We were slammed at work this week. We’ve had a few really busy weeks in the past couple of months, but this week we had our biggest single day the Mardel warehouse has ever had. We were there from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Monday and Tuesday, and to 6 p.m. yesterday and today. If they don’t let us off early tomorrow, I’ll have five hours of overtime this week. On top of that, they also were training three new people this week, which means that we lose a perfectly good worker to go train for each trainee. One…
I searched Google this morning for “what to do for a broken toe” and confirmed what I thought, that there’s nothing but wrapping it to the adjacent digit. We don’t have any medical tape, so I just put my sock on carefully and put on my boots. That hurt, so I switched to my tennis shoes. That hurt even more, so I switched back to my boots. They seemed to have a little more toe room. I downed a couple of Alieve and headed for work. It’s a good thing I leave myself ten minutes to spare because it was…
So I’m working in a warehouse in OK City. It’s not fun, and it doesn’t pay enough, but at least it brings some money in. The warehouse is half an hour’s drive away from our apartment. I figured out a back way to go, a pleasant drive and I’ve yet to get stuck in rush hour traffic. My shift is weird. It goes like this: Mon: 800-430 Tue-Thur: 800-530 Fri: 800-100 Except we’ve been working an hour of overtime on Mondays. Supposedly, we work an extra hour on Fridays too, but we didn’t this last one. The schedule makes sense…