That still means 2nd and 3rd shift workers are penalized due to their schedules, and not everyone has on-line access.
I’m fucking tired. That’s my rant. I recently added some new responsibilities to my roster and I’m overwhelmed. I’m just getting started with the week and already fucking wiped. I’ve got a grant breathing down my neck and an ass-busting HIIT workout scheduled first thing tomorrow. I’m so new to the workout thing, that’s making me tired, too. Also cramps, why not? I’ve been skipping my period for years, but why on earth would that preclude painful menstrual cramps? Going on day… Urrgh, 7.
Also, is anyone else freaked out by the Pentagon releasing UFO footage? What does it mean? Why now? I spook easy. If I can just get through this week, we’ll have Star Wars and Christmas and other good things.
Hope the moderating gig isn’t adding to your exhaustion. If so, maybe you can take a couple of days off (yeah, even if you’re a n00b).
Although for me, this place relieves the stress. And “unwipes” me (unless I stay up too late watching a trolly trainwreck).
Um yea, I am kinda worried about the ufo news. Crap that’s all I need. I live in the boonies, so of course any alien lifeforms would visit me first. But I do have hope they will be nice and not take out all my eyeball juice. That thing they showed on the news may be nothing, of course.
The first couple of days were stressful but I evened out pretty fast. Nothing really catastrophic has happened on the boards yet, but so far this seems like a good fit. It is currently the least of my concerns.
The main issue is work. I didn’t have a supervisor for over a year, which enabled me to slack off a lot. I got used to working from home and coming in whenever I wanted and had basically no structure. I just got a new boss, and I agreed to come into the office on specified days. Ultimately this is a great thing. I need the structure and the social time, and increased productivity will help me feel better. I’m capable of excellent work and looking forward to getting back to that. I really love my job.
But I struggle with prioritizing stuff due to ADHD and the sudden schedule change is throwing me for a loop. I’m used to staying up late, suddenly I’m getting up early. I’m used to getting stuff done whenever I have the time, now I have to schedule it really carefully. Then I got smacked with this big grant which added a bunch of time pressure. Add in the new exercise regimen, and I’m pretty bowled over. Today I left the house at 8am and returned home at 10pm. I am just not used to it! I consider this a transitional pain in the ass that ultimately will be good for me. I really don’t function well without structure and I’ve spent the last year floundering at home in my own inertia and just feeling kinda lonely and shitty about it. I’m an object who has been at rest for a very long time!
The Dope is good stress relief in moderation. The problem is the ADHD. I can spend the entire day compulsively posting here and then feel like shit for not getting anything done. Then there is the emotional strain when I don’t keep my ass out of certain threads that can do more harm than good if I spend too much time in them. I’m way more even-keeled than I used to be, but there’s still a cumulative stress effect. Even very minor conflicts can cause stress. I am both really personally open and really emotionally sensitive and it can be a deadly cocktail.
After over a year with no eczema flare ups at all, I’m suddenly having a proper one; skin red, painful and flaky, and I can’t sleep properly, which makes it worse, which stops me from sleeping…
No idea what’s triggered it. I’m not stressed out (well, I wasn’t until my skin started falling off), I’m not doing anything new, no new cleaning or skincare products or anything.
And of course it’s happened right before I visit the parents for Christmas, which means my mother will probably feel the need to tell me her latest suggested ‘cure’ for it :rolleyes:
I was going to say the same thing. My HMO has them. Their after-hours run until 11PM in some, but not all locations. There’s also the CVS Minute Clinics but it depends whether or not your insurance will cover a visit there. Mine doesn’t. I know you can use them without insurance, though, and their prices are supposedly lower than a doctor’s office. Some of my coworkers have used it in a pinch as well as an independent urgent care down the street from my current employer. The latter has hours until midnight.
I don’t know where you live, Broomstick, but I realize that it may sound like I’m speaking from privilege. I’ll let a simple cold pass but anything worse I’ll go to Urgent Care, take the hit, and forfeit the day’s pay so I can return to work perhaps the following day at least medicated enough so I’m not sneezing/dripping all over everything. I am blessed that I can do such without penalty and without much financial damage, and I realize how fragile that blessing is.
I fucking hate the way people pronounce Goebbels.
Now’s your chance to inform because I have no fucking clue how to pronounce it.
Like Gay-bles?
