Day 2 of hearing may get called off as the parties started discus settlement again.

Please please please.

Fingers crossed.

Hearing cancelled!! Woohoo!

Phew!

Ugh, Sophia, that sounds so counter-productive. I hope you can get that salary bump and not punch an actual time clock!

Palm Springs for December sounds very nice, meara!

I am trying to decide how much time to dedicate to trying to see Princess Kate, and I think the answer is 10 minutes. I'll walk by when I can but not wait around.

That is so inane, Sophia! I’m glad to hear your boss sounds supportive. Hope this works out for you.

I’m jealous of a month in Palm Springs!!!

So apparently I did see her in the car -- I thought it couldn't be her in the front of the first car, but someone said it was. I saw a white woman with long hair in the Princess's motorcade, at least.

Good job, Jesse!

I hated that when I was last hourly, Sophia - clocking out for lunch complicated everything, it was customary to stand by the time clock waiting for it to be exactly a half hour so you could clock back in exactly on time, and people would do the same thing at the end of the day to hit 8 hours exactly, but I did not. If I was under 40 hours for the week they wanted me to use my vacation time to make up the difference (which I finally convinced my supervisor we really did not have to do, they could just pay me for the 39.75 hours or whatever it was). We had a physical timeclock at the time although I believe we went to virtual when everyone was WFH under lockdown but I was salaried again at that point and just, you know, working constantly. I'm glad to hear your boss is in your corner, Sophia, and I hope the powers that be show some sense.

The whole thing where it's made out to be the worker's responsibility to work exactly to time makes me so mad. It costs them extra if they require too much work from you, but that is somehow your fault for doing too much work! Argh!

Yay for no court.

Actual time clocking is just... such a pain. Ugh, when I was in retail, I mean, I guess it more or less made sense for that, actually, but people (including me) were constantly forgetting to clock in (on the computer) before they started, only realizing it when they couldn't use the register. I'm starting to give myself agita just writing about those days!

I was always making adjustments to people's hours for minute increments. I guess I could've been more of a hardass, but... I am not, and retail is hard enough without an asshole manager.

Intense work week M-Th this week, so today is a pleasant shift. I'm sending out holiday card emails (slowly - don't panic if you don't get yours until tonight!), making food, about to get blood drawn (routine), hoping to get the tree up.

Also, it is cold.

I feel like I have checked enough things off my list that I should be done for the week, but I guess not? (My direct report is on parental leave so I have many items on my list that would have been on his!)

Does anyone here follow Carolyn Hax? She just gave me an anonymous high-five in her chat, because I submitted a comment that said "FUUUUUUUCK THATTTTTT." Hee.

I do! That is awesome!