Monday, June 30, 2008
Vacation my buttock
Grrr. Here I am on the first day of "vacation," at my kitchen table fixin' to start about a half-day of work. Work-work. Simply could not get it done, even after working 12:30 to 5 p.m. yesterday.
Well, at least I have two barely domesticated domestic shorthairs, Ice-T and Eames, over on the Route 66-themed futon, boxin' each other's ears and carryin' on.
And Dr. ER is still snoozing; poor sweetiepie; she's still trying to get caught up on sleep after about a year's worth of insane travel; one spate had her away from Boulder, and the Hole (what she calls her studio apartment) for four solid weeks.
Still not sure what up with the demise of her gig -- but the boss man turned out to be unreasonable at best, a passive-aggressive tyrant at worst.
Work beckons.
Oh, on a lighter note: Viva Watermelon! (This might explain my summertime obsession with the sweet, pink, succulent fruitmeat ... excuse me mm-hmm wow gotta go.) ;-)
--ER
P.S. The picture on the link cracks me UP.
Well, at least I have two barely domesticated domestic shorthairs, Ice-T and Eames, over on the Route 66-themed futon, boxin' each other's ears and carryin' on.
And Dr. ER is still snoozing; poor sweetiepie; she's still trying to get caught up on sleep after about a year's worth of insane travel; one spate had her away from Boulder, and the Hole (what she calls her studio apartment) for four solid weeks.
Still not sure what up with the demise of her gig -- but the boss man turned out to be unreasonable at best, a passive-aggressive tyrant at worst.
Work beckons.
Oh, on a lighter note: Viva Watermelon! (This might explain my summertime obsession with the sweet, pink, succulent fruitmeat ... excuse me mm-hmm wow gotta go.) ;-)
--ER
P.S. The picture on the link cracks me UP.
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I hope the doc's getting the rest she deserves.
I think I need to go the store for a watermelon...
I think I need to go the store for a watermelon...
# posted by 
: 1:56 PM
: 1:56 PM
Ah work, I remember those days.
Back in 1976 when I first started at the Office I eventually had a "career" at, I worked 13 and one half months the first year. That's 43.3 work hours per week. At the point I decide that I should retire I was working 62.5 work hours per week average.
My annual average pay increases were off set by my annual average increase in work hours expected.
Now I read that the average full time non- farm worker works 47 hours per week. Of that group 40% work more than 50 hours per week. Now here are the kickers,a cell phone will push your work hours up by 10% or more, and if you own a Blackberry that is used in your work you work an average of 71 hours per week.
You know we can solve this labor problem by simply breaking these jobs up into the old 40 hour a week jobs. And ,oh by the way, let's make that the East Coast American 40 hour week, you know the 9 to 5 with the paid lunch. From the Central Time Zone west lunches are not work time and you are not paid for them, thus we have the 8 to 5 work day. Why nobody is on that dog like a tick I don't know. The 40 hour week in Oklahoma is actually a 45 hour week.
Check this out about Blackberry Pay:
http://www.news.com.au/story/
0,23599,23621331-1702,00.html
Tell Dr. ER to smash her Blackberry and bury her cell phone.
Time to move into a yurt and buy 60acres with a well on it over by Shawnee, raise some Yaks and sell their milk and butter and hair for big bucks. (Say has anybody ever tried to cross a bison and a yak?)
Back in 1976 when I first started at the Office I eventually had a "career" at, I worked 13 and one half months the first year. That's 43.3 work hours per week. At the point I decide that I should retire I was working 62.5 work hours per week average.
My annual average pay increases were off set by my annual average increase in work hours expected.
Now I read that the average full time non- farm worker works 47 hours per week. Of that group 40% work more than 50 hours per week. Now here are the kickers,a cell phone will push your work hours up by 10% or more, and if you own a Blackberry that is used in your work you work an average of 71 hours per week.
You know we can solve this labor problem by simply breaking these jobs up into the old 40 hour a week jobs. And ,oh by the way, let's make that the East Coast American 40 hour week, you know the 9 to 5 with the paid lunch. From the Central Time Zone west lunches are not work time and you are not paid for them, thus we have the 8 to 5 work day. Why nobody is on that dog like a tick I don't know. The 40 hour week in Oklahoma is actually a 45 hour week.
Check this out about Blackberry Pay:
http://www.news.com.au/story/
0,23599,23621331-1702,00.html
Tell Dr. ER to smash her Blackberry and bury her cell phone.
Time to move into a yurt and buy 60acres with a well on it over by Shawnee, raise some Yaks and sell their milk and butter and hair for big bucks. (Say has anybody ever tried to cross a bison and a yak?)
