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Webmistress: Amy (aka Delilah)
Apart of: undecided-fate.org
Since: February 19th, 2008 (April 23rd, 2007 as Something Wicked)
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My last day of work was March 1st. Now, how it works here in Canada when you go on your maternity leave is that you have a 2 week waiting period where they process your claim and then you receive your fits check two weeks after that. So basically, to make it easy to understand, you wait 4 weeks and get a check that covers 2 weeks and after that you get a check every 2 weeks. Now this is a bummer but I've accepted it. Small price to pay for 65 weeks of a government paid leave. Am I right?
But here's where it all gets messed up. Immediately after my last day of work, my place of in employment is entitled to send out an important document called a "Record of Employment" to Service Canada. This document is to be received in no less than 13 days because Service Canada begins processing the claim after that so that in another 14 days I can get my first check.
12 Days pass and I hear nothing from work so I call them. They tell me that it's on it's way and will be in any time. I wait another five days and go in to ask for it. Apparently they don't understand why it's not in yet it should be in any time now.... blah blah blah. We are at 17 days, they are already well over the maximum amount of time they have to send out the papers. I call them again a couple of days later and ask to speak with the manager this time. She tells me that it's now sent out electronically directly to the Employment Insurance office. I decide it's time to go down to the Employment Insurance Office and find out if they had in fact received it.
On day 18 I speak to an agent and, just as I had expected, they have not received my record of employment. I ask her what I should do. I'm fed up. I've been running around for over 2 weeks now trying to get this stuff in order all the while really needing to relax... I am on maternity leave after all!! She tells me that we are going to give it another 7 days and then if they still didn't receive the documents they would have to take "appropriate action" to obtain it. I'm pissed but at least someone else realizes the amount of time I've been waiting is absurd.
On day 23 I go to my work and speak to the manager again. I tell her that Service Canada still hadn't received the record of employment and I have another appointment with them on Wednesday. I also told her that my agent said they would have to take "appropriate action" to obtain it if it's not in by Wednesday. She looked very worried suddenly and tells me she will call Head Office right away and find out what's going on.
And would you believe it?? The frigin' papers mysteriously arrive (electronically on top of that) on day 24! Coincidence?? I think not. Someone at work didn't file it!! And who pays for their stupid mistake?? Me. I would be receiving my first check this week but because of my STUPID place of Employment I will now have to wait another 2 more weeks before I see any kind of money!!
It might be just me, but personally I think this is no way for a pregnant woman to be spending her first month off of work.... *sigh* At least it's finally all fixed.
I spent the last month before the new Lost season getting caught up on season three. Words really don't describe how the story line of this show in the third season has affected me. I could have never come up with the twisting and turning storyline that the amazingly talented writers of this show have come up with. The things we learn in the third season continue to stay with me months later.
So now season 4 is in full swing and this year's storyline is no exception. But since this year I have to wait each week to find out the next piece of the puzzle, I NEED to talk about what we've discovered thus far...
Alright, putting the chaos of LOST behind me for a moment, I'd like to talk a little about my day at work yesterday.
Work began like any other, I went in for 6am, I made the coffee, set up the olive cart and threw away all the outdated food. Then I began going over the planner for Thursday's food prep. That is when I discovered the girl who worked the night before either forgot or just didn't bother to fill the ingredient containers before she went home.
So off to the freezer I go (which I DO NOT like to do at 6am in the morning) And I dug around for everything I needed. But where was the box of bacon? It had arrived in the order the day before... (I saw it with my very eyes) So where the hell did it go??
Well I don't know if any of you have ever dug around in a grocery freezer for over a half an hour looking for a missing box but if not, I can tell you it's not F***in' fun at all. I probably caught a cold and the worst part is I never did find that frigin box of bacon! It's just gone... my boss figures someone who works in the store went into our freezer and stole it! Can you frigin well believe that?? Someone actually stole a box of bacon! What the hell is this world coming to??
Well since someone desperately needed a pig meat fix, I was forced to take 20 packages of bacon off of the meet department's shelf and cook them all.
