NYC was 9-5 and FT was considered 35 hrs.

TX is 8-5 and FT is 40 hrs.

I hate 8-5. Well, I actually just hate having to work.

The men I work with are such PILERS. They all have clean desktops, but there is still pushed into drawers and onto bookshelves and just NEVER dealt with. I just pulled a pile off a shelf that over half can be tossed without even looking at. I think the other half is unfiled invoices from last year.

We have to keep all shipping documents for 4-5 years, but they have been keeping them for 7! I need to get into the storage shed with the file boxes and pull out a bunch for shredding.

With all the dust we produce (lime plant, very dusty) having all this unneeded paper around is just collecting dust. I hates it. I want everything that can be ina file drawer to be in one, because at least that cuts down on the dust on things. And I want to get rid of all the bookshelves.

So turns out, apparently, no-incest boy is/has been/was an epic troll on a few of the Gawker sites, and now he's crediting me with a large part of his turnaround. I want zero credit for that, because when he turns back to the dark side, also zero responsibility.

Too late! Now you own him.

Give him a sock.

When I worked at the college of arts and sciences, I worked 9:00 - 5:00 with a hour unpaid lunch. 35 was considered full-time. It was lovely (except I didn't make much money.

When I moved to the school of nursing, the standard was 8:00 - 4:30 with a half hour unpaid lunch, and now anything under 40 hours- even as salaried, is considered part-time for benefits (but not for paying for parking).

You may have just gained a classmate.

It looks like it'll be fun, right? It's a partnership with University of Alberta.

I'm trying Duolingo, myself, for French.

Oh, nice. I am bookmarking that, because one day I intend to be fluent in Portuguese again... like I was 15 years ago.

Oh, man, I want very badly to take that Science and Cooking class, but I don't think I can.

There's an option to audit the class without making a commitment to complete the course materials, btw.

It's been well over a decade since I worked anywhere that 40 hours wasn't the full-time work-week. One place I worked, before college, the work-week was 37.5 hours in order to avoid paying full-time benefits to the staff. The guy who owned that company was a hard-core right-wing guy, who tried to run for Senate against Ted Kennedy a couple of times. Heh.

Mass residents will know who I'm talking about: he owned a small medical-equipment company in Foxboro or Walpole or something, and I think he even tried to pay Kennedy to debate him.

As my work situation was explained to me by the now-retired company pres (who is a relentlessly organized morning person), we must be in the office by no later than 9 a.m. and work 8 hours before leaving, barring the use of PTO or unofficial comp time from earlier in the two-week pay period. (Originally salaried employees were supposed to work things out so we only worked a total of 80 hours in any two weeks. A ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha...)

At any rate, this generally results in me being paid for the first 90 minutes or so at work where answering email and brewing coffee are the most productive things I can manage, and going home in the late afternoon/early evening when I still have a couple hours of clear-headed high speed work left in me. Flex time actually maximized my productivity, but apparently made the company look too loosey-goosey and unprofessional to the executives and clients that almost never actually show up at this location anyway.

I suspect that many hourly 9 to 5 workers are held to that schedule to prevent them from working a 40 hour week and being full-time.

I rather appreciate my line of work where due to the 24-7ish nature of it, it is difficult to come up with a schedule wherein most people have exactly 40 hours. Here, if you are regularly scheduled for 30 per week, you are considered full-time and given benefits as such. Part-timers get full benefits when they have worked 1000 hours.

Jilli, you know a number of good tattoo artists, don't you?

Yes. All in Seattle, but yes. And I can get recommendations for tattoo artist in other cities, if you need.