Pay Me!!

So, for the past couple of days, the bank has locked me out of my user account, so I really can't get any work done. I called IT, they told me that a manager has to re-allow me access. Fine. Call the manager's assistant, she of course won't answer my calls.

Flash to last night. I go to enter my time online, and Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday are blanked out, so I can't enter any time. I will be damned before I will work for free. I called my boss (my boss and my manager are not the same person), and she tells me not to worry, that we'll figure out this morning when I get to work.

Now, temping is one of the last bastions where you can be upfront and really say that it's just about the money. It's a true friends-with-benefits relationship, because I know I am an intelligent, able-bodied person that the bank is renting, and I am willing to be rented for cash. The integral part of this relationship is the cash. It's the consideration in our little contract here.

Usually on Fridays, I get to dress down and in exchange for that, I have to file. Not today! Today I'm wearing something nice and I will not lift a single file. Petty, I know. But as the body and not the bank in this relationship, it's all I got.

(Also, could the timing be worse? I am becoming (more) insane before the bar. I'm studying contracts and homicide. Dumb, dumb bank.)