I need a four day weekend. This is bad. It's only Tuesday and I'm already whining about work. I'm counting the days until Memorial Day when I get a whole day off and paid to boot.

I think I need to work harder to focus on the positive instead of the negative. It's so much easier to see negativity sometimes though. Maybe if I list out the recent things that I've been pissed off about, I'll see how petty they are and then feel better. Hmm. Worth a try:

- My Co-worker:

Sometimes I just want to strangle her. I think deep down I'm a little jealous of her. She was hired while I was part time going to school to learn more about computers so that I'd be a better employee. And while I struggled and worked my ass off to get to the pay rate I was at, the boss started her off at slightly lower than where I was. Then after a month raised her to the same level. It took me two years!

She also is very unreliable. She comes and goes on her own schedule. I'm working to get steady benefits as an employee, such as medical and paid holidays, but she always throws it out of whack by saying she's willing to sacrifice those bennies for flexibility in schedule. Since there's only two of us that are employees, the boss takes the easy way out. He allows extreme flexibility but ignores benefits. I couldn't give a rat's ass about flexibility. I'm here all day every day and rarely take time off.

So the boss finally gives me a raise! Hooray, a whole $.50 an hour (not too shabby). But guess what? Come bonus time, the co-worker gets a bonus, but I do not, based on the fact that I "chose" a raise over the bonus. Turns out I lost on that one.

*phew*!

Seems I have a lot of hostility here. I need to think on this some more. I'll post more later.