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- All over PA
Y'all got anymore of those extended holidays?
TGPWS 8: Hope it can only get better.
- Thread starter Prime
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- Location
- Glenside, PA
Some what?
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- Ontario Canada
Still on holidays until next Monday. The stupid provincial government here deicides to close the schools for another 2 weeks due to covid so the wife and i need to take turns home schooling the kiddos. Plus i still habe another 5 work days of vacation time to use before end of march
- Location
- Covington, Va
I got an extra 5 days thanks to some covid I'll trade you for feeling like a human
- Location
- Covington, Va
Finished Loki. Working on Hawkeye now.
- Location
- Hainesville IL
no sorry, is pepsi ok?
- Location
- Hainesville IL
also yes, this 6 day week is dragging ass.
- Location
- Caldwell, ID
- Location
- Denver Adjacent
ufck. Use it! Work to live. Don't live to work.
- Location
- Allen, Texas
Nice! Im ashamed of how much sick time I have. I literally never get sick really, and I dont have kids/wife so Im almost always here. I need to be better at taking off. I have 160 hours of PTO only because thats the maximum i can carry before they "take it" at the end of the year.
Since Covid, I havent gone anywhere really and done anything.
Sad.
- Location
- Covington, Va
I take every second they give me. I sold them my life at cut rate prices for years only to continually be given the worst foreman and salary support in the mill and the company to come after my retirement and insurance during contract negotiations because ours "doesn't line up with company standards".
Didn't hurt me one bit to take two days off last week to enjoy a vacation with my family.
- Location
- Covington, Va
Finished Hawkeye. That was pretty good!
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- Allen, Texas
I dont do resolutions, but I am focusing more on me and taking time for me this year. I bust my ass and answer calls all hours of the day/night. If I disappeared tomorrow, this place would still run. I need to learn that.
*he says sitting at his desk past closing time*
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- Covington, Va
They would have some rough days because there isn't anyone there that knows what I do about some of the equipment now (which is sad since I'm only 37) but they works get by without me just fine. I know that.
I wish that taking a salary job wasn't such a cut to my benefits and that the management would actually support you in those positions but there is NO benefit to moving upwards here. I'll keep turning my wrenches and hope they feed me a steady diet of young backs to do the heavy lifting when I'm finally worn out.
- Location
- Denver Adjacent
This is the way. Stockpiling leave is a bewildering concept to me. I use that shiat.
- Location
- Denver Adjacent
Come to gone this year.
- Location
- Denver Adjacent
Stop doing that
jsexton
Need Bigger Tires
- Location
- Lewis Center, OH
Don't forget to sanitize your breath. You know, for safety. A good bourbon should do the trick.
- Location
- Covington, Va
Good idea!
XterraRising
Bumpers Installed
- Location
- Utah
Derailed_75
Mud Clawson
- Location
- Danville Va
Its not as easy to do as you think. I know we are in somewhat the same field, I dont know you exact circumstance but for me I am a 23 year employee of a very small family run electronic security company. Theres a total of 8 employees 4 of which are part of the family. The 3 other non family employees are under 3 years. They can't do much without me. Im under paid, work my ass off and customers have my direct cell number so I get calls all the time. I am not suppose to ignore them because my phone is a company paid for phone.
With all that said these people are a second family to me. When my step son graduated Air force boot camp the owner used his card miles to give me, my wife and youngest free airline tickets from VA to San Antonio round trip. Its easier for me to get a day or at least time off for kids school programs. Basically anything family oriented I get without question, its actually harder to get time off for being sick than go to something for the kids.
One of my customers, local school system security director has approached me and is in the process of making a position for me to join there IT department as the low voltage specialists. The pay will be a good bit more, the hours a lot less, the benefits better, and the responsibilities less. But again these people are family. Hes been floating this idea for awhile and while if ts as good as he says I would take it but the thought has left me a few sleepless nights realizing this family that has depended on me for more than 2 decades will be left on their own.
