life is an adventure...
the pre-story...
...to the last post is me being forced to Pueblo HQ for a safety stand-down meeting. My Ltc Ops was hysterically wild with me this day. You could see the crazy in his eyes. Let it be known that the only thing he offered me was a hand picker before this unfortunate meeting. Yeah, a picker. It's distinctly laughable.
He yelled at me four (4) times "are you refusing to do your job?" Four times I replied, "NO, I'm requesting that I be able to do my job in a safe manner."
Tricky that, Management is taught to ask these questions in a tricky way because if you answer incorrectly then you are you, and you are screwed. It's a fireable offense if you get it wrong. Unfortunately for management I listen to questions and usually answer correctly and I've taught my Darling Daughter, same.
Side note: It's been interesting to me to find that most people do not realize how many times when asking a question that the way they phrase it will mean that they will receive a negative answer for the positive response that they desire. example: Do you mind if I sit here? Response: No
Anyway, the safety suit (although it's laughable), gloves, mask (which when wearing glasses causes depth perception issues) and that's dangerous in itself when walking among such incredible biohazard.
So back to the meeting, where instead of sticking to the safety agenda I was personally attacked for no reason. I sat there in disbelief wondering when the district superintendant would step in or the acting Superintendant would say something. It's a good ol'boys network for sure here. The safety issue wasn't even addressed until the Civil Rights (CR) person stepped in. Really??? OMG!!!
Although, at the end of the meeting the CR person stated to me, "You're going to want to speak to me after aren't you?" shaking her head yes as she repeated this 3 times, while I was like no-ooo, yee--ees??
The Ltc Ops accusations were that 'all the men refused to work with me' and that when my TMII was asked for a worker to not bother with sending me. Both of which are untrue. The last is untrue because from September 1, 2018 to Feburary 19, 2019, I'm all that he could send and everyone knew this. So why ask if I'm who you are going to get? The first isn't true because I've asked and if it were true I'm not the only 'guy" this pertains. There was one last accusation, in that one day I'm happy and one day I'm mad and 'the guys' don't know what they are gonna get and this makes it supposedly difficult to work with. Truth is all the guys are like this except C67 who is always angry or V69 who is always happy. So essentially that sentence describes everyone except those two.
After the safety meeting, there was an additional PDF which is a company write up for a wrongdoing. Guess what that's for? I'm snorting as I write this.
"Disrespectful Texts." OMG, yep. It is laughable. You'd think they would be for writing Mother F or A-hole. Nope. It's for being insistent that my TMIII not my TMII is my supervisor. Whereas, my TMIII insists that my TMII is. Yep this is not a joke. I almost laughed out loud when the Ltc Ops handed it to me. In fact, I couldn't read all the way through without laughing so I stopped while reading and refused to sign it, refusal to sign is allowed.
Anywhoo,
Unknown to myself when you speak to civil rights an investigation starts. WOW, WOW, Wow. I'm not even the one who wanted to meet. How ironic is that??? But when I did you can bet I had everything in order and used facts not fiction, unlike an Ltc Ops I know, and blasted away.
Currently the fall out is unknown, other than I am certain one Ltc Ops, and one TMII who set this all up have a lot of resentment towards me. Which I find ironic as the Ltc Ops caused the whole thing, and I am certain he doesn't see it that way.
Anyway, watch that 'disrespectful texting' you mother f'ers.
Send me all the news,
Love L
Sunday, June 30, 2019
Wednesday, June 19, 2019
Dear Friend...
life is an adventure...
Take a look at this...
...it's actually a hundred thousand times worse and the stench is so bad it's indescribable. We still have more than half a mile of clean up. The reason is these people have more rights than you or I. Sad that. Please please please I beg you to stop giving anything to these people. The true homeless do NOT live this way. Nor do the true homeless beg for money.
Please Please Pleas, Stop "helping" these people because it's costing YOU a lot of money!!!
