Well how to start. If I remember right I updated everyone on the whole job situation and how David is picking up hours with the custodial crew at night as their supervisor. Well the other day I was thinking about how much they hate it when we go overtime and realized that three weeks in a row he has gone over. This can not bode well. So we talked to his boss and it was decided that they would just bank the extra hours, giving them to him on weeks that he needs the hours but they don't need him. This seemed all well and good...a few days past and I began thinking about another problem (you know me...I have to find all of the bad so when its good I get extremely happy-I am the quintessential pessimistic-optimistic) we are only allowed to work 1500 hours per fiscal year. Out of curiosity I pulled up David's work history and started crunching numbers.
Drumroll Please..........
That is right people, if my wonderful work-a-holic-bring-home-the-bacon-to-support-my-wife-husband keeps working the hours he is now he will run out of hours as of May 13th, 2010. If not a bit sooner. Oh joy. Oh Bliss.....urg.
I quickly brought this to his and his supervisors attention, and honestly, I don't think they believed me. They quickly questioned the campus employment services people to find out that, yes, once again Kayde was correct! Shane the supervisor was not pleased. He does not want to loose David, the two of them are really starting to get along great and they have a nice groove going. David is freaking out as he loves his job and does not want to leave it (he just got Chef coats with his name on it for hecks sake) and he is desperate to make sure that he provides for me...male ego or something. I gotta admit I'm glad he feels this way. I have watched other marriages where the men are content to sit back and let her bring home the bacon, and in all honesty those men make me sick. Now call it a double standard, but I also feel that the women should not sit idly by and do nothing. As we have no children I see no reason that I can not work a bit and assist in building up a nest egg and helping our family progress until the time comes that we do have children. Another point in this argument is the fact that I know David will not be able to work as much as needed when he is attending school. He NEEDS to finish his schooling for himself and for us as it not only educates him and allows him to build upon prior learning, but it will also open doors when it comes to employment in the future.
There is the long and well the long of it, there really is no short. When presenting the problem before our boss yesterday we were basically told that David will have to cut his hours (almost in half) so he can make it until July. After that point he will only be able to work thirty hours per week at most. David's argument was to just give him the full time status, benefits, and leave the pay as is, the problem with this is we have to get approval from the Vice-President before anything can happen and that is neigh on impossible, and will take quite a while. So as we shuffle along...hoping to get ahead, we once again find that one step forward is indeed three steps back, and we have our answer, we will definitely be waiting a year or so before actually thinking about getting pregnant. Oh joy.
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