lizkat
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So that's what's meant by "keeping it simple"... ouch!
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So that's what's meant by "keeping it simple"... ouch!
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Never did it again, though. I've always been one of those people that invariably learns their lesson the first time.
So I've made plenty of mistakes in my life, rarely the same one twice.
lizkat
Watching March roll out real winter
I on the other hand had to try to talk my way out of getting canned a couple times (once without success) over making the incorrect assumption that there's some kind of zero sum game at a job regarding who owes whom what and when in the case of overtime being in the equation.
See I had figured more than once, at more than one place, that if you've racked up sixty hours by Thursday night and go home Friday morning at 2am or so, it's probably fine to show up again around 10 or 11am on Friday as long as whatever they had wanted was on their desk at the actual end of that long "Thursday".
Nope. They do keep scorecards, and you might get comp time and even a semipublic attagirl award, depending on the level of heroics in the rear view mirror, but ya can't just take comp time a la carte and without notice.
Gee. Yeah, so... getting canned over that once only taught my thick skull that those guys didn't play by what had seemed to me like pretty obvious rules. Ya work all night, ya come back in whenever ya can get there? But no. The second time around I managed to hang onto the job --probably only because I did save their asses by getting a court-mandated job done by an unreasonable deadline-- but the boss on that job straightened me out about who actually writes the rules about comp time and office hours: not me. "Life is hard, and then you die."
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Welcome aboard. I'm not on here every day (I saw you posted in another thread and was surprised I missed it)
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More new people! Welcome!
Eric
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Welcome to TA!
Thomas Veil
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Welcome.
We have just one rule here.
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Never open that door.
We have just one rule here.
(points--->)
Never open that door.
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Welcome to our newest member, @visualise.
Welcome @visualise! 
Welcome @visualise!
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Well, that was succinct.
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Welcome!
Welcome! We have no problem with Erics. The “wn” isn’t for Windows though, is it?
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You are very welcome.
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