Hey job thread! I just finished my first week in my new position and store, having been recently promoted to assistant manager! Woo!
It's been weird. The store has a completely different atmosphere, and I'm busy playing catchup while trying to learn how my new coworkers tick and also dive into the fun world of management training and actually being in charge instead of being de facto the one who solves all problems.
Still, I'm really pumped and excited about this new position and I get along great with my new manager and the district manager and the regional manager so I have solid hope for even more advancement.
But I miss my old crew of awesome people that I got along with so well. Adjusting to a new group is haaaard.
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So, I've been at my current place of employment for about 40 months now, working a standard 40-hour, 5-day work week for most of that. In that time frame, I have not taken or been offered a single 10 minute break. Am I supposed to say something to my bosses about this, or do they know? If I math it out, that's something like $3,500 in time. I'm really not sure what the etiquette for the whole '10 minute break' thing is.
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At some point last night, as students were trickling home from the bars, someone asked me what this place was going to be, they'd heard maybe a health centre or something.
My favourite smell is very similar. Might even be the same thing. I smelled it in Africa, it would be when it was really hot but we went down to a riverbank where it was shady and cool. I don't know what it was, but I sometimes catch it in this country and it reminds me of Africa and leopards.
So, I've been at my current place of employment for about 40 months now, working a standard 40-hour, 5-day work week for most of that. In that time frame, I have not taken or been offered a single 10 minute break. Am I supposed to say something to my bosses about this, or do they know? If I math it out, that's something like $3,500 in time. I'm really not sure what the etiquette for the whole '10 minute break' thing is.
First, ask what the company's policy is. Some don't offer any breaks outside of lunch time-- in many states, they are not legally required to. If they DO offer 10 minute breaks, then it's usually up to the employee to take them. No one is going to check and make sure you had your break. Just tell your manager if you're in the sort of situation where someone has to cover you. If it's a desk job, you may not even have to do that, you might be able to just go and take your break. Check with your manager to make sure they're okay with this before you start doing it, though.
No one will pay you for the breaks you haven't taken. Not taking your break is the equivalent of saying "nah I don't need one, I'll skip it today."
That is really cool to know what it is called finally!
My day off next week has been changed from Tuesday to Friday to help cope with Jewish new year, which is a pain because we were all going to go out on Friday for a meal to say bye to me but I doubt that'll happen now. And if it did it'd mean I'd have to travel an hour and a half to get to the place we were going to eat (it takes me that long to travel to get to work and the place is next to work) so boooooo.
so, I did some calculations and found that my holiday pay for monday will come out to about the same as that of a whole week at my old site.
Feels pretty good.
When I first started here, I took a third shift position cause my wife was working night shift on her unit at the time. We're both on days now, and it is much better in basically every way, but I do kind of miss the shift differential we got. Her shift diff alone covered our rent.
I just worked a weekend baker's shift. I want know why a lot of shit that should be done by 930 is not. What takes my counterpart so long that she doesn't have all the bread baked and sliced by 930am on a Sunday? Why is she so rushed that she cannot prep for Monday properly?
These are things I am going to address the next time we work together.
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Is there a word for that garden hose water smell, though? Because I love that smell.
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so, I did some calculations and found that my holiday pay for monday will come out to about the same as that of a whole week at my old site.
Feels pretty good.
When I first started here, I took a third shift position cause my wife was working night shift on her unit at the time. We're both on days now, and it is much better in basically every way, but I do kind of miss the shift differential we got. Her shift diff alone covered our rent.
I get 20$ a week for working nights.
That...doesn't cover the drugs that I'm sure I should be taking.
Is that flat or just an insufficient percentage?
Our job gives us 15% extra between 5P and 7A (I think that's the range, might be 7-7) and 25% on weekends.
Cause if people gotta work nights, which can pretty seriously screw up your opportunities to do anything with anybody outside of work (depending on schedule) and for some people can screw them up mentally/physically they gotta make it worth it.
