God damn it, "Steel Johnson" never stops finding ways to piss me off. My teammates and I spent more of the peak season than not in departments other than our own. I had a feeling that they would try to downsize the department after Peak by forcing people to transfer to those other departments. I figured this would take place after they brought out "The Buyout", where they pay people to leave the company forever, but no, they decided to do it about month before then. They would choose the ten who got to stay by seniority. This pissed me off because I've been in the department for five years, and others have worked in the department longer, but there were people who just transferred to the department within the past year who would get to stay just because they've been with the company longer. You had two choices, either try to stay in your current position and choose three preferred shifts from the Outbound or Inbound departments in case you get passed over, or volunteer to transfer to one of those departments/shifts. I went about choosing from three of the least worst options, two from Inbound and one from Outbound, and got the Inbound "donut" shift of Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. And before I forget, the day starts at 6:00 a.m.. I was going to be fucked no matter where I went, but going to Inbound was probably a quicker form of job suicide, since I just found out that I've gotten a "Second Written Warning" for productivity from that department. Oh well. If I'm lucky, I might be able to tough it out until "The Buyout" is offered, but whether I make it until then or not, I should probably try to look for another job. I'm also looking to get into a recording school soon, and this bullshit complicates things even more than they already were.
Meanwhile, over at my old building, they've downsized the same department there, and allegedly has them working eight hour days, Monday through Friday, which is what I've been wanting to do ever since I got hired back on! What makes me even madder is that I would've probably stood a better chance of staying in the department there, since turnover was higher in that building than in my current one!
This has been my worst Winter since late 2003/early 2004, my first Winter after I moved back to Kentucky. I might not have had much social interaction the past couple of Winters, but they were relatively mild in comparison weather-wise.
I got a little bit of good news on the IRS front. They finally sent me a fucking IP PIN, so I'm able to file electronically again. The bad news is that I still owe them for cashing the erroneous refund check, so I'll be amazed if I get any refund this year. If my CEO really gave a fuck, he could totally pay for that shit, but it looks like he'll be getting a huge ass tax cut.
