When Doing Right is Wrong

So, just speaking real... My boss is stealing time..

I want to tell his boss SO BADLY, yet everyone is saying to mind my business. WTH?!?! I guess you can call me a nosey snoop because I know for a fact that he is stealing time.

My co-workers and I are considered salary-exempt. All should know what it means but basically we don't get paid overtime yet our time is calculated hourly. Instead of getting paid overtime, we get overtime time also known as leave time. My employer also does everything on a 15 minute interval so if your scheduled time to arrive is 8AM and if you arrive between 7:45 and 8:15AM you are considered on time and gets paid as if you arrived at 8AM. However, if you arrive after 8:15AM, you are considered late and must use a 30 minute leave because it is as if you arrive at 8:30AM. That leave time could also be used towards taking whole days off, in which one day is equal to 8 hours of leave.

SN: We actually work a 7 and a half hour day so really if you take a day off they are using an extra 30 minute leave. So where I work its better to at least show up for work and leave early than it is to just not show up at all.. But anyways..

The same leave is used when leaving early. So the leave that is used when arriving late or leaving early adds up. However, if you make it to work at 8:30 but say you made it in at 8, you are actually stealing double time because you didn't use the 30 minute leave that you supposed to had used, you gained 30 minutes of work time, and you gained additional leave time off of the 30 minutes you said you was at work.

In a way, my boss is doing that. Our children goes to the same daycare so I basically know, at least part of time, when he arrives to work. Even though, I am scheduled to report to work 30 minutes after him I try to aim to arrive to work at the 7:45 mark {see above example} because doing so I can leave at 4:15 instead of 4:30 while still working 7.5 hours. So even though our schedules should be 30 minutes off, I aim to be early and he aims to be late so we usually meet up in the middle at daycare.

Well today, I arrived to daycare somewhat on time, but stayed a little longer than I usually do so I wound at leaving at approximately 7:30. I know this for a fact because I looked at my car clock which read 7:41 [My clock is 10 minutes early. I don't know why I even bother setting it early because when I look at it I automatically subtract 10 minutes anyways.. But anywhoo]. When I was pulling off, he was taking his step-son out of his truck. I drove to work but sort of lagged driving to work, getting out the car, and walking into the building so I clocked in at 7:57. I guess he zoomed to work because he walked into the office around 8.

Since he have stole time in the past, as soon as he walked in I checked to see what time he clocked in and SURE ENOUGH it said 7:30AM..

I'm just not sure how he does it.. With our clock in system, you can edit your time. However, in the database it shows the time you actually clocked in and your edited time. His time only shows 7:30AM. He can remote in from his computer at home, but for him to be at daycare at 7:30, he can't possibly remote in and clock in at 7:30. It is possible his wife could have clocked him in at 7:30 or he could have a program that automatically clocks him in at a certain time..

Long story short, he is stealing time, I want to tell SO BAD but everyone is telling me to mind my business.. Not to sound like a child but IT'S NOT FAIR. When I'm late, I use a leave. When others are late, they use a leave. It's not right that he can just get away with it because I must mind my business.

ARGH!!!

I guess in this case, doing the right then is wrong because he is getting ahead and getting more time off and I am not..

Single Motherhood

I can not imagine being a single mother.. Forget the financial responsibility that goes into it.. My philosophy is "if one did it, I can too" so handling that aspect wouldn't be a problem..

My problem would be emotional detactment.

Because that female is a single mother, that also means that there is a father somewhere. Unless that father is a complete deadbeat, he would want to see that child. Because the father and mother are not together, the father will see the child without the mother. That is what I can't imagine doing.

I LOVE my son.. He is the best little boy in the whole wide world. I can't imagine being away from him.. He is 14 months and I have only been away from him for about 7 days his whole life. For 2 days, he stayed by my parents during the Thanksgiving holidays.. [Me and my husband both had to work Monday and Tuesday so Sunday and Monday night he was gone.... sniff, sniff.. But trying to save money on daycare cause it is a BEAST!! LOL] Then right before the Christmas holidays, he caught a bad cold and couldn't go to daycare so Monday and Tuesday I stayed home with him and Wednesday I went to work.. [Hubby had to work all three days as well]. And then... A week after Mardi Gras, I caught the flu and then, unfornately, so did my hubby.. So Friday to Tuesday, my son was with my parents..

So other than those 7 days, my son has been in my face and I in his..

Single mothers have to go through days and sometimes weeks at a time without seeing their child. At least when my son is away, I can still call every other second just to check on him but depending on the single parents' relationship with each other the mother may just have to 'hope' that the child is okay..

*sigh*

All White TV

I realized that lately a lot of my posts have been racial but that is because a lot of racial things are going on..

So, I'm cruising the Internet, looking for something to pass my time, when I remembered I missed Project Runway last week.. As always, I go to www.mylifetime.com and Project Runway's latest episode is not available. [I think it could be my computer since a lot of stuff is blocked on this CPU but I'm still blaming Lifetime.. :) ]

The picture for the latest episode shows all the contestants. It's no surprise that all the remaining contestants are white. Reality show history [well decent reality show history....

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If you look at VH1's line-up for shows such as Flavor of Love, Real Chance of Love, Ocho Cinco: Ultimate Catch, I Love New York, etc the casts are majority black. Yet, if you look at reality shows such as Apprentice, Big Brother, Project Runway, Design Star, etc the casts are majority white with always one black contestant...

At one time, I wanted to be on Big Brother [the 30 page application sort of turned me off...lol] and I know more than one Black person wants to be on those shows, yet only one is cast every season.

Just FOOD FOR THOUGHT!!
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....] shows that Blacks are rarely casted and among the first voted off so seeing the all white remaining contestants is quite the norm so I wasn't really bothered by it... It wasn't until I clicked on 'Shows' and noticed that there was not one black face on that page.. Then I decided to click on the Homepage. There was not one black face on the Homepage either.

Obviously, Black people exists in this world, so why are they hidden on TV??

Check out www.MTV.com, www.CBS.com, and www.NBC.com. My guess is you can count the number of Blacks you see on one hand.. And that's adding them up from all three sites..

America is quite pitiful..

New Love

So.. Not even a year ago, Jesse James was accused of cheating on his wife. During that time, he confessed his crime and his love but now he has a new flame..

WTH??

People are really starting to bother me.. How can you be married to someone for so many years, cheat, and then turn around and love someone else? For one thing, love is not controlled by a push button switch. You can't love one day and not the other. You also can't proclaim to be in deep love one day then have no problems jumping in bed with someone else the next day.

The way people throw love and marriage around is sickening. I guess I watch the soaps too much..

Young and the Restless is the worse. One day two people can be madly in love and the next they are in bed with someone else claiming to now love them. Celebrities and roles on TV make falling in love a joke.

I just wish that one day love could actually be showcased in a positive light without the criticism and ridicule.