Ironically, a company (not mine) wants to build a wall to keep these people out. Because it's the only thing that will work. Hey, Trump come see our wall too!! (insert hysterically ironic laugh here)
My friend, this stuff is bad (please refer to photo above) and enabling these people does not work. My poor city is a waste trap, a bio-waste trap and I want something done. Not what has been done by allowing these people to trash it.
Send me all the news,
Love L
PS this is one type of aftermath that happens when you legalize marijuana in your state. Another type is all the wrecks that happen while people drive when high. We had a 68% increase. ugh. I have no problem with medical MaryJane but that's the first step in obtaining legal MJ. Beware that the above is what happens. I don't personally believe in walls but if you look at the wealthy homes...all you see are fences, gates and walls. hmmm...
Take a look at this...
...it's actually a hundred thousand times worse and the stench is so bad it's indescribable. We still have more than half a mile of clean up. The reason is these people have more rights than you or I. Sad that. Please please please I beg you to stop giving anything to these people. The true homeless do NOT live this way. Nor do the true homeless beg for money.
Please Please Pleas, Stop "helping" these people because it's costing YOU a lot of money!!!
Ironically, a company (not mine) wants to build a wall to keep these people out. Because it's the only thing that will work. Hey, Trump come see our wall too!! (insert hysterically ironic laugh here)
My friend, this stuff is bad (please refer to photo above) and enabling these people does not work. My poor city is a waste trap, a bio-waste trap and I want something done. Not what has been done by allowing these people to trash it.
Send me all the news,
Love L
PS this is one type of aftermath that happens when you legalize marijuana in your state. Another type is all the wrecks that happen while people drive when high. We had a 68% increase. ugh. I have no problem with medical MaryJane but that's the first step in obtaining legal MJ. Beware that the above is what happens. I don't personally believe in walls but if you look at the wealthy homes...all you see are fences, gates and walls. hmmm...
Friday, May 17, 2019
Dear Friend...
Not a lot going on here. The coolest snow activity this winter season was plowing snow during a snow cyclone that we had. It was fun and dangerous all at the same time. No one should have been out and there were lots of people out. Interesting thing, if you go past a closed road barrier and have to be rescued you will be charged for your rescue (unless you die, ahem). There were six snow cats being used for rescues and it still wasn't enough. Four more were called to come in from other areas. The only thing is, it takes time to move equipment around.
...and..more recent...
Life has had it's ups and downs. Once again, I am singing the same old song and wondering "what the heck am I doing here?"
I was once wisely told that I bring change in a good way wherever I go, and with that change, it makes for a trying life for me. Truer words were never spoken.
The winter season is essentially over and now we concentrate on making our roads snow and ice worthy (safe), for lack of better wording.
In just the past 3 weeks I got to:
- be an eyewitness to an amazing accident in where I actually saw the semi-tractor trailer get hit on the side back passenger area, which caused a tremendous sound, and rolled the whole tractor trailer with cab onto it's side. I thought I'd be checking on a very hurt driver for both vehicles and miraculously neither driver was terribly injured. Both walked away. Unfortunately, the law gave the ticket to the tractor trailer guy, which was the wrong person in my view as he was almost through the intersection when the dump truck with pup trailer hit him. Reminder, just because you have a green light doesn't mean you have the right away. People who are turning get to finish their turn even if you get the green while they are turning. Anyway, the law was having a tough time not showing a big ego.
- my snowplow has been deliberately disabled by "someone" twice within two-weeks, if it's management I hope they kept a record of it and disabled 3 other working snowplows from 3 different patrols to show non-bias. If it's a co-worker doing this, it's not very funny.
- "The company" issued a couple of "prime directives," which the first one has caused my job to be 3 times more dangerous, and the second PD just causes animosity, dissent, and negativity since "the company" completely exempted themselves from it. Which was silly because State law exempts everyone from it. So the whole thing is moot anyway, and very pointless unless the point was to cause negativity. Then I say good job, point thoroughly accomplished.