Flat. Union negotiated it like 40 years ago and hasn't changed it since. And yeah, it plays pretty serious hell on my ability to be like normal. But I work retail so...
Flat. Union negotiated it like 40 years ago and hasn't changed it since. And yeah, it plays pretty serious hell on my ability to be like normal. But I work retail so...
Man, they should definitely renegotiate that. That is heinous. Adjusted for inflation that should be $105.22.
So, I've been at my current place of employment for about 40 months now, working a standard 40-hour, 5-day work week for most of that. In that time frame, I have not taken or been offered a single 10 minute break. Am I supposed to say something to my bosses about this, or do they know? If I math it out, that's something like $3,500 in time. I'm really not sure what the etiquette for the whole '10 minute break' thing is.
First, ask what the company's policy is. Some don't offer any breaks outside of lunch time-- in many states, they are not legally required to. If they DO offer 10 minute breaks, then it's usually up to the employee to take them. No one is going to check and make sure you had your break. Just tell your manager if you're in the sort of situation where someone has to cover you. If it's a desk job, you may not even have to do that, you might be able to just go and take your break. Check with your manager to make sure they're okay with this before you start doing it, though.
No one will pay you for the breaks you haven't taken. Not taking your break is the equivalent of saying "nah I don't need one, I'll skip it today."
Well would you look at that. I saw an article somewhere a while back about a woman who sued her employer of several years for break-time severance because they never gave her any breaks, but that was in WA. And she won. So, yeah, I guess being in Arizona (A so called 'right to work' state) I guess I have no rights whatsoever in this department. Coolio.
Throwing this in a spoiler tag because while it is job related I assume it is going to get kind of ranty and is mostly just me venting my spleen, so here goes:
So like, at my work there is a groundskeeper type guy, does stuff around the school, but my primary interaction with him is that he hands out the coffee to everyone in the office each morning, so I shall call him the coffee guy. He's a nice guy, smiley, friendly, and I am smiley and friendly back with him.
Anyway, in Japan there are these things called snack bars. I don't like them, they are seedy. They are bars where cute (well, cute in theory, practice shows otherwise) girls work, and the girls drink with you and flirt with you. The trick is of course, you buy a bottle and they drink from your bottle with you and refill your drink whenever it is low, its basically a great way to get you to part with a lot of money. Never mind it being really creepy and gross. They are also based around loyalty, the more you go the more you can get away with with the girls.
So, a while ago for the third drinking spot for one of our office drinking nights we ended up at one of these snack bars, it was owned and staffed by Filipinos which was fun for me because they spoke English quite well so it was fun to chat with them after a night of only speaking Japanese. But I had one drink and basically excused myself along with the women from the office because, yeah, snack bars are seedy and are designed to part you from your money. Luckily snack bars really hold no appeal for women so I could just sneak myself out with them.
Anyway, a couple weeks later my coffee guy asks if I want to go drinking with them. I took them to mean the office, and, in the interest of office camaraderie I said yes. Turns out it was just me and him (lost in translation indeed), he was my ride that way I could drink and not worry about paying for a taxi, so I was kind of stuck. We had a few drinks at a local izakaya (basically a beer and greasy food place) and then he takes me back to the same snack bar as before. Things start off with just talking which is fine, I figure I can just bide my time, nurse my drink and then go home. But the girls become incredible forward, grabbing parts of me that they should not be grabbing. I have a girlfriend and inform them of such, they say they don't care (most of the people that go there probably have wives). I basically have to hold hands with one of them to keep their hands from going other places. Then of course they move to the sales pitch, that I should get a bottle there, visit all the time, etc. I tell them I don't have the money at the moment, sorry, and then mercifully it is time to go home. The entire experience was pretty awful, it was very predatory, and the whole thing left me feeling pretty sour. But hey, I ended up drinking a lot out of the coffee guys personal bottle, didn't pay a cent at the snack bar, and established that I lack funds. So, I should be in the clear right? Left alone?
