The Holtonian

Work: Yard based and Corporate based

I did a bunch of yard work today as the wife was workin her tail off for a bunch of ingrates down at the tortilla factory. Some punk ass kids left her no tip and not enough money for their food so it came out of her own pocket. They probably go to McCallie to, bastards. But anyway. I get angry at stuff like that.

So I did some yard work, mowed the lawn and all, and grilled a piece o chicken. I also dined on some tortilla chips topped with some nice Phat Wraps Secret Sauce. Scott gave me a bottle of the stuff which he mistakenly put his name on the sauce, this is a mistake as he did not create the recipe he merely bummed it off the Phat Wraps guy and then slapped a label that says, "Kennedy Hot Sauce."
Though I do thank him for the sauce as I enjoy it often. Though if he ever tries to charge me for it, I'll just go to his sister in law and she'll gank the recipe. I must say though it is kind of hackey to name the sauce after himself as he did not provide the creative and cullinary skill to develop it. Its like entering a Cake contest and entering in a cake you made strait from the Betty Crocker Cook Book. But hey, as long as Scotty keeps the juice flowing, I'll call it "Kennedy's hot sauce" all he wants.

Work is going ok. Though I've sort of been given an ultimatum. Basically a few monthes ago some people from the mother ship came down and asked us how we liked the job. I said it was ok, but said, "I'm not one to complain about pay or anything, but this job, for the amount of work and responsibility, does not pay an adequate amount." My justification being the work we're expected to do is a butt load and people in my department we're leaving for other departments which had somewhat easier jobs with higher pay. So I guess some one up there listened so they've decided to upgrade the job. They figure everyone should be a job grade higher than they are and then they'd be adequately compensated. That affects about me and three other guys who were hired from outside the company (everyone else was already with the company). So they put it like this, "Basically you have 60 days to prove you can work a job grade higher.... if you can bust it out and turn it up a notch and prove to the company that you're worth the higher job grade then you'll get a bump up." In other words: if i bust my tail off for the next 60 days I'll be bumped up to a higher job grade and most likely higher pay. I asked many times about the pay and they said I'd make more so thats good. How much more, we'll see. I've got a figure in my head and if they don't meet that then I'll probably take that as an insult and might look around town for something else. But basically if after 60days, if they don't think I'm worth the bump in pay, they'll give me the boot. So needless to say I've been trying to work a bit harder than normal as my job sort of depends on it. My boss said she wasn't worried about me, and is confident I"ll be fine, as am I, but its always nice to have the threat of a layoff or firing to light a fire under your butt.

In other news... copper's bout with diarea is getting better, so thats good news for us. And the teddy bear hunt gave the dog has been ripped to shreds and will be thrown away.