Good Food and Good Times

So it's been a while since I've written here, but I've had a few people recently tell me I should pick it back up, so I'm going to. For whoever may read this and wonders why I didn't write for so long, I had a lot of personal things going on and basically this wasn't on my priority list, but things have sort of settled down now so I'm back :) So much has happened since I last wrote I'm not even going to try and catch anybody up to speed on my life. Suffice it to say life has been, well, very life-ish. Ups and downs, whiplash, laughs and tears, the whole 9 yards, but mostly it's been ok. Christmas and Thanksgiving were pretty good, so I suppose I can't complain too much. Good food and good times. :) Today however the good food and good times only lasted until my first break at work. I went out to lunch with my uncle and best friend (good food) and then we went to visit my aunt Virginia who's in rehab because she broke her hip (good times, for us, not so much for her...). Then I got to work. I was tired to begin with, the kind of tired where coffee doesn't even wake me up, and so I was a bit on the grouchy side. Then one of the high up people called me in her office. Good times exit stage left. She had about 10 things on a list, yes she had a list, of things that I was doing wrong. I think a grand total of 2 of those things I actually did. Which I admitted to, I'm not going to lie about talking to people while I work, or repeating something somebody said the way they said it when I probably should have found a more "work appropriate" way of saying it. Whatever, I did them, punish me if you must. HOWEVER, when I tell you that every other thing on your list of bad things I do is a lie, how dare you not even tell me you'll look into it to find the truth of the matter. Just because somebody says something doesn't make it true. Just because a lot of people say something doesn't make it true. And have you ever thought about how much time it would take out of somebody's work to sit there and see if I'm turned away from my work all night talking away with another worker? But of course they won't get in trouble because they're making sure everybody in the plant is as miserable as they are, oh wait, that we're all working like we're supposed to, yea, that's what they're making sure of. Not only did she flat out insist that these things were true, but as I was trying to defend myself, stick up for myself, tell her the truth, whatever you want to call it, she started yelling at me for arguing with her. And then, the woman who writes my reviews for work, who less than a month ago told my supervisor that I am a good worker, I sit at my station and work all night long, I don't goof off, my numbers are good, the quality of my work is good, sat there and agreed with this other woman about EVERYTHING. I wasn't impressed. And of course we can't go for a conversation like this without some twisting of everything I say and turning it around so it gets me into even more trouble, assuming that everything I do is for my benefit, because we all know that I would never offer to let someone do a frame they like even though according to the "do what's next in line" rule, we'd both end up with frames we dislike, simply because I'm feeling generous because they just got finished with a frame from down yonder. Nope, I'm just a selfish little brat and want all the good work for myself. Well, lemme tell you something, if I was picking good work, about 75% of the frames I started I'd have put back. I take the bad work and do it just like everybody else, and I don't avoid frames because I think they're bad, I "avoid them" because I know somebody else likes them better. Nor do I slide parts through without looking at them. My boyfriends mother has a pacemaker, my cousin's grandfather has a pacemaker, my own mother might eventually need one (we make parts for pacemakers if you hadn't guessed), that stuff is close to home I'm gonna check it all. Nor do I take 30 minute breaks, and if you're that concerned about people taking long breaks, why not get on the case of the guy who takes a 45 min break on every break because he likes to go to walmart. 2 of our breaks are only supposed to be 10 minutes long. Does anybody else see a problem with this? I could go on but you get my point. Good feelings gone. After that I was so angry I was sick to my stomach so I couldn't even eat the rest of my good food leftovers at my supper break. Instead I had a chocolate chip cookie and that almost came back up. Good-bye good food. So after we get done our "conversation" that I rarely was allowed to participate in, I was told that they would decide my punishment tomorrow and let me know when I came in to work that afternoon. HALT. Did I hear that correctly? I am going to be punished because people are lying about me and you refuse to even take what I say into consideration and try to find the truth of the matter? I think not. Again, if I've done something wrong, punish me if you must, I won't argue with that. I will now however tolerate being punished for things I did not do, when there are plenty of ways (i.e. security cameras you supposedly have pointing in every nook and cranny in the plant) for you to find out the truth, which would lead you to the conclusion that multiple people, your "sources" as you call them, are lying to you. Not going to happen. So I quit. I finished the night out so I could leave quietly at the end and it wouldn't cause a massive ruckus until after I was gone, because heaven knows gossip is perfectly fine there, just not laughter, and by the end of tomorrow everybody in the plant will know I'm gone, and probably think it's because I couldn't "take the heat". But you know what. I really don't care anymore. The people that I do care about know the truth and that's all that matters. The rest can keep on spying and gossiping and I will never have to deal with it again :) Now I'm back to job hunting, but at least I'll be able to enjoy my good food and hopefully have some good times :) Now however, I think it's about time for me to head to bed, I have to rest up for my upcoming weekend marathon of eating cheesecake and watching sob inducing chick flicks. Night world <3