Decisions we Make

sometimes making decisions really sucks - you know! Especially when it comes to families. We have all made bad decisions, I am the queen of bad decision making, believe me. I just bring this up because there is an employee here whose father is having a triple bypass surgery as we speak. Well, this employee uses his vacation days as he gets them, he never saves them and because of that decision he isn't at the hospital with his dad because he can't afford to take a day off. It tears me up because I want to say go take the day off we will pay you for it, but I can't. Because others have had to use vacation days. It is just a consequence of using your vacation hours as you have accrued them.  You should save them for something like this is all I could tell him.

Speaking of decisions: I often wonder about decisions of owner's of companies. We had this in depth conversation about it yesterday at lunch. If you are an employee for a company and you help build it, you work your ass off for years, you pour in sweat and tears and time away from family, when the company is sold, do you reap any of the benefits of that or does the owner keep it all. This came up because a co-worker of mine went through it as we all have and she was saying that she was expecting to get something and got nothing. I am torn in that yes you did work hard for the company, but the owner has such a huge personal risk in that no one normally sees. They just see the work that they do and not the risk that the owner has to go through. Not to say that there shouldn't be some type of reward for those employees who have worked there maybe more than a certain number of years. But then there was another co-worker and he experienced the opposite where the owner shared some of the earnings, not by any means 50-50, but the owner did give the long term employees something - I think it makes the employees feel appreciated and make them realize the decision they made to work for that company was a good one, and the owner realizes that he wouldn't have been getting all of those earnings if it wasn't for dedicated employees. I know there are arguments on both sides - it is interesting to hear people's opinions of it. I don't care either way. I have been on both ends of it.

I guess I will find out soon, as our company is probably going to be sold at the end of the year. Makes me kind of nervous if I will have a job next year or not. I know, I complain a lot about it, but it is a job and I have Catholic tuition to pay :) BUT yet, today I have to make the decision of when I am going to Australia - ugh! It is just hard because I have never been away from the boys, including Steve that long - and I don't think we can swing him going with me.


Decisions, Decisions, they suck sometimes.

Ugh!

Happy Thursday!

Miss and love you dad ~ so much.

Much love and happiness to all,