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[Kagus]

I was supposed to do something constructive today, like head out to the fountain house and idle around in discomfort... But apparently, house bedtime is 2 AM nowadays and nobody sent me the memo.

I have absolutely no idea how she possibly functions with roughly 4 hours of sleep a night, but she seems determined to maintain the trend despite her waxing wistful about proper sleep schedules.


Maybe it's because those 4 hours are actually 4 hours, whereas I wake up several times a night to deal with the dogs or reposition after having the comforter ripped off my legs.

EDIT: Just impulse-bought a pair of scissors and a comb from a gentlemen's grooming site. I still need to actually put in the time and effort to use the damn things when they get here, not to mention learning how to do so properly, but it's a start. It's strange to think of how taxing an experience that was, and I don't mean the import duties.

Some of the reviews on that site were pretty funny, too... Most were just the extremely minimalist "It's good/sharp", including a fair few single-word reviews, but then I came across a "I have never gotten laid as much as I have since styling my beard with this kit. Recommended".

I didn't purchase that kit because the comb was a little wonky so you're effectively just paying $75 for a pair of scissors, but it's good to know that people are properly testing the equipment.

[Arx]

Sometimes I wish I could do away with the necessity of interacting with strangers at all. And the necessity of spending most of my time sitting down to do things I'm good at. I'm just weirdly stressed right now because of those two, I think.

[dragdeler]

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[Yoink]

What an awful night. I eventually managed to calm down and get to sleep via liberal application of music. I only got one or two hours' worth of sleep, though, and now I have dragged myself out of bed sometime after my alarms went off and am eating some rather bland cereal whilst trying to work up the nerve to push through another day at work with (almost) no sleep.

I can hardly bear the thought of the cheerful people who will probably be there. I had a hard enough time interacting with such last time as I trudged through the day. This, of course, just goes to feed my anxiety still further because I'm doing an even less believable impression of normalcy than I can usually manage. Yikes.

[Hanslanda]

I sleep around 3-5 hours a night, broken up into a 2-3 hour block then another block of however long until 4am.

[Yoink]

Aw jeez, I forgot to do the laundry.

[Gentlefish]

Got any sick days that they won't be pissed at you for taking, Yoink? A mental health day is just as important and actual physical illness.

[Kagus]

My GF's workplace offers an unofficial bonus for going the whole year without using any sick days. If I remember correctly, 0 sick days means a lump sum bonus of a little over a month's wages. 1 sick day halves that, 2 sick days is a pittance, and 3 or more is no bonus.

Don't quite know how I feel about that.

[scriver]

That's fucking awful, that's how I feel about that.

[itisnotlogical]

Treatment is almost over and I'm going back to work. I feel like I could go back to sleep for another ten hours. At least it'll be nice to have my own money again, however little that is.

[TD1]

That's fucking awful, that's how I feel about that.

I dunno. It's incentive not to lie - which is good. It gives the employees money which they wouldn't have had otherwise, and a not inconsiderable amount at that - which is good.

It might encourage people to go in sick when they shouldn't, thoigh personally I feel it would just encourage me not to pull a sicky. Anyway, that's not good.

The employer is manipulating staff - though again, only as far as the staff agrees to be manipulated, given that they wouldn't be getting the money otherwise. Still, that's not good.

Really, I balance it as "not bad, but not very good either.

[JoshuaFH]

That's fucking awful, that's how I feel about that.

I dunno. It's incentive not to lie - which is good. It gives the employees money which they wouldn't have had otherwise, and a not inconsiderable amount at that - which is good.

It might encourage people to go in sick when they shouldn't, thoigh personally I feel it would just encourage me not to pull a sicky. Anyway, that's not good.

The employer is manipulating staff - though again, only as far as the staff agrees to be manipulated, given that they wouldn't be getting the money otherwise. Still, that's not good.

Really, I balance it as "not bad, but not very good either.

How many people are able to get this bonus? I'd imagine not very many, given it's so generous. For those that must call in sick days, all it does is damage morale, cause not only are they sick, but now they've lost their bonus as well.

[Egan_BW]

It means they value profit over the health of their employees.

[dragdeler]

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[Kagus]

That's fucking awful, that's how I feel about that.

I dunno. It's incentive not to lie - which is good. It gives the employees money which they wouldn't have had otherwise, and a not inconsiderable amount at that - which is good.

It might encourage people to go in sick when they shouldn't, thoigh personally I feel it would just encourage me not to pull a sicky. Anyway, that's not good.

The employer is manipulating staff - though again, only as far as the staff agrees to be manipulated, given that they wouldn't be getting the money otherwise. Still, that's not good.

Really, I balance it as "not bad, but not very good either.

How many people are able to get this bonus? I'd imagine not very many, given it's so generous. For those that must call in sick days, all it does is damage morale, cause not only are they sick, but now they've lost their bonus as well.

Everyone working in the administrative side of the bakery, I don't think it applies to the bake staff and drivers as well, but I'm not sure. They've apparently seen a significant reduction in sick day usage, so they probably get by with having fewer people to cover shifts, hehehe...


Everything else about the job sounds rather nice, actually. The owners are friendly and actively involved in the workplace, they're not sticklers about paying overtime (which is good because GF is racking up overtime almost every day), and it seems to be a good (if fairly high-octane) work environment there.

That bonus thing just... Sits a bit poorly with me. There was a gal working there last year who had some sort of dehydration blackout and ended up cracking her head on a tile floor. Got rushed to the hospital and woke up later that evening with no recollection of the event. Dunno if she got the bonus, or if that counts as using sickdays.


See, I'm also a little uncertain as to what kind of sickdays is actually being talked about here... If it includes leave-with-documentation, that's pretty horrendous. But there are also a number of "free disposition days" where you don't need to inform the company ahead of time, and so long as you don't use 3 in a row or a certain number a month (forget the exact number, think it's 5-6 or something) then it's fine. More than that, and you'll need to talk with a doctor and an HR rep.

The free disposition days are what get used up when you wake up with a cough and a sore throat, or a pounding headache, and call in sick for that day... And that might be the kind of sickday they're offering the bonus for avoiding.


I really don't know the details though, so it's hard to say.