ot: work

hello everyone.... hurricane season is here... well... june 1st... last year my job tried to send me to a disaster crisis class...what we would do was... after a hurricane... major disaster... we get sent to where ever this issue took place... take over the city... clean it up enough that they can live again and then leave... last year i got out of it because i was preggo... my name is on the top of the list again and i really dont want  go... i know it sounds like a great thing to do... HOWEVER... we will be gone for up to a month at a time.. sleeping in the mud... and worst of all... away from my baby... im a single mother so its not an easy thing to just say... "heres my kid.. ill be back someday to get him"... not to mention living off sketty-os and tuna isnt a good way to eat....not sure the reason of this post... i guess a vent LOL

alexa

I would tell them straight off that since you are a single mother that you can't go at this time, but maybe some time in the future when things are different you would be more than willing to go...

tired it... they dont care... the good thing is i checked the sign up paper today.. and there are actually volunteers... so i think im safe

I agree with Shannon - it's like Jury duty - claim a hardship to get out of it! You are a single Mom and need to be there for your baby. Maybe offer to go to the class and train other people in the office in the event that you get called in.

Hope you can get out of it!

tried it... the only thing we get hardship for is shift picks... even then its next to impossible... even the hardships run on senority... there are volunteers so i think im safe this time

oh wow....it seems lie a great thing to have people trained in that method, etc. but a month? WOW....i forgot what you do again....

why don't you tell them jayson is going with you....wouldn't those be cute pics in his baby book...sleeping, crawling in the mud.....lol....i was just trying to make you smile :)

can you get out of it at all?

yeah.. i think im safe this time.. we have volunteers....