We are really slow at the of salt mine. Just like every year at this time but this year we are REALLLLLy slow. So slow in fact, that I haven’t charged and entire 40 hour week to a project all year.Ive been charging my time to overhead and training. I need to have 100% of [...]

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My employer just spent a butt-load of money adding a 400 seat auditorium, fitness center, and a bunch of other improvements, to our world headquarters. I could careless about the auditorium and the building upgrades. It’s the fitness center that I’m excited about. There will also be 2 trainers working there before 8 am, during [...]

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If you’ve stuck with me for the past few months then you know that I’ve been busting my rear end on this project at work. The good news is that I not only made the totally unrealistic project schedule , but I was the only one to make it UNDER the deadline. The bad news [...]

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First I’ll let ya know that I’m only 50% finished with the crazy hours at work. This past Saturday was my first day off all year. I even worked part of the day on New Years Day. So that’s why I didn’t go out on NYE. I just stayed home and was in bed at [...]

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As I said before I’m really busy at work. So this once a week schedule is the best I can do for the time being or until some other projects free up some people so I can pass off the easy but time consuming task that I have to do on this project to some [...]

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It really annoys me when other people are right. This just about sums up my staycation. Although I’m not going to the office.

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This week I’m on forced PTO (Payed, some call it Personal Time Off). I’m not actually forced but I have to take it or I lose it, and since I earned it I’m taking it. I’m taking it now because I just ended a project and wanted to take a break before I jumped in [...]

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