ELeVan ~ Honaker Farm Journal

[elevan]

Man, I don't know what got into those chickens tonight but they seemed to want to eat me alive! I have a blood blister on my hand where one of them nailed me. They acted like they hadn't eaten today! Which is far from the truth. I swear that if I had passed out in the coop I would be a pile of bones right now!

I'm getting kind of annoyed at DH's cell phone right now. DH is asleep. His phone keeps going off...ringing and then text messages. It's his store employees. But I'll be darned if I'm gonna wake him up. I'm getting really sick of him not even being able to be home for a couple of hours without them calling with a crisis. Seriously, it's ridiculous. We've got too much stuff to do this weekend for them to interrupt us...and I'll be darned if he'll lose his true first days off in over 2 months because his crew and his assistant manager can't do their jobs. Ok...rant over.

 

[redtailgal]

You tell'em.

Days off are days off. Period.

 

[autumnprairie]

X2

 

[wannacow]

100% agreement!!!

 

[elevan]

Thanks.

Tomorrow we're going to Boingo's vet's office to pick up some medicine. We're taking along 7 dozen eggs for a new egg customer. She wants 7 dozen every other month.

Then we're supposed to have a customer coming to pick up 9 dozen eggs and another who wants a rooster and a couple of pullets.

Gonna try to get the goats feet trimmed up and maybe get started on the duck coop that I want to build. Have to get my brooder cleaned up too so that it's ready for the chicks / keets / ducklings that will be hatching in a couple of weeks. Now, if only I can resist the TSC chicks when I go in there

We plan to do Boingo's curve on Sunday...here's hoping that nothing backs that up again

I'm gonna try to take some pics this weekend too. Lilly is getting HUGE. Goldie is getting HUGE. I really hope that Goldie is truly pregnant...I want some Speedy babies.

 

[elevan]

Not a bit happy that I'm awake at this time of the morning. DH's phone started ringing at 2am. It was the alarm company for his store. The night employee didn't set the alarm last night and so DH has to drive 45 minutes to get the alarm set and make sure all is ok. So, there's another day off that he doesn't get because he has to go to the store for something. I'm really starting to get PO'd about this. There are federal and state labor laws in place to protect employees...I'm really tempted to make a few phones calls. I know for a fact that a violation of the state laws is a $1,000 fine for each offense...let's see no days off in over 2 months...no breaks or lunch breaks at all (they have to work 8+ hours without!).

 

[Roll farms]

Em, that is the exact reason I'm back to being a 'peon' at TSC. Because I was closer to the store - but still 20 mins. away - than the other 'key carriers' - *I* got all the alarm calls. Sometimes 2 a night.
And we're 'supposed' to take lunches at 5 hrs into our shift. But, you can't clock out if there isn't another 'key carrier' there........and they never scheduled one.

I'm sorry you guys have to put up w/ the same crud. It sure does make for a grumpy spouse.

 

[autumnprairie]

Em, that is the exact reason I'm back to being a 'peon' at TSC. Because I was closer to the store - but still 20 mins. away - than the other 'key carriers' - *I* got all the alarm calls. Sometimes 2 a night.
And we're 'supposed' to take lunches at 5 hrs into our shift. But, you can't clock out if there isn't another 'key carrier' there........and they never scheduled one.

I'm sorry you guys have to put up w/ the same crud. It sure does make for a grumpy spouse.

I remember those days myself, the best one was when the alarm company called me and I left the company 2 months before

 

[Roll farms]

That's like my daughter's school - automated system to let you know about closings / delays.

I was NOT a happy camper the year after she graduated when they called at 4am and told me there was a 2 hr delay.....

 

[elevan]

DH is the store manager. They just hired an assistant manager for him to take some of this load of crap off of him. But she just called a little while ago and said that the kid who failed to turn on the alarm last night and is supposed to close this weekend called to say he was quitting. She expected DH to work this weekend to help cover. DH told her that she needs to cover the shift and if that means OT then he'll take the heat for it, that he is not coming in this weekend.

He applied online for a few other places last night. He worked really hard to get to the position he's at and he wanted it really badly. I'm sad that he's gonna have to take a step backwards most likely in order to leave but as it stands we can't have any sort of life with him working for this company.