- next, I innocently asked our safety officer a question about the "prime directive" that causes my job to be more dangerous, and my LTC OPS was present and upset that I had done so and called my TMII to take me to task and blew the situation totally out of proportion. My TMII informed me that I was NOT to speak to the safety officer anymore and that the only people I need ever speak to would be him, my TMIII, and my LTC OPS, which is total phony baloney. Essentially, I was being bullied by my TMII with permission from the LTC OPS, and both should know better.
Don't know what to do about the last issue because if I say something then I will be targeted at work with the excuse that I should be doing my job and that the "targeting" means nothing and management has every right to "target" me to make certain I can do my job. I've seen some of the men they've hired here that have left (and that still work here) and I am a much better worker than most of them and yet, they would still be chosen over me to work here. Being targeted like this does not make your employee better, it causes anxiety.
I did inform my TMII that I had every right to speak to whomever I wish regarding work and most especially our safety officer and that he was trying to make his issue mine and that I was not going to allow him to make his problem mine. He bullied me like this in front of our TMIII and a coworker. I informed the TMIII at that moment that I did not appreciate how this was being handled and that I was not going to be bullied and that I may be speaking to HR about it.
Anyway, I hope things are going better your way.
Send me all the news,
L
...and..more recent...
Life has had it's ups and downs. Once again, I am singing the same old song and wondering "what the heck am I doing here?"
I was once wisely told that I bring change in a good way wherever I go, and with that change, it makes for a trying life for me. Truer words were never spoken.
The winter season is essentially over and now we concentrate on making our roads snow and ice worthy (safe), for lack of better wording.
In just the past 3 weeks I got to:
- be an eyewitness to an amazing accident in where I actually saw the semi-tractor trailer get hit on the side back passenger area, which caused a tremendous sound, and rolled the whole tractor trailer with cab onto it's side. I thought I'd be checking on a very hurt driver for both vehicles and miraculously neither driver was terribly injured. Both walked away. Unfortunately, the law gave the ticket to the tractor trailer guy, which was the wrong person in my view as he was almost through the intersection when the dump truck with pup trailer hit him. Reminder, just because you have a green light doesn't mean you have the right away. People who are turning get to finish their turn even if you get the green while they are turning. Anyway, the law was having a tough time not showing a big ego.
- my snowplow has been deliberately disabled by "someone" twice within two-weeks, if it's management I hope they kept a record of it and disabled 3 other working snowplows from 3 different patrols to show non-bias. If it's a co-worker doing this, it's not very funny.
- "The company" issued a couple of "prime directives," which the first one has caused my job to be 3 times more dangerous, and the second PD just causes animosity, dissent, and negativity since "the company" completely exempted themselves from it. Which was silly because State law exempts everyone from it. So the whole thing is moot anyway, and very pointless unless the point was to cause negativity. Then I say good job, point thoroughly accomplished.
- next, I innocently asked our safety officer a question about the "prime directive" that causes my job to be more dangerous, and my LTC OPS was present and upset that I had done so and called my TMII to take me to task and blew the situation totally out of proportion. My TMII informed me that I was NOT to speak to the safety officer anymore and that the only people I need ever speak to would be him, my TMIII, and my LTC OPS, which is total phony baloney. Essentially, I was being bullied by my TMII with permission from the LTC OPS, and both should know better.
Don't know what to do about the last issue because if I say something then I will be targeted at work with the excuse that I should be doing my job and that the "targeting" means nothing and management has every right to "target" me to make certain I can do my job. I've seen some of the men they've hired here that have left (and that still work here) and I am a much better worker than most of them and yet, they would still be chosen over me to work here. Being targeted like this does not make your employee better, it causes anxiety.
I did inform my TMII that I had every right to speak to whomever I wish regarding work and most especially our safety officer and that he was trying to make his issue mine and that I was not going to allow him to make his problem mine. He bullied me like this in front of our TMIII and a coworker. I informed the TMIII at that moment that I did not appreciate how this was being handled and that I was not going to be bullied and that I may be speaking to HR about it.
Anyway, I hope things are going better your way.
Send me all the news,
L
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)