[MandiesMom]

So, for the past 3 months, work has been so tideous with long hours. I am a fleet manager and dispatcher with a trucking company that hauls cars. The terminal I work at is located on the yard of the Hyundai Plant in Montgomery, AL. We have terminals all over the southeast, TX, OK, and over to CA. Our sister terminal is over in West Point, GA - the Kia plant (fun fact that you can astound your friends with - the Hyundai Santa Fe is actually produced at the KIA plant..not the Hyundai plant..eeewww, ahhhh..lol).

Anyway, in January, the veteran terminal manager over at Kia retired. This was quickly followed by the releasing of the dispatcher, who became very insubordinate and sabatoging because she was bypassed as his successor. All of the sudden, that terminal had 1 brand new person running the show. Ha! This led to my terminal manager having to make many many trips (including yesterday and today)..some a week at a time..to train and basically run the Kia terminal in GA. This, in turn, led to me being the only one here in the Hyundai terminal. Our hours of operation are 6am - 6pm. That's right..all done by me during these times that my manager is over "there."

She was burning out fast! On top of all of this, she has 4 sons - 2 of whom are still in school and 1 who is just over ONE year old. She has been exhausted! I made her take off for a 3 day weekend last weekend. I say I made her because she is very controlling (one of her lovable qualities lol) and has to call constantly even when not at work. I kept hanging up on her and told her to go play with her kids.

Also, in Nov and Dec of 2011, she had her baby so was out for 6 weeks. I ran the place for those full 6 weeks - alone, 12 hour shifts. We are open 7 days a week (8 -12 on the weekend days), but at least I got to close the office on Sundays during that time. I had a little vacation back in July because I was running out of steam. But other than when I was so sick I wanted to die back on the week of Thanksgiving, I haven't had any time off since then.

Well, it might not be a whole week, but I am FINALLY GOING ON VACATION!! Woot! No, I am not going anywhere or doing anything special. I am just getting the heck outta here! LOL Starting tomorrow (the 11th) and lasting thru Monday (the 15th)..I return to work Tuesday...I am off, Baby! Bring it on!!!!!!