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The Life of an Intern

October 25 2005

Well, here I sit again on another Tuesday here at the office of RLM Mission Management.  So far, I have ran a few errands and that about sums it up. Not too much is going on in life other than work, which I complain enough about here.  So just to give the benefit of the doubt, I decided to give a positive point of Wal-Mart...note, this took some time to think up and execute, but it worked. 


I will start by giving the moral of the story: "When the system continually screws you, it will eventually screw itself."


Let's think way back to May of this year...ok, now that we have gone back 5 months, this is the time they decided that I would better serve the company in dairy. Now, at that time, I was a level 4 employee moving to a level 3 position (in turn = pay cut).  Well, they promised me no pay cut, which was fine until 2 months into the deal, when they told me they "had" to change my job code because I did not work 50% of my hours up front at the service desk anymore. I of course said no to a pay cut.  Well, this went on for a few weeks, when it was discoved that my pay class had changed, but the pay cut never went into effect.  This is where I started thinking, if the pay grade changed and didn't cut, could I go up in pay class and get the raise? (Note: this is $0.20 we are talking about which is $8/week, so I'm not breaking the company). So after another month of negotiations and talks of moving back up front because being one of the fastest cashiers (no ego here, just fact, if you want proof, the company average for items per hour is roughly 400-450, I typically end an 8 hour day between 750-900 items per hour) would definately serve the company better during Christmas with our short staff.  Well to conclude this never ending story, they moved me up front, and I signed off on the changes, and lo and behold, Daniel finally got a raise and is closer to making what he thinks he deserves.


In other news...no that's it... time to go to school...thank you my 5 loyal readers more to come, and maybe next time I will have a humorous ancedote (hopefully that is the right word) to share ...