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Family and work


To give a little back ground first... I am the middle 5 children, ranging in age from 32 - 21. I have an older brother and sister and 2 younger sister's. My family is a single income, as something has always kept my mom from working (that would be my older brother showing up at her job or constantly calling her). That being said in my house there are a total of 8 people my niece included and she's 2.

 

I work 40 hours week, commute 2 hours round trip to work with out traffic and its a 56 miles one way. I deal with crazy people on a daily basis at home and at work.

 

When I get home my siblings expect either my mom or myself to cook them dinner. It wouldn't be so bad but they are home 24/7 as a majority of them don't work. Only my dad, younger sister and I work full time jobs. My mom watches my niece and has to balance house work too. My younger sister (mother of my niece) doesn't know how to take care of her. Let's just say my niece wears the pants in their relationship. 3 of my siblings have asperger's and don't get out much and can't seem to hold a job at all.

 

While everyone is capable of cooking; they won't because sometimes you have to make several different things as some people don't like certain foods. You could be making 4 or 5 different food and don't forget the side dishes. It can get to be such a pain to cook for so many people and if I don't help my mom, we don't eat. I learned to cook from my mom. It was the only way to spend time with her because nobody wants to help.

 

SO.... tonight I get home and everyone was here and only my dad and I had to work. My brother refused to cook and no one would help my mom and she was making burritos and hamburger's. Since she couldn't be 2 places at once I get drafted to stand outside and cook. Which sucks since I don't have much time to do anything but work and sleep.

 

This leads to my work issue. My supervisor had told me I could begin to post to a different job as I have been in the department 9 months. I was excited because there were tons of jobs available that I wanted and I applied for 15 of them. I didn't care where they were as long as it wasn't here. When she was contacted by a HR representative and reemed out since I hadn't had my position a year , I lost all the interviews (15 application and 15 jobs interviews). I was livid with her and all she could say was oops. Well had a meeting before with her boss our Associate Director (will be referred to as AD), In this meeting with the AD we had found out our sup had been lying to us about a bunch of stuff and I lost all my trust in my sup. So after talking with another sup I was directed to speak to the AD about my career progression or lack there of. I spoke with her and she went to HR and they said 1 year or financial difficulty, which can't be proved since I was will to move.

 

So now I am stuck with morons at home and a moron for a supervisor. She freaks out when she see me talking to the AD and flipped out when I went to HR about something else that had nothing to do with her.

 

My family drives me crazy and I don't have anyone I can really talk to or hang out with. When I go out with people from work, that's all we talk about is work. None of my cousins or relatives are talking to me since the funeral incident. I have never felt this alone before....

 

I am trying to decide what I am going to do and that November 15th can't get here fast enough. That's when I have held my position for 1 year and can move on.

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Sorry life is hard for you now. It sounds like you have some sort of end in sight though, so hang in there!!

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