NAKED CHICKEN PART II

OK, so I am not done griping about being the "naked chicken." We have recently hired a new boss for the floor. The position had always had the highest salary on the floor, at least a third higher than everyone else. We had to endure cut-backs, reducing a team of 11 full-time to a team of 6 full-time employees. Of course, that meant the rest of us "hens" had to double up on the workload just to get everything done, WITH NO EXTRA COMPENSATION. It's been two years and we haven't even gotten a cost of living raise!!!

Now, we have the money to not only hire the new boss, but they are going to increase his salary higher than that position has ever been paid in the history of the institution. We are also told, after busting our collective butts, that they are going to open up the budget for the new boss to add positions to his staff and create a new team. Now tell me what that is supposed to do to those who have hunkered down for the last few years, carrying double-loads without any extra compensation because "times are tough and you should just be happy you have a job?"

I ran out of money mid-month a few days ago. It's been years, but I have now officially bounced two checks. Thank God for overdraft protection! And yet the draft charges are $30 a bounce which sucks when you don't have it. Now I am trying to figure out how to pay my end of the month bills on my credit card so I don't amass late fees. I am also hoping the $100 check I sent my 22 year old for her birthday isn't one of the ones that bounced!!! Mind you, I don't flagrantly spend. I buy clothes at WalMart. I never go out to eat at fancy restaurants. I stay at home on the weekends. I have NO savings account because I literally live from paycheck to paycheck. I am not the only one at work doing this. There are several who have had to "suck it up because times are tough" on our floor. But can't they see how demoralizing this new mega-bucks hire is? Can't they see how demoralizing it is to the team who took you through the "tough time working double-duty" when the new hire gets to pad the budget to allow him to hire more staff to create his "dream team?"

Yes, once again....I feel like the NAKED CHICKEN. The hen in a house full of roosters (oh, did I mention the new boss is a man?). It seems its the women who get "jumped on" all hours of the day. They are the ones that have to work, work, working, producing the eggs. It seems we get paid in "chicken scratch" for all our efforts. It's still a man's world....sorry, just calling it like I see it!