Work.

Monday #2 at new job, actually feeling quite pos about this latest move within public labyrinthine system

so...I don't think I've got it. Despite having worked here for four years. Great.

till 67 or 68.

I tend to assume that I'll need to work until 72 (presuming I live so long).

Ive only got 34 years left, that is 103% of a me

Yep, just lost my job.

vice is a flighty bride iirc

if only they were my employer

makes sense they were yr bit on the side akshully lol

not sure what me writing for them has to do with me losing my actual job/source on income but keep it coming m8

sorry to hear that dwight, good luck

Sorry mayne

I somewhat foolishly assumed that was yr main job

thats pretty shit, nothing like uk 2k14 more than summary re-interviewing for long term employees

hope shit sorts itself out

http://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/01/in-the-name-of-love/

Cheers lads. It's a bastard this. Feels incredibly embarrassing to be in work today surrounded by the colleagues on the panel who don't think I'm up to the job.

times like this i always wish there was a neat Youtube of the closing line from Patty Hearst

Sorry to hear that DY.

till 67 or 68.

I tend to assume that I'll need to work until 72 (presuming I live so long).

― Word Salad Username (j.lu), Monday, January 27, 2014 12:20 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It's thinking of it this way that made me decide to go back to school to train as a nurse practitioner because although I'm unlikely to finish before I'm 40 I figure it'll be worth it to do something I really want to do for probably around 30 years.

According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, the two fastest-growing occupations projected until 2020 are “Personal Care Aide” and “Home Care Aide,” with average salaries of $19,640 per year and $20,560 per year in 2010, respectively.

do you need a personal care aide to assist you w/ that

no i'm good, mine already caught it in a tupperware to feed to her children later

"hey lets get excited about Microsoft one note! Lets introduce some new shit software from microsft into our daily routine! more things to go wrong! more confusion ! yay!!"
What the hell is wrong with Word anyway

i'm finally getting a fuckin office

hell ya

^ like growing up in a big family an finally getting your own bedroom. enjoy!

wow, quite rare in the modern world. well done!

my cubicle has pretty high dividers ... almost feels like an office :'-(

don't even get to sit in the same seat every day

want an office ffs

"hot-desking"

I have an office. My office door is closed as we speak so no one has to watch me shove a sandwich into my mouth while I split my time between working and posting to ILX.

cubicle used to have high dividers. they're lower ones now.

happy there is no plans for open office redesigns

it is kinda neat that i feel like josh from big sometimes

Question this morning. If an officer was suspended without pay for going through handbags at work, but after admitting the offence but claiming he was looking for knickers, the CMO then diagnosing a psychosexual malady: does the suspension period become reckonable after the fact?

We're back with the answer after the break.

A: reckonable.

One of my colleagues told me tonight that "If you think I give a shit about work, I've really pulled a hood over your head."

knickers in a handbag?
I know I know, it's serious

I think you have glanced briefly and underestimated this guy's genius.

Else I need to explain better.

Prob the latter.

Some guy caught in the work cloakroom putting the 'hand' in 'handbag'.

Off you go sonny, special leave unpaid. Prosecute. Goes to court. The service will obv await results pending etc before making any decision.

On the day of testimony it comes all a sudden out that he wasn't, as you might have thought, seeking out the few fivers, which being a very understandable and typical urge has been long dealt with with the old heave-ho and good luck for the road.

He was looking for knickers. Any knickers (well, lady's knickers). Fella was mad for knickers. Obsessed. Compelled, by christ (important comma), for knickers. So much so that it seemed as reasonable as not to him on the day he was caught that there'd be a worthwhile chance of knickers in the bag in question, even if the chances of success were low it was a risk he was willing to take on the off chance of knickers.

Pure soft in the head, the poor bastard, for knickers.

He had a specialist in with him to shake his head sadly but professionally over the case and confirm that this wasn't theft, not a bit of it, it was the tragic manifestation of an untreated and poorly understood psychosexual - how impressed am I that my phone can autocorrect for psychosexual by the way- affliction and the man was no more guilty of the charge than you could be guilty of sneezing while nosetickled.

End result if theft: sacked, time served until offence reckoned as pensionable, time off since unpaid and unreckonable. Reputation ruined. No prospects but the boat.

End result if knickers: reinstated, time off since offence now held to be medical leave, backpaid and reckonable. Reputation ruined but in a more interesting fashion. No prospects of advancement but there's worse fates than a quiet, low-level career and your colleagues s-knickering about you every now and again.

Outcome: Court ruled knickers. Thirty years later dmac lets out a low whistle of appreciation when going through the file, shares with internet.

Wait, is this on 77?

https://www.glassdoor.com/Award/Best-Places-to-Work-LST_KQ0,19.htm

facebook will stop at nothing

also cool that in n out is in the top 5

interesting list though because i worked with one of the companies on this list and liked it, and was offered a job at another one that is actually ranked higher, but didn't take it because they seemed so poorly managed and lots of miscommunication (could be team based though)

btw 'careers' - overrated imo. (but then i'm young and will no doubt learn)

― quiz show flat-track bully (darraghmac), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 10:05 (seven years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Irish public sector, housing schemes. 3 years, 1 more until I'm permanent, damned glad to get it when I did, as long as things stay as bad as they are I'll stick with it and get experience. Can't see myself doing it for the next 40 years but pension, conditions, training & opportunities all pretty good so there's a good chance I'll slowly smother my 16 yr old self and settle for it in the long run.

The easiest way to get fired? Irish public service doesn't do 'fired' short of fraud or very inappropriate material being found on yr drive. If I make it through the next 12 months I'll be ok (lots of cuts going on at the moment)

― quiz show flat-track bully (darraghmac), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 10:15 (seven years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This fucking guy

My job is going to change beginning Monday in ways i am certain will make me miserable. Looking for a job elsewhere however seems hopeless and even more draining.

i'm pretty sure they let me 'transition' to this new post purely bcz they don't wanna fire the cancer guy. So there's that!

sweeet

there's this thing people do where they're sick but they work from home. i don't get it. if you're sick just be sick and rest up. 9 times out of 10 these people mysteriously linger on in half-sickness all week. i wonder why! occasionally it'll not even be full-on ill but "not feeling great, going to work from home today". nice for some!

sad!

I mean, I get 6 sick days a year, so I wouldn't want to use one unless I'm genuinely incapacitated

right i get that. i mean it's medieval but i get it. not the situation where i work though.

idk it's made sense to me. maybe you've got snot streaming down your face and sneezing every 0.5 seconds, or you've got bad cramps, but otherwise feel ok. The extra hour or so in bed not having to commute/ put on uncomfortable clothes will actually help you get better in the long run/ not spread it around and you know if you just left a day of work completely un-done it'd be even worse when you get back.

so it's quite nice to monitor email, get the important things done but know you can go and lie down or stuff tissues up your nose if it gets worse without having to make a big deal of leaving the office again

yeah i have this feeling that there's something irrational or even controlling about my attitude towards this, idk

Makes sense to me as well. As well as not spreading germs, it means you can avoid letting people down through leaving work undone, and also make sure sure you don't come back to a stressful to do list.

but yeah if you're doing it all the time instead of using a sick day, and not really doing any work, you should be asked to decide if you're taking a sick day or working.

Well 2 weeks ago my grad student made a big show of dragging herself into work while still sick. Promptly infected myself and maybe 6 other people with her heavy cold, some of whom took sick leave. I had the cold but wasn’t ill enough to not be working, so I stayed home to avoid spreading it.
By the way I also hold the current record for not taking my annual leave like I should, am owed three years’ worth, so I’m not exactly milking it.