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Oh the curse of having a bedside alarm clock that shows the temperature. Did I seriously want to be able to see so easily that it's 65F? Here in the computer room, though, the servers and all keep it a toasty 70F. It's 46F outside. By law our landlady doesn't need to turn on the heat until October 15th. Something tells me I'm going to be adopting this Arthur Dent outfit quite a bit more often for the next 2 weeks. Except I'm doing better than Arthur because I have the elusive cup of tea.:)
/rant about work
Things are odd at work again. Background checks were completed a while ago, or so we all thought, but now people are beginning to disappear. Escorted out in the middle of the day. And it's seemingly ridiculous stuff for some of them - smoking pot when they were in the military years ago. We could understand it it it was felony convictions, but it seems even if you were charged with something, not even convicted, there's a problem. And we're very understaffed - we're going into the slow time of the year and still having trouble getting people their breaks - so it just doesn't make sense to us as the workers on the line to take away bodies without better reason than that. (Also many people are finding better jobs or just going back to their old jobs because they're sick of the shit.)
TSA was hiring for like three days. Or some ridiculously short time that didn't give anybody time to tell their friends to apply. And now they're only going to hire part-time workers. As if anyone is going to want to put up with this shit for crappy part-time wages. (Although there's some system whereby part-timers do get some benefits; it's an a la cart buy-in program - doesn't sound like a deal to me.) No, that's not true - this is Maine, you will get applicants. They just may not all be what you call the picks of the litter. Our first group was probably the best 100 of around 2,000 applicants (round numbers filtered through my sieve brain, I may not be accurate). If you open hiring for 3 days and you need 20 people and you only get 20 applicants you take whoever you get. This does not bode well, in my opinion.
And then there's the issue of people backstabbing each other. When we were threatened with layoffs I sort of understood people trying to throw each other under the bus; they were afraid and hoping if someone else went they could keep their own job. It pissed me off because we'd always been a close knit team before, and when the pressure was off we seemed to get pretty close again, but ... Maybe it's the prospect that there might be promotions available since people are leaving. Or maybe it's just these people's normal behavior and I was ignoring it because I wanted to believe they were better than that, because we're a team.
Oh my tummy hurts. Maybe I should not have tea on an empty stomach.
/rant about work
Things are odd at work again. Background checks were completed a while ago, or so we all thought, but now people are beginning to disappear. Escorted out in the middle of the day. And it's seemingly ridiculous stuff for some of them - smoking pot when they were in the military years ago. We could understand it it it was felony convictions, but it seems even if you were charged with something, not even convicted, there's a problem. And we're very understaffed - we're going into the slow time of the year and still having trouble getting people their breaks - so it just doesn't make sense to us as the workers on the line to take away bodies without better reason than that. (Also many people are finding better jobs or just going back to their old jobs because they're sick of the shit.)
TSA was hiring for like three days. Or some ridiculously short time that didn't give anybody time to tell their friends to apply. And now they're only going to hire part-time workers. As if anyone is going to want to put up with this shit for crappy part-time wages. (Although there's some system whereby part-timers do get some benefits; it's an a la cart buy-in program - doesn't sound like a deal to me.) No, that's not true - this is Maine, you will get applicants. They just may not all be what you call the picks of the litter. Our first group was probably the best 100 of around 2,000 applicants (round numbers filtered through my sieve brain, I may not be accurate). If you open hiring for 3 days and you need 20 people and you only get 20 applicants you take whoever you get. This does not bode well, in my opinion.
And then there's the issue of people backstabbing each other. When we were threatened with layoffs I sort of understood people trying to throw each other under the bus; they were afraid and hoping if someone else went they could keep their own job. It pissed me off because we'd always been a close knit team before, and when the pressure was off we seemed to get pretty close again, but ... Maybe it's the prospect that there might be promotions available since people are leaving. Or maybe it's just these people's normal behavior and I was ignoring it because I wanted to believe they were better than that, because we're a team.
Oh my tummy hurts. Maybe I should not have tea on an empty stomach.