Friday, May 20, 2005

European time off needed

Another mixed week, some up, some down. No therapy for a few weeks because of appointment fill-ups but I’m in next week. Mrs E’s birthday today so we are going out to eat tonight. Last night was my men’s purity group, where I was really triggered by some attitudes. One man was lecturing a younger man on how to keep his wife at arm’s bay when he’s choosing which clothes to wear. This was sad because the man doing the lecturing is in crisis in his marriage and I didn’t think he was in any position to tell anyone that kind of thing. Also I was so fed up this morning I seriously nearly walked out from my job – so did my assistant, so maybe I wasn’t so abnormally triggered? There is a wedding scheduled on Saturday, and we had to set up hundreds of chairs, and dozens of tables on Thursday to make sure we had them all done for the decorators to come in first thing Friday morning. The snag was the men were holding a breakfast in the same room early Friday morning. Solution? The men just use some tables and chairs from the wedding set-up. What happened? When I came in this morning (Friday) the men had rearranged a large part of the room for their breakfast meeting, and left tables and chairs stacked at the side of the room. I knew it would be at least an hour’s work to reset everything. I was just at the point of walking out, but instead I went out and mowed the grass, hoping to calm down. My wonderful assistant put the chairs and tables back as the decorators were arriving. I feel I may look for another job. What keeps me here? The pay isn’t super but we manage. The insurance cover is good. The vacation is crap, but next year, after 5 years service, I go the 3 weeks (wow). I can hardly wait. If I started another job I would probably go the standard vacation package of 1 week – brutal. This is one time I wish some European practices would apply here, including decent time off. One thing keeps me here, it's a "God job." He got me the job and keeps me here. There ain't no safer place to be brother.

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