Nope. Coffee guy has been bugging me on the regular to go again. Asking me when I am free, what I am doing on which nights. Luckily I am legitimately I pretty busy dude and have managed to avoid going by having other things planned. Then I left on study leave for a month. Come back, figure things should be fine now. But the dude will just not relent. He's fully bought into their system, he's a regular, pays them and god knows what he gets on the side. They are probably leaning on him to lean on me to get another source of income. It's getting really tiresome. Today he showed me a video he took from last time he was there of the girls dancing. He showed this to me in the middle of the office. I do not need this. But I also like, can't just tell the guy to get bent because I see him everyday and creating office tension is not what I want to do. Just ugh, I want to be left alone on this. Hopefully if I am just consistently busy he will eventually get the hint but man, its been like two months now.
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Caulk Bite 6One of the multitude of Dans infesting this placeRegistered Userregular
Saying "I'm busy" sort of implies that you can't, not wont do it. Have you just told him that you don't want to go there again?
That's probably a level too direct to still be polite in a Japanese office.
The default way to say you don't want to do something is just basically pause, think about your schedule (or pretend to), and then apologize. But without specifying what you are busy doing. I probably just need to stop giving him reasons why I am busy and just starting being generically busy. Let's me duck out and him save face. He'll drop it eventually. I just needed to vent mostly, I think.
That is the one eastern thing I would have THE MOST trouble with. I am too forward for the west coast a lot of the time, and people from the east coast of the states are pretty on my level.
Saving face for lots of conversations daily, or even weekly would be tremendously difficult for me.
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Oh goddammit, I left my lunch sandwiches at home.
Gonna be so damn hungry by the end of this 12 hours.
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NocrenLt Futz, Back in ActionNorth CarolinaRegistered Userregular
So, just got a call from the CA Franchise Tax Board to set up an interview on Tuesday at 4pm (they also offered 5pm and 6pm).
On the one hand, there goes my birthday plans, on the other I have two interviews almost back to back. (4pm Tuesday and 11am Wednesday).
That is the one eastern thing I would have THE MOST trouble with. I am too forward for the west coast a lot of the time, and people from the east coast of the states are pretty on my level.
Saving face for lots of conversations daily, or even weekly would be tremendously difficult for me.
Face saving as a cultural norm is something that's always perplexed me.
In Australia, a large part of Indigenous culture is about face saving, or avoiding "shame". Anything that's even slightly embarrassing is considered a "shame job" and hits people of that culture a lot harder than it might to someone else.
I still feel bad about this, but when I was younger I was doing legal studies. We had a mock trial, and I was a "lawyer" for the either the plaintiff or defense, I can't remember. Anyway, there was an indigenous girl in the class who I had on the stand, who could only answer yes or no questions. So I asked them all in a very leading way, and through that, our case was made and we won.
I was very pleased with myself, as a high school kid would be. Not that I beat the other side, but that I did my role well enough that we were successful in what we wanted to do. I was very proud of my ability to get the job done. However, I had no idea that by being the key factor in their side losing the mock trial, this girl took it incredibly hard. I think some of her side may have given her some shit for it.
So in home room at the end of the day, I was telling my friends about what I did and how we had made our case through that. I saw their eyes looking behind me, and I turn and there's the girl, crying. I felt pretty bad and tried to apologise.
It all then actually went to mediation with the indigenous liaison officer, who understood that I had absolutely no idea about that part of their culture, and during that, the girl accepted my sincere apology. I was kept behind though so the liason could explain to me about how this situation occurred so I could be more considerate and avoid having it happen again in the future.
It's something I've always kept in mind since then, and it's helped a lot with my work in a school made up primarily of indigenous kids, but the fact that it's such a large part of any culture is still something I havn't quite gotten used to.
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Which means that my holiday pay for Monday will be that much better.
Wheee.
They seem somewhat distinctive.
Then you just paint it red
Hey job thread! I just finished my first week in my new position and store, having been recently promoted to assistant manager! Woo!
