After Four Months

It's been a long time since my last blog, just to give you on what's happening in my life, actually I am expecting to be regularized from work this week but sad to say I'm not. I am extended for 2 weeks because I haven't met a time requirement which is only 10 seconds behind. After 4 months of expecting, I was extended. But it's okay at least I'm not thinking about it anymore.

I was supposed to have a permanent days off swap for our new schedule this quarter, exchanging my Thursday for a Wednesday so that I could have a consecutive offs which is on a Tuesday and a Wednesday so that I wouldn't have the sandwich type of offs, which the one who made the schedule sucks because anyone else in our team had the same sandwich days off. But on the first week of the exchange of offs, I thought I was supposed to sign something that I was agreeing to the swap and that was the company policy in filing one but I was shocked that on the day that I was to report for work I was texted that our swap was already approved. I was wondering because I didn't filed for it yet but then it was allegedly approved. So I let it pushed through even without my permission. After staying at home for my days off, I reported to work then I was again shocked because in our break schedule it was written that I was AWOL. Again, for the 3rd time. I was informed that our swap was only for the off and does not affect our shift sched which I have is 10am and my exchange mate on 8am so I reported to work at 10am, then I'll just see my work file as AWOL? I've worked hard not to absent myself because it is a requirement for our regularization, but thanks to my boss which he fixed that "AWOL thingy."

The week passed by and it is a Wednesday again, I was wondering if my exchange mate filed another swap since I was informed that even if we agreed our off would be permanent, it is advisable to file it weekly. Again, I didn't sign anything for it to be approved, nobody told me that a swap was approved or anything and I didn't get any text message saying that a swap was approved. So I reported to work today (Wednesday) hoping that it was just a normal day. I was at the office around 9am which is too early for my shift because I was expected to be reporting at 10am. There's no sign again that I was not supposed to work today. Then when the 10am arrived, my exchange mate was there and was walking towards my station. Our swap was allegedly approved according to her but I was not informed that I had one since I didn't sign anything, which I know was the proper procedure, so this morning I was messed up and upon learning that I have to go home because it was my off. My exchange mate assumed that because we agreed it to be a permanent swap, I was not part of any filing of it and I was not informed. I decided not to continue our permanent swap because of the so much hassle that is causing me. It's okay not to have a permanent swap since everyone in our team was swapping weekly, at least you can choose who to swap with and you have many options. At least now I'm not going to work for Christmas day and on the New Year. Thanks to that incident, I've learned another lesson...