x-posted from Facebook.

I never thought that the company where I've worked for the past ten years would knock me back down to part-time. But that's what happened on Friday. All the clerical in our company is now part-time. I can understand that, what with the economical woes right now, but to take away our benefits too? I've applied at Petco (of all places!) and Fed Ex. Last night I went to a Hub Recruitment. It was kind of horrible - boring and it took forever. They do everything: job application, drug test, fingerprint (wtf?), and interview. Anyone looking to get into the night sort (which is what I went for) has to be able to work between 10 pm and 5 am. I'm a night owl anyway, so if I do get hired on, hopefully I can get the shift closer to when my shift at Central ends. It just pisses me off thinking about all the shit I've gone through at Central, everything I've done there, only to be told what an unimportant asshole I am. There were times I would be at my home - at MIDNIGHT - dispatching drivers to make sure everything got picked up. One such occasion was back on September 30th of last year. We had forty loads to pick up from one customer. None of the supervisors took control - it was up to me. I stayed at work til midnight asking drivers if they would mind working over the legal 14 hour limit. The customer kept in contact with me on my cell. I was still dispatching from home until 1 am. The next morning NO ONE said "thank you for making sure everything got picked up." No one except the customer, who said because of that kind of service, they really enjoyed working with our company. Yet now I can only work six-and-a-half hours a day. It wouldn't be so bad if the house note wasn't almost 500 dollars a month. And with a baby, I've got to have some kind of insurance. I don't want to be like all the other shitbags on welfare. All I can do is hope things will get better - for everyone. After all, if you think about it, we're all in this together.