More Dearest Dolores
13/06/2005 09:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
izmeinaIzzie has been a busy little serpent since returning to her day job last week. Looks like Dearest Dolores has come up with yet more schemes to make life more fun for her happy little house elves. There's already a lot of badwill with the business of now having no cleaning or laundry staff at all on weekends.
But Izzie has been hearing rumours about a new 2-6pm shift – yesss – a pissy little four hours.
They've been shuffling around the kitchen elves and one who has been there for years and years has had her double shift on Saturdays shortened from 10 to 8 hours in total as well as losing 30 minutes each day on her other shifts. So she is now seriously considering leaving and going on the dole. She had told Dolores that she is already only getting by because she is living on her credit cards and cannot afford to lose any more hours. And what does Dolores say “Well. You had better learn to live within your means!” Maybe instead of Dolores, Marie Antoinette would be a more appropriate name. This repulsive bitch may only actually work 30 or so hours a fortnight but she damned well gets PAID for 80 (and spends the rest of the time smoking and snarking) – goes chopping everyone else's hours (but not her own) with a chainsaw and then gets all uppity when people get upset about it.
One of the cleaners who has worked Saturday to Wednesday for years and years, told Dolores that she is unable to work the Thursdays and Fridays required under the new Monday to Friday only cleaning regime. Dolores asked if she had another job. She doesn't. Apparently those are the days she sets aside for her grandchildren.
In spite of the fact that 90% of the staff are female and most of them are either mothers or grandmothers – that is of no interest at all to dearest Dolores. Her basic attitude is – well tough titties. If you don't like it, go somewhere else. Especially amazing how they think it is perfectly reasonable to expect you to neglect your own family in order to spend time looking after other peoples' relatives.
It is a far cry from the philosophy of getting what you want by giving people what they want – as far as possible and only then resorting to coercion. At another place the Izzie used to work, there was an 8.30-2pm shift which was highly coveted by all the mothers with school aged children. Needless to say, the performance and attendance rates of the staff on that particular shift were well above the norm because everyone who ever got their paws on it did their damndest to keep it.
And now they have got the axe on the care elf shifts too. There will be 24 new residents coming in before the end of the month in the new building that is finally ready after many many delays. They think that they can get away with adding one new shift of 2-6 in the afternoon and making the 4-9 shifts 3-8.30pm and the 4-10pm shifts 4.30-10. So basically a whole bunch of pissy 4, 5 or 5.5 hour shifts in the evenings.
They may as well go put with their job adverts “Single income households need not apply” because there are very few people living on their own who can get by on as little as 40 -55 hours a fortnight – especially in one of the lowest paying jobs around. As is, these cheapskates already pay one silver sickle less per hour than most other nursing homes.
But at the same time, if their main market now is house wives looking for part time work, those sorts of hours are not exactly family friendly if you have kids of school age unless you have a partner who is a baker or some other early starting job
The new shifts will be starting on Wednesday 22nd June. Izzie has put in a request to work a morning shift or have that particular day off as it happens to be not only a full moon but the solstice as well. That does not happen very often as is just the excuse we need for a moonshine picnic.
But a really funny thing happened today. The Izzie turns up for work at 7.30 to be greeted by the Laundry elf who asks if we got our book today. Izzie asks what book and she says that she heard we were going into town to the book shop for 7am to get the latest Potter. Most amused indeed. After several enquiries from various elves, Izzie finally puts two and two together. Last night was telling another girl that we had requested 16th July as a day off and would be going into town to get our copy at 7 or so in the morning. One of the other elves who happened to come into the room at the time says to the Izzie that that is most sad indeed. Turned out that she had missed the first bit of the conversation and assumed that we meant the next day – that is this Monday morning. She was also working this morning and must have been wondering how on earth the Izzie was going to make it back on time and had most likely said that we might be late turning up for that very reason.
She was even more shocked when Izzie explained today that we would be giving up a Saturday which pays time and a half just to get our paws on some silly book.
