I HATE my husband's job...

This is going to be one of those rant type posts so be warned...

I cannot stand my husband's job. It's not even that difficult of a job, just a job as night auditor for a hotel so we're not talking overly difficult. He works overnight usually and works about 40 minutes away. He's been working there since January same hours, same days and was doing fine for MONTHS until our stupid no good piece of crud car died. We replaced the starter which seemed to be the reason why it died (and I will not even go into that, I'm still ticked at how much we had to pay for that) and the car worked fine for ONE day and then it died...again...on Father's Day, FORTUNATELY after we had a nice day and got to go around and do things, mainly go to the park and pick up an ice cream cake from the DQ. Well, when it died that time, we more or less figured that it was the head gasket for the THIRD time. And that was about all we were going to take of that. Third time on a second engine and each time seems to be between a year and 18 months before going, forget it. We were NOT dropping another $1000 on it. We didn't HAVE the thousand to drop! SO, for two weeks, we got stranded here until my younger sister's father-in-law from her first marriage got us a car (under his name though which makes sense). That took two weeks. Meanwhile, he missed those two weeks of work except for one day that the manager actually came and got him. Now fortunately, he wasn't fired but he did get dropped down to two days a week. We were able to get by though with the part time job he had over the summer with the school district as a teacher's assistant. So that helped.

Now, here comes the problem. While he was only scheduled for two days a week, he was getting called in quite a bit more than that (up to the full-time hours) because the other people at work were not getting to work. And this had been pretty consistent for I would at least say the last month and a half. And most of the workers wouldn't even bother to call in! Or they would call him in at the last minute or something. It was basically getting to where he was THE only reliable worker there, the one who actually did get there and not ONLY get there but got there ON TIME too!

Now to me, this does not seem fair at all because he got punished for the two weeks he honest to goodness could not get to work but those who had full times hours (including the house he USED to have) who were screwing off, usually not even bothering to come in, were not only NOT losing their jobs, they were still getting the full time hours! Um...ok... It just isn't making any sense as to why they just cannot give him back his hours! So now, he has a couple of more hours scheduled per week but they are from 3-11! This totally messes up trying to get ANYTHING accomplished here, especially scheduling appointments, getting to my meetings which are at 5:30 on Thursdays, etc. And they were just randomly throwing him in wherever without even talking to him! Which was frustrating when I had things scheduled in weeks in advanced and they only do the schedule a few days before the new weeks starts!

So THIS week, he worked Saturday and Sunday 11PM to 7AM the next day. So, he got done with work 7AM Monday and then had to go back to work 3PM on MONDAY and work until 11PM. Then he came home, slept (when I finally got his skinny little behind in bed!) and was SUPPOSED to work 3-11 tonight and then come home. It is almost 2 in the morning and he is STILL at work. The person who was supposed to come in at 11 did not. Nor did she call. So, he will be there until 7AM and THEN he will be home. But, there really isn't time for him to sleep when I have a 12PM appointment which I cannot miss because it is with my therapist and I missed last week's appointment by mistake thinking it was the 4th when it was actually the 3rd! Then, he has a phone interview for a job in Korea at 3PM and a meeting at his current job at 6PM. So, more than likely other than a couple of cat naps (which he is at least able to take so long as Natalie doesn't harass him) he will not get any sleep until tomorrow night. And somehow, he also has to fit some time in for Natalie and take her to the park before she completely wigs out. And the manager over there is no help because I guess she doesn't even know how to do the night audit job. She's a new hire.

I am really, REALLY hoping that he will actually go into this meeting tomorrow, asks for his night audit schedule back, and gets it because if he doesn't, I am going to go MAD! This whole thing is totally messing Natalie up too. This is why we can't even remotely have a schedule for her. As often as his schedule changes, there is no way to do so, we would be having to change it constantly! As it is, we will ALL probably be going down to Madison tomorrow and doing a few things around town, maybe even picking up another set of piggy pajamas for Natalie so that she has a set in the next size since she loves them so much, I don't know but ugh, I am just getting SO fed up with his job and the garbage they are pulling on him! He's the one who has been reliable (when the car is) and at least always calls when he's not going to be there or when he's going to be late (that happened when a tire blew out) so why can't they just give him his stupid hours back? ARGH! The only thing I can think of is that they won't do it because it would take away from the flexibility of them being able to call him when someone else doesn't show up which I think is just STUPID. He's not always able to either. He can't go on Friday nights (and YES, they did call him on a Friday night and it was AFTER the shift had started too!) and a lot of Thursdays he hasn't been able to go either. At least they would have five shifts covered they KNOW would be covered. Ugh, just don't get it.