My Dad mentioned that I should start thinking about buying a place soon. Not that I haven't been thinking about this forever but it's somewhat difficult. Where do I look? The Okanagan, Calgary, Edmonton? Who knows. I can't believe how insanely expensive condo's are! There's seriously something wrong with the market. When a two bedroom condo in Vernon is listed for $240,000. Sure Vernon is a retirement center but people other than retiree's have to live there too. I just don't get the whole situation. When I'm home next I'll have to start seriously looking into some of this stuff.

Sometimes a person just needs a drink. Even though after last Friday night I promised myself that I wasn't going to drink for the rest of this rotation that just didn't happen. Went out tonight with friends because one of them decided he owed me. So I went and drank Ceasars at the bar. Good times had by all.

Did I mention that Big Boss found out about my application for the other job and asked me twice the other day if it was in my plans to stay on because he had plans for me...? Things are going along well.

I GOT TO GO FOR A HELICOPTER RIDE! It was GREAT! I was just working today and some people from a department of the oil company came out to meet their helicopter to go and take pictures for the annual report or something. Well I got to tag along! Most exciting thing that I've done in a long time. Totally cool!

Little Boss seems to be buying into his own lunacy. Today he was telling people that he was going to be taking over Big Bosses job! I don't think Big Boss is aware of this and I know that he has no plans on going anywhere anytime soon. Other than that things are... ok. Not great but ok. Big Boss did find out about my application for the job in Calgary though and called me on Saturday telling me that my job would be expanded AGAIN and that he really doesn't want to lose me. I'm really quite happy to hear that. I was also quite happy to hear him tell me that I'd be reporting directly to him with this new change. That's going to piss Little Boss off so much more.

I will admit that I am running flat out. The past few days I've been working well over 10 hours a day. Once things calm down and start to make sense around here I'll be able to slow down a bit but at this point I just have to get stuff done.

Last night I decided to have a party. These parties in my room keep getting bigger and bigger. Originally it was just Mr. G and I drinking together; last night I had 6 friends in here and some random guy named Kevin from Newfoundland. Kevin and his stick walked in around 1130. He had a drink, talked about his wife who he'd been married to for 30 odd years and left. A situation that can only truly be experienced in camp! And yes the girls were drinking out of a Starbucks mug and a Tim Horton's cup. Class means nothing here!

I have been super busy since coming back here. Most of it has to do with being tossed into a situation and being told to fix it. That and having to figure out what's going on in general while my phone's ringing a million times a day! Seriously I was ready to march out onto the tarmac tonight and pitch the ringing bastard into the nearest jet turbine. However after thinking about it for a few moments, smiling at the thought of the *poof* and little dust like cell phone particles being blown out the other end, I just pushed the ignore button and let voice mail take the call. Now the problem is that I have to clear out my voice mail constantly and it's making me crazy.

The Megalomanic is back tomorrow night and his first day is Saturday. Happily I have enough things to do on Saturday to keep me busy and away from him. Although I am mostly planning on being EXTRA sweet to him as hes so clearly lost this one. But that would be vindictive...

Have you ever been suspended for two weeks without pay, then asked to come back after four days and given a promotion? I have! After all the trauma of the last week there's a lot more that could be done to make me happy but I'll settle for this for now. So now I'm in charge of a corner of the world up here and it's kind of scary because I have three people that I'm responsible for and this NEEDS to go right. Last night one of them fucked up majorly and it was SO not good. I'm just glad that I had only just taken over so no one could really say to much about it to me.

I spent today in Edmonton (well at the airport actually) working. Quite honestly I didn't really need to be there but I just had to get off site to organize my thoughts and not have my new charges asking me questions constantly. I was able to get quite a lot done even though I was putting out fires for a long time.

Then I spent the end of the evening in the bar at site with a co-worker and two of the airline employee's. Great time had by all.

Damn... and here I was hoping it would be Catwoman!

