After receiving the highest of praise from my client, my boss has decided to move me from my current contract worker status to actually being hired on by Xerox themselves. The paperwork has been started. Patience and hard work does pay off, even if your employer doesn't have the best of track records regarding how they treat their employees.

Under my management, things have run better than they've ever run, and I'm smashing records left and right.

What does this mean for me? Well, for one, paid time off. No more jumping through hoops and saving for months on end hoping something doesn't clean out my savings in order to take time off to visit my parents. Second, benefits. Not the best, but benefits nonetheless. Fucking Obamacare might actually be better than what they've got, which leads me into the next reason: Raise. I'm making nowhere near the national average for my position. I'll actually be able to afford the health insurance costs that would come out of my check. If I get my way, I'll be able to get between $4 to $6 an hour more than my current pay.

So things are going alright. This comes in light of my string of unfortunate events I've had recently. I took some time off on the weekend of the 4th to go visit my family in Arizona, and I picked up an ear infection in their pool that required special treatment. It cleaned out my savings. Due to that, I had to make things work-- but I didn't have enough to cover three small transactions in my account, which the bank nailed me to the wall for. It was a $105 mistake. "Oh, I'm sorry, you didn't have enough money, so I'm going to take more money as punishment." Fuck them.

If I didn't have to worry about the fucking unpaid holiday and having to pay the doctor's office and pharmacy out-of-pocket, I wouldn't have had to get raped in the rectum by my bank. All of these problems would have been fixed had I been a non-contract worker with these benefits I laid out earlier.

But better late than never, I guess. :/