[Sundae]

Nirvana, I've had countless petty problems with shift rotas, overtime payments and even claiming prizes in my job. At one point Mum even suggested I looked for a better run place to work, and she's very rarely on my side.

My most recent gripes; coming back from booked and sanctioned holiday to find my first shift had been changed. No-one contacted me, no-one told me. A hour before I finished work a colleague queried why I started three hours later than I was supposed to. Huh.

Then I found out exactly how much holiday pay I've lost.
I knew I'd lose some, because I was more interested in being at work with the potential for overtime than I was sitting at home listening to the rows. Bu I was never told I was actually accruing time for every Bank Holiday I worked (these are always on a Monday so I always work them) and for Christmas working. Great communication there chaps. Altogether I've kissed off about two weeks of leave.

And then. And then.
My shifts have changed again.
Because now I'm covering bakery for two days a week.
That I can deal with. It's just I found out that the reasons for this and my previous change in working hours.
I started on morning shifts, was switched to afternoons because of a male colleague.
Got shifted and shafted into the unpopular close-down slot because another colleague couldn't get picked up by her parents that late and am now on the earliest of early shifts because previously mentioned male colleague has moved further away from work and can't leave home as early as I can.

I'm flexible and I like to think I'm quite reasonable. What I doon't like is being bottom of the needs list, when in fact I do have a valid case for keeping my shifts the same week in and week out.

Anyway. What I actually meant to say was that despite all this, I do enjoy my job and I have learned to let other people's mistakes wash over me, mostly. I've just learned to keep a very close eye out.