I have decided to buy a clear vinyl tablecloth to put over the top of the dining room table.  I love the look of the wood, but I want to protect it from the water rings that my family is sure to cause from their careless use.  I can’t understand why they don’t care whether the table looks nice or not.  I don’t know, maybe I should just buy a large piece of tempered put on top of the table to protect it.  Okay, I’m a neat freak, I admit it.  But the dining room set was hand made by my husband’s grandfather and I want to protect it from harm!

Almost everyone there skips their breaks, and they get mad at me when I ask permission to take my break.  I’m entitled to my breaks and I need them!

The redeeming part of this job is that when I DO take breaks in the employee break room I sit with other employees from other departments and have a lot of nice visits.  I enjoy those people a lot!

I’ve been doing some research as to how much money Pharmacy Techs make and to be honest it was not as much as I thought it was when I signed up for the class.  I’m not sure if I would have signed up for the class if I’d realized how little they actually get paid.  It seems to be for a job to require certification and continuing education that companies would pay decent money!  But it seems that in this area where I live getting paid decent money is a pipe dream, which is why most people commute an hour or more to go to work.  And I don’t want to drive that far to go to work, so I have to just swallow my pride and take a lower paying job.

Oh well, I need the money and the job is close to home.  With the price of gas going up as much as it has, and as much as it is going to be going up, I’ll be the lucky one bringing home more money at the end of the week once the costs of commuting are figured into the picture!

Well, none of the kids are getting suspended, all they are getting is a little “pep talk” with the school vice principal, and the behavior doesn’t change.  So I write them up again.  They get another “pep talk.”  Apparently this school won’t suspend a kid unless he shoots or stabs someone!  It has become quite clear that I am totally wasting my time writing up referrals!  I will be SO GLAD when the school year is over.  I hope that next fall when the school year starts again I will have a better job doing something else and won’t have to work driving a school bus!

I have had to write up an average of three discipline referrals every day for the past week!  It is getting so very tiring having to deal with these little monkeys.  Last Friday, after reminding everyone to sit down and remain seated, one of the older girls decided to climb over one of the seats.  It was caught on video tape, so she was written up.  I don’t know what they are going to do to her today at school as a disciplinary action, but it would not break my heart to have her kicked off the bus.

I don’t really understand WHY she rides the bus to begin with, she lives across the street and half a block down from the school!  I think it is a sad commentary on how threatened people are that someone is going to abduct their child that they ride the school bus less than one block to school!  I also think it is a sad commentary that a kid can’t sit still and stay out of trouble for half a block!