working before a break
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I'm getting time and a half today so I kind of feel obligated to stay busy. Helps the day go by faster anyway.
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I actually made the mistake of trying to do work and it ended with me getting ready to take my laptop up to the roof, lighting it on fire and throwing it into the parking lot. For some reason Access has decided that I can make changes to the design of every form except the three that I need to make very simple cosmetic updates to.
Then I went to Google Maps to show a co-worker where the place is that we are going after work to watch the Blues game (and drink too much) and when I searched for Cotter's on Kingshighway instead of going local it decided that we were going drinking in Compton, CA.
Computers are normally my friend but not today. I knew I messed up yesterday afternoon when my boss asked if I was working today and I blurted out 'yes' without even thinking. Considering the fact that I haven't taken a day off since August and am going to end up with vacation time unused because I've been trying to keep up with two jobs since September (we are still trying to fill the other one), I really blew it by not taking that chance to not be here today. I thought I could use a slow day to get caught up without interruptions but that hasn't happened because I can't save my changes to those forms and nobody else is even here to get what I need for some other stuff.
Bottom line, I'm an idiot.
Then I went to Google Maps to show a co-worker where the place is that we are going after work to watch the Blues game (and drink too much) and when I searched for Cotter's on Kingshighway instead of going local it decided that we were going drinking in Compton, CA.
Computers are normally my friend but not today. I knew I messed up yesterday afternoon when my boss asked if I was working today and I blurted out 'yes' without even thinking. Considering the fact that I haven't taken a day off since August and am going to end up with vacation time unused because I've been trying to keep up with two jobs since September (we are still trying to fill the other one), I really blew it by not taking that chance to not be here today. I thought I could use a slow day to get caught up without interruptions but that hasn't happened because I can't save my changes to those forms and nobody else is even here to get what I need for some other stuff.
Bottom line, I'm an idiot.
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If I was stressing over vacation days, I'd absolutely do that. But my employer gives us an absurd amount of vacation (not a complaint) so I burn 'em when I can.stlouie_lipp wrote:Isn't that kind of a reason to go to work though? You know you'll just [expletive] around all day, so it's kind of a day off anyway.JL21 wrote:This is pretty much why I started taking those days off. Nobody else I work with is around, so it's not like you get anything done.
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Next year I'm taking Thanksgiving Eve off too... 
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Day off. Sick. This blows.
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Busch light. MmmmmJocephus wrote:awstrike has left for his beer. i wonder what he gets.
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Though we lost at the euch. F.
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Happy thanksgiving to you day job lot! It's 515am and I am walkin out of work good and drunk and a thousand miles from home and I think it's just great! I am going to sleep til about 3pm, then cook for my similarly family-less roommate and other friends.
Enjoy football. I'll catch ya on the flip side. Ie 5pm
Enjoy football. I'll catch ya on the flip side. Ie 5pm
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awesome.Maclowery wrote:Happy thanksgiving to you day job lot! It's 515am and I am walkin out of work good and drunk and a thousand miles from home and I think it's just great! I am going to sleep til about 3pm, then cook for my similarly family-less roommate and other friends.
Enjoy football. I'll catch ya on the flip side. Ie 5pm
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and now I'm working on Thanksgiving. Figured since I was sick and it was going to suck I might as well get paid for the day.
Happy Thanksgiving and have fun.
Happy Thanksgiving and have fun.



