I hate that spelling.
Apparently, it's actually wrong, so you are in good company.
We got the word that we can leave at 2 on Friday, but my boss is on vacation! Do I have to come in at all???
As Willow goes, so goes my nation.
Oz ,'Selfless'
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.
Jesse - Aug 28, 2013 6:17:45 am PDT #3725 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
brenda m - Aug 28, 2013 6:19:28 am PDT #3726 of 30000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
I vote no.
Amy - Aug 28, 2013 6:33:49 am PDT #3727 of 30000
Because books.
attach them to your good-bye email when you leave to manage your unexpected $60,000,000 windfall.
WHEN IS IT COMING? WHAT DO YOU KNOW?
Connie Neil - Aug 28, 2013 6:35:51 am PDT #3728 of 30000
brillig
My company gets to leave early, too! Except for all the people who directly work with customers. Hi, there.
Sophia Brooks - Aug 28, 2013 6:44:16 am PDT #3729 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
We are leaving early, but I feel bad because my student needs the money so I am trying to figure out how she can stay. I also feel annoyed, because she is leaving early today to write a paper she has to turn in tomorrow, but I think making her stay today and leave Friday is actually petty when I don't have an urgent project for her.
Scrappy, I am so sorry to hear about kitty.
-t - Aug 28, 2013 7:06:14 am PDT #3730 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
We get to leave early on Friday, too, which means 1:30 for me, so I'm planning on not taking a lunch. Last time we had an early day I was an hourly temp and my manager couldn't figure out how to let me leave early and still get paid for the full day (which is how it's supposed to work here) so I didn't.
Sophia Brooks - Aug 28, 2013 7:15:13 am PDT #3731 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Here they have decided that if you are hourly, you can't get paid for leaving early, because if you leave and are clocked in, the University is legally responsible for you still, even though you are not actually at work! So hourly people have to use their vacation time, and salaried people do not. There was a big outcry when they first started, because they were going to make salaried staff use vacation (even though it is less than a half day, and we can only take half days), but not salaried faculty.
Jessica - Aug 28, 2013 7:17:50 am PDT #3732 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
We're still on summer hours, which means everyone gets to leave early on Friday except my department who does summer hours weird.
Amy - Aug 28, 2013 7:20:15 am PDT #3733 of 30000
Because books.
I don't get to leave early on Friday, and I have Monday off -- but I don't get paid for it!
As some of you might have surmised, I hate my job.
Steph L. - Aug 28, 2013 7:24:05 am PDT #3734 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
One time, at my old job, they replaced the carpet AND had the walls repainted -- both things were done overnight on a weeknight (because during the week is much cheaper than over the weekend), and we all had to work the next day.
Already you can see where this is going.
The building is your typical modern office building with windows that don't open. So the day after the carpeting and painting -- really, mere hours after those things were finished -- the fumes from the carpet (offgassing, I guess?) and the paint smell was making people sick. And my boss, who has severe asthma, was literally unable to breathe. My own asthma was aggravated, and finally my boss and I left (I actually followed her in my car to her allergist's office so I could be sure her lungs didn't collapse while she was behind the wheel).
The kicker is that when we told people we were leaving, Big!Boss's daughter (who was our HR "department") said that of course we could leave. Then later we found out the hours were taken out of our vacation time because we "chose" to leave during a workday.
We went over her head and complained long and loud about being in a physically dangerous situation that was *caused* by the company, but we didn't "choose" to file Workers' Comp, and by the way, how about you put our vacation hours back?
They did.
Lots of things I don't miss about that place. (However, I do miss a paycheck.)