Paycheck @ MindSay

It took me a lil bit this mornign to realize it was Saturday.

With Randy's day off being Friday it always throws me off!  I keep thinking Saturdays are actually Sundays!

I also just realized that Thanksgiving is almost upon us.  We dont' have the funds to go home .......again....this year.  And my parents came down in October for a long weekend so they won't be coming down.  Plus both my mom and sister are clinci/er nurses for hospitals and they try very hard to make sure they work the same weekends and holidays.  We have never really had a Thanksgiving or Christmas on the given days while growing up.  Especially when so many off both of my family's are in medical professions either human or animal.  So my sister and mom are both working Thanksgiving leaving their husbands and my sister kids to fend for themselves.  My mom said they are going to try and get together the following weekend and do a small thanksgiving dinner.  I didn't even bother to ask about my brother's skanky lil wife.  I could care less if she is dinning on Hungry Man Dinners Thanksgiving as long as she is taking care of my nephew.

I have no clue if I am cooking up a Thanksgiving dinner for my household or if we are going to start a new tradation in our family.  My friend Teri cooks homemade from scratch Enchiladias for her crew on Thanksgiving.  She is like me and hates her inlaws, so she refuses to go to any holiday dinner they have.  And they live back home and she is orginally from CA and has no real family but us.  And we are more along the lines of a sudo family to them even though we can claim relations via marriage twice removed thanks to her hubby.  I asked Randy what he would like to do on Thanksgiving and the only thing he suggested is we use some of his bonus check and get a few DVDs and snacks and the meal was up to me.  So I asked the kids.  They suggested we buy a turkey and cook later and cook something else. We put it up to a vote.  When we have no family or friends for Thanksgiving dinner and we can't afford to go home, our Thanksgiving tradation is going to be Indian Tacos, various day long munchies and movie day.  Neither my husband and I are big on watchign sports or holiday movies.  So Movie day it is!

Anyway.......I made an easy paycheck Friday.  I got a full days work done in 2 and half hours and got sent home early from the temp job:D  Thursday the staffing agency sent down one of their assitance and she took all day to do half of the filing.  The business was amazed that I got it all done in 2 and half hours.  Simply put it is the difference between an office worker who has only worked in financial or straight business offices vs someone like me who has worked in Industrial Contracting and Sales offices and regular business offices.  I know both lay outs of how to file things.  I asked if I should come back Monday and they said yes unless you hear otherwise.  So keepyour fingers crossed that they find more for me to do:D

Today even though it is 20 some degrees out we are going to bundle everyone up and take the dogs to the park.  Hopefully I can snap some decent photos of hte kids so I can send the one I like to Wally World and get my Holiday picture cards made and sent out on time this year:D

Hope you all have a great day!

I hate middle class.  When you hear someone say, "The Rich get Richer and the Poor get Poorer" in the United States it is NO JOKE!

But there is one class of folks that the majority of the US Citizens fall into that the gov't, organizations, DHS systems, and the Rich forget about and that is the Middle Class Citizens.

Sure we have jobs that are decent paying.  Sure we are able to go to Wally World, JC Penny's, Grocery Stores and the such to get clothes, household items, and food.  But what about all the other lil things that are needed in our lives that we can't afford.  We are the ones that pay our bills, live in debt the majority of the time, and have the same bills as the Rich with less money.  The same bills as the Poor but get no assistance.  Our kids have to help pay their own college education anymore.  And by gods, we aren't allowed to live one freaking month with out worrying where our next meal is coming from vs if we are going to pay that dayum medical or electric bill becaue insurance in this country bites for the middle class!

Say oh houses?  The Rich can go buy a house.  The Poor can apply for public assistance, hud, and habitat for humanity.  The Middle Class.........your fucked.  You make to much money to get assistance and your to dayum poor with avarage to crappy credit to get a loan.

