Reminder to self...

[altivo]

Don't get sucked into working 12 hour shifts to cover for people on vacation or sick. They don't pay me nearly enough for this.

Comments

[farhoug.livejournal.com]

Yeah, there's rarely enough compensation from that, considering all the messing up the daily routines, exhaustion from the extra work, and trying to juggle all the other things at the same time while trying keep the day together... sometimes this modern money-driven society seems a little strange to me.

[songdogmi.livejournal.com]

Only sometimes? :)

I don't mind money, but I sure wish there was way around needing to have money.

[farhoug.livejournal.com]

Yeah, only sometimes, because I try to keep it all out of my head. =)

Usually it just seems out of balance though, human values and material values clashing badly together. Maybe I could buy some better values for myself somewhere. *grins*

[songdogmi.livejournal.com]

Amazon has everything. Maybe search for "values" and see what they have?

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Well this one had less to do with money (especially since we are a public service agency and not a profit-making venture) than it did with sloppy management. We've had a series of failures in the scheduling area. People schedule time off several weeks in advance, and yet somehow nothing gets done about covering the essential hours until the last minute.

With a couple of days' warning, I would have simply gone in to work at noon instead of 8 am, and stayed until 8 pm instead of 5 pm. But they didn't realize they had a "crisis" until noon. This is just bad planning, and happened because the substitute who was originally supposed to cover the shift was also misinformed and came in last week instead of this. By then she had scheduled something else for this week and couldn't do it yesterday. I get no overtime. My compensation for staying through is that I don't have to work my own usual shift to 8 pm today. Instead I'll be doing just 12:30 to 5 pm.

I personally hate working late hours. I'd prefer to start at 6 am and be done in mid afternoon, but that isn't an option here. One day a week working the evening is about the most I can stand.

[farhoug.livejournal.com]

Yeah, seen plenty of that bad planning too, that's usually when they call me and try to coax me to work... *grins*

It's not that bad though, considering I'm usually always low on money, and that's where I get more. Just sometimes I wonder if it's really worth, having to handle the stress in trying to do seven hours of work in four... but at least they pay for the bigger number. =)

[heavens-steed.livejournal.com]

Awww, poor old horsie. ;) *cuddles you and gives you some a shoulder massage and back rub*

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Mmm. That doesn't make up for it, but still is nice. :)

[heavens-steed.livejournal.com]

Well, I try.

[niko-winterset.livejournal.com]

*nuzzles* Welcome to my world Tivo. I just got back in from being on the road...two 12+ hour days...

Storm

[altivo.livejournal.com]

You are much more highly paid than I am, though. This situation shouldn't have happened. It was the result of poor planning and compounded errors in scheduling.

[marzolan.livejournal.com]

Eee... I remember doing that once at "The place that I no longer work for and shall ot mention". Yeah... never did it again.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

LOL. You're still young and I'm sure you at least got paid for the extra hours.

Now that it's over, I'm not complaining about having Wednesday night off, something I only get once or twice a year as a rule.

[marzolan.livejournal.com]

*smiles* Enjoy it then dear 'Tivo. I'm sure you deserve it.