Stressful Days

The day was spent as most of them have been - stressful. It is beyond us how this office is ever able to keep employees. The one manager - the one leaving after tomorrow - just snaps at you every time you ask a question. The other manager - leaving in about a week or two - is hardly ever there, and when you ask her a question, the answer is so quick, or the typing so fast on the computer, that you could never understand what she said or did. Coupled with the fact that we have not ever received any feedback from them, makes for an even more stressful environment.

We finally received our pass-codes to be able to access the system with our own codes. We will use them today for the first time. This is our 2nd solo day of the week in the office. In some ways, it's better that we are working alone since we are able to talk to each other about situations that normally we would ask somebody else about. I still am not in the clock system, so I have to submit my hours manually. As yesterday was the end of the pay period, the manager handed me a form - already filled out - with my hours for the last two pay periods. First of all, they showed straight 8 hour days each day, when I actually worked over for 15-20 minutes each day, which adds up to extra pay time. The manager said they will only pay for 8 hours each day - then why am I keeping track of my hours manually? The other thing that really got under our skin yesterday was the discovery that we are expected to pay our site fee up front each month. To discover that our site fee was due on our first day of work is counter to any procedure under which we've ever worked. Usually, you have to work so many hours a month for your site, and it is taken out of your pay. To be past due on your site fee before you get a paycheck is not ethical to us.

Although we have decided to move on from here, we are still nervous about the timing. If we are asked to leave right away after we give notice, we will not be able to justify the huge expense to travel to Cody. We are counting on our paychecks from here to help out for that trip. We have sent out a few "feelers" for backup jobs just in case. Those would not involve so much travel. We really want to go to Cody, so that's still the focus. There are so many places to go and jobs in between, that we are thankful we have the options. Time will tell...