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Currently awake after flooping into bed way earlier than normal today (like 7:30ish). Woke up around 2:00 and let the dog out and it had snowed. Woah. What's up with that?
Had an all-day training session today. Learned a few extremely useful things, ate tasty foods, and was ridiculously bored a good portion of the time. The worst part of the day was the "Importance of Being a Student Worker" meeting which we had while the part-timers (middle management which get decent pay but still no benefits) had their own meeting.
Wow. No meeting has ever had such ironic consequences on my sense of worth. They basically had some HR person who didn't know what our job was slap together a PowerPoint presentation. Not 10 minutes into the presentation, she had obviously run out of ways to make up reasons about how we were important, and spent the rest of the 45 minutes telling us how to dress for interviews and go to job fairs. She ended on a note not unlike "And you have to do your job really well, because they don't need to go through the normal firing process to get rid of you. If you don't cut the mustard, you're gone!" Awesome.
K got re-jobbified on Monday. It's with an ad agency, which is awesome! The ad agency is old (distinguished), which is also awesome. Sadly, they seem to have never moved forward from their ways in the heydays of Mad Men in the 50's or 60's. They still file everything by hand, still use typewriters, and give merit based on time put in instead of actual output. Also: the health insurace sucks. It's seriously almost as bad as my student health care and it's expensive. Even with her slight raise from the last job, after health care expenses it's more like a big cut in pay.
So... yeah. K's kinda depressed about the health thing, and they've got her on an old Mac Mini which may or may not have wifi. And this is high tech for this place. Oy. Our money situation went from looking up to looking down... All this has her pretty stressed out.
So what are we doing? I'm looking around for other jobs. I might as well. With the shitty schedule they've got me on now, there's little difference between this and a higher-paying part-time position doing IT or something somewhere, save pay. My school hours are pretty regular, so shouldn't be hard to work with. If there were more thrift stores up here, I'd try to make a few dimes finding and refurbishing retro systems, but it just doesn't seem to pan out in this area.
I think I'm going to take a break from DMing my campaign. Lots of other people are wanting to run, a lot of the people who have come in seem to want something other than what I deliver, and I feel as though I'm just not giving it my attention (at least in part due to shitty response from players when I try to get info on their characters or whatever). My call for character info was met with exactly zero responses. One of my players went off his meds and is having a rough time, scheduling is a constant mess, and there's the fact that the majority of my players are in another state and transport has recently become an issue for many (including myself). I've been entertaining getting a more local group together... Maybe.
I think one of the reasons I've been feeling down lately is my lack of local friends. I'm the kind of guy that, when bored, likes to hang out with pals and talk geekly stuff. Keeps my mind spinning in the right way. I've got some local acquaintances made, just have to make that extra effort and see if we can hang out a bit more.
Snax is still being awesome. She's adjusted well to the transition to BeanCake Manor mkII. She came housetrained and knew "Sit." She's already gotten shake ("gimme paw") and is 9/10 of the way to lie down. The main issues we've got is her play biting and jumping up. We don't really mind the jumping up, but some of our friends do.
captain_jester is possibly running us through a Savage Worlds avatar game (not Avatar, the Last Airbender. Or Avatar, the ThunderSmurfs.) at some point soon, which I am excited about and he needs to e-mail me the rolling rules for (STARE).
That's... about it. La la la.
Had an all-day training session today. Learned a few extremely useful things, ate tasty foods, and was ridiculously bored a good portion of the time. The worst part of the day was the "Importance of Being a Student Worker" meeting which we had while the part-timers (middle management which get decent pay but still no benefits) had their own meeting.
Wow. No meeting has ever had such ironic consequences on my sense of worth. They basically had some HR person who didn't know what our job was slap together a PowerPoint presentation. Not 10 minutes into the presentation, she had obviously run out of ways to make up reasons about how we were important, and spent the rest of the 45 minutes telling us how to dress for interviews and go to job fairs. She ended on a note not unlike "And you have to do your job really well, because they don't need to go through the normal firing process to get rid of you. If you don't cut the mustard, you're gone!" Awesome.
K got re-jobbified on Monday. It's with an ad agency, which is awesome! The ad agency is old (distinguished), which is also awesome. Sadly, they seem to have never moved forward from their ways in the heydays of Mad Men in the 50's or 60's. They still file everything by hand, still use typewriters, and give merit based on time put in instead of actual output. Also: the health insurace sucks. It's seriously almost as bad as my student health care and it's expensive. Even with her slight raise from the last job, after health care expenses it's more like a big cut in pay.
So... yeah. K's kinda depressed about the health thing, and they've got her on an old Mac Mini which may or may not have wifi. And this is high tech for this place. Oy. Our money situation went from looking up to looking down... All this has her pretty stressed out.
So what are we doing? I'm looking around for other jobs. I might as well. With the shitty schedule they've got me on now, there's little difference between this and a higher-paying part-time position doing IT or something somewhere, save pay. My school hours are pretty regular, so shouldn't be hard to work with. If there were more thrift stores up here, I'd try to make a few dimes finding and refurbishing retro systems, but it just doesn't seem to pan out in this area.
I think I'm going to take a break from DMing my campaign. Lots of other people are wanting to run, a lot of the people who have come in seem to want something other than what I deliver, and I feel as though I'm just not giving it my attention (at least in part due to shitty response from players when I try to get info on their characters or whatever). My call for character info was met with exactly zero responses. One of my players went off his meds and is having a rough time, scheduling is a constant mess, and there's the fact that the majority of my players are in another state and transport has recently become an issue for many (including myself). I've been entertaining getting a more local group together... Maybe.
I think one of the reasons I've been feeling down lately is my lack of local friends. I'm the kind of guy that, when bored, likes to hang out with pals and talk geekly stuff. Keeps my mind spinning in the right way. I've got some local acquaintances made, just have to make that extra effort and see if we can hang out a bit more.
Snax is still being awesome. She's adjusted well to the transition to BeanCake Manor mkII. She came housetrained and knew "Sit." She's already gotten shake ("gimme paw") and is 9/10 of the way to lie down. The main issues we've got is her play biting and jumping up. We don't really mind the jumping up, but some of our friends do.
captain_jester is possibly running us through a Savage Worlds avatar game (not Avatar, the Last Airbender. Or Avatar, the ThunderSmurfs.) at some point soon, which I am excited about and he needs to e-mail me the rolling rules for (STARE).
That's... about it. La la la.