week from hell
 
i griped the other day about mike getting put on overnights.  well tuesday afternoon he got fired.  someone of importance heard him make a comment about 9-11 and blowing the building up (a long running joke in MC) and that was that.  he was here at my place when he got the call from our boss.  we were about to start working on a resume for him so he could apply for a job in another department.  we still haven't done that resume, but now we have to so he can get a job period.  that sucks.
 
so i have been sick pretty much all week with a sinus infection.  i took off wednesday and thursday because i felt so bad.  unfortuntately, my timing was awful so a lot of people thought i quit b/c of the whole firing thing.  i am being punished though.  i got a call thursday afternoon from nathan saying that i was going to have a different job starting friday, as tape librarian.  i thought it sounded boring but i felt like i should be thankful i still had a job, so i tried to go to work friday with a positive attitude.   when i got there i talked to one of the important bosses that i still like and he made the tape librarian job sound a bit more interesting.  well after i spoke with him i talked to nathan & dewayne who would be my supervisors and dewayne made it sound like crap again.  and he wrapped up our conversation with "well, we're considering a few people for this position so you don't necessarily have it just yet."  what?  how does that make sense?  i was told thursday i had a new job.  i was told friday morning i had a new job, but all of a sudden, i'm just one of many people being considered for the position?  fuck that shit. 
 
so i spent friday running playlists in master control b/c i obviously was out of any job at that point and i was just trying to look busy enough so someone would at least pay me for the day.  i was so mad.  i still am pretty mad actually.  what am i supposed to do?  i get the impression i'm not wanted in MC b/c of my ties to mike, but i only get that impression from one person - the boss who does the hiring and firing and makes the decisions whenever he feels like it.  and then i get pretty much the same vibe from dewayne - here's a job that we're making, but i'm not sure i want to put you in it. 
 
i'm supposed to weigh my options over the weekend and report back monday what i've decided to do.  and i pretty much had my mind made up friday morning what i was going to do, but i thought i should hold onto it until monday so it makes it look like i spent a lot of time thinking it over.  i'm going to ask/beg/plead to stay in MC as an operator.  i don't care what shift i'm on or what days i work.  i just want a job.  and that way i can sift through the paper and online and see what else is out there.  i know i don't want to be a tape librarian and dewayne and i would definitely clash on many attitude issues.  that would be worse than whatever trouble i'm in right now with MC. 
 
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mike is gone to corpus christi for a week or so.  i dropped him off at the airport yesterday afternoon.  and he called me when he got there.  and he called me earlier this afternoon.  um, correct me if i'm wrong, but usually when you go on vacation, you don't just call up your *friends* to say hey....you might call your girlfriend or your best friend...but someone of the status that i thought i was with him wouldn't get a phone call, much less two?  so that makes me feel pretty good.  i've got the key to his apartment and i'm supposed to make sure it's still standing every other day.  when he called today he was saying that he might stay an extra week since there's no big hurry to come back to lr since he's jobless.  i just said he'd probably miss us before then and want to come back sooner and he just kinda laughed and said i was probably right.  hehe. 
 
i thought this whole seperation thing would be really good for me and him both.  kinda figure out what the hell is going on and where we stand and that sort of thing.  the two days i didn't go to work b/c i was sick, i spent at his house just hanging out.  or he was driving me all over town.  i was so out of it, i'm sure i was no fun.  he took good care of me though.  i was surprised.  when i was at his house, he made me get in bed and covered me up and brought me water and cough drops and stuff.  i'm not used to being babied like that!  it was awesome!  but damn, we spent a good 12 hrs together like everyday this week and now he's gone and i'm having major withdrawals. 
 
he may have a job offer in dallas.  and BT said he and his wife would move to dallas if mike goes.  and they asked me to go with them.  should i go?  dallas isn't all that far away.  but the way that BT and mike or BT and i get in fights once a month is kind of discouraging.  and are mike and i at a place where we could move together and only have each other as friends for a while?   these are questions i have to have answered before any packing begins.  i much rather have everyone stay here at least for another 6 months and theeeeen maybe we can see about moving, if we are all still getting along.
 
we'll see.  this week should be interesting just b/c of the whole job thing.  he's afraid i'm going to get fired too, but i'm not exactly sure what for.  guilt by association?  my goal is to keep my mouth shut and lay low.  i hope this week goes by fast.  i'm ready for my vacation!
 
