What's everyone up to right now?

[Angrboda]

Watching TV. Spending money. This must be Monday.

[arewethereyet]

Thinking I should dig out my winter coat. It's supposed to be 33 degrees when I leave for the doctor in the morning. That's a bit brisk.

[Rev. Rye]

Have to accompany Dad to a doctor's visit tomorrow on the off chance he can't drive after he has his lidocaine injection. I also have to be up at the ass crack of dawn. Or at least what passes for it with my circadian rhythms.

[Fireball]

Grillin'. Well, it would be grillin', but the chicken skewers I bought are already grilled, so I'm simply heating them up in a pan on the stove.   I did slaughter some vegetation for a salad, though.

[Silver]

Last night, fourteenth in a row working, before I get a night off tomorrow.

I'm not kidding this time. I'm taking the night off. I'm not going in to help no matter how short staffed they are.

Everyone else is taking their days off, why should I be the only one who doesn't?

[Apollo]

Reading a book and arguing with friends over mundane shit on whatsapp while typing about it here. Who said multitasking is dead?

[Fireball]

Last night, fourteenth in a row working, before I get a night off tomorrow.

I'm not kidding this time. I'm taking the night off. I'm not going in to help no matter how short staffed they are.

Everyone else is taking their days off, why should I be the only one who doesn't?

Back in the '80s, I had a task that I worked for 3 months, 12 hours a day, 7 days a week. After that, I "tapered off" to taking every other Sunday off, and I did that for another 6 months. I had visions of a big promotion, but ended up with a 3% mid-year raise.   I was in my mid-30s at the time. I never did those kind of work hours again. You're getting taken advantage, as I'm sure that you know. It's how the world is, now, unfortunately. When I retired, I was doing the work that 7 people did, back in the '80s. They had to hire three people to cover my tasks when I left. I know that you feel empathy for the patients you serve, but you need proper compensation for what you do. I don't know how to counsel you on what should be done, because I had the same shit done to me for decades, and never did find a solution. But I think that there is one out there.

[arewethereyet]

Last night, fourteenth in a row working, before I get a night off tomorrow.

I'm not kidding this time. I'm taking the night off. I'm not going in to help no matter how short staffed they are.

Everyone else is taking their days off, why should I be the only one who doesn't?

Back in the '80s, I had a task that I worked for 3 months, 12 hours a day, 7 days a week. After that, I "tapered off" to taking every other Sunday off, and I did that for another 6 months. I had visions of a big promotion, but ended up with a 3% mid-year raise.   I was in my mid-30s at the time. I never did those kind of work hours again. You're getting taken advantage, as I'm sure that you know. It's how the world is, now, unfortunately. When I retired, I was doing the work that 7 people did, back in the '80s. They had to hire three people to cover my tasks when I left. I know that you feel empathy for the patients you serve, but you need proper compensation for what you do. I don't know how to counsel you on what should be done, because I had the same shit done to me for decades, and never did find a solution. But I think that there is one out there.

It seems that when you are a work horse you do get taken advantage of.  When you finally have had your fill of it there's a multiple person replacement to do your job...funny that they won't increase your pay but will hire multiple people to do the same amount of work thereby spending more all around.

I've worked places where vacation time was left on the table because I wasn't important enough to be paid more but was too important to be allowed to take time off.

My favorite thing is being called after leaving a position like that because you are the only one who knows how to do what they need to get done.  When my husband left Pepsi after nearly 30 years they were calling him about four times a week.  He finally told them what he wanted per call/hour to help them out.  They stopped calling - son, who still works there, says that he spends most of his day standing around because the mechanics don't know how to keep the machinery running.

[Fireball]

Back in the '80s, I had a task that I worked for 3 months, 12 hours a day, 7 days a week. After that, I "tapered off" to taking every other Sunday off, and I did that for another 6 months. I had visions of a big promotion, but ended up with a 3% mid-year raise.   I was in my mid-30s at the time. I never did those kind of work hours again. You're getting taken advantage, as I'm sure that you know. It's how the world is, now, unfortunately. When I retired, I was doing the work that 7 people did, back in the '80s. They had to hire three people to cover my tasks when I left. I know that you feel empathy for the patients you serve, but you need proper compensation for what you do. I don't know how to counsel you on what should be done, because I had the same shit done to me for decades, and never did find a solution. But I think that there is one out there.

It seems that when you are a work horse you do get taken advantage of.  When you finally have had your fill of it there's a multiple person replacement to do your job...funny that they won't increase your pay but will hire multiple people to do the same amount of work thereby spending more all around.

I've worked places where vacation time was left on the table because I wasn't important enough to be paid more but was too important to be allowed to take time off.

My favorite thing is being called after leaving a position like that because you are the only one who knows how to do what they need to get done.  When my husband left Pepsi after nearly 30 years they were calling him about four times a week.  He finally told them what he wanted per call/hour to help them out.  They stopped calling - son, who still works there, says that he spends most of his day standing around because the mechanics don't know how to keep the machinery running.

At my last company, we used to spin-balance some of the spacecraft, because they spun on orbit. A competitor had lost that capability, somehow, and we were asked to bid on balancing that other company's spacecraft. It would have taken a fair amount of money (I can't say what amount, I was just there to tell them what would have to be done, and wasn't privy to the cost) to make that happen. What happened instead is that the gov paid the competitor to develop their whole balancing system all over again.

[Angrboda]

Playing some new videogames and waiting for Colbert.