"Textured Soy Protein" (texturedsoyprotein)
06/10/2015 at 09:30 • Filed to: None
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"Textured Soy Protein" (texturedsoyprotein)
06/10/2015 at 09:30 • Filed to: None | 7
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My job sucks. I’m one of the more senior people at the place, and have a “flexible” schedule, but that mostly means I often stay late into the evening for shit I don’t feel like sticking around for and don’t get any more money because I’m on salary.
I’ve been wanting to take a mental health day for a while now but haven’t been able to for various reasons. Until today, that is.
I’ve been talking with one of the other senior guys about taking this mental health day for weeks. We had this big videoconference with the president of the company last Friday, and various other deadlines and crap for the month+ before that, so taking a day off was just not possible.
Since I’m planning to leave this job soon, hopefully, and I have separate sick time and vacation time, I’ve been meaning to take a sick day for my mental health day. Because when you leave this company, you get a payout for vacation time but not sick time. Might as well hang on to that vacation time since it’s worth money in the near future.
Yesterday, I went into this dude’s office, and he asked me,
“Do you feel a sudden illness coming on tomorrow?”
“Why yes, yes I do!”
“I think I’ll be coming down with that same illness on Friday! Why’d you have to get me sick?”
The best part is, our boss is actually sick right now and sounds horrible . So it’s entirely conceivable that each of us caught that something from her.
Today my plans include:
Phone interview for a way better job than this one.
Going grocery shopping with my gf who isn’t working at the moment but starts her new job on the 22nd.
Going to the gym in the middle of the day. Just late enough that my receptionist, !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , who goes to the same gym as me and works 12-8 pm, doesn’t see me when she goes before work.
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Taking the gf to Best Buy to look at possible new laptops for her. I’m trying to get her to get a Chromebook, maybe.
Possible dinner and/or music date...except who knows what kind of live music there is in this town on a Wednesday.
Good thing I have to work Saturday!
SaveTheIntegras
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06/10/2015 at 09:51 |
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64Mali
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06/10/2015 at 09:54 |
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I think I need to take one of those.
uofime-2
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06/10/2015 at 10:34 |
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“Mental wellness day” I like it!
My last sick day was spent changing a timing belt haha
Rico
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06/10/2015 at 11:04 |
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Mental Health Days are the best I usually either smoke out (vape out usually) and wash my car or get up early and go driving out upstate. From time to time I’ll go hiking with a few friends if I feel my “sudden illness” is going to be on a day they too are off.
RallyWrench
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06/10/2015 at 13:38 |
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Ooh, you didn’t know your boss and the PRC are Opponauts, huh? Busted!
Enjoy the day, I could use a mental health week myself.
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Textured Soy Protein
> Rico
06/10/2015 at 15:59 |
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I’ve been laying off anything like that lately since I’m on a fitness kick. Also because I’m interviewing for jobs and you never know when you might need to pee clean for a new job.
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Rico
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06/10/2015 at 16:12 |
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Yeah I know that situation, I once quit for a whole summer to get a job that never came through. The job I did get didn’t test because everyone including management would’ve failed beautifully. Congrats on your GFs new job, hope the phone interview went well.
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Textured Soy Protein
> Rico
06/10/2015 at 16:24 |
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Phone interview got postponed til tomorrow. The VP who was supposed to call me didn’t, because apparently last week when she scheduled the interview with me, she was traveling in Romania, and when she got back to the US her time zones on her calendar got messed up so she didn’t see the appointment time.
(I believe this story because last week she sent me several emails in the range of 2-4 am which at the time I found rather odd but now make sense if she was in Romania.)
I’ve never actually had to take a drug test for a job, so it’s always an exercise in taking a break for potentially no reason. But since companies generally don’t say on their job postings, “oh hey BTW just so’s ya know you have to take a drug test to work here so stop it with your bad habits now,” I have to be cautious just in case.
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Rico
> Textured Soy Protein
06/10/2015 at 19:52 |
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Ah that happens to one of the VPs in my division when she returns from the Middle East, the time zone has to be set again or her outlook calendar is all over the place.
Definitely feel you in regards to taking a break from it especially when money/progress is the motive. Good luck with everything man