Butter
03-01-2007, 12:45 PM
So, I'm on my way to work and I get a flat. Not a huge deal. I was only about 4 miles from the office (I commute about 43 miles each way every day)... which sucks. I pull off the Interstate, and proceed to get the jack out... then I realize, this is a new jack, and it does not have a lugnut wrench. I have inadvertently discarded my old lugnut wrench.
So, I call a friend from work, and he agrees to come. Traffic's heavy, so it takes him nearly a half hour. He shows up, we get the lugnuts off. Tire won't budge. I have not seen this before... this car has had flats before, but I've never been unable to remove the tire. The thing just will not budge. We try pulling and hitting it as much as possible. No dice.
The Sheriff's dept. shows up, and he tries to hit it and pull it. Luckily, I have AAA, so after another 15 minutes or so, the Sheriff calls AAA for me, and I tell him I'll be fine, and tell my friend to head back to the office, I'd be fine waiting on the tow truck. The tow truck comes... HE tries to pull the tire off for 10 minutes. It doesn't work. The car gets loaded on the back of the wrecker, and we make for a close-by service station. Of course, it is raining off and on this whole time, but fortunately I did bring my waterproof jacket.
We get to the service station, they unload the car and get it into a garage bay. I go in, they recommend I replace the other rear tire as well (which is fine, my tires WERE getting iffy). Then they also want to give me an alignment, balance my tires, replace my belts... to the tune of something like $300. I tell the guy just put my spare on, I'll go somewhere else. He decides to give me just the 2 tires for $100, plus like $20 for the balancing, plus some incidentals for "tire disposal" and whatnot. So, I avoid getting totally screwed.
Then I get to work (2 1/2 hours late). I open up my e-mail, and there is an e-mail from my CFO. Turns out, the raise I thought I was getting to go along with my promotion is not as great as I thought. 3 weeks ago when the CFO first approached me, he told me I would be getting a 10% raise, and would get paid regular time for any hours worked over 40. Fine, not a huge raise, but good enough. Yesterday, he comes into my office and like we'd never talked before, actually cuts my raise by $500 a year (not a big deal) and leaves it at that.
When I get a confirmation e-mail from HR, I ask about keeping track of hours over 40. Then, the CFO e-mails me and says "oh, you'll be salary now, so you don't get paid for any hours over 40." I e-mail him and tell him we need to talk about this, because I don't want to do it over e-mail. He tells me "you need to think about whether this is going to affect you taking the position". WTF? What am I supposed to do with this? I can make about as much as the raise will be giving me just by working another 4-5 hours of OT every 2 weeks (which I do at times). I understand that salary is salary, but if that were the case, he shouldn't have told me 3 weeks ago that I would be getting paid for any hours over 40, and that once I got a few raises, THEN I could expect to not be paid for any time over 40 hours any more. I guess there's not much I can do about this if he doesn't remember that conversation. :mad:
Then I finish 4th in the Music Draft. Crap!
So, I call a friend from work, and he agrees to come. Traffic's heavy, so it takes him nearly a half hour. He shows up, we get the lugnuts off. Tire won't budge. I have not seen this before... this car has had flats before, but I've never been unable to remove the tire. The thing just will not budge. We try pulling and hitting it as much as possible. No dice.
The Sheriff's dept. shows up, and he tries to hit it and pull it. Luckily, I have AAA, so after another 15 minutes or so, the Sheriff calls AAA for me, and I tell him I'll be fine, and tell my friend to head back to the office, I'd be fine waiting on the tow truck. The tow truck comes... HE tries to pull the tire off for 10 minutes. It doesn't work. The car gets loaded on the back of the wrecker, and we make for a close-by service station. Of course, it is raining off and on this whole time, but fortunately I did bring my waterproof jacket.
We get to the service station, they unload the car and get it into a garage bay. I go in, they recommend I replace the other rear tire as well (which is fine, my tires WERE getting iffy). Then they also want to give me an alignment, balance my tires, replace my belts... to the tune of something like $300. I tell the guy just put my spare on, I'll go somewhere else. He decides to give me just the 2 tires for $100, plus like $20 for the balancing, plus some incidentals for "tire disposal" and whatnot. So, I avoid getting totally screwed.
Then I get to work (2 1/2 hours late). I open up my e-mail, and there is an e-mail from my CFO. Turns out, the raise I thought I was getting to go along with my promotion is not as great as I thought. 3 weeks ago when the CFO first approached me, he told me I would be getting a 10% raise, and would get paid regular time for any hours worked over 40. Fine, not a huge raise, but good enough. Yesterday, he comes into my office and like we'd never talked before, actually cuts my raise by $500 a year (not a big deal) and leaves it at that.
When I get a confirmation e-mail from HR, I ask about keeping track of hours over 40. Then, the CFO e-mails me and says "oh, you'll be salary now, so you don't get paid for any hours over 40." I e-mail him and tell him we need to talk about this, because I don't want to do it over e-mail. He tells me "you need to think about whether this is going to affect you taking the position". WTF? What am I supposed to do with this? I can make about as much as the raise will be giving me just by working another 4-5 hours of OT every 2 weeks (which I do at times). I understand that salary is salary, but if that were the case, he shouldn't have told me 3 weeks ago that I would be getting paid for any hours over 40, and that once I got a few raises, THEN I could expect to not be paid for any time over 40 hours any more. I guess there's not much I can do about this if he doesn't remember that conversation. :mad:
Then I finish 4th in the Music Draft. Crap!