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Yup, I went, I'm Back, pics on my site

http://www.fsun.net/felinius/

...Ok, guess I can't hide it anymore...yeah, I'll be at MFF...

...Please be gentle, I havn't been to a con in 6 years!

http://www.uaw892.org/

Check out the modifacations they want done to the contract...they want a no strike clause over wages and benifits until 2015, and with a new contract up in two years, that means that the ford workers can be cut down to my current pay rate, or lower....on top of that, the entry level workers would be us temps that would be brought into ford in the next however-long-it-takes which means we'll be taking a pay cut (two dollars an hour currently) and frozzen at that rate untill 2015...yay fun, plus if it does pass i also wouldn't get the one time signing bonus of $1000

...and the kicker? this directly effects the TPT's....and -we don't even get to vote on it-

So yeha, we just got back a bunch of teh temp's that where laied off only to find out they will be laid off again this week, giving them..less then a week of work, and screwing up there unemploiment, and also muts be back in teh crosshairs of a layoff

I just found out I'll most likely be laid off two weeks (at least) a month again starting in January...

...starting to wonder why I ever moved back to MI....

Well, after more pain, I went back down, but sadly I got some bad news...because of the fact I'm still a temp, the doc can't treat me...He wants to send me out for xrays first (he already said they wouldn't show anything) then an MRI (which would be able to explane the hyper elasticy he noticed in my knees) but as I'm a temp, I would get billed for all of it....oh well, was worth a shot...

Went to see the doctor yesterday and he could tell that there was something wrong with my knee, but he wasn't sure exactly what. However, he was concrned with the general health of the soft tissue in y knee, and told me basicly "Wait and See" if things get worse or better....

It was bound to at some point after all, I wouldn't be able to ignore the problem forever...

...My knee got me sent to medical...I was simply doing my job, and..must have turned the wrong way or something, and I felt what felt like a stretch, then a pop in the back of my knee, sharp enough of a pain that I clutched at my knee and almost dropped...and people noticed, so I had to go down to medical...now in a little over 12 hours I have to go see a doctor and frankly...

...I'm scared...

So yeah, just found out that my plant is sending a bunch of the Ford workers back to there home plants, and bringing in the laid off temps, which can only mean one of two things...

Either they're gonna simply close the plant down the road (highly unlikely) or...

Or i have the next 30 years to enjoy being an underpaid, without-benefits, over worked, Temp.....

They just started the layoffs again, and still no word on us becoming a ford plant...
...I wish they would just do something with us already...it's starting to feel like a game of Russian Roulette...

So on top of everything else, Section 8, which I was excited to get came out today...
...and last night my 360 gave me a ring...three blinking red ones...
...so yeah, I don't even get to shoot stuff to get my head out of emofit mode...

In other news, I have my cane picked out, and soon as I have the spare money for it, I'll be ordering it..

So there's a rumor going around the plant that we'll be made into a Ford plant on Monday, but...I've heard that one a few times already...

I won't be getting my hopes up about that -or- getting an ILO as I've been let down too many times by things in the past...

...-If- it's true...I'll have for the first time since high school, medical coverage...plus I'll be making around $22 an hour...but my time off will be limited to a two week period that no cons happen...so I'll finally have funds but not be able to attend anyway...

But like I said...I'm not even wasting crossing my fingers on this one...