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For the first time in the year that I've been working up North I'm not looking forward to going back to site. The circumstances of my leaving have tainted my thoughts towards my job and life in the North in general. Now I'm just feeling unsure, unsure of everything that's going on in my life.

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I'm really not feeling all that great today. Mentally I think the past few days have just taken a toll on me and I've just had it. I applied for a job with our airline today that is based out of Calgary. Essentially the job is very similar to what I'm doing now but is working for the other side of the project. As expected the money is really not all that good but it may be negotiable because of my experience with the project. Now I just have to wait and see as to whether or not I get a call.

Well the "President" of my company just called and left a message (I was otherwise engaged). Apparently he needs me back ASAP and there's been a lot of changes and restructuring since I've been gone! Apparently I report directly to him and the Big Boss now and Little Boss has been clipped up side the head. I've written down my list of things that I want done before I come back and they include:

1. Being paid for this time off
2. An actual letter of offer that is acceptable to both of us
3. My turnaround is next week so I expect that I'll be getting time off in lieu of
4. A letter of Apology from Little Boss for the humiliation he caused
5. No record of this incident on my employee file (not that I really give much credence to the thought that they even keep employee files but it's worth mentioning)
   

I'll update once I've had my conversation with him.

So now I'm starting to question whether I do want to go back to camp or not. Aside from the desperate pleas of my co-workers calling and e-mailing to make sure that I am coming back I'm starting to question whether it'd be worth it or not. All the things that happen in the real world while your gone really make you wonder...






But then the bank acount really makes you consider going back too...

So I may have been a bit hasty yesterday by proclaiming that Little Boss had been fired... I am happy to announce that his Wife's quit! Apparently the situation stands that Big Boss has told the company that they have to call me and tell me that I'm supposed to be back on site by next week. Considering that they've fucked up royally and are very proud people I think I may be waiting on the phone call for a while. How much would that suck, suspend someone for two weeks, without any real cause, then have to call them back four days later and tell them to come back to work! I'm glad I'm not in their shoes.

I am feeling incredibly optimistic, I just heard from one of my co-workers at camp and she intimated that Little Boss has lost his job. I'm waiting on someone to call and tell me what's going on at the moment but things are looking super good. I will be vindicated!

So what's next? That's the question that's been bugging me today. Strangely I'm not at all upset about not being up at site or the big paycheck. What's bugging me now is if things don't work out at site and I don't end up going back where am I going to live? Calgary or Edmonton seem the natural choices because of the job market. In Calgary I have relatives and two friends, Edmonton I have a whole bunch of friends but I just don't want to live there. As Raph very comfortingly pointed out today though, I always seem to land on my feet... now it's just a matter of waiting to see what happens.

By now I'd like to think that things in my little corner of the site has blown all to hell. I'm pretty sure this isn't the case but my ego needs to feel that it has. I'm writing this from Vernon.

Yesterday in a completely surprise move Little Boss suspended me for two weeks without pay, gave me an hour to clean out the room that I've been living in for the past year and put me on a plane for home.

So now I'm waiting on the Big Boss (who's in Edmonton and was not consulted on the situation at all) to see what his move is going to be. Little Manager even diabled my work e-mail account, which he is absolutely not authorized to do, so I'm really dead in the water.

Essentially this all boils down to Little Manager's Megalomania. He craves and desires absolute control which I won't give him. Well I'm going to work on my resume now.

To borrow the words of some famous person - "Overall I guess you could say we have a theological disagreement... he thinks he's God... I disagree".

I've had quite a busy week. We had reps from the Airline come up and do training sessions on their new online booking program on Wednesday and Thursday. Quite frankly I was rather disappointed with their performance as it seemed they were not ready for the training sessions and believe it or not a lot of effort went into getting our contractors to show up for it. I will admit having them around was fun and we overall had a good time but I don't feel the aim of our objective was met. As a result of having our guests here my days were stretched a little bit so I ended up working 12 hour days for the past two days. Needless to say I've made being under my quilt, when I'm not working, my natural environment lately.

Looking forward to going home in 11 more days!