It was quiet yesterday at work. My boss hadn’t said a thing, and nobody came to clean up the mouse poo either. I’m assuming this means the men upstairs haven’t spoken to my boss yet about anything. Guess they don’t want show they can be bossed around by a lowly civilian, so they’re dragging their heels. Oh well, if the mice continue to use our area as their own personal restrooms for another few days, and upstairs still doesn’t do anything about it, I may have to call OSHA. If it comes to that, I can probably expect some real fireworks then.

Like a good possible-future-but-not-likely attorney, I realized if I was going to make a solid case for discrimination, I needed to give my boss and upstairs enough rope for which they could hang themselves. As of now nothing really happened that was actionable. One of the elements needed to make a successful cause of action is show that there had been harm. So I asked myself, “Where’s the harm here?” The only thing I received thus far was an idle threat, but my hours hadn’t been changed, I hadn’t lost any pay, and I hadn’t been disciplined. So rather than be a good boy and inform these lovely folks what rights I’m entitled to under the ADA, I think it’s best to stay quiet and see just how far they’ll take their threats.

I also realized with some sadness that as long as there would be this much turmoil in our division, I’d never be able to attend law school. All the added stress would make me flunk out my first semester for sure. I needed some stability at my job before I could take such a risk, and with them jerking me around about changing my schedule and creating other needless chaos, who’s to say that even if they agreed to a schedule change, that they wouldn’t pull the rug right out from under me the minute I started school?

Oh well. It ain’t over till it’s over. For now I just have to keep rolling with the punches.

I think I might hate my new boss.

A storm front brought in a hail of ice here, so a lot of people were able to go home early…. except for me of course.

Which wouldn’t have been so bad if it hadn’t turned out that due to some recent policy changes, no work would be coming in for me tonight. So now I’m left here to twiddle my thumbs for 3 hours until my shift finally and mercifully ends, and then I get to drive home 15 miles in the dark on what now has to be one very long sheet of ice because the snow plows haven’t quite gotten to salting and sanding it yet.

The phone rings, and I pick up. It’s the boss. Hey, he remembered me! Maybe he’s calling to tell me I can leave early since there’ll be no more work. Maybe I misjudged him after….

“Linc, can you see if there’s a pink slip of paper on my desk?”

“Oh…yeah, sure, hold on….”

I go to look. There’s a slip with a number on it.

“Yeah I see it….”

“What’s the number?”

I give it to him.

“Thanks.”

“You’re welcome! So I guess I’ll see you on Mon….”

*click*

………………..yep, I think I hate my new boss.