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dragonlady7This is a reply to Eggplantia5's comment to my previous post, here:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/dragonlady7/283335.html?replyto=435399
As has been the case for three weeks now, I still can't post comments.
Fabulous, no?
She linked to this article: http://abcnews.go.com/sections/business/US/vacation_030625.html
So, here's the comment:
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I get comments. It's email I have trouble with. *sigh*
And replying to comments. I haven't been able to for weeks, reliably.
Oh well.
We'll see if this one goes through.
As for your article, it's so true.
We're overworked here at my co., but it's not even like me being here more days or more hours in a day would help. What our problem really is, is that the management structure is incomplete. I'm not effectively being told what to do, and so am being less productive than I could be if I knew what to do.
So...
I'm going to have to take some unpaid days. I've already taken unpaid days. I had to go to Buffalo for dave's dad's funeral; that cost me nearly $200 in missed time. And I have to go to San Diego with Dave, because I want to-- that will probably cost me closer to $400 in missed days.
I think they'll let me take the days, but it makes it awfully hard for me to make ends meet when I'm barely shaving by as it is. Especially when you add in how much the plane ticket is going to cost.
I despair of ever getting ahead. My student loans alone-- I owe more than my annual salary.
ARGH.
A vacation would surely help, and it's disgusting how much time the Europeans get-- my aunt in Norway has a month and a half accrued and no time to take it unless they hire her the assistant she needs. But she's considering just going anyway. And she could, and wouldn't lose her job. It's just expected. Mind you that's accrued after her usual annual 2-week vacation...
I'm horribly jealous.
I get 2 weeks... after a year. Next January I'll be eligible. The temptation is to schedule a holiday for then. But then... i'll be in the same position as I am now.
Dave really wants to go to the lake where his father died. When will we have time? Not this year, surely. Unless he wants to go alone.
Sigh... I don't do well with this 9-5 M-F Jan-Dec schedule.
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http://www.livejournal.com/users/dragonlady7/283335.html?replyto=435399
As has been the case for three weeks now, I still can't post comments.
Fabulous, no?
She linked to this article: http://abcnews.go.com/sections/business/US/vacation_030625.html
So, here's the comment:
"
I get comments. It's email I have trouble with. *sigh*
And replying to comments. I haven't been able to for weeks, reliably.
Oh well.
We'll see if this one goes through.
As for your article, it's so true.
We're overworked here at my co., but it's not even like me being here more days or more hours in a day would help. What our problem really is, is that the management structure is incomplete. I'm not effectively being told what to do, and so am being less productive than I could be if I knew what to do.
So...
I'm going to have to take some unpaid days. I've already taken unpaid days. I had to go to Buffalo for dave's dad's funeral; that cost me nearly $200 in missed time. And I have to go to San Diego with Dave, because I want to-- that will probably cost me closer to $400 in missed days.
I think they'll let me take the days, but it makes it awfully hard for me to make ends meet when I'm barely shaving by as it is. Especially when you add in how much the plane ticket is going to cost.
I despair of ever getting ahead. My student loans alone-- I owe more than my annual salary.
ARGH.
A vacation would surely help, and it's disgusting how much time the Europeans get-- my aunt in Norway has a month and a half accrued and no time to take it unless they hire her the assistant she needs. But she's considering just going anyway. And she could, and wouldn't lose her job. It's just expected. Mind you that's accrued after her usual annual 2-week vacation...
I'm horribly jealous.
I get 2 weeks... after a year. Next January I'll be eligible. The temptation is to schedule a holiday for then. But then... i'll be in the same position as I am now.
Dave really wants to go to the lake where his father died. When will we have time? Not this year, surely. Unless he wants to go alone.
Sigh... I don't do well with this 9-5 M-F Jan-Dec schedule.
"
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Date: 2003-06-26 04:45 am (UTC)We're a small company, too, and a small company of cheap bastards. If it sounds generous, they don't do it. For example, we don't get paid lunch breaks. We have to take them out of the middle of the day and work an extra half hour at the end. Miserly? Yes. Stupid? Yes. Galling? Yes.
So, it sucks.
We get 2 weeks of paid vacation a year. We have to request vacation time ahead of time.
We get 1 personal or sick day a month, which we can take at any time, either together with vacation, or separately.
That's great, if you never get sick or have a family emergency.
I blew through every one of mine and then some when Dave's dad died and I had to go to Buffalo. That cost me about $200... and now I want to go to San Diego this summer. Well... I have two days, one of which i have to take so i can go to a doctor's appointment.
It's maddening; I'll have to take an unpaid day to go see Dave's family out there. Oh well.
And I just can't bear to take a day just for sanity's sake, which I'd love to do. Because i'd spend the whole day thinking, if only I hadn't taken this day, i could've added it onto some cool trip we could've taken, which we won't now.
It sucks. I just want to have enough time to myself to think. But I don't have it, so I sit around at work doing nothing because i can't think. It costs them money, really.
Ah well. Too fuckin' bad. It's their loss too and I shouldn't worry.