My university is closed on Fridays starting in June - but it means we have to work extra hours the rest of the week.
Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.
Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Natter Area 51: The Truthiness Is in Here
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
sumi - May 11, 2007 10:44:57 am PDT #6803 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Liese S. - May 11, 2007 10:46:48 am PDT #6804 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
My brother in law's response would be to quack occassionally. And otherwise act as though everything were normal.
Theodosia - May 11, 2007 10:47:57 am PDT #6805 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Get a pencil sharpener and/or paper shredder, and just happen to use it whenever people are congregating....
Lee - May 11, 2007 10:48:33 am PDT #6806 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
But there's looming!
So I should get Pete to come down?
Then shout, "GETOFFAMYLAWN!" from your desk.
Oh dear. Now I really want to do this.
eta: these too
My brother in law's response would be to quack occassionally. And otherwise act as though everything were normal.
Get a pencil sharpener and/or paper shredder, and just happen to use it whenever people are congregating....
Jesse - May 11, 2007 10:50:50 am PDT #6807 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Of course the idea that one gets any extra time off for any given season...well, let's just say that Jesse's diamond flip flops may be chafing a bit, and I'm just not going to weep for her.
Yeah, I know... I think the summer hours are left over from years when there were no raises for years on end, so it's a little bonus that doesn't cost the company money.
I do feel the need to reiterate that I've never worked anywhere where annual raises were a given. Four free hours is the least they can do!
shrift - May 11, 2007 11:02:57 am PDT #6808 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Everything always breaks on Friday. It's a conspiracy of technological meltdowns all up in my business.
Zenkitty - May 11, 2007 11:05:42 am PDT #6809 of 10001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
We get summer-hours kinda like yours, except we get half-days every Friday instead of alternate Fridays off. We also have to make up those four hours during the week by working extra the other days. Theoretically. Ours starts the week after Memorial Day though, and runs to Labor Day. It's nice.
Sparky1 - May 11, 2007 11:15:36 am PDT #6810 of 10001
Librarian Warlord
We get half days on Fridays, but because we can't actually close like some of the other offices, a skeleton crew must stay. Therefore, I have 2/3 Friday afternoons off during the Summer (which runs for us from June 1 - Aug 17). We don't have to make up any hours, and if you stay as part of the skeleton crew, it's assumed you'll be taking that time off the next week.
aurelia - May 11, 2007 11:16:14 am PDT #6811 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Ellen Degeneres is too cool. She just gave an audience of pregnant women new washer and dryer sets.
Lee - May 11, 2007 11:20:10 am PDT #6812 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
That is really cool, Aurelia.
Do I want to apply for a job in Costa Mesa?