We always wished for money....
Now Playing: Change by John Waite

What does it say about the nature of business today that I am going to get written up at work when I go back on Sunday- probably Monday really, my boss is on vacation. All because I can't talk. I developed a cold over the past week & it has a sore throat with it, I gargled with salt water & drank enough water to float away but the sore throat stayed (along with a stuffy nose & a cough which won't quit.) I went to work yesterday with the hope that with enough water & enough cough drops I could get through the day, about 2 hours into my 11 hour day it was obvious it wasn't working. I was coughing about every 10 words I spoke & I talk for a living, I tell people how to fix their satellite programing over the phone & I had to mute the phone constantly to cough, my co-workers were annoyed with me, a) because my coughing was coming through over their phones & b) because I'm sure they were worried about getting what ever I have. I had to log out (meaning I'm not being paid) about every half hour in order to go to the bathroom because all the water I was drinking was going right through me. I'm sure if my boss had been there he'd have been bitching at me or if he was in a good mood he'd have tried to get permission to send me home. As it was I thought, at about the half way point in my day that I should go home, when I went to talk to annother supervisor who I know pretty well as he was my supervisor for about a year & a half, he told me that my holiday pay for memorial day would be lost if I left early beacause yesterday was my next scheduled day to work after the holiday. I can stand to lose 5 or 6 hours of pay but not 15 or 16, (they just started paying us for the full amount of our holiday pay, I've worked 4 10 hour days for 3 out of 5 years at my job & we've always gotten 8 hours of holiday pay, this last year at christmas they changed it to 10 hours of holiday pay for those of us who work 10 hour days)So I stuck it out, to my co-workers dismay. Today I called in at 730, I breifly considered trying to go in but I could barely croak to leave a message that I wasn't coming in so I left it at that. I'll get written up when my boss gets back from vacation & I don't really care at this point, I realize we were really busy last night but I can't belive that they really think my being there contaminating everyone else & croaking at customers who keep asking me to speak up or worse yet ask me why I'm there at all when I sound as bad as I do. my calls per hour was way down, I usually take about 60 to 65 calls a day I barely topped 40 calls yesterday because of all my bathroom breaks & having to stop to cough every few words I spoke.
I was irritated enough last night that I went looking for a manager to voice my annoyance to (mostly so they could hear my voice for themselves & realize how that sounds on the phone) but I couldn't find one, they were all in a meeting or gone for the evening. Funny, on my way to training, (after 10 hours on the phone we had an hour of overtime for training) I saw a bunch of managers at once, just standing around talking, on my way back out of training when I could have spoken to one there wasn't any to be found. I think they're fitted with devices which sense when someone wants to talk to them so they can go hide.