Weekend Already???

Holy Crap!!! Where did this week go already???  I honestly can't believe it's Saturday already and tomorrow is a new challenge over at OSAAT  They say *whoever they are haha* Time flies when your having fun...well *they* lied to me this time...This week has been the furthest thing from fun that I could even imagine!!!

First off, been waiting for a full time position at the bus garage for 5 years now..yep FIVE big ones...I love my job, love the kid's, should actually be writing a book of day to day life while driving school bus..these kid's, well some of them, are the most comical, talented, amazing people I have ever met.  Well this part of my life could be coming to an end by June if things don't change there...There have been 3 job postings go to the board in the past 3 years and my John Hancock has been on every single one of them...only to be passed by all 3 times ;(...TO A MAN!!!  What you think about that...I drive tractor trailer cross country for 15 + years, starting out on my own then doing with my better half...so scratch the idea that I can't handle a big ole yellow bus forward and backward...and any other way that you want me too :)...so that couldn't possibly be the reason that I didn't get the job AGAIN!!!  Never had an accident in the bus, never hurt any kids' on the bus, never drove while being intoxicated **like so many others' do shamefully** Hell I don't even drink!!!  Never done any of those things that you would think would keep you from getting a full time position, but yet, I am turned down again for this job????  I shower daily, well almost every day haha..brush my teeth and comb my hair, why tell me why please can I not land a job with actual benefits for me and my family???  

Let me see 3 years ago, it was "You don't have enough experience" This MAN has been driving bus for a long time - found out that was a lie!!!  He was even a sub at the time of hire, I was a union paying part timer!!!  Now 2 years ago, while sitting on pins and needles just knowing that this was finally my time, another MAN got the job...Of course I had more seniority than him, he just came there a year before that and just 4 months prior to that became part time???  Now this last time, even after being TOLD TO MY FACE, that the next full time position would be mine...NOT, guess what, 3 guesses and the first two don't count...You guessed it, yet another MAN got the position...Now I tell you, I know I'm 55 years old, but I honestly didn't think that I was still living in 1955...What the hell is this world coming to I ask you...It just so happens we have one hell of a union president now and she has been fighting for me the whole way...I think haha...but I am really going to put her to the test on this one, because after 5 years of not backing down *which everyone that I talked to including my husband said - you got more will power than me, I would have never lasted this long*  that HAS to account for something, could it be I LOVE MY JOB WOMEN, GIVE ME WHAT IS RIGHTFULLY MINE...I will keep you posted on the outcome of this...this last time I was told that she is just not COMFORTABLE with me..now mind you, she is comfortable enough for me to drive 4.75 hours a day with her precious kids, but 5 hours *which is a full time position* no that can never happen, that is way to much in her comfort zone...

Give me your thoughts on this mini book lol..any suggestions what I might do next???  I am already filing a grievance which hasn't even been started yet, but in my mind...

Ok, enough of that, only breaks my heart to even think about it anymore...

On a brighter note...make sure you stop by the challenge blog tomorrow...we have tons of gifts to give away, we are celebrating our first Birthday over at OSAAT and would love to see ya...don't bring gifts, just a card will do ;)...haha..

HAPPY TRAILS......