hello! anybody there? How are ya'll?

[pammy]

I know, I know, I've been away too long. Too much Drama going on in my life, and the troubles with poc.

Work is very weird. You all know how I loved my new position in the cash office...Last Monday the store mgr had a meeting with the office..They are 'down sizing' the store starting with us. There will only be two full time positions and one 28 hour and one 16 hours. The 28 one is no good because if you do that you can't work anywhere else in the store to make up your hours.
If you apply for a position outside the office and don't get it, you can't come back to the office. Rules, rules, rules. The bottom line is that less employees will be doing more work. This, they say is in the interest of 'Better serving the customer'. As usual, what it is really all about is their bottom line.
So there have been tear's flowing from all. These people have worked together for year's. I wanted to be a part of this family...
Our boss, Amanda is willingly leaving the office to work elsewhere in the store.
Roshini has second choice and she's taking the 6 am to 3 pm shift.
we think Robbie is going to take the 10 pm to 7am shift. Debbie is going to take a paycut and be a checker. Charles is going to try gor the csm position.
Amanda said I should pick the full time 10 to seven as my first choice in case no one else took it and so they know I want full time. My second choice is the overnight 16 hour shift because they will let me work elsewhere in the store. If I keep the c/o postion as my primary job code I won't have to take a pay cut.
I'm gonna stop before I run out of room
Pammy

[AceOn6]

OK, Pammy. Deep breath and think good thoughts. Make sure you ask for what you need (nicely of course) as it's worked out before and likely will work out again. Make sure your boss's boss knows who you are and how you came to get the position. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for you!

[Agnes]

as am I! Good luck, Pammy!

[pammy]

Ace, Yes, I really needed that deep breath. When the big boss first told me, I was shocked and devastated. But so many people from all over the store have come up to me to say,"please don't leave our store", that it really made me think. No matter how thing's turn out, it's going to be okay. I made a really good friend in the office. Normally it's hard for me to take a friendship out of the work context, but this one did. She is from India and very smart and funny. We won't be working together anymore but I know we will still be friend's.
I just have this feeling that thing's will work out. Even if it is not good for awhile, it will turn out for the best.
pammy

[dragonlady]

Good luck, Pammy...sorry to hear about your work troubles. I'll be thinking about you a lot this week my friend.

-di

[SongDragon]

It's good to hear from you again, Pammy. However I am sorry about the issues you're having at work. Good luck, I'll keep my fingers crossed for you also!

~Song

[RedjackRyan]

Hey there Pammy, good to see you again :) Sorry theres been yet another shakeup in your workplace, but hey.. it happens and you will survive. Sounds like your co-workers value your contributions, i'm sure things will turn out for the best.

[DaveM]

Hang in there, Pammy, and stick around.....you've got a lot of friends here, as you know.

Perhaps we need to stage a Rudie March On Wal-Mart?

[Dee]

Nice to see you again, Pammy. Hope everything turns out for the best.

[pammy]

Thank's everybody! You guy's are like family. Good times or bad, you've still got my back. I'll let ya'll know what's going on.
Pammy

[hoops]

welcome back Pammy good to have you back (((big hug)))
peace
hoops

[gisli]

Life is sometimes like a rollercoster.

Changes can be frustrating but............they can turn out for the better........

It is just a question of approching it in a positive way. Seems to me you are doing just that.

You make the best of them changes Pammy, nice to see you back on this board.

[DaveM]

And always remember....when life hands you lemons, throw them back with all possible force until it stops handing them to you!

[Denise]

Welcome Back Pammy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D

[pammy]

I'm supposed to find out Monday or Tuesday. Friday, I got kind of upset but I'm okay now. To quate Ennis in Brokeback Mountain :"if you can't fix it- then you just gotta stand it."
I sure appreciate everyone's support.
Thanks
Pammy

[sister rose]

Welcome back and good luck, Pammy...we've missed you around here! I know everything will work out for the best for you!

[pammy]

Okay, here' what I know so far: If they can get someone to work the four hour shift on Saturday and Sunday, then I will work two full time shift's in the office, one four hour shift and then on Saturday and Sunday I would check for eight hour's each day. If he can't find someone for the office on the seekend, he will have to start all over [he said] trying to figure out schedule's. If it work's out the first way then I will get to keep my pay.
Also we have to take a course on 'the new way to work in the office' for which we will be tested. If we are not fast enough we will be out anyway.
The head office guy keep's saying they want us to think like McDonald's employees: step 1, step two, step three. Don't ask me, I just work here.
Anyway, so far so good I guess.
pammy

[Agnes]

Fingers crossed for you, Pammy! Let's get the Rudie Power blowing!!!

[DaveM]

Why is it that Wal-Mart (among other major department stores) and brains are almost mutually exclusive concepts? Close to half of my visits to the neighborhood K-Mart result in the cashier coming up against something way over his/her head and reflexively picking up the nearby phone. After some interminable period, either someone comes along with a key or a code to enter into the register, or someone provides a solution over the phone, and you manage to pay for your stuff and get going. Usually fuming over the fact that the telephone was supposed to be a communication device, not a replacement for one's mind.

I'm not sure just who it was at K-Mart who decided that it was better to hire ten people with phones and one with a brain that to hire ten with brains. And I keep wondering what will happen if, one of these days, no one answers the phone.

[pammy]

Well Dave it seem's as if they are going to a lot of trouble to teach us how not to think. Will, I be able to turn it off when I get home, or will I have to phone someone and ask them what I should have for dinner and what I should do after that?
pammy

[AceOn6]

Pammy, don't feel bad. Deconstructing jobs is all the trend nowadays. It makes it really easy for them to swap folks from one site to another and it makes it much easier for the managers. Instead of having to deal with people, they're dealing with "production"

Hope it works for you and that you get to keep what you've earned. My fingers are crossed.