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kindkitOn Thursday I finished an eight-day work week. It was voluntary-ish on my part, in that a project I ended up organizing big chunks of (despite not officially having the title/authority one would associate with that kind of thing) went live on Wednesday, and I thought I should be there Tuesday and Wednesday (my normal weekend) in case of glitches. I was not wrong, by the way: there were glitches and unthought-of details like "maybe the obvious URL error customers might make when trying to access the website [think plural vs singular] should redirect to the right page instead of just throwing up a 404 error."
Now I have my delayed weekend, and then I'm back at work for 2 days on Sunday/Monday and then I get my regular weekend. Still tired though. Still frustrated with my job, where I keep ending up responsible for things no one else has time for or wants to do (or, often, has the knowledge to do), and I'm happy to do that because I like organizing stuff but also I would like my pay and recognition within the company to reflect that I am doing work now that involves big projects and coordinating multiple departments across several locations. (My store management is great; they see what I do and they've fought to get me better pay. But upper management--and we are a co-op with four locations, not a giant corporation--I think sees what I do but they just don't give a fuck. Supposedly upper management is planning on creating a higher-level job that would be responsible for . . . the things I do already, except officially across all the stores. Someday. Maybe. And even if they do, I'd have to apply of course, and who knows if they'd want to hire me for it or someone with better-looking credentials on paper.)
They are lucky that (a) I mostly enjoy what I do despite the frustrations, and I don't reasonably see a better job elsewhere at my age, (b) I have a certain amount of inertia because I hate job hunting, (c) the fact that it's a pretty queer- and trans-supportive workplace means a lot to me, and (d) the health insurance is really really good.
And I should go to the laundromat today but I don't wanna. Grumble grumble as hard as I work I should be able to afford an apartment with a washer and dryer.
Anyway, I owe a bunch of people replies, which I will try to get to. I want to make another post about OFMD S2 now that a little time has passed. And I'll be talking more about Taskmaster, possibly today; my condolences.
Now I have my delayed weekend, and then I'm back at work for 2 days on Sunday/Monday and then I get my regular weekend. Still tired though. Still frustrated with my job, where I keep ending up responsible for things no one else has time for or wants to do (or, often, has the knowledge to do), and I'm happy to do that because I like organizing stuff but also I would like my pay and recognition within the company to reflect that I am doing work now that involves big projects and coordinating multiple departments across several locations. (My store management is great; they see what I do and they've fought to get me better pay. But upper management--and we are a co-op with four locations, not a giant corporation--I think sees what I do but they just don't give a fuck. Supposedly upper management is planning on creating a higher-level job that would be responsible for . . . the things I do already, except officially across all the stores. Someday. Maybe. And even if they do, I'd have to apply of course, and who knows if they'd want to hire me for it or someone with better-looking credentials on paper.)
They are lucky that (a) I mostly enjoy what I do despite the frustrations, and I don't reasonably see a better job elsewhere at my age, (b) I have a certain amount of inertia because I hate job hunting, (c) the fact that it's a pretty queer- and trans-supportive workplace means a lot to me, and (d) the health insurance is really really good.
And I should go to the laundromat today but I don't wanna. Grumble grumble as hard as I work I should be able to afford an apartment with a washer and dryer.
Anyway, I owe a bunch of people replies, which I will try to get to. I want to make another post about OFMD S2 now that a little time has passed. And I'll be talking more about Taskmaster, possibly today; my condolences.
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Date: 2023-11-06 03:21 am (UTC)