Thursday, January 27, 2011

An end of day conversation

My boss: How late are you planning on staying?

Me:  I don't know - I'm on a roll, and if I have the information I need, I may stay a bit to finish up.  If I don't have everything, I'll send out info requests and go home.  Are you kicking me out?

No, but someone needs to kick [name of hourly co-worker] out soon.  Administrators can stay as late as they like.

(laughing) Right - kick out the expensive time-and-a-half people, but let the people whose wages essentially go down for every hour of unpaid overtime they work stay as long as they want.

Yep.

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I'm going home now.  It's only been eleven hours...Monday it was twelve.  Suddenly, I'm not feeling so guilty about the two days this week I was out sick this week, since I already have one of them fully made up.  Grateful as I am for good, steady work, I could really use a smidge less of it.

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