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lol...one of those days when you literally sit in an attic room next to amps that are malfunctioning whenever they feel like it... and then the not prepped staff telling me to download 2 GBs of music playlist files to play *softly* in the background, on YOUR personal tablet...
Sometimes this AV work feels like such bullshit...just...3 more days....
Post by LoveLuckLaughter on May 23, 2022 11:19:12 GMT -5
This weekend was so busy. I have taken 73 phone calls from patients since Saturday morning at 8am. I now hate talking on the phone and I do not like people anymore. 73 people. Oye. I need some rubbins and a nap and a reason to live.
We're all a mess of paradoxes. Believing in things we know can't be true. We walk around carrying feelings too complicated and contradictory to express. But when it all becomes too big, and words aren't enough to help get it all out, there's always music.
Post by crazykittensmile on May 24, 2022 14:28:39 GMT -5
So you all know how much I love being back at the office....
Well this week I'm alone in the office, supporting two dozen research labs, because my one coworker is in Hawaii and the other has fricken covid. I have bronchitis, but still need to come in because working is dumb and an ass needs to be here, for some unknown reason.
Covid coworker texts me this morning and asks me about scheduling our auditorium that we manage in our building. Problem is, the scheduling takes place in a physical binder in the building, and I'm in line for my coffee on my way to work. So once I get to work, I text the coworker, and pencil in the schedule request he sent, and I think HEY LET'S MAKE LIFE EASIER AND PUT THIS SCHEDULE IN OUR SHARED GOOGLE DRIVE. It's summer so our building isn't as busy with conferences and dissertations etc, seems like great time to test the waters.
So I create a calendar for each meeting room and share it ONLY with my two coworkers, and send them an email saying it's just something I want to try out for our information so we're not 100% bound to the literal binder.
Y'all....... one of my coworkers was like "GREAT! THANK YOU!!!" and the other one sent me TWO ANGRY EMAILS AND A TERSE TEXT within a couple minutes of reading her emails basically freaking out like I murdered her whole family. Guess which one is the boomer?
Realities of freelancing. They book you for a week. And then two weeks later change the dates as if you are on call for their company. While you already paid for a vacay/time off because sanity is important too. 36. I need some goddamn days for my mental health and not just forced to think about work or the next job. So yah, just lost a couple hundred because I'm not canceling.
Realities of freelancing. They book you for a week. And then two weeks later change the dates as if you are on call for their company. While you already paid for a vacay/time off because sanity is important too. 36. I need some goddamn days for my mental health and not just forced to think about work or the next job. So yah, just lost a couple hundred because I'm not canceling.
As a freelancer and artist, I understand. I have to do a lot of spiritual, emotional, and mental work around this in order to stay sane and also financially solvent. With my experience, I could be slinging drinks at the highest-trafficked days and working til 5 am and make a TON of money. But I took a step back on my hours and shifted where I worked to places that don't have "til 5" hours so I could stay sane and work on my art in a more consistent way. It all works when my work sells, or I get a good commission, but otherwise it's a lot of letting go and knowing we can't take it with us.
i've been there 12.5 years and have "slept" there 3 nights a week for at least the last 10. definitely one of the main things that pushed me towards my decision to go part time and pick up random hours. not sleeping for half the week really caught up with me.
My "brother in law" works double shifts like 3-4 days a week. Ignoring what he actually does for a living, which is deplorable on its own - you couldn't pay me enough to work four 16 hour shifts in a row
Post by NothingButFlowers on Jun 2, 2022 11:31:11 GMT -5
My parents used to work night shift in the ER, so they worked from seven at night to seven in the morning, seven days on and seven days off. I didn’t see much of them until my little brother was born.
Gets a text 3 days ago about a gig with minimal gear... ok cool.
Texts two days later, "so what are the details so I can have everything you need?"
Email this morning can you have 4 of these Comteks and Transmitter (something I could have done the rental for today if I called yesterday). Also it's a weekend. So you know places close, and I really only have like 5 days off until bonnaroo and then a 5 day stretch after bonnaroo. I'm just so pissed at these people just thinking "this is standard though we know nothing about it". Comteks sound like shit and if you need them because you have many clients you have to tell me at least a week ahead or, them, as a company need to suck it up and go pick up/drop off the rental.