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and the drama continues...

to wrap up the earlier story, BT and i are talking now but i dunno if we'll hang out anytime soon. i'm just tired of his bullshit and a break will be nice.

the shit that went down on friday was enough to make us talk to one another though.

it was like after lunch and i had been bored all fricken day and i went into MC just to say hi and mike is pissed. he asked me if our boss said anything to me about rearranging schedules and putting him on overnights starting monday. i was like wtf!? of course no one said anything to me. so mike gets even more mad and he's pacing and his car still isn't fixed, but at least they found it, but i'm sure that doesn't help much.

well then Tis and LJ remind me that i needed to fix their timesheets from monday since i didn't even give them their timecards until like an hour after they'd been there. so i went to the payroll computer to do that, and the password has been changed. that's when i got pissed. the boss man has decided to do my job for me now as well. so i went back and told them i couldn't do anything and that pisses them off.

i left work at like 3 because i was mad and bored and i really saw no point in staying any longer.

came home and fucked around for a while. called mike up at like 5 to find out what happened after i left. he's mad b/c our boss never really followed up about the moving to overnights thing so we decided that he just shouldn't do it. no one made it official. he was going to call our boss's boss, but someone tells us that he's had a pretty bad day so we lay low.

i sent our boss's boss an email saturday afternoon telling him that apparently my job is pointless since my duties are being reassigned to others and no one is informing me of anything. i thought the assistant was supposed to be the one who knew about everything? i also said that instead of having me sit up there all day being bored, please move me back to an operator position so i can at least feel like i'm earning my paycheck.

well this morning (sunday) i get a phone call at 10a from mike saying that april (who is at work) saw the schedule and mike is on for midnight tonight (which is monday). and he is even more pissed now. of course no one has said anything to me. i went up there yesterday afternoon and posted new schedules for the next 3 weeks and our boss was there and he said nothing about it. so apparently after i left, he changed what i posted.

mike's been demoted from day shift supervisor to overnight shift operator. and we have no idea why. i don't think our boss knows anything about our evil plan to overthrow him. if he does, someone betrayed us and i have a few people in mind who could have done that. the other idea why is b/c of our relationship and the boss is trying split us and the clique up. there's no fucking rule about being friends with people outside the office! and we decided like two weeks ago that we were going to act like nothing was going on at work so people would stop talking about us. i swear, if you started demoting/firing people in that building that are sleeping together, there'd be like half the staff left. in that email i sent yesterday, i denied any romantic involvement with mike. even if we had been doing things in the past, they are going to stop now.

i feel sort of responsible for all of this happening. if i would have just left it where it was at after we messed around after the APC show, i think things would be totally different. but no. i had to have more. if they moved him because of me, i hope that they reconsider and move him back and just move me. i don't have another job and i've got nothing that forces me to work 8-4. he needs day shift and has worked there long enough to earn it.

he and i spent the day together. doing nothing. and it was great. but that has to stop. i mean, if people are seeing the two of us as a threat, or at least threatening enough to split us up, then we have to respect the wishes of others. he's going on vacation this week, and since they moved him to overnights he's leaving thursday instead of friday. it's shitty.

i'm scared really. not so much for myself, but for him. he's talking about moving back to texas because he sees nothing changing where we work now. i hate that these stupid people would chase him off like that. but you gotta do what you gotta do. he was telling me today that i should have applied for this job in houston for the Rockets. if it's still open, i might apply anyway. it was an awesome job.

i dunno. i guess i'll write more when i find out more. which would be tomorrow morning. who knows. i may have a ton of spare time soon. and that will be the shittiest.

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