Picking up from yesterday –
Then, more drama unfolded as the week went on, because the theater started to tell me they were going to prorate my check for the day I wasn’t there (which meant pro-rating kind of a lot as we were getting extra performances pay).
That was totally fine. But then they also weren’t going to count that money toward the money I said I’d pay for the sub… So, basically, they wanted me to pay twice – have part of my check withheld since I wasn’t going to be there, but then pay for a sub out of the part I actually got to keep (when they could be using the money they were already taking from me).
Anyway, blah blah blah. There’s talking back and forth. There are unimportant details that are too time consuming to get into. Eventually, we set up the sub. She gets trained. She does not get paid out of my paycheck – but the money they’re prorating does go toward her salary. So, ultimately, everything is kind of fine in the end.
I felt there was a lot of unnecessary drama, and power playing, and all that (from me included). And what I find funny about it is that if I felt I’d actually been heard, if my bosses had talked it out with me, and we just couldn’t come up with a solution to get a sub, I probably would’ve said, “Okay, I won’t go.”
But when I was backed into a corner, the situation got messy… And I’m sure they will most likely hold firm to their original threat – that I’ll never work at that theater again. Hopefully I didn’t make a humongous mistake over just being in the audience of a game show. You can never really see the future from where you are. So… *shrugs* I guess we’ll see what happens in my life.
But for now, let’s just talk about the zonk redemption episode, which is where I’ll pick up next time.