Can you apply for the permanent admin job?
That’s generally (and from what CW says it applies in this case) forbidden in the original contract. If she got hired, the company would have to pay the temp company a fee; in many of those contracts, there is a fee CW would have to pay the temp agency if she went behind their back (I’ve seen cases where the fee was roughly equivalent to three months’ salary).
I’ve been notified my current contract will be over at the end of the month: no surprise (the part I do will not be needed in the next few months), and it’s actually pretty nice that they’ve told me almost 30 days in advance (the standard would have been 15, for this contract length), but now I have to tell Mom… on Saturday, which will already be a day when she’ll be feeling lousy due to its not being her wedding anniversary any more. Dad’s birthday would have been last Friday, so the combination of the two dates always leads to her being in a horrible mood between mid-June and about the 10th of July. Dang.
Tonight, chocolate shall be had.
Yup, typical is a non-compete clause where you cannot be hired by the company to whom you are contracted for 6 months after you work there as a contractor. If you do, or are hired by them while on contract, they have to pay a fee that generally ranges anywhere from 8 to 25% of annual salary depending on how the contracting company works and what was negotiated.
Like right now on my job, I see a fuckload of internal openings I’d love to apply for, but as I’m on contract for another 13 months and then non-compete for six months after that, I’m outa luck.
I think all of the pages are intact…it’s becoming increasingly dog-eared though. (I’m sort of afraid to touch it…there are no ledges in the stalls. Where do you set it when you’ve…finished? The floor?
I think that’s it. For all of her other faults, the previous cleaning lady may have bothered to use a fresh bucket when cleaning the restrooms…this particular problem has only started in the last few months.
Oh boy. We have another mystery in the restroom…someone keeps leaving some kind of powder on the hand railings and the baseboard tile. Maybe there’s a powder monster instead of a smoke monster?
Some latex gloves come with powder on them. Maybe someone doesn’t want to touch the hand rails. I have no idea about the baseboards though.
There is a stall at the main county building that is always avoided by everyone in the know. Apparently a nursing mother went to pump and had a blowout. She wiped it up with papertowels and told the appropriate people, but wiping the stall walls isn’t in the janitoral staffs’ job discription and the wall hasn’t been cleaned. The kid is now walking and talking but the substance is still there.
My rant: I was at the RatKing’s lair and got bit by his spider minions. One of the bites looks a lot like the pics of wounds caused by a brown recluse. While googling it, I found this interesting advice.
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•Do not apply electricity to the area. Anecdotal reports of high voltage electrotherapy from common stun guns have never been shown to be effective in any scientific studies. This can also cause secondary burns and deepen tissue destruction. [/unquote]
Yeah, I think I’ll just call the doctor tomorrow.
flatlined, I wonder if you could go out on workman’s comp for that, say until your move date…
Yikes! looks at date stamp I hope by “tomorrow” you meant “today.” (I will admit, I LOLd at the idea of RatKing having his own minions.) Also, I highly recommend you not apply electricity.
The cleaning lady is using the restroom to cook cocaine into crack, obviously. Using baking soda from the office refrigerator and probably some Comet from the cleaning supply closet. That could be why the floors are still dirty.
Ahem…
Dear bitchy ex-co-workers,
Wait a minute…what’s that sound? Oh! Oh, my! It’s the sound of me getting a new job! That’s why I can happily tell you NO, I will NOT come back and help you out. You may all happily or otherwise go fuck yourselves.
You’re up shit creek without a paddle? Oh, baby…I’m so sorry. You probably should’ve thought about the possibilities when you insisted health reform would never a) be enacted and b) get upheld by the Supreme Court. My sympathies. No, really. Because your revenues have already dropped you way into the red since I’ve left (not necessarily as a direct result) and you now have a huge knowledge gap that you just. Can’t. Fill.
Awwww… If this weren’t so much fun I might even shed a tear. However, I wasted over three years of my life there being beaten down by Jackass Extraordinaire who, shockingly (or not) was fired for sexual harassment and embezzlement.
So verily I say unto thee, how do you like me now, bitches?
Go fuck yourselves over a barrel,
overlyverbose, who is standing on her side of the river yelling, “Nyah, nyah!”
Man, that musta felt good.
When I finally write my autobiography (which will be made almost entirely of made-up facts because my life is boring, but anyway), these will chapter titles.
Also: now I am humming the damned Toby Keith song. I hope you are happy of yourself.
I had thought of that, but it’s LOTS of powder…big clumps of it. The stuff I saw today appeared to have a greenish tint, so it’s probably Comet. That would also explain the sorry condition of the toilet bowls.
Oh, and the spider minions were uncalled for, and need to be destroyed with fire. Hope the wounds are doing better today, flatlined!
I do like the way you think!
Hey…I live in Arizona…if it doesn’t try to stick you, sting you or bite you…its not native.
I was just gobsmacked at the idea that if someone got bit by an unknown spider, a big mark with a black dot in the middle (which is why I thought it was a brown recluse…now I think it was just a black widow), lots of pain, swelling and itching they would pick between:
- Apply rubbing alcohol on the wound.
- Hi Opal
- Take a benadryl.
- Call a doctor or
- Taze yourself:eek::smack::eek:
You go, Girlfriend!!!
I was all up for the nuking the place from orbit idea. Sadly, the PTB seemed to think that was not a good idea. Something to do with budget problems. I think that if they had sold tickets, they could have paid for the bomb and still made money.
Heck, I’ll do it for free…random spiders that hide in stuff waiting to bite are icky. I don’t have a problem with the web spinners; I leave a lot of outside lights on at night, so I get to see plenty of clever (or lazy?) spiders taking advantage of the situation. That’s cool by me; if I’m walking outside, I know where to look so I can avoid them. What isn’t cool are the spiders that skitter out from under my dresser at 7 AM when I’m walking barefoot across the bedroom. shudder
Gently suggests that you do not move to Arizona. Also offers up the suggestion that you get some cats. My cats keep my home spider free. If you do choose to live in Arizona, never EVER go outside with bare feel. Trantulas live in small holes in the ground and come out at night.
On my personal pain level, it was about a 7. 1 is a misquito bite, 4 is getting too close to a jumping chola, eleventy hundred was the time I got stung by a trantula hawk. That one hurt so much that I couldn’t even cuss. All I could do was try to keep my feet under me while gasping in pain.
When I hobbled into work today, my boss filled out an accident report. On Monday, I will get a visit by Risk Management to talk to me about how to properly wear my protective gear. The garb is meant to protect me from attacking rats, not spiders. If they want me to wear another layer of heat trapping shit, I don’t know what I’m going to do. The only reason I haven’t quit already is because of my retirement options. November is soooo far away 
flatlined, If they want another layer, calmly suggest calling NASA for a space suit, they have little use for then right now, and they DO include cooling, which is something that you should be pointing out to them.
If they get snarky, just ask for the local OSHA office number in a sweet voice.
Of course, you may need to wash the floor after that…
You are all smart and stuff. I could get the reboxing done much faster if I had air conditioned clothes. Actually, my life would be much better during the summer if I had AC’d clothes.
I’m not too concerned about the Risk Management person talking to me. The last time we had a chat she just told me that it it hurts, don’t do it.
I was able to lace my boot up today. The bite still has a black mark in the middle, but the red hasn’t spread and it doesn’t hurt or iche. It was probably a black widow.
HOLY COW!!! I had no idea those things were available.
Would you come out here so we can get married and I can have your babies? I already have cats to help you sleep.
We will have to get divorced in 359 days and I can’t have kids…but you know what I mean!