Everyone's getting spanked but me.

Willow ,'The Killer In Me'


Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This  

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.


-t - Mar 26, 2014 6:15:58 pm PDT #23574 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Dang, sarameg, that looks good.


Sue - Mar 26, 2014 6:18:46 pm PDT #23575 of 30000
hip deep in pie

It's a little windy here. [link]


msbelle - Mar 26, 2014 6:21:38 pm PDT #23576 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

I've worked jobs that did not give COLA even if reviews were good.


amych - Mar 26, 2014 6:23:21 pm PDT #23577 of 30000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

I've never gotten COLA in my life except in the form of changing jobs. Which doesn't in any way change the suckness of faked-up bad reviews.


Connie Neil - Mar 26, 2014 6:31:06 pm PDT #23578 of 30000
brillig

Oh, yes, the horror of just doing your job. I've gotten so much stinkeye from managers for meeting the requirements and not pushing to make more. IE, do more work without getting paid for it. Also known as "you're capable of so much more!"


Consuela - Mar 26, 2014 6:31:45 pm PDT #23579 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

A mandated curve makes no sense for a job environment; a good manager will make sure that all of her staff are meeting or exceeding goals (or manage them out of that job). And she's supposed to then randomly pick people to claim are not? Nonsense.


sarameg - Mar 26, 2014 6:31:55 pm PDT #23580 of 30000

I think we've always been guaranteed COLA because we're indirectly a gov't contract. But I could be wrong, it might just be the culture . To which the subcontract is diverging more and more. I also learned that corporate policies are beginning to treat all contracts as 1-3 yr contract positions. Which we are not. Their deal with the main contract is going on 30 years at this point. People don't leave my workplace to accept other positions within my subcontractor's company. They LEAVE.


sarameg - Mar 26, 2014 6:34:19 pm PDT #23581 of 30000

Well, Consuela, that's sense.

Which seems to be absent. Which is why this corporation is looking more and more like a moribund behemoth sustained by gov't contract inertia.


Atropa - Mar 26, 2014 6:38:52 pm PDT #23582 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

I am laughing painfully and ironically at Jilli's post.

Can you tell I harbor some issues from my last job? The fact that I didn't set anyone on fire while I was there is a miracle.


aurelia - Mar 26, 2014 6:57:27 pm PDT #23583 of 30000
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

The Honorable Krystal Rivers, then? I forget what's correct.

I think so.

It's a little windy here.

Wow!

My friend Jeremy is speaking out re: marriage equality in MI. [link]