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 Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2017 6:55 pm
Stressful weekend as my best friend from college lives between the keys & the everglades and stayed at home (his family are hardened hurricane veterans who know how to prepare and hunker down). Aside from not having power; they were lucky to not suffer any severe property damage or flooding.
How was your weekend?
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Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2017 1:15 am
I have a couple good friends down in Florida, myself. thankfully they have also checked in as 'safe.' Combined with friends in Port Aransas, Tx, seems my extended relations are all recovering from some massive storms.
As for me, I am alright. The new job site is treating me far better, but it involves a bit of a commute. I am still waiting for paychecks reflecting the greater hours, so things continue to be tight financially. Unfortunately, there is not much else to report. Just making do with things.
I have been looking into RPNation, what welian suggested, but am having trouble pulling that particular trigger for some reason.
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Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2017 6:02 am
Glad the new location ash reduced your stress.
And now I finally have a week vacation after 9 blasted months. crying
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Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2017 8:47 am
I am very glad that you are having a rest. Goodness knows I've harped you about taking it easier. *hugs*
As for the job, yes. It is worlds better. I'm having to relearn a few things because they are done differently there . . . but that is a small price to pay. We laugh, tease, and have a good time for the most part. The only drawback are a tendency for 9 and 10 hour days. That is being worked on, but it does wreck my body to work so long. The company says I have to have a 20 minute break in there, but having 20 minutes three hours in means a good six and a half hours without a stop. It's hard. Thankfully, I did tell my boss that I'm not much good on such long shifts, so that seems to be changing quickly.
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Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2017 9:37 pm
Even with the few issues, having an understanding management makes everything easier.
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Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2017 1:07 am
i am happy to say it is not just management. Coworkers are far less clique-based and catty. Only one individual is a bit intense, be we seem to be coming to an understanding on things and joke about. When it gets busy, we concentrate on the job as expected, but other times conversations pop up that honestly make me say to myself "I love this store!" A phrase that never came from me in my last location. By far this is still the bottom of my barrel as far as job choices, but the situation is vastly improved.
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Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2017 3:42 pm
This week is just flying by.
Very glad the coworkers act like adults for the most part. Too many children/teens in adult's bodies these days... *curmudgeonly grumbling*
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Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2017 6:53 am
Indeed. There is one woman that has worked for the company for 20+ years, and she is a bit of a task to deal with. Still, I cannot argue she isn't good at it or doesn't know what she is doing. We have a hit or miss kind of working relationship thus far. We can joke and laugh, or rub the wrong way. Either way, I do not dread working with her so that is a good thing. If she is the worst to deal with, then things are indeed looking up.
There is another woman that is a bit of an emotional font that just won't stop no matter how hard others try to make her, but I can just nod, look sympathetic, and leave her alone. feh.
My only real complaint is the job likes to give 9 and 10 hour days. It gets incredibly old to be on your feet for that long with only a 20 minute break in the entirety of the shift.
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Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2017 9:34 pm
Yeah, 20 minutes is too little break time for such a long shift. Surprised your state doesn't mandate 30 minutes minimum.
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Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2017 9:15 am
I believe the state requires any shift longer than 4 hours to have some sort of break . . . but doesn't mandate just how many minutes it is.
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Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2017 8:38 pm
Ah, that's too bad. States being given autonomy is a blessing & a curse.
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Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2017 1:09 pm
Government is a blessing and a curse, old friend. States are but branches of the overarching whole that can provide untold good while simultaneously imposing brobdingnagian harm.
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Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2017 12:03 pm
Ideally, though, giving the states more ability to self-govern allows for competition through the populations of those states leaving. Of course, we're presently far from that original intent.
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Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2017 2:06 am
Ideally . . . the proviso that means "how it should be, but rarely ever is." We are meant to be the United States of America, and yet the capitalist ideology that we have exalted for so long has finally started to collapse. Competition can be healthy, but when it comes to the extremes that we have used it for, then it becomes folly. States should not be competing for population! stressed
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Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2017 1:34 pm
Personally I don't feel it is the capitalism itself that's failing as much as it is all the things done to hamstring said capitalism that are making the system perform poorly, but it's impossible to say.
I didn't mean direct competition. Just that the states that did things better would naturally accrue more people over time.
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