So, my new manager has been getting pretty - upset - about all the hours he is putting in, in which his boss says he can’t get paid for - it’s all over the allotted hours.  At least an hour every day is a freebie to the company.  He wrote an email to his boss today saying that since he can’t get paid for those hours, please advise everyone that he is going to go out and find a part time job after-hours and don’t expect him to stay after for the freebies.

I have been giving away free half hours for a long, long time now, I know exactly how he feels about it.  I have been tempted to simply pull my truck over somewhere on my way back from the last delivery on any given day where I’m over hours but haven’t had my break (1/2 hour is automatically removed from my time, every single day, whether I get the break or not) and simply sit there for 1/2 hour just to get my time out of it.  The company is making money, it’s not like we’re going broke and about to go out of business.  To achieve that, however, they had to shut down a lot of stores; lay off a lot of employees and get rid of a lot of equipment.

Well, whatever.  I don’t wonder if my new manager is getting himself into some hot waters for making such a bold statement to his management, but then again, who wants to donate their time to - work?  I also sent an email that I had no idea how it would be received - and really still don’t since I never got a reply from them about it.  I have “feelings” about things that might be happening soon - but I will refrain.  No point in dwelling on such potentials.

Tomorrow, Juice and Darnell - JD’s younger brothers - get out of kiddie prison/Juvenile Detention.  I have been writing about this for a while now, but I am quite curious if such time in such a place where you have no freedom, you do whatever “they” tell you to do, when they tell you to do it, has had any impact on them at all.  Juice will undoubtedly be over here the same day he’s out - unless he’s under house arrest - and I will get to hear what his time served might have done to his thinking of doing things while on probation that - he shouldn’t be doing. 

I’m tired.  I have  a lot to do around here and I have no energy to do it.  I’m also hungry.  I am still dieting, but have scaled back.  I am eating twice a day instead of once per day as I started the diet out.  I had a sandwich this morning and a little later, I will be having dinner - whatever that may be. 

So, I’m ending this one to go take a little nap, try to get rejuvenated and go outside and tend to some things that need - tending to.

ben