What the fuck is Silent Witness on BBCAmerica, and why do I have a season pass and four episodes of it on my TiVo?

Also, why am I even concerned?

Sara, I'm going to take a muscle relaxant (I just don't know how else to fight this) and do some lying down

I didn't mean to be all nanny. Except... I was. I hope it helps massively. Fucking hell, I hope something works, nannying or no. Shit, if nannying worked, I'd become the most obnoxious one on the planet.

Umm, msbelle - if you're out west you may still be able to watch GA because ABC was repeating it before tonight's episode of Men in Trees.

Silent Witness was a mystery thing involving a female medical examiner.

So, one of the secretaries told BigBossLady that I fell down and went boom, so BBL came and looked at my ankle. Since I went boom on work property she decided I needed to go to urgent care, so she made someone drive me over there, and so the doctor (after a longish wait) decided that it wasn't broken, but it was sprained, and so I really should stay off of it and so now I am home and not in SF with Aimee where I should be.

I'm so filled with annoyance at my stupid pre-broken ankle and all of the perfectly reasonable people mentioned above that I want to scream and kick something.

Of course, then I would probably just fall on my ass again.

They dropped my payrate

Holy fuck. Without telling you? Isn't that like--I mean, isn't there a law against that?

I shake my fists in rage at your employers, Kalshane. That's outrageous!

ita, I shake my fists in rage at your migraines. Sarameg, I hope you feel better soon, too.

sumi, in NYC. I knew about the repeat. I just missed it tonight. Last night I consciously chose to watch CSI instead.

Ugh, Kalshane--that does suck, and seems unfair to boot (and if legal, certainly not a way to employee retention).

Lee, that's...can't you break the rules? Is it too late? I mean, it's never too late to ignore medical advice.

And on that tip, before I go take the rest of my meds and wallow in self pity:

Where is it written that I can have either migraines or facial expressions? Now, I have no idea if the botox will a) freeze my face or b) kill the migraines, but I don't want to have to choose--I don't want to need to have my face refrozen five times a year. I don't want to wake up tomorrow morning without the ability to look quizzical, downcast, or angry. I want to be able to squint.

Grrrrrr.

Yeah, I don't know if it's legal or not. Technically, they're paying me the exact same now as they were before, but I have to work 45 hours a week to maintain it, where as previously I only had to work 40 and if I happened to go over, oh well.

And I have no idea how the hell it's supposed to work with sick time or holiday pay or vacation or any of the things that I get paid for, but don't count towards the 40 hours necessary to get qualify for overtime pay for the remaining hours. We're supposed to have a meeting with my team mates, my boss, the CIO and HR next week to discuss this. But I don't have a clue how it's actually supposed a work outside of manually manipulating things with comp hours and retro pay and other assorted hinkiness that sounds less than legal.

My boss sent an e-mail asking for questions that we would like answers to in a meeting and I brought up all of this, as well as quoting parts of the employee handbook for the office I work out of. (There's apparently no handbook for our corporate office, and apparently all of IT counts as corporate employees now, so I couldn't quote anything that directly applies.)

I heard some mutterings that our department doesn't have enough budget to afford paying us overtime at our previous salary translated into an hourly pay rate. To which I say, "Boo hoo, check the fucking budget before you make changes that may affect it. Morons." That and today was the first I heard about the CIO wanting everyone to work 45 hours a week BS. Just because he feels it necessary to work 60 hours a week doesn't mean the rest of us should be obligated to do more than 40 without some form of compensation.

I'm glad everyone is safe from the tornadoes. I hope it stays that way.

Kalshane, that is truly sucky, and I would be surprised if it were legal. You should check with your state employee rights agency.

Grr, ita. I hope at least the botox is helping.

I would ignore the medical advice, but the timing is too screwed up.