I know, I should be lucky to have a job, but I'm taking a 4 dollar an hour pay cut because they cut a crew on the piece of equipment I work on and me being the most junior, I get kicked back into the department labor pool. Where I get to sit on the most demeaning, annoying and lowest paying job in the entire fucking plant until "economic conditions improve enough to warrant putting another crew on."

To add insult to injury, there's a guy from another crew that got slapped into a spot above me on my crew because he is senior by one fucking month, but he's such a fucking asshole that anything he does or doesn't do, no one will say a word to him about, but I'll catch shit for it.

It's not that he's got a month on me that bothers me, it's that he's an asshole who will whine and bitch and cry until he gets his way. The last time this happened, when a position above me was cut and I was put back into the labor pool, I got paid my old rate, so it didn't hurt so much. It's getting cut back 3 bucks an hour that bothers me and that I won't get any chance of making more money because this asshole will get them all because of that stupid fucking month. Not to mention I won't even get trained to do another job because I'll get to go back to my job if they decided to put my crew back on and they don't just shut the plant down entirely. Also, this fucker will get every bit of training because of that seniority and junior people that don't have permanent places on a crew get trained all over, so there's no where that they need me, except on "broke", which is a lousy fucking job.

What bothers me most is I could be stuck behind this fucker for years. All because of that god damn month. I mean, I was the one they chose to go to corporate to represent Ticonderoga in July, I was the one that ran around like a maniac when they installed the computer system last month, and I get fucked. I guess the more you do, the more they think they can fuck with you or something.

Sometimes working for a union shop is a good thing, but in this case...I'm getting screwed. Big time.

I just want to know who or what force in the universe I pissed off in order to warrant this shit happening to me so that I know what to avoid doing the next time.

Shael