Have I mentioned that I have the best mother-in-law? She’s watching the daughter tomorrow so I can go to work. Thank you!!!!!!!!!
Time lapse over 8 years.
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Wow! That’s cool!
So I’m home with my 3 (almost 4) year old. She’s been throwing up since 3 am. This is the third day I’ve had to be off work for her being sick in the last 2 weeks (different thing each time.) So two worries…what’s wrong with her immune system that she has gotten so sick 3 times in the last 2 weeks, and what if this continues? My husband and I both work full time.
Ah, the plot thickens. Why can’t my husband take time off? Well, he worked for the company for 3 months as a work-for-hire through a headhunting agency. He recently switched over to the employ of the company. Should be a good thing. They gave him a raise over what the hh agency was paying and he now will get vacation time/sick leave (before he had to just take LWOP.) However, here’s the catch. The boss doesn’t allow any leave to be used for 6 months. And he’s starting over. And the boss is a total heartless wanker. I mean, I get it. He has a business to run. But he has kids so should understand the unpredictable nature of them. It’s not like my husband is calling off sick every other day for himself. I just need him to be able to take a turn because, well, hello…my boss is going to start to get pissed.
I am extremely fortunate that I work for a company and a boss who has a heart and understands that my children have to come first and there’s nothing I can do about it when they’re sick. They are wonderful and understanding and it’s fantastic. I am so lucky and I know it!
So back to the wanker. He is a heartless jerk. Husband was late for work this morning because he was stopped in traffic that was standing still for 45 minutes. Now keep in mind that my husband comes in pretty much every day at 7:15 and stays until 5:00 in the evening. Never gets paid overtime because he’s salary. Usually only take a half hour lunch break. So he calls the boss up to tell him he’s going to be late and he gets completely bitched out.
I hate this crap. It’s heartbreaking to watch my husband put up with this crap because he has no choice. He took a chance on a job about 6 months ago because it was a huge step up in pay and position. So he left his “stable” low paying job to take a chance on something. It didn’t work out so, God love him, he worked as a barista until this opportunity, we thought miraculously, came up. So he took it and we were excited that things had resolved so quickly and he was able to find a job that had potential for growth and adding to his resume, if nothing else. And here he is, being abused every day by this jerk. I wish I could tell him to just quit his job and watch the kids (which he actually did for a while with our first daughter and, I think, enjoyed it.) But my salary isn’t enough to cut it, even subtracting out daycare and gasoline expenses encurred because of a 2 working parent household.
So what do we do? We suffer through it and be grateful that we are both employed I guess? I try to be a glass half full kind of girl and so I’m trying to find the positive spin on all of this. Resume..getting out of credit debt. That’s about it for him.
Honey, if you read this, just know I love you and I wish I could change this for you and make it better. He is such a jerk. But you don’t have to stay there forever and there will be something better on the other side of this shitty job. I know there will be. Hang in there! We’ll count down the days together if that’s what it takes to get you through.
