Lovebuds Anonymous

BURN BABY BURN

It's early here. Well for me, I usually like to sleep in past this point. But I'm up, so I'm going to try and stay up. I just had the entertaining job of putting me 54 year old Mother to bed. That was a job let me tell you! Sometimes I really do feel like I have children. I don't know how my parents take care of themselves heh. Anyways, most of you have picked up that the Mother unit works 3rd shift. She happens to work at a plant that was spawned from the desolate pile of Satan's shit. In other words she works at a BD (They make medical supplies-it's a huge company with places all over the world). While I'm sure that some people have great history with this company (I'm SURE that would be mainly the white collar do-nothing workers) the plant where my Mother works is hell. She works 6 days a week already, and more times than not they end up making her work the 7th day as well. Yep, no day off. As anyone who's ever worked a heavy duty factory job knows, it's rough. 3rd shift is supposedly rougher on you. Working 6 or 7 days a week.......... oh yeah, did I forget to mention that they're making her work 12 hour shifts too? Yep, instead of doing the RIGHT thing and just hiring someone else, they're making her work two jobs at once. How shitty is that?!

Ok so like, everyone keeps saying well why doesn't she just quit? To know the answer to that question you sort of have to be in this area I suppose. Jobs in this town are extremely hard to get, as we've had so many plants shut down and move to Mexico or China. Factory jobs are about the highest paying jobs here for everyday people, and at her age if she gets out of a job it's going to be extremely hard to get on somewhere else. (This plant also has a habit of conveniently finding ways to 'fire' people that are very close to retirement age. HMMM.... might they be trying to get out of paying retirement benefits?) So she's sort of stuck there for the time being, and it's slowly sucking the life out of her. Literally.

I hate that fucking plant. Wait, lemme rephrase that. I hate those fucking idiot moron assholes who run that plant. They sit in their air conditioned offices in their slacks and dress shirts making business calls, drinking coffee and watching their secretary's ass sway down the hallway. They care nothing for or about the people working under them. They've actually told people out there that "You have to do it. There's a lot of people out of work who would love your job." There's no union..... and no mention of a HINT of a union, or you're fired. Oh yes, they find some way to fire you. There's absolutely no one out there who tries to look out for the workers. It's sad, and I pray that the karmic downfall be swift and mighty on their heads.

Yeah, I have venom for the place. Not only have they shitted my Mother, but my Godfather as well. His supervisor moved him off of a job, knowing that in order to move him he had to have the nurse's permission, and then when the new job hurt my GFathers' back (he had two dislocated or ruptured discs in his back) he told him that he'd just have to deal with it. What happened? The job tore up his back... now he has 3 messed up discs, and caused his leg to start becoming paralyzed. He ended up having to work for 6 months in extreme pain (pinched nerves as well) because the stupid ass nurse out there thought he was faking. Well, he wasn't. He ended up having to have immediate surgery on his back(once he FINALLY was able to get the worker's comp. people talking to him) and is still out of work. He has no more pain in his leg, but he's going to have to have another surgery on his back to fix the pain he has in the back.

That place is evil. Pure evil. And while I know you out there really don't care, I needed to vent. While it's amusing to have to basically hold up your Mother when putting her to bed, (she gets really cute. Starts mumbling about weird shit and seeing things move. I swear it's like she's on acid) it also saddens me that in order for her to be able to sleep she has to take a pain pill, a muscle relaxer AND a sleeping pill. Gods I wish she would win the lottery. If I never seen or touched a penny of it, it would be worth it just so she could quit and relax. She deserves it. *sigh* In the next life Ma, be royalty or something!

- posted by Loki's Concubine @ 7:25 AM