Sweetie, I hate hate hate that you are still in pain everyday and it sucks beyond all things.

The botox is just one of the many things that might be the answer. And it sucks that the thing that might be the solution might take something else away. SUCKS SUCKS SUCKS.

I hope sleep helps at least tonight.

If you're salaried, then you don't get overtime--but you also get more flexibility with regard to your hours and personal time. That's the theory, anyway. But I honestly don't think they can move you from salaried to hourly without informing you, and there are definitely rules about what you can be obligated to do as an hourly employee.

Kalshane, I strongly suggest that you hit up the state department that handles labor issues--there should be a state commission or something--and see what it says about all this. You shouldn't go into that meeting uninformed, because it really sounds like the company is just trying to shaft you all.

Or, errr, cross-post with Lee.

Kalshane -- I can't believe that your employer sucks so much and I also cannot believe that they can randomly change your rate of pay like that without informing you. Sounds very unlikely.

ita -- botox for migraines? I didn't know about that.

Kalshane- make some phone calls - something sounds hinky

I'm thinking it is the not informing you might be where the problem is... if they had done it above board it might have worked

I would ignore the medical advice, but the timing is too screwed up.

Hmm. Grrr.

Yeah, botox is supposed to deaden relevant nerve endings when it does its paralysis thing.

I think I have lost motion in the top 1/2 inch of my forehead.

But I still have a bitch of a migraine.

Do you have to continue treatments? Or does it get to the point where the migraines stop and you can stop doing the botox?

Blah. Blah blah blah. Yaaay!

ETA: That was not in reference to anything on the board. That was just me.

Kalshane, you're getting seriously fucked. Honestly, they're going to keep doing shit like this to you more and more until you leave. They're not going to do less. They are not going to recognize or acknoweldge that they're screwing their staff over. No way. I guarantee that they will continue to trend negative. I don't even know if its worth fighting because it doesn't sound like they're very well run, or that committed to sound business practices.

You think you're in a normal work situation that's under stress, but that's not the case. They've gone right off the deep end.

It's not worth staying there. You need to go somewhere else. And then get shrift a job at your new place.

ETA: That was not in reference to anything on the board. That was just me.

What are you doing on the weekend to cheer yourself up? Did you have fun in Vegas?

This weekend I believe there's Aimee! Also, grading. Which won't be fun but will provide its own relief from stress.

Did I have fun in Vegas. How can you ask? We got a smokin' hotel room (though a non-smoking hotel room) and went to the beach... sorta... and I gave my email address to a total stranger largely on the basis of his charming accent, and... hella fun. Wicked fun. Alas, it made me very behind on grading.

And now I had two Coronas after a day of teaching in which I'd only had one burger, and I'm trying to sober up. We'll see.