It's been weird. The store has a completely different atmosphere, and I'm busy playing catchup while trying to learn how my new coworkers tick and also dive into the fun world of management training and actually being in charge instead of being de facto the one who solves all problems.
Still, I'm really pumped and excited about this new position and I get along great with my new manager and the district manager and the regional manager so I have solid hope for even more advancement.
But I miss my old crew of awesome people that I got along with so well. Adjusting to a new group is haaaard.
Only if you're moving it to get it out of there faster. You paint it pink/purple so no one can see it.
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My favourite smell - and word - is petrichor.
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Feels pretty good.
My favourite smell is very similar. Might even be the same thing. I smelled it in Africa, it would be when it was really hot but we went down to a riverbank where it was shady and cool. I don't know what it was, but I sometimes catch it in this country and it reminds me of Africa and leopards.
First, ask what the company's policy is. Some don't offer any breaks outside of lunch time-- in many states, they are not legally required to. If they DO offer 10 minute breaks, then it's usually up to the employee to take them. No one is going to check and make sure you had your break. Just tell your manager if you're in the sort of situation where someone has to cover you. If it's a desk job, you may not even have to do that, you might be able to just go and take your break. Check with your manager to make sure they're okay with this before you start doing it, though.
No one will pay you for the breaks you haven't taken. Not taking your break is the equivalent of saying "nah I don't need one, I'll skip it today."
That is really cool to know what it is called finally!
My day off next week has been changed from Tuesday to Friday to help cope with Jewish new year, which is a pain because we were all going to go out on Friday for a meal to say bye to me but I doubt that'll happen now. And if it did it'd mean I'd have to travel an hour and a half to get to the place we were going to eat (it takes me that long to travel to get to work and the place is next to work) so boooooo.
When I first started here, I took a third shift position cause my wife was working night shift on her unit at the time. We're both on days now, and it is much better in basically every way, but I do kind of miss the shift differential we got. Her shift diff alone covered our rent.
These are things I am going to address the next time we work together.
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
I think thats the smell I associate with flower shops, the smell of greenery in water or water that has been stood about for a bit.
I get 20$ a week for working nights.
That...doesn't cover the drugs that I'm sure I should be taking.
Our job gives us 15% extra between 5P and 7A (I think that's the range, might be 7-7) and 25% on weekends.
Cause if people gotta work nights, which can pretty seriously screw up your opportunities to do anything with anybody outside of work (depending on schedule) and for some people can screw them up mentally/physically they gotta make it worth it.
Man, they should definitely renegotiate that. That is heinous. Adjusted for inflation that should be $105.22.
Well would you look at that. I saw an article somewhere a while back about a woman who sued her employer of several years for break-time severance because they never gave her any breaks, but that was in WA. And she won. So, yeah, I guess being in Arizona (A so called 'right to work' state) I guess I have no rights whatsoever in this department. Coolio.
But man, they must be desperate to fill time.
Can you put in a good word???
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Anyway, in Japan there are these things called snack bars. I don't like them, they are seedy. They are bars where cute (well, cute in theory, practice shows otherwise) girls work, and the girls drink with you and flirt with you. The trick is of course, you buy a bottle and they drink from your bottle with you and refill your drink whenever it is low, its basically a great way to get you to part with a lot of money. Never mind it being really creepy and gross. They are also based around loyalty, the more you go the more you can get away with with the girls.
So, a while ago for the third drinking spot for one of our office drinking nights we ended up at one of these snack bars, it was owned and staffed by Filipinos which was fun for me because they spoke English quite well so it was fun to chat with them after a night of only speaking Japanese. But I had one drink and basically excused myself along with the women from the office because, yeah, snack bars are seedy and are designed to part you from your money. Luckily snack bars really hold no appeal for women so I could just sneak myself out with them.
