Here we go again with husband not going to work!

[Mapper71]

So husband worked OT last weekend. 6 hours on Saturday for time and a half and 7 hours on Sunday for double time. That amounted to 23 hours extra that was going on his paycheck. Great! However, then he took both Monday and Tuesday off for what I am assuming he felt he deserved for his weekend that he never got. Well there goes 16 hours of the extra 23 you were supposed to have which left him with 7 extra hours on his paycheck. Then I get home last night and he tells me all about the crappy day he had. He tells me his manager has been on a rampage lately with everyone and he was going off on H all day yesterday. I then say to him "But you said he was being that way with everyone, right?" to which he replies "Well no mainly just me". So once again you are having issues with a manager or co worker. It's NEVER NEVER EVER his fault when this happens. It's always someone else going off the deep end over nothing. Said this guy kept following him around and then told him to go up to a certain area and work and he did but then he had to go to another area for a few minutes and the guy couldn't find him and went off on him about that. Then the manager caught him sitting at the computer when he should have been working and H tells him that he was just logging into this specific job he was working on. Manager goes "You've been up here for 30 minutes and you are just NOW logging onto it" Husband goes "I just forgot to do it earlier" Manager then goes "How OLD are you??!!" That sets H off and he starts asking the manager if he ever forgets anything and the manager apparently said "All the time" and then H goes "Well how old are you?!" Then they go and talk to the manager's manager who just basically sees the whole thing as childish and nothing gets resolved.

 

So I just KNEW that after the crappy day he had that he wouldn't be going in today. Oh he made it out like he was going in. Got his motorcycle and gear all ready to go last night so he could just get up and put it on and go. Oh and he told me on Wed. that he was going to work this weekend, which he was happy about to make money, but if you don't work on Friday's then they don't allow you to work OT on the weekends. So the alarm goes off at 3:15 this morning and goes off every 10 minutes after that until 4 AM. He is supposed to be in at 5AM. At 4 he resets his alarm for 5:30 and texts his manager giving him some excuse as to why he's going to be late. Gee you don't think your manager sees right through that after the blowout you just had with him? I tell him flat out that he's not going in so why is he setting the alarm. He goes "Shhhhh" because he doesn't want to give me a truthful answer. I go to him again "I KNOW you aren't going in" and he goes "I am riding my motorcycle so parking won't be a problem and I can go in late. Plus if I don't work today I can't work this weekend". I go "Yeah I know, you did the same thing last month and couldn't work that weekend either which led to you taking 2 weeks off". He gets all huffy at m. Anyways, the alarm goes off again at 5:30 and I get up and he resets it for 6:30AM. I leave the house at 6:45 and he is still in bed and has apparently reset the alarm yet again.

 

There's no way he would be into work before 8AM if he did go in and why would he go in at that point? I agree with his manager...how old ARE you? If somebody at work pisses you off you think you have every right to just take the next few days or weeks off to "show them what's up". He acts like a child. I have known him for 10 years and in that period he has worked at 4 different places. Each one there were managers and coworkers he had blowouts with and they were NEVER his fault. His current job he's been at for 6 years but he has been on all 3 shifts and in many different parts of the factory trying to find a place he's happy but each area there's always at least one person who he just can't get along with. Does he not see that HE is most likely the problem in these situations? He just thinks they always single him out for one reason or another. He fought tooth and nail to get a desk job and they actually chose him out of a pool of candidates. After 6 months he couldn't handle it or was bored and wanted out of the job but he said no one would listen to him. So what was his solution? He didn't go into work for almost a full month as he said that was the only way to get the point across to them that he wanted out! Who does that? Or who does that and still has a job to come back to? He takes off what I would say amounts to at least 1 week a month without pay. He doesn't/won't get fired for it either because he's in a union job and you can get away with anything there as long as you have some kind of backup. His backup is his ongoing back problem that magically always seems to flare up whenever he's having issues with someone at work.

 

So if he doesn't go in today he will be minus 1 hour on this paycheck when he should have been +23 hours. He still thinks he's making huge bucks because he's working OT but then he negates all that work by pulling this crap! He has been getting raises every year but according to his W2 his annual pay has gone down every year because each year he takes more and more days off. The first year I moved out here he had over $50,000 for the year. Now he barely cracks $40,000.

[Mr. Lucky]

I've known people like that. They are usually the workers that everyone talks about

Actually, they're usually the ex-workers everyone talks about. In this economy, they're the first to go...

 

Mr. Lucky

[Mapper71]

Yes, USUALLY those are the first to be let go, but he has been pulling this crap for 5 years and doesn't get fired because he's in a union and he can always pull the old "my back injury is acting up" and get the doctor to sign off on his days/weeks out. The guy has probably missed 2-3 months of work without pay each year! Not cool! And his W2's at the end of each year show that. 5 years ago he was making about $50,000/year. Ever since then his amounts have been getting lower to the point where now he's around $40,000/year even when he is making about $10 more an hour than he was 5 years ago! We almost didn't get the loan to our house because the loan officer questioned why his pay was going down even though he is making more money!

 

However, he DID surprise me on Friday and apparently did go into work late rather than stay home. Actually doing what he said he was going to do for a change! Then he worked a 12 hour day on Saturday for time and a half. He was also supposed to work the same 12 hour shift on Sunday for double time but was going to go in late after he watched a live motorcycle race that was on at 5AM but at 5:30 after getting dressed, making his lunch and putting his shoes on he decided he was going to stay home. Any other day that would have pissed me off but I agree that he needed a day off after working all week and working a 12 hour shift on Saturday. But he has a lot of money to make up for for all the other days/weeks he's taken off without pay so...not sure how to feel.