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So I got up, got dressed, read the paper. And I just didn't wanna. My sinuses are protesting the cold and dry, but nothing that couldn't be managed and muscled through. But I didn't wanna.

So I didn't.

And I went back to bed.

It was a good idea.

I got to work on time today. I've been productive so far.

WTF?

Wow, Suzi. I have been tremendously unproductive. You are lucky.

I am helping a co-workers daughter with a paper. She is a senior in college and an English Major. It is the least coherent paper I have ever read. There is no thesis, no conclusion, about 45 unrelated ideas sprinkled about the paper. None of the paragraphs has a topic sentence, and the paragraphs seem to be randomly formed every three sentences or so. She made factual errors that are ridiculous (she says that Viola in Twelfth Night is a MAN disguised as a woman, she uses all sorts of weird phrases that are nonsensical, and has a lot of grammatical and spelling errors. I am not even sure what I should help her with because I told her I could only help for an hour and she also needs 3 more pages. Apparently her mom has been writing her papers all along, but now that they are about Shakespeare and such, she can't do it any more!

I just have to give an example paragraph:

Young boys’ taking female roles was accepted as “verisimilitude” something that only appears to be true by the audience.In the article, Boy Actors, Female Roles, and Elizabethan Eroticism, Lisa Jardine states that “the taking of the female parts by boy players actually occasioned a good deal of contemporary comment, and created considerable moral uneasiness, even amongst those who patronized and supported the theaters” (57). Just because males perform on stage leaving females with no role on stage, does not diminish the role they play throughout life.

I was briefly productive, but am actually considering going home because I am starting to not feel well.

I love my boss. I love him so very dearly. But I HATE THIS FUCKING PLACE. At this point, there's no way I would ever recommend anyone I know, no matter how desperately in need of a job they are, come to work here.

Because all my options WRT sick leave/disability leave/maternity leave were not clearly explained to me way back when I got stuck on bed rest, I ended up having to put Matilda in day care and come back to work when she was 4 months old even though I had almost five weeks of untouched sick leave in my time bank.

I now have almost 300 hours, and as far as anyone can tell me, when I leave here they're just gone. Oh, I'll get 50% reinstated if I decide to come back within 6 months, and 80% if I come back in less than 6 weeks. But that's it, as near as I can tell. If I'm very very lucky they'll get added to my service time so I can collect an extra buck-fifty a month when I retire. If I'm not lucky, they just vanish into the ether and the university essentially got 300 free work hours out of me over the course of my time here.

I seriously want to fucking kill someone.

eta: Yep, it's completely fucking gone. Because I'm leaving before retirement, I just donated 2 months of free work to them.

mr. flea has a sonicare and LOVES it. I hate it. Toothbrushes are icky, and the sonicare tickles me.

Ummm, JZ. Not that I want to stop a glorious rant, and you do rant well, that is not uncommon wrt sick leave. From what I have seen with all the jobs my husband has been through, he will get paid for any vacation time in his last check, but sick leave is gone. Fat lot of good it does to be healthy.

Look, I don't have to endorse Communism in order to write about it.

I think this isn't a good analogy.

How about lacking a belief in quantum mechanics? If your disbelief in qm prevents you from producing accurate work in a physics department, then there is a problem. I don't know what to think about this specific case since I don't know the details. If the problem was just belief then I think the guy has a case, if it was resulting in substandard work then it's a different story.