*Unintelligible grunts*

[pen_grunt]

It's been a bad day week month year so far, as far as work goes.

But today, ahh, today I:

--Got in a fight with my boss (again)
--Called my other boss smarmy (again)
--Missed an important meeting by going to the bathroom
--Chipped my tooth (My teeth are strange, though they've never had cavities, they're "hollow" at the tips and so they each leave double bite marks. As you can imagine, this makes them chip more easily as each layer is respectively much thinner.) It's sharp and funny feeling, but not painful. I haven't been to the dentist in about 2 years, so I'm overdue--but I don't have a dentist that I'm familiar with anymore (I hate "finding" new doctors/dentists...another reason why I hate that my company is changing medical insurance people)
--Am going to be late to happy hour for company X because of company Y (again).


I work for two companies--owned by the same person. Company X pays me a salary. Company Y...well, roughly they pay me as a freelancer, even though I attend regular meetings without an hourly charge...and they sometimes "can't pay me" back for my work for up to 6 months at a time. The thing about having two jobs in the same office space, owned by the same owner, is that I tend to have to miss out on all the "fun stuff" for either company in order to make up or do work for the other company. An example of this would be last Christmas. I asked for a few days after Christmas off. My boss told me that I was welcomed to take the days off from company X, but I'd still have to come in and do work for company Y. So really, I'd just be wasting my vacation time. We do birthday lunches for everyone at company X (neat, right?). More often then not, I have to miss the birthday lunches because I have a meeting for company Y. I had to leave halfway through my own birthday lunch to get on a conference call for company Y.

Now it's not that I don't realize that I'm being paid for my work either way, I just wish I had the same type of reward as everyone else instead of just having to work through any incentive breaks. After a while it just wears a person down flopping mindsets and jobs by the daily, hourly or minutely (ha! not a word!) basis. This also means that I'm not always able to sit in on the less-tangible "brainstorming" or creative sessions--meaning that I'm expected to come in halfway through a job and write a script without knowing any back story or situation.

I've also had to do thinks like work a 14 hour show for company Y, then go back to my hotel room and work an "8 hour" day for company X. I don't completely dislike this. I like the job variety, and different aspects of each company. It's just very...tiring sometimes.

Comments

[llythefaerye.livejournal.com]

You should seriously have dum*ss read this . . . this is about as concisely as I've ever seen you describe (these parts) of the whole situation . . .

I'm tellin' you - you need a new job, even if it's the same job but actually backed down to humanitarian standards . . . You're gonna burn yourself out. Again. And again.

[sarcasma.livejournal.com]

My boss told me that I was welcomed to take the days off from company X, but I'd still have to come in and do work for company Y.

*gag*

[liquid-siftings.livejournal.com]

I don't know MN state law, but this is probably technically illegal on some level without paying you OT.