August 19, 2011

• Today I go to the chiropractor again! I'm pretty excited. The cracking feels so good and I know I'm doing my body a favor. It turns out that chiropractic treatment is included with my extended benefits because I got an email this morning from the insurance company saying my claim has been processed and I'll get a payment within 2 days This is great! Not only am I paying less out of my pocket at the appointment due to my MSP premium, but I'm also getting it all back anyway. I only wonder if it's the same for the insurance company as it is for MSP in that whatever I claim for chiropractor comes out of the same pot as massage therapy, if that makes any sense. Basically with MSP I get 10 sessions of chiro, massage and something else (physio or something along those lines) per year at a lower rate. But I can mix and match, do 5 sessions of chiro and 5 of massage, but once those 10 are used up then I have to pay the regular fee no matter what type of treatment I get. I'm just glad I didn't have to pay the full $70 for the initial exam.

  Yesterday I was only supposed to work from 2 to 6:30, but once again we had a couple of people call in sick. So with some schedule adjusting I stayed and closed, which was great for me because I was supposed to start at 4 this morning, but got the day off instead. Woohoo! I didn't lose any hours, but rather reallocated those hours into the position I actually enjoy working. I was looking at my schedule online yesterday while at work and realized I was given more hours since I looked at it before it was officially posted. I thought I was only at 51 hours and I thought, Oh well I'm kind of limiting myself by only wanted to be on the desk and admin backup, so I guess that's no surprise. But nevermind! I got 65, which is fantastic considering how frugal head office is making our management be with payroll. There are a lot of people in my store that are struggling with only 10 or 16 hours per week. With 32.5 per week for me, I'm one happy bunny. What those people with very hours need to realize is that if they open their availability they would get more hours. There's this one guy in particular who annoys me with his complaining about the schedule. He's talked to our GM about he's only getting so many hours, but says he's not available on the weekends. Uh..hello? Everyone wants the weekend off, but everyone else in the store works them. If he would just make himself available for Saturdays at least he probably score an extra 4 hours per week. Now I don't know how he spends his weekends, but he's an older man in his 60's and I think he's just got a traditional way of thinking in terms of work in that you're just not supposed to work on the weekends! Not to mention he was a teacher so he never had to work weekends, but if you're struggling to pay your mortgage you do what is necessary to make ends meet, even if it's something simple like making yourself available for weekends. To me it just seems stubborn and even a bit snobby to refuse to work weekends. I just shake my head and think to myself, Good luck shooting yourself in the foot. I could easily cut my hours half my refusing to work weekends too, so I don't do it because it's plain stupid.

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