Shift Change update

I've been on the night shift for about a month now. There is quite a bit that I like about it, like the extra pay, not having to get up at 5-something in the morning, having the ability to stay up well past midnight on my nights off, and getting to spend an entire damn Saturday night with my girlfriend. But unfortunately, I still have to work ten hours a day. I was hoping that somehow I'd sleep less on night shift than on day shift, thus giving me more time to do stuff like go to the gym, but I sleep roughly the same amount of hours now as I did then. So, I still have to save most activities for the weekend.

Wednesday night was my last night working as an employee of Main Employer (formerly Main ex-Employer). When I go in to work on Sunday night, it will be as an employee of their parent company. Though I'm pretty sick of this line of work, and especially of the fact that most of this line of work are ten-hour jobs, I'm halfway tempted to stick around just so I can transfer to a warehouse in a totally different part of the country. Or hell, if things really suck in November, relocating to a warehouse outside the U.S.

I didn't even realize until today that this coming Monday is Labor Day. Of course I would forget, seeing as that I have to work that day so we can make our customers happy. The only holiday we're guaranteed off is Christmas Day, so I hope all of you internet retail customers who get holidays off are happy with the sacrifices we have to make to please you.

Here is a video that I posted last year on Labor Day, it's "The Machineries of Joy" by Die Krupps with Nitzer Ebb, which if I remember correctly was sort of an English language remake of Die Krupps' own "Wahre Arbeit, Wahrer Lohn". That basically translates to "True Work, True Pay."

Shift change

I put in a shift change request a few weeks ago. I mentioned in my previous entry which shifts I was thinking about going for. My top pick was the Sunday-through-Wednesday night shift (6pm to 4:30am). I found out yesterday that it was approved, and I start my new shift this Sunday. I'll miss the crew, but I just couldn't stand getting up at 5-something in the morning anymore.

I've also been thinking about what I'm going to do with this job in the long term. With my birthday coming up in November, I really want to take advantage of my vacation time and take a couple of days off, and then maybe start looking for a better job after that. Or, I'll wait until February, when The Who plays in Louisville. After all, I'd hate to end up getting a night shift job somewhere else and have to miss that show because I don't have vacation time. The show is on a Saturday, and it would be lovely if I got a job where I wouldn't have to worry about weekends. Yeah, right. Anyway, all I do know is that I can't really see myself working there forever.