Speaking of melons, I once had a dog that loved water melons. Don't know why. But she love them so much that she was know locally as our melon collie.
Dr. Lobojo,
I suspect if you crossed a bison with a yak, you'd get something that looked quite similar to ER.
Tee Hee Hee.
The last time I got paid for working OT was when I worked with ER. Most jobs I've had, it was just a given that you worked a little OT.
Unless you're in management. The last job I had, I was in such a post. Average work week: 80 hours. Average hourly pay worked out to be less than $4.50.
Time away from family equaled crapola.
It only took me 14 months to find something better.
I suspect if you crossed a bison with a yak, you'd get something that looked quite similar to ER.
Tee Hee Hee.
The last time I got paid for working OT was when I worked with ER. Most jobs I've had, it was just a given that you worked a little OT.
Unless you're in management. The last job I had, I was in such a post. Average work week: 80 hours. Average hourly pay worked out to be less than $4.50.
Time away from family equaled crapola.
It only took me 14 months to find something better.
Re, "if you own a Blackberry that is used in your work you work an average of 71 hours per week."
Dr. ER says, "Seems low to me."
BTW, I have managed to keep my cell phone almost devoid of work-related calls. My boss has my number. When I make photo assignments sometimes I put my cell phone on them. My assistant calls me sometimes. Oh and one bidness associate not of my workplace has my number and calls it once in a while.
Other than that, work is work and my cell phone is my cell phone: It's there to make my life easier, not more difficult.
Dr. ER says, "Seems low to me."
BTW, I have managed to keep my cell phone almost devoid of work-related calls. My boss has my number. When I make photo assignments sometimes I put my cell phone on them. My assistant calls me sometimes. Oh and one bidness associate not of my workplace has my number and calls it once in a while.
Other than that, work is work and my cell phone is my cell phone: It's there to make my life easier, not more difficult.
Melon memory: One of my favorite things to do in the summertime as a kid was to feed waermelon rinds to cattle. Don't know why but I was faskinated watchin' them half-gum the things.
Oh, I don't get OT. But I DO keep track of time owed to me. And right now it's at 30 hours. I see some three-day weekends in my future. Or another week off.
I think I know how that whole watermelon-viagra thing works. A watermelon is almost 100% water; since the male libido responds through sending blood to certain parts of the body, and more water intake (including via watermelon) increases the production of blood, I sense a certain amount of efficiency going on here.
As to working on vacation, unpaid overtime, paid overtime, etc., all I can say is the only way to avoid that is to insist that vacation time is just that. When I went on vacation back in March, a couple of my superiors were less than pleased. I said that the work I did was done by others before I arrived, and would be done by others once I was gone. My place of employment would survive one week without me. Whether one is the clerk in a convenience store or a newspaper editor or the CEO of a Fortune 100 company - vacation is necessary, and we Americans don't get enough of it as it is, and we work far too much when we do work (I am no different in this regard than anyone else; when I work, I WORK not just in terms of hours, but in terms of my attempt to do quality work). Yet, we should feel neither guilt nor neglect when we take our leave for our own recreation. It is necessary for survival. As a survivor of a variety of jobs, wearing collars from blue to white, I can only say that neglecting oneself leads to all sorts of complications.
Tell 'em to take a flying leap, dude.
As to working on vacation, unpaid overtime, paid overtime, etc., all I can say is the only way to avoid that is to insist that vacation time is just that. When I went on vacation back in March, a couple of my superiors were less than pleased. I said that the work I did was done by others before I arrived, and would be done by others once I was gone. My place of employment would survive one week without me. Whether one is the clerk in a convenience store or a newspaper editor or the CEO of a Fortune 100 company - vacation is necessary, and we Americans don't get enough of it as it is, and we work far too much when we do work (I am no different in this regard than anyone else; when I work, I WORK not just in terms of hours, but in terms of my attempt to do quality work). Yet, we should feel neither guilt nor neglect when we take our leave for our own recreation. It is necessary for survival. As a survivor of a variety of jobs, wearing collars from blue to white, I can only say that neglecting oneself leads to all sorts of complications.
Tell 'em to take a flying leap, dude.
The 71 hours was the average. Dr. ER probably set the top one percentile of the distribution which brought the frickin average up that high.
Overtime? The only reason I even know how many hours we worked is because every once in a while we had to fill out these time on task type reports on Federal grants. Even with all that shit I still would be reprimanded for not getting to work on time or leaving early.
Like that theory on the water mellon water.
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Overtime? The only reason I even know how many hours we worked is because every once in a while we had to fill out these time on task type reports on Federal grants. Even with all that shit I still would be reprimanded for not getting to work on time or leaving early.
Like that theory on the water mellon water.
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