What about that sport your child wants to play?  The Rich can pay the fee, buy the sports equipment and hire the nanny to go watch along with them.  The Poor can get the fee waived, apply for equipment grants and or organizations donate it to the families.  The Middle class.......your fucked.  You do some money juggling to figure out how to pay the fee, you make your kid go a week or so with no equipment and make them borrow their siblings, their cousin's, their best friends or hope the coach has extra until you can juggle that money again to buy that equipment.

How about utlities?  The Rich can write out that heavty winter electric and gas bill for heating.  The Poor can apply for public assistance, get grants from the DHS and other organizations, and apply for reduced heating budgets.  The Middle Class.........we are fucked yet again.  We make to much for reduced heating budgets, public assitatnce and grants.  And yay we have to pay our kids' school breakfast and lunch bills because we make to much to get free or reduced breakfast and lunches, so we start juggling that money again.

Many people wonder why so many folks of all races and cultures are cynical and judgemental of each other.  I'll tell you why.  The gov't loves to say oh you white folks aren't getting any help because your middle class and the poor black/hispanic/asian folks need more help.  Then they turn around and tell the black folks.....Well you all aren't getting any help because your middle class and  because we have to help out the hispanic/asian/and all those poor white folks living down on two streets over......you know the ones driving the cadallic!  Next they turn around and tell the hispanic folks.......well you all have our jobs now so you don't need any help because your officially middle class now.  We have to give it to the asians/blacks/whites who are worse off then you all.  And finally the asians get told you too are also middle class, own your own business, eat our pets and paid for your family to move over here.

SEE!!!  We are all judgemental and hypicritical because the gov't loves us to be that way.  They want to keep us Middle Class folks, the ones with educations and common sense from liking and associating with each other because if we all got together and realzied hey we may look different but have the same problems and it's the gov'ts fault for making us live pay check to pay check we might do something about it!

Okay I think I am done.  Can you tell we get our paycheck today?  Can you tell that it is already spent on bills and that like most US Citizens we do the money juggle to feed our kids and pay bills?

Yesturday at work we were complaining about how little we all make. Katie (my super-bitch co-worker) asked this new girl what she hired in at. I joined in the conversation and said I hired in at seven dollars and then recieved a raise of a twenty-five cents a few months later. As it turns out I, for some reason, make about six cents more then every body else. Katie was a little pissed off by this thinking it was unfair.

When I got to work today everyone was talking (more like complaining) about how unfair it is that I am paid more. They all were asking me about it. Most said they would go to PayRole and complain. Katie (you know the super-bitch) said she would quit if something wasn't done about it. I even over heard katie talking with someone else and basically calling lazy.

I keep my mouth shut while they bitched until Katie was directly rude towards me. I told he to not take her frustrations out on me, I wasn't my fault. I told her that if there is a mistake that she has every right to try and get it fixed but to other wise shut up.  Katie was about to go off on me until out superviser, Mary, told us to end the conversation right there.

I didn't know I was making more then eveyone else, other wise I would have kept it to myself. That being said it isn't something to get all bent out of shape about. 

To be fair, I have only been there a year and I am making more then Katie and others that have been there for two or more years. It does look like a mistake in my raise was made. I didn't know that everyone else had only gotten eighteen cents for a raise. But that is not my problem.

Personally, I will not except if the cut my pay to be more fair to the others. PayRole, my boss, or someone made a mistake and that is there problem and they have to live with it or I will raise hell. Let them all quit, fuck 'em I don't care.

I don't know why they were making such a big shit about six lousy cents. The differnce is less the a dollar a day. I'm pretty sure it is me and not the fact that I for one reason or another am making more.

As I have mentioned before I work with a few stuck-up spoiled rich kids (Katie has a horse for Christ's sake) who are very judgmental and tend to took down upon me for one reason or another.

Fuck 'em it's only six cents. I work hard for my money and damn it maybe I deserve more then those stuck up ass holes.  And I sure as hell am not lazy.

Ok I just wanted to get all that off my chest.

Thanks for Reading,

Mark M..