'bout the same. Wondering about various things that were happening at work today which lead me to suspect that management is Up To Something regarding me. In a good way, I think. Challenges afoot.
Coworker Maggie and I got assigned the Thanksgiving Holiday this year. This means we have to come in and do anything critical that has to be done in the lab on Thursday and Friday, and anything the regular weekend person can't cover on Saturday and Sunday.
I should clarify that everyone in the lab gets one holiday to work per year. Most of these are one day plus a weekend, so if the regular weekend person works, each of the 2 people is probably only going to have to come in once for 2-4 hours of work.
The big boss has a big project underway, which involves lots of tedious work. It's come to a head for this holiday weekend. Which could have been predicted.
So, Maggie and I each worked for about 5 hours yesterday on Thanksgiving Day. I also took a one hour break for Thanksgiving Dinner with mom at a nearby restaurant (the Gandy Dancer).
Today Maggie and I each worked about 7 hours.
Tomorrow Maggie will work several hours.
Sunday Maggie will work a couple of hours and I will work several hours.
And the kicker? We're both salaried, and this is considered part of the job. So we're not getting paid a cent for all this extra work time. And we don't get any time off in exchange for it either.
When hourly employees work the holiday, they get overtime pay for it. We get zilch.
Overstuffed with stuffing. And turkey and potatoes and sweet potatoes and pumpkin pie and pickles and olives and warm bread and gravy and, of course, green jello salad.
That's how we do Thanksgiving Day here. I think the Canadians have something a week or so back called Remembrance Day. Is that from across the pond?
Good. On the bus heading to the pub for my birthday drink. Wishing I had remembered to charge my mobile phone. But no idiot boy had to be an idiot boy.
Slightly nervous I will spend 3 hours alone in a pub but then I always am.
Hm. That's more like our Memorial Day. Thanksgiving is a day for.. uh.. giving.. thanks. And ... there's a bunch of politically incorrect history surrounding it.
But traditionally it involves obscene amounts of food, especially food containing naturally occurring sedatives like L-Triptophan and then falling asleep in front of a television playing nine hours of football. American football. American footballs have pointy ends. But other than that I'm sure it's almost exactly like soccer.
Or perhaps I'm still sedated from the L-Triptophan.
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Date: 2009-11-27 11:14 pm (UTC)How are you doing?
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Date: 2009-11-28 02:01 am (UTC)Coworker Maggie and I got assigned the Thanksgiving Holiday this year. This means we have to come in and do anything critical that has to be done in the lab on Thursday and Friday, and anything the regular weekend person can't cover on Saturday and Sunday.
I should clarify that everyone in the lab gets one holiday to work per year. Most of these are one day plus a weekend, so if the regular weekend person works, each of the 2 people is probably only going to have to come in once for 2-4 hours of work.
The big boss has a big project underway, which involves lots of tedious work. It's come to a head for this holiday weekend. Which could have been predicted.
So, Maggie and I each worked for about 5 hours yesterday on Thanksgiving Day. I also took a one hour break for Thanksgiving Dinner with mom at a nearby restaurant (the Gandy Dancer).
Today Maggie and I each worked about 7 hours.
Tomorrow Maggie will work several hours.
Sunday Maggie will work a couple of hours and I will work several hours.
And the kicker? We're both salaried, and this is considered part of the job. So we're not getting paid a cent for all this extra work time. And we don't get any time off in exchange for it either.
When hourly employees work the holiday, they get overtime pay for it. We get zilch.
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Date: 2009-11-28 10:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-28 06:31 am (UTC)That's how we do Thanksgiving Day here. I think the Canadians have something a week or so back called Remembrance Day. Is that from across the pond?
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Date: 2009-11-28 06:32 pm (UTC)Wishing I had remembered to charge my mobile phone. But no idiot boy had to be an idiot boy.
Slightly nervous I will spend 3 hours alone in a pub but then I always am.
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Date: 2009-11-28 10:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-29 05:58 am (UTC)But traditionally it involves obscene amounts of food, especially food containing naturally occurring sedatives like L-Triptophan and then falling asleep in front of a television playing nine hours of football. American football. American footballs have pointy ends. But other than that I'm sure it's almost exactly like soccer.
Or perhaps I'm still sedated from the L-Triptophan.