My Employer sucks!

younggun2.0 said
you guys are all hung up on the word "vacation"....... i have 1 hr every day that is not supervised. they have scheduled vans to take us to and from the functions. i guess after 11pm i am free to do what i want. but we start the next day at 7 am. there will be no sight seeing, no exploring the town or eating at local restaurants. I have to share a room with a co-worker and am going to miss a holiday with my family. as for the comment about the military....... IF I WERE CALLED UPON TO DEFEND THE FREEDOMS THAT AMERICANS ENJOY, I WOULD LAY MY LIFE ON THE LINE TO DEFEND IT! The company i work for is a small fabrication shop that was facing bankruptcy several years prior to my employment and was bought out by a very large retail business in the same industry. I love my job and the people i work with on a day to day basis but the company that owns us and that is putting on the meeting treat our branch like the red headed step children. we are all blue collar workers that take pride in our work. our owner company is mostly white collar pen pushers that only care about profits and the bottom line. this is not a vacation. this is the company patting themselves on the back and making us watch. you would have to see the work place dynamic and the way things operate to understand. I do not count on my overtime to pay my bills. that is what i fund my dart with. i make enough to pay the household bills and put some money aside for savings. my wife has agreed that my overtime can be used as i please. i have a very tight knit family and when i took this job it was and for the most part is a monday-friday job that allows me to see my family. i have been blessed with a job that lets me use my hands and my mind to do things i enjoy doing but i do feel that an entire week over a holiday weekend is a burden on a family man. to those that dont agree, that is your opinion. i happen to have a family that i cherish the time i spend with.

Ok i read this twice here is my take your exactily right it ain't a vacation it's a company meeting [dog and pony show] probly to redirect a point of how the mother company wants things done. I spent 10 years in the U.S.A.F. you go where,when,how they tell you no excuses you just go,you could be awoken at two in the morning go to base spend the next 14 hours prepairing the aircraft and then flying to god knows where after that once you get there you gotta prepare the location recover the aircraft fix them and then maybe you can get some food an sleep after many hours of work then back at it in 12 hours or less,i have spent many weeks in tents in the desert in the heat or traveling all over the world missed every birthday,christmas,anniversary,holiday with my famly along with every other military person past and present. So suck it up big boy one week ain't gonna kill you. As you saw in my last post we got f--ked when the economy tanked and i'm just now recovering slowly,i have not worked a full 40 hour week since August [i have to put in vacation hours to make 40] there goes my vacation time. You can get some things for your project i have not bought nothing but fuel/oil for mine for 5 years. Your bitching to the wrong group we all have been there done that there are plenty of us that don't like our jobs/bosses/pay ect. but we do what we gotta do bitching just makes it more misrible,the alternative is much worse i have been homeless,unemployed very depressing and i swore it would never happen again. Damn man just roll with it you got your whole life ahead of you!!!!