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[dragonlady7]

This 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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[eggplantia5.livejournal.com]

i've never been effectively told what to do. we used to have an actual training system, but now it's whoever has time trains whoever's new. so basically we do our work by one large game of telephone. i spent the first 3 months of my job being completely and utterly bored and useless (as you may remember because i spent literally half the day im-ing you those days) and the only reason i actually got work to do was my immediate boss quit and they decided not to replace her. and it still took another year for me to get decently busy as i am now, but that is only because people are idiots (including myself) and i have to do everything in 3 different ways to get everything "closed down."

but i feel your pain, i do. your big boss sucks in a very dilbert-esque way and your supervisor could really be more helpful. just adopt this mantra- "it won't be forever, it won't be forever." it's really kind of scary how quickly a year does pass by, even though while you're in the year, it feels like eternity.