Words don't describe how frustrating and aggravating it is to fall 2 hours behind in your work cause someone loves bacon so much they just had to steal it.
*Sigh* One more week to go before my maternity leave! I truly can't wait.
I'm REALLY starting to get a little fed up with work. It's not that I don't like the people or anything, it's just that I'm just so TIRED and cranky all the time and I keep flipping out at the wrong people. I kinda would like to have my job when my maternity leave is finished so I'm crossing my fingers that these next two weeks go by smoothly and fast.
Yesterday I got called to the office by my boss (for what feels like the millionth time since I've been pregnant) about my behavior. Specifically my attitude and snapping at people. *SIGH* I swear, I do not behave this way on purpose. It's always an accident and I always apologize immediately afterwards. But the damage is done... I feel so bad. Cause I'm really not that horrible of a person and I don't want the people I work with to think I am. I'm lucky my boss really likes me and sees good in me cause she gave me another warning and didn't write me up. *phew* I've had a perfect record for the last 4 years with no write ups and I would have been really upset if I had broken that record.
2 WEEKS TO GO! I can't wait to be off work for 65 WEEKS!!! Maternity leave is gonna be a nice change of pace. And the best part is having 15 of those weeks before my due date so I have a chance to relax and get things in order for when my baby boy comes.
In other news, Lisa found out how to get our purchased domain names hosted on the same account as Undecided-fate.org, meaning that I can now go out and buy myself an actual domain name for Something Wicked. Unfortunately, "www.somethingwicked..." appears to be in use in every variation I could come up with so I may have to change the name of my bog. This is not really a big deal tho cause I've always wanted to have my own domain name for my blog so I don't mind changing it up LOL
I'll keep all of you guys up to date about that in the coming weeks.
On Wednesday I went to work feeling fine but ended up feeling really horrible by noon hour. I was dizzy, weak, pale, and had an upset stomach. I had Ryan come and pick me up from work and we went to the hospital right away. I was scared for the baby and hoped it was nothing serious. Thank God everything with the baby was fine. It was me I should have been worrying about. Turns out I have a really bad chest cold that has, lowered my immune system to the point where I had become exhausted. The doctor gave me the rest of the week off and told me to do nothing but rest. And that is what I did.
I feel sooo much better five days later it's crazy. My cold has even dwindled. So my boss changed my schedule around and took me off of any stressful or heavy-lifting jobs and placed me in the canteen for next week. The canteen is just making sandwiches and salads so it's relatively non-stressful and should keep me relaxed. On top of that our shifts are finally back to normal (THANK GOD!) 6 hour shifts are easy to work and reasonably short and therefor also non-stressful.
So much has happened since my last post that I have absolutely no idea where to begin. So, lets begin with the rest of my training for the new store. It actually went well and the employees there are all awesome. I'm not as stressed out about the opening anymore. However,putting that aside, I've tried time and time again to not think bad things about people I work with and for the most part have never come across a situation where I began feeling things along those lines. But it has to be said, I absolutely HATE SF!! What a little back-stabbing bitch. I hope to god she doesn't work out because one of these days I'm going to flip out on on her. She (and her little possy) actually pushed my buttons down in Bathurst to the point that I became a ball of stress and began to be very negative about my job. And as if that wasn't bad enough, they actually went to the manager in Bathurst and complained about my behavior. Now if that were the end of it, possibly I'd be able to let it go but no... My boss was called and I was IN TROUBLE. So then I was on my best behavior afterwards (trying to save my job) and now I'm finally home. SF has been bitching left and right since we got back from Bathurst about everything under the moon and I just want to slap her... I can't help it. To make matters worst, KC has been going around to everyone who will listen and telling them all about our ***ked up week. Like it's anyone's business other than our own. That really pisses me off. And then there's TK. Well, TK is a mystery. She's SF's BFF but I just can't figure out her game. I am keeping a close eye on her as well just because I don't trust her. Welcome to my new work enviroment. YAY! *Gag* Someone shoot me.
Amy, Delilah, 25, Scorpio, Canadian, Gamer, Mommy, Sensitive, Loving, Hubby Ryan , Heroes, Grey's Anatomy, 
