Purge purge purge. That is what I am here to do. Background before bitching. Bryan contracted work from his current employers until a couple years ago. Up until he went on their payroll we paid for our cell phones through them (mine and Bryan's) so Last Wed Bryan is talking to Kathy and she mentions nobody is paying her for their phones and she is going to start taking it out of their checks. then she says oh yeah you need to start paying for Kelly's phone. Bryan says ok even though when he went salary they agreed to cover my phone too as one of his perks. So he came home and told me. We decided if it was too much I would just get a prepaid cellphone since I rarely use mine. Since incoming calls are free I think I maybe use about 50 minutes at the most each month. So the next day he picks up his check and she has already deducted $71 for my phone. This was a shock because obviously she deducted for it before even talking to Bryan about it. He looked at the amount and told her to cancel my phone. I can get 3000 minutes from Verizon for $40 a month. So we just swallowed the $71 and I have been looking for a new phone. He picks up his check today and another $70 is deducted for cell phone. Bryan asked her what it was. She has decided to back bill him for the last 2 fucking years!!!!!! I am spitting fire. WTF She plans on taking $70 a week from him for the next half a year without ever fucking discussing it with him??? I cannot even fathom this. So anyway Bryan tells her no way, that he was pissed last week to see she had taken that much and there is no way she is going to every week. He tells her that he was willing to take the $70 a month pay cut that paying for my phone constituted but he is not going to pay them back pay for something they agreed to pay for. She denies they ever agreed to pay for it. If they didn't why do you think that not at any time in the last 2 years has she shown him a bill or asked him to pay for my phone? She also says she was pissed that Bryan told her to cancel my phone because she just resigned all the business phones (mine included) up for a share plan and it is going to cost her $225 to cancel me from the plan. Now mind you if she was expecting me to pay she never got my input on resigning me she never asked if I wanted to be a part of the share plan..... wouldn't she have at least asked what plan I wanted if she expected me to pay for it? So anyway the way the plan works is that if I don't use all my minutes they can be used by anyone else in the share plan. I have never used over 200 minutes a month and I know that most months I can't be over 50. I just never use my cell phone. ocassionally I will use it for a long distance call because it has free long distance. So for 2 years she has been using my extra minutes for the otherswho have phones in the plan and go over their minutes. so basically she expects me to foot the bill for others phone usage. Now she knew I didn't use many minutes why would she sign me up for uch a big plan if she expected me to pay for it? Why?? because it benefits her. The 2 main culprits that go over their minutes have company cell phones meaning that every minute they go over she is charged. What pisses me off is that my 300-450 extra minutes are saving her more each month than my phone is costing her. I checked the Nextel website and extra minutes are billable at $0.35/minute. So my extra minutes are saving her $105 to $157.50 a month. No wonder she didn't want to get rid of my phone. It would cost her more every month to not have me in the plan. Another thing that bugs the hell out of me is I know that she has wrote off the cost of my phone as a business expense for the last 2 years. That means she got that much credit for my phone and still expects me to pay it back. The whole situation just stinks. I would feel differently if she had offered to split the bill, ok well if she offered to split the bill for the future but no I cannot see any reason for the back billing. had she brought this issue out 2 years ago the phone would have been shut off then. I cannot see any reason we should have to pay this bill. Ok I have had the phone and used it but I have never abused it and had she said then that she thought we should pay we would of dealt with it then but to never make an overture toward it and suddenly expect us to pay 2 years worth of backbills, I don't get it. If she expected us to pay why did she never show a bill????? OK I am just repeating myself but I still feel the need to rant.
Paying for my phone bugged me only because they agreed to pay for it as part of Bryan's benefits - let me just say his only benefit. They do not provide insurance. He has no set vacation or sick days. the latter was not a big issue because he was salary so if he needed a day he would take it. Mind you he has never taken more than 2 days in a row and even fucking went in the day after he got home from going to Hawaii with them. Then she had the fucking nerve to ask the personell manager to talk to Bryan about how much time he took off.....WTF he has never taken a vacation. The issue at the time was he had taken a half day 2 times in one month when he was getting his teeth fixed. Hell he even goes in to get everyone going when he is sick then comes home. This is a 30-40 minute drive. I just get so pissed that he gives so much to them. He gets calls from them no less than 5 times a night. we get calls in the middle of the night when the alarms go off. They don't pay him at all what he is worth. It is so annoying. Bryan is not perfect, he has horrid people skills as far as people working for him. He can be friendly and carry a conversation with almost anyone but he cannot tolerate imperfection in a worker. he is a perfectionist and he expects all around him to be as well. That is the one fault I can see work wise. He does things that he has no reason to even be doing. He is in charge of building maintenance, yet he works on the office computers when they are in need of work. They buy and sell used computers. Bryan is in charge of this. He looks them over and buys them. He refurbishes them and does the selling of them too. He fills in and helps when any of the other dept needs him. There is not a thing there he cannot figure out and do. They take advantage of all his skills pay him like shit and then treat him like shit to boot. I am just so pissed about this all. I wish there was somewhere else he could go to work. I think we are going to have to revisit him going to school for computer repair. it is a job he loves and already knows. It would not require so much from him physically and if he got into a good company he could make a very decent living at it. Something has to change of course tight now with the economy like it is, is not the time for a change. Still I think it is time to start looking.
it's been a few days. I think I am not very chatty this past week. I am having a hard time filling out my application for school. I don't know why actually just having a rough time getting it down on paper. I think I will have to at least start with subbing and to be honest that is fine with me. it would be great to not have to miss open house at preschool and his first day. If I am subbing at that point I dount they would need subs and if they do I will just explain the importance of my being off. If I were offered a full time job I could deal with missing them but not just to sub. Of course I may be so far down on the list that they will never call me if I don't get that application filled out and turned in.
Last time I wrote about Andrew's virus now I have it. yuck I am at the tail end now but I completely understand what he meant by everything hurting him. My head and neck hurt so badly last night I wanted to cry. I was just exhausted to the point of not being able to carry Andrew to bed. Heck it hurt to just lift my arms. I am feeling much better today just a little residual stuff leftover. I am not looking forward to Bryan and Michael getting this; they are such big babies when they are sick. I have no doubt they will come down with it. I am actually just shocked I did before they did. I usually have much better resistance. Oh well maybe they escaped it but I won't be holding my breath on that one. I hope for their sake they did. It was nasty.
I haven't done anything about my control journal besides buy supplies for it. I think I am stretching baby steps to the limit.
I did get started on the Clifford costume over the weekend. I at least got it cut out. I am just not into doing anything this week. I think this is partially due to the virus I have had. partially due to me just being lazy. Today I really played with Andrew. I am so horrible about being here with him but not spending that time wisely. We played cars and some computer games. it was fun. I really do love that boy so much. He is my sunshine. Don't get me wrong I adore Michael too but he can be so hard somedays and so damn mean to Andrew that it is harder to enjoy him. He was just in here with a slight temp. I hope he isn't getting it. he was complaining about his throat. that didn't bother me or Drew. Bryan is in bed early tonight too. I hope he isn't coming down with it too. ugh tomorrow could be hell around here.