I was on a call from 6:45am until 1:30pm for a security incident (IT stuff) and now I have to join the recap call for another hour at 2:30. sigh.
I feel your pain- lost a few weekends to incidents
Unrelated but currently I am in a weird spot. Interviewed for a team I would liek to work on, they want to bring me on, great. Suddenly we have a hiring freeze that prevents me from being backfilled so I am stuck. No worries, team player, I figure it will last a month or something.
2 months later... no dice. My specialty is fairly niche so I am applying for other positions outside the company, but damn, I really like where I work and have 0 greener grass expectations.
I was on a call from 6:45am until 1:30pm for a security incident (IT stuff) and now I have to join the recap call for another hour at 2:30. sigh.
I feel your pain- lost a few weekends to incidents
Unrelated but currently I am in a weird spot. Interviewed for a team I would liek to work on, they want to bring me on, great. Suddenly we have a hiring freeze that prevents me from being backfilled so I am stuck. No worries, team player, I figure it will last a month or something.
2 months later... no dice. My specialty is fairly niche so I am applying for other positions outside the company, but damn, I really like where I work and have 0 greener grass expectations.
I left my last company because I was ALWAYS on call and ALWAYS getting called. i've been with my new company a little over 2 years now and it's so much better. I rarely get paged after hours because we only give the on call number to certain people/teams and they actually know when something needs immediate attention versus something that can wait until the next morning. it's such a nice change of pace from what I came from.
that's definitely a tricky situation and hiring freezes are never fun especially when you already know you have a spot somewhere that you want to work and you have to stay where you are in a state of limbo. fwiw, we had a bunch of positions froze at my company and they were all lifted last month so we added 5 people at various levels into my team. it was a little rough when we down 3 people on my team, so I'm looking forward to my workload going back to normal for sure. hopefully the hiring freezes at your company are right behind.
I'm fairly well rounded, but I do have a lot of experience with a very specific phone system (PureConnect) and I get tons of offers all over the country but I'm not interested in doing telecom work any more and I really don't want to move since I own my home. I prefer just general systems engineering so that I can get some variety. but I'm not gonna ile, sometimes those job offers come in with SUPER high salaries and for a second I think "well, maybe $200k/year to work in South Dakota wouldn't be that bad" but then I realize that working in south dakota would suck.
I feel your pain- lost a few weekends to incidents
Unrelated but currently I am in a weird spot. Interviewed for a team I would liek to work on, they want to bring me on, great. Suddenly we have a hiring freeze that prevents me from being backfilled so I am stuck. No worries, team player, I figure it will last a month or something.
2 months later... no dice. My specialty is fairly niche so I am applying for other positions outside the company, but damn, I really like where I work and have 0 greener grass expectations.
I left my last company because I was ALWAYS on call and ALWAYS getting called. i've been with my new company a little over 2 years now and it's so much better. I rarely get paged after hours because we only give the on call number to certain people/teams and they actually know when something needs immediate attention versus something that can wait until the next morning. it's such a nice change of pace from what I came from.
that's definitely a tricky situation and hiring freezes are never fun especially when you already know you have a spot somewhere that you want to work and you have to stay where you are in a state of limbo. fwiw, we had a bunch of positions froze at my company and they were all lifted last month so we added 5 people at various levels into my team. it was a little rough when we down 3 people on my team, so I'm looking forward to my workload going back to normal for sure. hopefully the hiring freezes at your company are right behind.
I'm fairly well rounded, but I do have a lot of experience with a very specific phone system (PureConnect) and I get tons of offers all over the country but I'm not interested in doing telecom work any more and I really don't want to move since I own my home. I prefer just general systems engineering so that I can get some variety. but I'm not gonna ile, sometimes those job offers come in with SUPER high salaries and for a second I think "well, maybe $200k/year to work in South Dakota wouldn't be that bad" but then I realize that working in south dakota would suck.
