Hunting Course

I decided I would like to go out hunting with my father-in-law. And to do this, you need to have a hunting license. In Connecticut, you need to take a firearms course to receive a hunting license. I talked with Stacey about what I was thinking about. I needed to talk to her about it since the course would cost us and it would also take me away from being with her. She was fine with both. One thing we didn't need to worry about was the money because when I called to register for the state class I found out that it was free. I couldn't believe it. Now I know why these classes fill up fast. I have seen through the state's Department of Environmental Protection website classes fill up within two days.

The class was interesting. I was surprised by how many kids under the age of 16 there. Out of the all male class, there is also one young girl. I just expected to see people in their 20s and over. I also didn't expect to see any girls either. I am not a chauvinist. I know women hunt, but you don't here that often of women hunting.

My four days off

I didn't want four days off in a row. With that many days off, I won't want to go back to work on Sunday. There are times I don't want to go back to work after having two days off in a row. The reason I got the days off is because I needed three nights off and the fourth day I needed the entire day off because of a firearms course I am taking. I wrote in my work's log book that for the first three days I could open up the store, but couldn't close. My boss had an issue with this. He wrote in the log, "what course is four days." Well there are a lot of courses that are could be four days. You look through certain towns Adult Continuing Education catalogue and you would know there are courses that are only one day and there are others that are 8 weeks. My boss thought I wanted the time off for something else and I was using the course as an excuse.

He wrote that I should have run this by him first. Well, by me writing it in the logbook over a month before the course started was me letting him know. My job is where I work. It doesn't run my life. My boss is not my father. I don't have to run something like this by him. The only person in my life I have to talk to about something like this is my wife, Stacey.

This course started during the week of my bosses vacation which he also mentioned in the logbook. When I signed up for the state's firearm course, I had forgotten it was during his vacation week. The store has two other managers not including my boss or me. The store also has a part-time shift supervisor. With this many managers, it should have been fine to work out a schedule without my boss haven't any issues. He also said that he would do his best, but the store comes first. He doesn't say this to another manager who has every Monday off because of family issues. So the things going on in my life isn't as important as the things going on in someone's elses family life?

Well, I am thankful that I requested off February 28 because if I didn't I believe my boss wouldn't have scheduled me for another day off until March. Our work weeks go from Friday to Thursday. The reason I say this is because the last time I got days off near each other which was January 25 and 26, I didn't get another day off until February 4. That was eight days after my last day off. That was a very long week. My boss also had an issue with me taking off two Satursdays in February. It's not my fault February is a short month with only four Satursdays in it.