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sacrifice saturday Now that I think about it some more, there was probably another reason for all of the empty seats last night. I had forgotten that this is a holiday weekend. Maybe more people than I thought were out of town or at church. ... Lately I've been getting tired of listening to my second shift counterpart complain on Friday and Saturday nights. He feels that he has sacrificed enough of his life for the company and that they owe him something. Since he is only twenty-two I can understand why he says what he does, but there isn't anything that I can do about it. Over and over he says how much he hates being at work every Friday and Saturday night and I just have to sit there and listen. Personally I think that he is being very naive when he says that the company owes him something and I just wish that he would shut up. Tonight he went one step further by saying that something inside him snapped. He has had enough and is giving his two weeks notice at the end of next week. As of right now, I can hardly wait. Going into work and hearing him whine or rant for close to an hour is not how I like to start the night at work. I guess that if he would stop after a few minutes I'd be a little more sympathetic, but he goes on and on until none of his arguments make sense anymore. His last hope is that they give him a normal nine to five position in another department. Somehow I don't think that that is going to happen. Most of the people in that department have some form of degree or at least five years experience. He has neither of those qualifications and he knows it. Besides he keeps telling people that he will be going to school full time in the fall so I doubt that they are going to give him a job where they have to work around his classes. He thinks that they will work with his school schedule, but I have my doubts. I know that they do it for some people, but sometimes he lacks tact. On Friday night he was in rare form telling me about a new lawsuit that he wants to start on Monday. He wants to take his local school district to court for an old football injury that he got in high school. Since he has two pins in his knee he isn't eligible to join any of the military branches or reserves. He feels that this is cheating him of money that he might have been able to earn for college. Personally I think that this is a classic example of flawed logic. I asked him how could he prove that he would have made it through basic training. He said that would have made it, but I pointed out that he failed out of the state college system so his discipline and commitment to finishing something are in question and this weakens his case. I mean if he can't walk to class how does he think that he would have been able to run miles in the military. His past history does not build a strong character for him and I have my doubts about him at this new private college. I think that he is looking for easy money and I find that sad. Apparently he won some money in a car accident and that gave a skewed view of justice. His Microsoft stock was bought with the money that he won in the settlement. Of course it was his parents that made him invest the money. It wasn't his decision. Maybe I am selling him short, but the fact remains that he does seem to be very impulsive and not very level headed in his decision making. At the moment he is living at home, but he is planning on moving out this fall and that will change everything. All of the responsibility will be on him and he won't have anyone to blame but himself if he fails this time. ... I'm not saying that I have all the answers at the age of thirty, but listening to him talk makes me sound like a wise old man.
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