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I’m back from Chicago.

I’m tired of the ‘next month will be better’ cycle I’ve been seemingly stuck in for the entirety of my time while employed at my current job. I get paid once a month, on the last day of the month, which is odd all by itself. In addition to the oddity of the once monthly check, add some financial damage from last October’s truck repair/replacement fiasco and a seemingly never ending list of shit that needs to be replaced, repaired, restored, birthdays, and $3.50 per gallon of gas and I’m already broke for the months of May and most of June.

Note the date this is being written, April 30th and I’m already broke for the entire month of May and what looks like June too. It’s like being on a financial treadmill, you get behind just a little bit and can’t ever get off of it. If the state would pay me the overtime it owes me in a timely manner I could get on off the treadmill, or at least slow it down drastically. But, that doesn’t appear to be in the cards.

Right off the bat, my job isn’t supposed to get overtime as a paid commodity. It’s supposed to convert into time off at a rate of 1.5x. So, I work for four hours and I can take six hours off at some point in the future. God only knows why everyone is so dead set against paying motherfuckers for their hard work but they are. Every week to two I hear some kind of comment from a supervisor, manager or someone about overtime. The only way it’s possible to get consistent overtime is to build up your own personal bank of overtime to 480 hours without management noticing. After that you can get paid as long as you stay under the radar and again only for as long as management stays out of your hair.

So I finally built my bank up to 480, that took alot of fucking time and work and I’ve been there since January. I’ve only gotten one overtime check since January. They owe me 3 months of overtime. Who would have thought that any entity could be less efficient than the federal government.

One of these days I’ll get off the treadmill, and maybe even write about Chicago while I’m at it.