Lots of stuff going on.

I will be spending some time this week looking around for good, used materials to basically rebuild this trailer.  Starting with the exterior walls - which are actually in good shape, the metal that is - I will be tearing out the panelling, inspecting walls where it’s obvious there has been water leakage and doing whatever needs to be done to repair it and seal it.

Then, if I can find some good used insulation - maybe at Stardust (used building supplies) - I will put that in the walls and then put on new/used panelling, while checking the electrical wiring and out lets in the process.  That and carpet.  One entire section of the plywood on the floor has already been replaced by whoever had it last.  It will  need a twin bed for the back - I am ripping out the existing “stuff” back there and trashing it.  I will endeavor to keep the project’s costs low while attempting to make it look good, not just decent, in the process.  The major deal here is just to get it livable.  Running water/toilet/etc can wait.  The AC works great, which was surprising.  It cranks out ice-cold air.  No idea how much electricity is uses, but I can turn it one and see what my M-Power reader tells me in terms of kilowatt hours and then compute that into amount of money used. 

Tomorrow - this week - will be more than just a little interesting at work because of the email I wrote to the general manager.  I was put into a bad situation.  Do nothing, and these people will believe I am a sloucher who sits around the branch all day long, surfing the internet, doing nothing and getting paid for it.  Which to me, means at least a potential of losing my job, and certainly if there are more layoffs, my name would undoubtedly surface near or at the top of the list.

Say something - and risk making waves that may also prove the end of my job.  Why?  Who knows.  You never have any idea of what’s going on inside the minds of management or what’s being said behind closed doors, or what rationale and reasoning is being used to come the conclusions that they come to.  I am very certain of one thing, though: the General Manager - of whom I wrote the letter to - is not a man moved by emotional impulses or irrational thinking when it comes to such situations.  He has had to make many decisions in the last 2 years about who to keep and who to let go in terms of layoffs.  He has always stated he wants the “A Players” - people that go the extra mile, work their butts off, company people that are company minded. 

I did, obviously, opt for the latter.  I have never allowed a person, regardless of their rank or position of authority within a company or organization, push me around because they are on some power trip and want to exert their authority just because they can.  I AM, however, respectful regardless of what’s going on.  I can think of a few buttons that could be pushed that I might not be so respectful, that would include a person not being respectful of or to me.  This man certainly dissed me the other day when he came through the branch, mouthing his accusation and not wanting to hear a single word I had to say about it.  THAT is what moved me to action - he didn’t want to hear any reasoning behind why there might be a problem, he had come to his conclusion and that is what it was going to be regardless of what I said or felt about it. 

Yes, this situation is very troubling for me.  It will not rest until there is a conclusion - however that end may be and definitely determined by the GM - to it. 

So, that kind of over-rides anything else going on in my life right now.  In fact, I really can’t think of much of anything else.  I made my case and there is nothing else to do now —– but wait.

ben