So, now the Izzie has well and truly established herself as the resident eccentric. But another elf came out of the broom cupboard to say that herself and her daughter are fans and would both be getting their copies the day it comes out. Was working with her Saturday night and had no idea at all.
But Izzie has been hearing rumours about a new 2-6pm shift – yesss – a pissy little four hours.
They've been shuffling around the kitchen elves and one who has been there for years and years has had her double shift on Saturdays shortened from 10 to 8 hours in total as well as losing 30 minutes each day on her other shifts. So she is now seriously considering leaving and going on the dole. She had told Dolores that she is already only getting by because she is living on her credit cards and cannot afford to lose any more hours. And what does Dolores say “Well. You had better learn to live within your means!” Maybe instead of Dolores, Marie Antoinette would be a more appropriate name. This repulsive bitch may only actually work 30 or so hours a fortnight but she damned well gets PAID for 80 (and spends the rest of the time smoking and snarking) – goes chopping everyone else's hours (but not her own) with a chainsaw and then gets all uppity when people get upset about it.
One of the cleaners who has worked Saturday to Wednesday for years and years, told Dolores that she is unable to work the Thursdays and Fridays required under the new Monday to Friday only cleaning regime. Dolores asked if she had another job. She doesn't. Apparently those are the days she sets aside for her grandchildren.
In spite of the fact that 90% of the staff are female and most of them are either mothers or grandmothers – that is of no interest at all to dearest Dolores. Her basic attitude is – well tough titties. If you don't like it, go somewhere else. Especially amazing how they think it is perfectly reasonable to expect you to neglect your own family in order to spend time looking after other peoples' relatives.
It is a far cry from the philosophy of getting what you want by giving people what they want – as far as possible and only then resorting to coercion. At another place the Izzie used to work, there was an 8.30-2pm shift which was highly coveted by all the mothers with school aged children. Needless to say, the performance and attendance rates of the staff on that particular shift were well above the norm because everyone who ever got their paws on it did their damndest to keep it.
And now they have got the axe on the care elf shifts too. There will be 24 new residents coming in before the end of the month in the new building that is finally ready after many many delays. They think that they can get away with adding one new shift of 2-6 in the afternoon and making the 4-9 shifts 3-8.30pm and the 4-10pm shifts 4.30-10. So basically a whole bunch of pissy 4, 5 or 5.5 hour shifts in the evenings.
They may as well go put with their job adverts “Single income households need not apply” because there are very few people living on their own who can get by on as little as 40 -55 hours a fortnight – especially in one of the lowest paying jobs around. As is, these cheapskates already pay one silver sickle less per hour than most other nursing homes.
But at the same time, if their main market now is house wives looking for part time work, those sorts of hours are not exactly family friendly if you have kids of school age unless you have a partner who is a baker or some other early starting job
The new shifts will be starting on Wednesday 22nd June. Izzie has put in a request to work a morning shift or have that particular day off as it happens to be not only a full moon but the solstice as well. That does not happen very often as is just the excuse we need for a moonshine picnic.
But a really funny thing happened today. The Izzie turns up for work at 7.30 to be greeted by the Laundry elf who asks if we got our book today. Izzie asks what book and she says that she heard we were going into town to the book shop for 7am to get the latest Potter. Most amused indeed. After several enquiries from various elves, Izzie finally puts two and two together. Last night was telling another girl that we had requested 16th July as a day off and would be going into town to get our copy at 7 or so in the morning. One of the other elves who happened to come into the room at the time says to the Izzie that that is most sad indeed. Turned out that she had missed the first bit of the conversation and assumed that we meant the next day – that is this Monday morning. She was also working this morning and must have been wondering how on earth the Izzie was going to make it back on time and had most likely said that we might be late turning up for that very reason.
She was even more shocked when Izzie explained today that we would be giving up a Saturday which pays time and a half just to get our paws on some silly book.
So, now the Izzie has well and truly established herself as the resident eccentric. But another elf came out of the broom cupboard to say that herself and her daughter are fans and would both be getting their copies the day it comes out. Was working with her Saturday night and had no idea at all.