Woof yeah... my main schtick is binary reversing and frankly 99.999999999999% of companies have absolutely no need for it. There is literally one dept in the megacorp where I work where I will have the opportunity to focus on that so we shall see how the chips fall. My main thing is now that my boss knows I am earmarked for another dept, and the other dept wants me, I am in a weird limbo where I cant get funding as easily for sans courses etc that I need for my own development.
The most productive thing I did today was eat my lunch
Nice. I just booked reservations for 4 to Emeril's tomorrow night for my daughter's birthday, so I felt productive. That's until the batty-ass ex-wife started bitching about reservations at 8 - which she told me to f'n make but doesn't want to eat that late. Too f'n bad. Your daughter picked the place she wanted to go to, and it's reserved. Show up or don't. Her actual birthday is today, and we're going to Peche before drinks and heading out to see Shades (Eprom+Alex Perez) in a VIP area with stupid fucking bottle service that I'm going to have to end up paying for when I could just otherwise drink drinks. However, Peche will rule.
I left my last company because I was ALWAYS on call and ALWAYS getting called. i've been with my new company a little over 2 years now and it's so much better. I rarely get paged after hours because we only give the on call number to certain people/teams and they actually know when something needs immediate attention versus something that can wait until the next morning. it's such a nice change of pace from what I came from.
that's definitely a tricky situation and hiring freezes are never fun especially when you already know you have a spot somewhere that you want to work and you have to stay where you are in a state of limbo. fwiw, we had a bunch of positions froze at my company and they were all lifted last month so we added 5 people at various levels into my team. it was a little rough when we down 3 people on my team, so I'm looking forward to my workload going back to normal for sure. hopefully the hiring freezes at your company are right behind.
I'm fairly well rounded, but I do have a lot of experience with a very specific phone system (PureConnect) and I get tons of offers all over the country but I'm not interested in doing telecom work any more and I really don't want to move since I own my home. I prefer just general systems engineering so that I can get some variety. but I'm not gonna ile, sometimes those job offers come in with SUPER high salaries and for a second I think "well, maybe $200k/year to work in South Dakota wouldn't be that bad" but then I realize that working in south dakota would suck.
Woof yeah... my main schtick is binary reversing and frankly 99.999999999999% of companies have absolutely no need for it. There is literally one dept in the megacorp where I work where I will have the opportunity to focus on that so we shall see how the chips fall. My main thing is now that my boss knows I am earmarked for another dept, and the other dept wants me, I am in a weird limbo where I cant get funding as easily for sans courses etc that I need for my own development.
best of luck! being in limbo like that sucks. it's like your part of both teams and neither at the same time. hang in there!
Post by LoveLuckLaughter on Jul 17, 2022 23:30:47 GMT -5
I worked a 12 in the psych ED today. My all day patient was a 25 year old man with no psychiatric history who has been intermittently catatonic, and not caring for himself in general for well over a month. Catatonia is a rare and extreme physical response to psychological distress. I've seen it four times in the 20 some years I have been working in psych. All four patients had extremely slow movements, to the point of not moving at all for hours at a time. It is difficult to watch in and of itself.
How this young man came to be in this state is that just before Mother's Day he and his younger four siblings witnessed their mother being shot to death by her boyfriend. One of them tried to stop him and was pistol whipped. This poor boy. This poor family. The world is hell and work is hell. This is why nurses drink.
We're all a mess of paradoxes. Believing in things we know can't be true. We walk around carrying feelings too complicated and contradictory to express. But when it all becomes too big, and words aren't enough to help get it all out, there's always music.
I worked a 12 in the psych ED today. My all day patient was a 25 year old man with no psychiatric history who has been intermittently catatonic, and not caring for himself in general for well over a month. Catatonia is a rare and extreme physical response to psychological distress. I've seen it four times in the 20 some years I have been working in psych. All four patients had extremely slow movements, to the point of not moving at all for hours at a time. It is difficult to watch in and of itself.
How this young man came to be in this state is that just before Mother's Day he and his younger four siblings witnessed their mother being shot to death by her boyfriend. One of them tried to stop him and was pistol whipped. This poor boy. This poor family. The world is hell and work is hell. This is why nurses drink.
Sheesh that is intense. At least he's lucky enough to have you look after him while he's there
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