Frustrations Mounting

Sorry this is not the normal, laid-back, somewhat humorous (hopefully!) blog I usually post, but I'm too frustrated with how the day has gone to not write about it. Aside from the mild stresses that car upkeep costs cause, the remainder of the day has included these items:

A call letting me know that the car costs would be a bit more than expected.

The realization pointed out by a co-worker that himself and I were placed on only 40% appointment this summer instead of our usual 50% appointment, lowering our overall earnings by about 20% (Arrggh!). Although the money stuff does frustrate me (I have a wife, and we have a life, and we budget, and save, and have plans for the summer...long story short, I EXPECT to be payed the same as usual...my workload hasn't change and my expectations haven't changed, and if they have, they've only become greater), the real issue that I'm more frustrated with is that my boss declined any opportunity over the past month to speak with my and my co-worker about the upcoming drop in pay. I've never felt more disrespected. It makes me feel like I'm just a trained monkey to him, doing his work and receiving whatever he feels like paying at the time, without having to concern himself with letting me know. Words are probably not doing justice to how aggravating this is. Oh well...

And lastly, to top off with a cherry on the crap-sundae that this day is turning out, I've just received an email from my boss (he's out of town at a conference), basically saying he's decided that before the experiments that I planned to do this week can be done (which he'd known about for sometime) he thinks we need to do a different series and look over them together...even though the window of opportunity to use the instrument needed for the first set of experiments is small. Oh yeah, and he didn't forget to add an additional note: (that currently feels incredibly condescending) Don't forget to make sure progress is being made on your other projects.

Thank goodness God is good, and I know he's in control...because if I was in control, I would be breaking things.