Regarding being sick at work - I am not a shift worker. I’m actually a project engineer. I get 5 sick days a year and 10 vacation days per year. Once I hit the 5 year mark, I’ll start accruing more vacation but I don’t have enough seniority. I also have a small daughter. This year, I used up the last of my sick days in August when I was in the car accident with the rest of them used when my daughter was sick earlier in the year. This is actually the first time I’m really sick this year and I don’t have vacation or sick time to use. It is also the BUSIEST time of year because we have to spend spend spend that precious capital money. My boss is super cool and usually tolerant of me working from home when needed but I can’t supervise contractors, write work permits or OK field installation from home. I am extremely privileged and I know this, but even then I have times when I just can’t stay home when I’m sick.
PS - I cannot work from home and care for my daughter at the same time. Company policy doesn’t strictly disallow it but, for me, I just can’t do it.
Our holiday turkey says “Goebbels, Goebbels, Goebbels!”
And, I was lucky at my last job to be able to come in sick, put crime scene tape across my cubicle “door”, and tell everyone “Sorry, gang, I am ‘seeeck like dawg’. I’m just going to hunch over my computer and not talk to anyone today.”
I got more done than I did on healthy days.
Ger-bells.
I am curious as to what way people are pronouncing “Goebbels” that Blank Slate hates, and how he thinks it should be pronounced.
From my high school German, many years ago, so I would welcome correction from a native German speaker:
“oe” or “ö” (o with an umlaut), in German, has a vowel sound that doesn’t exist in English. But you come close if you pronounce it “Ger-bells” (hard G) without actually pronouncing the R (or at least not pronouncing it very much).
I’m not a German speaker, native or otherwise, but coming back after a little googling amused me after finding this pronunciation: “Guh-bels (ˈɡœbəls), not ‘Gerbels’, which seems to be strangely popular among Americans”
There is nothing rational going on here. I just fucking hate it. 
I’m not sure we really want a society where the answer to sick workers is “give them enough drugs to get through the day”. It also leaves a person still contagious, even if they’re not actively dripping, which is problematic for workers who are handling things like food.
Also, getting a note from a doctor doesn’t do squat at my place of employment, unless you’re going for some sort of short term disability. It will not remove the penalty imposed on one’s attendance record for calling off for a day or two. So there is absolutely nothing to be gained by going to a doctor for a typical, self-limiting illness.
And what if that earlier car accident had led to your hospitalization? What if you’re ill enough to be admitted to the hospital? What would your employer do then?
The attitude of “can’t take time off work” can kill people - one notable example being Jim Henson, inventor of the muppets.
Several times in the past I’ve had coworkers collapse on the job, almost always a result of forcing themselves to come to work when sick and just getting sicker, resulting in more serious illness, complications, and hospital bills. Frankly, the attitudes that pressure people into coming to work when ill, and consider that OK, are inhumane.
I honestly don’t know. I know we have short term and long term disability coverage but I don’t know what happens if you have to use them suddenly. It scares me.
And you are right. We shouldn’t be expected to work when we are sick. We shouldn’t run so short staffed that no one has back ups. But we are. The weird thing is that I work for a Dutch company. Overseas, they take it very seriously and people are NOT expected to work. But, here, they just kind of expect the US to just soldier though.
I just feel like a terrible, horrible lazy, unmotivated, useless sack of humanity. I don’t work. Not in a unemployed way. I just don’t work. I raised my children and took care of things at home. I volunteered at every opportunity, (still do). If I get sick, i do it my leisure. It makes me feel bad that real people have to decide between a job or feeling better. I must have been living with my head buried, I didn’t know this was such a problem, seriously I didn’t. I am so sorry that people have go through this. Something needs to be done about it.
Our culture is really messed up about this even among more privileged professions. We had an intern at my husband’s graduate school collapse from exhaustion and spend a few days in the hospital, from pure overwork. The administration’s response was to deliver a lecture about self-care, as if being forced to work 80 hours a week didn’t somehow factor into that. Then when we lost our baby, they told my husband to take all the time he needed. He took a week off, in part because he had to be there for my surgery and the recovery. The entire rest of the semester was them just giving him all kinds of shit for taking time off.
Some fields are downright sociopathic about this. I’m glad he left academia. I don’t know how it was in other fields but clinical psych was just brutal. And don’t get me started on how they treated people with mental illness!