Feeling Thankful

Saturday.  A day to complete your weekend chores.  When you're a home owner, sometimes there seems to be no end to the chores that need to be done!   It was my turn for that this weekend.

I sprung a leak under the kitchen sink, so I called my son.  Today was his day off, so I told him I'd cook a meal for the family if I could "borrow" him for a few hours.  Picked him up mid morning, and it didn't take him long to fix the leak.  Thank goodness it was minor!  But then he decided it would be a good day to tackle painting the patio cover.  Personally, I think he just wanted to play with the new paint sprayer!  For most men, it's all about the toys, right???  lol


So yeah, we got that tackled as well.  To be honest, I might have taken two Saturdays to paint it by hand, the first for the brush work, the second to roll the paint on.  But he had the actual spraying done in an hour.  Thank goodness for all the prep work spreading plastics all over!  Because that stuff has a wicked overspray!


In the meantime, I cooked up a batch of stew, sent home 12 cups of stew and left 2 cups for my own dinner.  When I cook .....  lol   It's difficult to break old habits.  I cooked for a family of 8 of us for many years --- I still can't reduce the ingredients in stew, spaghetti and soups.   But that's ok, I eat well when I cook!


I'm so thankful for my son who's willing to spare a bit of his free time to help his mom out!!  Of course, tomorrow means I'll be putting everything back that I moved when we started on this day's projects.  Plus getting groceries, doing laundry, and maybe washing the car if the rain lets up.

... Or am I just lucky???

Life sure has been busy lately.  With some key people missing at work, I've had to do a lot of filling in.  Which means I'm not taking my Plexus as regular as I should, and can't when my "post" is on the other end of the building from the bathroom, and I can't just walk away when I feel the need because I'm helping vendors ..... yeah, not a good combination. 

Over the weekend, I got back on track with my Pink Drink, and taking the BioCleanse and even the ProBiotic.  Along with that, I was able to take some time to sit in my lawn chair and soak up some sun while catching up on some reading!   Yes, I had other things that needed doing, but taking care of me is being put closer to the top of the list these days.

And so the week goes on, business as usual at my BigBox Store.  Until today.  They pulled Elvis into the office for a talk.  Because he's at the limit of coachings, his next one would be termination.  So management gave in - yet again! - and let him off with a warning.  As usual, when being pinned down, this narcissistic sociopath started pointing all kinds of fingers, especially at me -- that I'm not friendly toward him.  Last time I checked "the rules", I have to be respectful, not friendly. 

Management pulled me in for a quick convo as well, told me to "suck it up, buttercup" and put on a poker face, smile and be friendly.  Uh, sorry, not this girl.  I've had it up to HERE with Elvis and his shenanigans for six long years, and if that's the way it's going to be, then it's time for me to do what I gotta do that's best for me.   When I mentioned the particulars about having little respect for someone who doesn't respect the rules, and steals time on a daily basis -- they made it sound like this is the first they're hearing about it.  But I said I would be glad to forward my emails concerning this matter to them as soon as our meeting is done.  *smh*   Does anyone else who works in the retail industry have to deal with this kind of thing on a daily basis?????  Or am I just "lucky" ???




Ok.  this one describes it to a Tee.  An over-inflated ego (that's him) and I'm the supervisor who's doing the correcting and disagreeing (related to job performance) and to him, I'm disrespecting him.   Well, that makes me feel a little bit better, but does nothing to help with the work situation that I'm in.  It's easy to see that no matter what I do, there's no way to show him as much respect as he is thinking he deserves. 

After a little more research, I found a bit of evidence that bosses have a hard time spotting the narcissism because they don't work in a direct line with these individuals.  Everything else points how to deal with a narcissistic boss .... I don't know, just trying to reach out and find some answers.  And not finding much.

The most obvious answer is finding another position within the company, preferably at another location.  But the position I currently hold is specialized, and doesn't become available often.  So it would mean stepping down a level, taking a pay cut. 

And why should I let this bully push me out of a job I enjoy doing, and am very good at??

My thoughts will be churning for the next few days .....