So yeah saying work less is easy, doing it isn't as easy
- Location
- Caldwell, ID
I plan on it! The only reason I have 160,is because I carried 40 over from last year. I got 120 hours for 2022 on Jan 1st. My company gives you all your pto for the year gagt the start.
I wouldn't going to this one as well.
XterraRising
Bumpers Installed
- Location
- Utah
- Location
- Denver Adjacent
Are you hourly? Because then working more makes some kind of sense. shiat, if I was hourly my overtime rate would be over $80/hr. I'd gladly work 50-60 to get that money. But alas I'm salary. And while there are times that I need to work over 40 to meet deadlines and get shiat done, I try not to. Because I'd basically be working for free. Which isn't cool with me.
And yeah, I work in a rather large corporation with enough resources that if I go off grid for a week, it's not the end of the world.
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- Livermore, CA
From what I’ve seen you post, you’re like me. The work would still run, but there would be some cool stuff that you created for them that would stop being maintained and stop working, and they would be stuck using the out of the box solutions. Which ultimately would be their problem, not yours. Caring about it is an internal struggle I have anytime I’m interviewing/interested in a position somewhere else.
Derailed_75
Mud Clawson
- Location
- Danville Va
Yeah I'm hourly and while the OT is nice working 50 hours a week and getting called after hours gets old.
XterraRising
Bumpers Installed
- Location
- Utah
50 hrs is a normal week for me. I usually work between 50-55 depending on the amount of calls I take.
- Location
- Covington, Va
When you consider that it's actually cheaper for them to pay you OT than hire another employee because of the rest of your benefits that get paid on your standard 40, you're actually working for like 2/3 rate when you're making OT.
- Location
- Denver Adjacent
Also, I'm old. I've paid my dues. Salary me and leave me alone.
- Location
- Allen, Texas
I agree except then they think they can work you to death.
- Location
- Denver Adjacent
Can't tho. Not if you don't let them.
- Location
- Allen, Texas
One of my weaknesses is, Im loyal to a job if they appreciate me. And they like me around here, and value my opinion, and my voice matters. Plus snacks.
If I am not appreciated or get mistreated; ill burn that hoe to the ground.
If I am not appreciated or get mistreated; ill burn that hoe to the ground.
- Location
- Denver Adjacent
- Location
- Allen, Texas
I dont disagree, much. I have always been the kind to bust my ass and be the hardest working sumbitch around so I can get away with shiat. I think its about having boundaries and taking care of yourself and the job.
Im pretty good at knowing when ive had enough and walking away. The more you pay me, the higher my had enough bar is though.
BEEFY
I Smile when Gasoline Can Freeze
- Location
- Prince George, BC, Canada
Im the same. I have been at my current job for 12 years now. It is a family owned business and had 7 employees when I started. Now there is over 20 and 1 person who has been here longer than me. The owner treats me well and I take as much time off as I want. Luckly the summer is our slow time so I try to take a solid 2 weeks every summer and a good number of 3 day weekend through out the year. It is a monday to friday, 10 hour a day job. Get payed ot and all the techs rotate through on call for the weekends.
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- Covington, Va
When I worked for places that took care of me for working harder and being dependable, I made myself invaluable. At Advance, I was hourly but always showed up for vacancies and Sunday morning shifts. All I had to do for any day off I wanted was ask. The boss would make it work. I was never denied.
In this place, the union does good for everyone as a whole, but at the cost of preventing exceptional work from being rewarded. So my work is the best quality I can provide (with the crap they give us to work with) but the above and beyond is minimal since there are those "I've paid my dues" guys making what I make to sit with their feet up in the "retirement home" shops.
I work to play, and for the benefits (health insurance). No one is unreplaceable. Best part of working where I work, is the fact that I don't have to work all year. We should be more worried about our well being than the companies bottom line.
- Location
- Denver Adjacent
This is the way.
- Location
- Hainesville IL
- Location
- Hainesville IL
good lord
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