Anyway, a couple weeks later my coffee guy asks if I want to go drinking with them. I took them to mean the office, and, in the interest of office camaraderie I said yes. Turns out it was just me and him (lost in translation indeed), he was my ride that way I could drink and not worry about paying for a taxi, so I was kind of stuck. We had a few drinks at a local izakaya (basically a beer and greasy food place) and then he takes me back to the same snack bar as before. Things start off with just talking which is fine, I figure I can just bide my time, nurse my drink and then go home. But the girls become incredible forward, grabbing parts of me that they should not be grabbing. I have a girlfriend and inform them of such, they say they don't care (most of the people that go there probably have wives). I basically have to hold hands with one of them to keep their hands from going other places. Then of course they move to the sales pitch, that I should get a bottle there, visit all the time, etc. I tell them I don't have the money at the moment, sorry, and then mercifully it is time to go home. The entire experience was pretty awful, it was very predatory, and the whole thing left me feeling pretty sour. But hey, I ended up drinking a lot out of the coffee guys personal bottle, didn't pay a cent at the snack bar, and established that I lack funds. So, I should be in the clear right? Left alone?
Nope. Coffee guy has been bugging me on the regular to go again. Asking me when I am free, what I am doing on which nights. Luckily I am legitimately I pretty busy dude and have managed to avoid going by having other things planned. Then I left on study leave for a month. Come back, figure things should be fine now. But the dude will just not relent. He's fully bought into their system, he's a regular, pays them and god knows what he gets on the side. They are probably leaning on him to lean on me to get another source of income. It's getting really tiresome. Today he showed me a video he took from last time he was there of the girls dancing. He showed this to me in the middle of the office. I do not need this. But I also like, can't just tell the guy to get bent because I see him everyday and creating office tension is not what I want to do. Just ugh, I want to be left alone on this. Hopefully if I am just consistently busy he will eventually get the hint but man, its been like two months now.
The default way to say you don't want to do something is just basically pause, think about your schedule (or pretend to), and then apologize. But without specifying what you are busy doing. I probably just need to stop giving him reasons why I am busy and just starting being generically busy. Let's me duck out and him save face. He'll drop it eventually. I just needed to vent mostly, I think.
Saving face for lots of conversations daily, or even weekly would be tremendously difficult for me.
Gonna be so damn hungry by the end of this 12 hours.
On the one hand, there goes my birthday plans, on the other I have two interviews almost back to back. (4pm Tuesday and 11am Wednesday).
All I have on my plate is bird hunting, getting a lift in, and more bird hunting. I'm so excited.
Face saving as a cultural norm is something that's always perplexed me.
In Australia, a large part of Indigenous culture is about face saving, or avoiding "shame". Anything that's even slightly embarrassing is considered a "shame job" and hits people of that culture a lot harder than it might to someone else.
I still feel bad about this, but when I was younger I was doing legal studies. We had a mock trial, and I was a "lawyer" for the either the plaintiff or defense, I can't remember. Anyway, there was an indigenous girl in the class who I had on the stand, who could only answer yes or no questions. So I asked them all in a very leading way, and through that, our case was made and we won.
I was very pleased with myself, as a high school kid would be. Not that I beat the other side, but that I did my role well enough that we were successful in what we wanted to do. I was very proud of my ability to get the job done. However, I had no idea that by being the key factor in their side losing the mock trial, this girl took it incredibly hard. I think some of her side may have given her some shit for it.
So in home room at the end of the day, I was telling my friends about what I did and how we had made our case through that. I saw their eyes looking behind me, and I turn and there's the girl, crying. I felt pretty bad and tried to apologise.
It all then actually went to mediation with the indigenous liaison officer, who understood that I had absolutely no idea about that part of their culture, and during that, the girl accepted my sincere apology. I was kept behind though so the liason could explain to me about how this situation occurred so I could be more considerate and avoid having it happen again in the future.
It's something I've always kept in mind since then, and it's helped a lot with my work in a school made up primarily of indigenous kids, but the fact that it's such a large part of any culture is still something I havn't quite gotten used to.
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