lakeeffectgirl | (no subject)

Ugh, I am so tired of being at work and training new people. We had a good crew for the fall but then most of them graduated or resigned all at the same time, and the replacements we hired just didn't work out for various reasons (one had to leave school for family reasons, one decided the job was too stressful for them, and the other was not good at it so we had to officially pull her off dispatch and send her back to being a parking enforcement person). So we were down to one student who can work somewhat regularly, and one student who has an internship and can only do two or three shifts a month, which meant there has been some sort of overtime up for grabs on and off since like March. Usually on thirds, which our third shift guy would grab. (I don't voluntarily pick up thirds.)

Then the third shift guy put in for retirement. Which added another five shifts a week that we needed to fill! Thankfully one of the officers is having another baby - so since she couldn't work the road, she could work the desk! For a few months. Which are over in a week.

Of course, we weren't allowed to hire out the position until Third Shift retired, which meant he couldn't train his replacement. So I'm currently training his replacement, along with another student we managed to hire, at the same fucking time. I need a vacation IMMEDIATELY but there is no end in sight for at least all of September. We did have some more applicants for the student job, so if they work out and we can get them through training as well, there will at least be enough students to fully cover weekends and then I'm going to pull the seniority card and take like three straight weeks off in December (which is what the old third shift guy used to do).

At least I can get all my credit cards paid off with all this overtime, I guess. And the two new people seem great and I'm enjoying training them, I just need to not be at work ALL the time.

New covid/flu vax scheduled for tomorrow - at least if I feel crappy from it, Sunday is my day off! Also I think I might order Chinese food for pickup post-vax and get several meals out of it... this sounds like a plan.