Sorry I have not updated lately... more viruses to contain on the computer; plus work has been excruciating torture to me this past week. Allow me to elaborate.
You can take the blog entry I made about afternoon shift being tolerable and can it. Now I realize what a mistake it was for me to allow management to shift me there for a month (and now possibly longer). Thursday's events about the British terrorism turned the airport upside down.
Due to security prohibiting us from using the normal entry door to enter my department, we had to go out of our way - through security checkpoint & down through the concourse - to enter the department, which took five minutes one way. With me running the room, this would become impossible.
My department is also becoming the destination for the walking wounded. People that are not yet cleared to return to full duty are being dumped on us, with their restrictions still intact. Shifted outside on Friday, we were expecting the worst: that only one of the three people remaining in there could handle the grunt work. One can only drive the bags out, the other can only count the number of bags on a cart. This left one person to take care of the "second bank", meaning four flights totalling 800 bags. This abuse should not be accepted or tolerated by anyone.
When I had injured my back in 2002, they would not let me return to work until I was off restriction. Even if I was 90% cleared, with a weight restriction still in effect, management told me to cool it at home until the restriction was gone. Now, due to their needing warm bodies, people with an abdominal injury and alleged knee surgery are in charge, putting additional pressure & injury risk on the people already working hard.
Where's the fairness in that? I know these people need money, but at the risk of revolt & injury by those that are not injured yet? One co-worker just had surgery to rebreak her foot and insert a metal plate near the bone. Does this mean she will be called back before her anticipated October 3rd return? There's risk on both sides if you examine it more closely.
It's putting the same stress on me that caused me to miss five months last year. As a result, I had to renege on a deal that would have me work today (an off day). The rule states 24 hours' notice must be given to cancel a "trade". I gave the supervisor on-duty 36 hours' notice and it was accepted. Now I hear through a third party that it was denied. I have never trusted that third party fully, so I chose not to go in today.
I played by the book and it was all done legally. Why do things have to back-door back at me & cause more stress and strain?
Day shift could not come at a better time.
