Life

This is going to be a random post, just all over the place, lol.  I'm not really sure where it is going but I do know it has been a week or so since I posted, so I thought I better post something.  

I'm writing this on Saturday afternoon.  It is a beautiful sunny day with a high of 76 anticipated.  We are due for about 87 degrees midweek and I'm looking forward to it.  Seriously.  I really do enjoy the warmth over cold.

Everyone else is getting ready to spring forward with the time, but here in Arizona, as you guys are probably aware, we don't participate in it.  I don't miss it at all!  I just have to remember that we will now be the same time as our family in California.  In fall, when they fall backward, then we are an hour ahead of them. 

This sign greeted me at work on March 1st.  I ditched the mask immediately as did about 98% of the employees.  We still have to have our health screening daily where we stand in front of a machine and answer questions about our health and the machine takes our temperature.  I laugh because on cold days, walking in from the parking lot, sometimes the machine will say "your temperature is too low".  Got to step away from the machine for a moment and warm up and then it will give you a normal temperature.  Honestly, I don't think it is 100% accurate at all with the thermal forehead reading because I get a lot of temps of 95.6 or the like.  I think one time since I started there, in the summer, I got a 98.1 reading.  

It was amazing to see people's whole faces! To see men who had facial hair or young women who had nose piercings and the like.  Last Thursday, though, walking in I said "oh no, I forgot my mask" and then realized I didn't need it.  (Senior moment).

I got an unexpected settlement of a class action lawsuit I was part of.  My horrid former employer when I did medical transcription lost the class action lawsuit someone from California had filed for wages not being paid.  Actually I'm not really too sure what the lawsuit involved but they kept really good records and it was proven that they were not paid for what they should have been paid for like a 5 year period.  Because I had worked in California for 2 years of that 5 year span, I had gotten a notice about a year or so ago if I wanted to be part of the class action lawsuit.  I didn't expect anything to come of it since so many other people had tried to sue this company (they really were a horrid place to work at) that I just signed the papers and sent them back.  Imagine my surprise when a few months ago I got a letter that said the company had agreed to settle the lawsuit and I was told what my compensation would be.  It was more than a few pennies.  I got the check today.  We're going to have fun with it and be a bit frivolous with it.  I was just gleeful that they actually had to pay out a few million dollars and then had to pay the legal fees too.  So glad I don't work there any more!!! 

Winslow is shedding like crazy.  There is an old joke that says something to this effect.  "Corgis shed twice a year.  January to July and July to December".  And that's about the truth . They constantly shed but he does have a shedding season which we are in right now I do believe.  We call his fur "the gift that keeps on giving" as we shake out our clothes and the like of his fur.  Otherwise, he is as spunky as can be and energetic as can be and I guess I wouldn't have it any other way.

Work is slowing down a bit and I'm not sure what is going to be happening there.  For those who might not remember or those new to reading me, I am doing a temporary job for a major grocer (not Wal-Mart) processing their terminated employee paper files to be scanned to be saved in digital form.  We used to get several big boxes of files from all over the country daily where they have stores but it has been consistently slowing down since October.  Not sure why.  There are three of us who are doing the work but in reality two could do it.  We also open and process mail but again, three at this point is too many.  I'm the longest one there and we are all temps.  My supervisor is aware that things are slowing down as I have notified her of the volume of boxes we receive (she works from home and has not been in the office since August when the vaccine mandate came into play).  My original temp contract was for 6 months but was extended the first part of this year, but if work is not coming in, then of course I could be done.  I'm not sweating it.  If it ends, I'll find something else and can collect unemployment in the meantime.  I am dealing though with a coworker (one of the other temps on the same project) who I am not really fond of (the other temp is not fond of this person either).  This particular coworker is a bit of a bully to the other temp and controlling as well as being loud and obnoxious and rude at times.  So it might be a relief to be working some place else.  We'll see.  Having the supervisor not in the workplace to observe the situation makes it difficult to convey things to her without sounding petty.  It has been frustrating and at times I think I can't stand being around this person and I'll just look for something else even though I do like the job (super simple and not stressful except for the coworker).  So if it plays out that that there isn't enough work, it could be a good thing.  Again, I'm not sweating it.

And that is life today, March 12, 2022, in Phoenix Arizona.

How is life where you are at?