it pays to be union i suppose

currently listening to: The Beatles-Revolver

currently watching: X-Files-Season 2

currently reading: The Homosexual Agenda-Exposing the Principal Threat to Religious Freedom Today

I went to the monthly union meeting last night and found out an agreement had been made to bring furloughed employees like me back to work for 8 days a month in Kansas City.  Basically I have to be available and on call those 8 days and whether I work or not i’ll be paid for it and i get to keep my benefits and such.  Its a good deal.  I think this will officially start after a few more weeks, but what caught me off guard was we voted on this agreement last night and this morning I received a phone call calling me back to service for Kansas City.  There was no real indication what for, just that I would find out after the mandatory 15 day recall waiting period (to allow guys with jobs to give their 2 weeks).  I assume its for this 8 day work deal…most likely i’ll be doing some additional training during those 8 days a month, but there is also a very small chance I might have to do real work if they run really short on available employees on a given day.

What all this means for now is I won’t need another job–and it would be tough to have one anyway with having to be available for those 8 days–and the 8 days of pay for the month is just short of what i made working 30 hrs a week for a month at the bank anyway so I’m fairly covered to the bare minimum on my bills.  I certainly can’t afford to move out on that amount of pay due to my car payment, but its better than nothing to be sure.  Its really hard to tell when I will actually be doing full time work for the railroad at this point.  It seems that it could be a lot sooner than i assumed which was sometime early next year.

In other news I bowled a 553 series in league play which was far and away my best in league (a series is a total of 3 games bowled).  Our team currently is tied for 5th out of 16 teams. 

Hooray for good news!  Answers to prayer really.