I don’t quite remember what woke me up but when I did there was an empty bread packet on the floor with pieces of bread scattered on the lounge ….. Hmmm I think did we get hungry baby….. Figure I should think about dinner not that I felt like eating anything, the clean nappies wer scattered on the floor, that was kinda expected, oh I remember now I woke up because she was climbing on me….. Bare bummed ….. So her wet nappy was also on the floor but still pretty good, then I got up and the kitchen was pretty good, but in the laundry the fridge was wide open, well I suppose that was where the drink came from but on the floor at fridge door was a sixpack box of eggs with no eggs in it….. Then I realised that there was egg on the floor too but no shell, further investigation found the shell in a million pieces on the carpet in the hall ………… No wonder she was going on about “broke it” …… So I got a little sleep and the mess was not a complete disaster but I think next time i’ll go back to closing us in her room while I nap….. And maybe decide to nap before it just happens

The race that stops a nation November 3, 2009

Welcome to Melbourne cup day ………. apparently in Melbourne there is a public holiday , now I’m not sure if this is just Melbourne something like when the G8 thing was in sydney or the whole state of Victoria but you wouldn’t know it by the traffic this morning, yesterday I left at just before 8 and got to work at 845 today I left just after 830 mostly because of a not very well miss and not feeling ao great myself ….. Anyway I got to work right on 9 am, so there is very little traffic just like a public holiday would have
On top of the traffic quite a few have gone sick or taken the day off
So in reality even though the race stops the nation for 5-10 minutes it oficially only stops a city completely ……… Prehaps in an effort to reduce sick days it should become an official public holiday nation wide ……………. Hahahaha now that’s dreaming

A new toy November 1, 2009

Sorry wordless weekenders no pic this week . My phone died sort of , remember last year some time miss dunked it in my coffee ……… probably not ………anyway welcome to a whole new way of posting with my new iPhone and enough download for a technophobic or cheep household

Wordless weekend October 25, 2009

Wordless Weekend October 17, 2009

It’s AFU October 14, 2009

yet again I hate to admit that I swear an aweful lot in my head so you can work the title out for yourself

I took time out of my day yesterday to sort out something that is my problem ……. I was given a pat on the head and told it will be alright

ok so the was no touching the man is learning not to do that cause ppl were calling him the mentalist saying he was trying to hypnotyes them when he touched them and the words it’ll be alright were never even mentioned …. but basically I’m stuffed it is not their problem that their un nessecery descision to change all 8am shifts to 9 am shifts is going to cost me $100 for every week that I get stuck with them

i explained the whole reason I didn’t do afternoon shift very often was that we discussed the best way to balance our work and with 4 8am shifts plus 1 7 am shift and 2 split shifts that are mostly 7am I’m pretty much garrunteed days especially when no one wants the 8 am shifts because of the traffic ….. can you imagine how many ppl will be willing to swap from 7am to 9 am

his solution add more people to the roster so there are more shed(630am and shit repetitive work that I had to push hard to get away from but many love) shifts which unknown to him almost everyone who does days regularly wants …. reckon I have a real winner on that one with a majority of the boys wanting the ot that comes with that shift which they will miss out on by doing the 9am start because instead of finishing only 1hr later they finish 2 hrs later on a 2 person job more than likley working with someone who started at 630

so in short I am just a 6 digit number with a name attached ….. all of their spiels about being a family friendly workplace were total BS so was everything about caring about our work life balance and happy to help with our difficulties ….. so much for their dedication to keeping tradeswomen on the railway by removing the reasons that they leave

in the managers words he is not going to un do his descision because it hurts one person …… I’m the only one hurt financially ….. what about s who’s dd is stuck at cc for another hr or j and s who live an hrs drive away with out the traffic and also have young children or the young blokes who play/train for in the afternoons

absolutley no more favours from me no more cutting corners to get the set out on time no more doubling back with less than an 8 hr break (like I did today) and definitly no more bending rules

ahh the joys of work October 12, 2009

our manager has decided that to match the new train timetable time table we need our roster shifted ….. this is never good, atm we start at 815 and work straight 8hrs which means no lunch break but that suits me just fine, the new roster requires us to work 9-5 ….. now the 9 bit I could handle but finishing at 5 means sometime I may not get home till after 6 which would be ok but I pay our babysitter $20/hr some ppl carry on a bit when I say that but firstly paying someone well means they’ll be happy to do it and do a decent job and secondly it eases my guilt about not being there …. but I don’t have to justify that to you do I

anyway discussing with my foreman this afternoonI realised that is $200 out of a fortnights pay gone on an extra hr of childcare a day that I had never planned on needing at this rate 1/2 my pay will go on the house and 1/2 the pay will go to the babysitter … though I’m sure she would still look after miss for the same as she does at the moment

on top of all this as it is I get home to a whingy whiny baby feed her water her and put her to bed generally that gives me 2hrs with her that extra hr at work will mean I get home and pretty much put her to bed because some manager decided that a change of shifts is in order

now I know I complain about alot of things but we were told that it was related to the new time table and having more trains running out later in the afternoon which was generally accepted as fair enough but as it turns out there are exactly the same number of trains running out as in the past the only difference is that they all leave 5 mins later that the old time table which in my view dosen’t warrant a change

we didn’t know what the runnout was going to be likejust what was said and the ex union delegate (the one before I was) that went up just said ok what ever and went with it no questions … so tomorrow arv I’m dusting off my old union cap and going to have a chat with the manager about my situation …. if I’m going to be losing 1/2 my pay I may as well be working 1/2 the time at least then we get the ftb in some form.

Wordless weekend October 10, 2009