4382: How To Play
apparently =( [gonna be using this avvie a lot in the coming days, aren't I...]
THAT SAID, I doubt this holds for my particular case, though upgrading my wardrobe has been a perpetually ongoing project. I had gotten rid of or moved to storage all my tees from college and prior, and pretty much all of my jeans slowly turn to jurbur bedding [whether or not jurburs are around], so it's really on the end of trying to find good stuff to replace it all.
This happens so infrequently that I end up wearing the same awful stuff that looks like a half-hearted attempt to step out of prep school and into the business world. [FTR, I didn't and still don't like most women's clothes because it doesn't cover my dog collar [even though I stopped wearing it at the end of July] and/or plunges waaaaay down where it feels like if I lean over I'll flash somebody.] I do have some nice business attire and make-up, but--as much as it costs--the business attire I save for interviews, and the make-up I save for when there's something particularly unsightly on my face [cut, acne, what have you] because it otherwise makes my already oily skin worse, as much as my mother's complimented my complexion [I've never had true "pizza-face" before].
SO. I doubt the "you don't dress nicely enough to deserve a raise" theory holds for me, because practically everybody [employees, contractors, president] dresses leaning on the side of casual as per company policy, and I've tried to maintain the "prep school" minimum [nice-ish slacks, collared shirt w/ pullover*, black socks, hair pulled back into ponytail]. I'm clearly not among the nicest-dressed at work, though, and I get the impression the women, in particular, with the most job security DO err on the side of businessy.
*I'm hesitant to say sweater vest for reasons, even though mine are "built in" [I'm not wearing a sweater [vest] over a shirt, it's one piece], but that counts as preppy.
I dunno. I already can't earn enough to keep up with my spending, as much as I talk about how that's prolly the worst mistake *almost everyone* makes, and I feel like spontaneously upgrading my whole wardrobe will bankrupt me.
Unless I Goodwill it all, in which case I'll end up with mismatching blazers and slacks that are all nattier for their trouble.
...so, not getting into details that may get me in trouble, but I think the carrot just vanished =( It basically deals with the things I would need to be an independent contractor that, in this specific kind of company, would cost me as much if not more than what the temp agency skims off the top... Therefore, it might not benefit me to go indy -_- and in fact might cost the company because they've been saying the other indies didn't need to do this, but they DO. So, suddenly a bunch of contractors might be saying they can't afford to work here anymore...
Now, it's possible--though it's simply an idea that popped in my head--that they could finagle something such that I can be a contractor under Earl Grey [who runs his own contracting business through which he has hired several of the other contractors at work so they can all "independently" work for the company], but I'm not sure how it would work with the contract they currently have with my agency. Also, not sure if he would take as much off the top as my agency 9_9
In other words, BONED T_T
Which runs counter to what I've heard about why we have this hiring glut from out of nowhere, such that Falco, Miss Priss, and I have been working overtime on their paperwork, but *shrug!* I'm not the one making the purchasing decisions, unfortunately.
...also, they totally called a maintenance guy to fix the copier... which turned out to have a smudge on the glass that he wiped off. Damn it, if y'all had asked me before you called an expensive maintenance guy, I would've saved you like $150 >_< [savings not guaranteed]
THAT SAID, I doubt this holds for my particular case, though upgrading my wardrobe has been a perpetually ongoing project. I had gotten rid of or moved to storage all my tees from college and prior, and pretty much all of my jeans slowly turn to jurbur bedding [whether or not jurburs are around], so it's really on the end of trying to find good stuff to replace it all.
This happens so infrequently that I end up wearing the same awful stuff that looks like a half-hearted attempt to step out of prep school and into the business world. [FTR, I didn't and still don't like most women's clothes because it doesn't cover my dog collar [even though I stopped wearing it at the end of July] and/or plunges waaaaay down where it feels like if I lean over I'll flash somebody.] I do have some nice business attire and make-up, but--as much as it costs--the business attire I save for interviews, and the make-up I save for when there's something particularly unsightly on my face [cut, acne, what have you] because it otherwise makes my already oily skin worse, as much as my mother's complimented my complexion [I've never had true "pizza-face" before].
SO. I doubt the "you don't dress nicely enough to deserve a raise" theory holds for me, because practically everybody [employees, contractors, president] dresses leaning on the side of casual as per company policy, and I've tried to maintain the "prep school" minimum [nice-ish slacks, collared shirt w/ pullover*, black socks, hair pulled back into ponytail]. I'm clearly not among the nicest-dressed at work, though, and I get the impression the women, in particular, with the most job security DO err on the side of businessy.
*I'm hesitant to say sweater vest for reasons, even though mine are "built in" [I'm not wearing a sweater [vest] over a shirt, it's one piece], but that counts as preppy.
I dunno. I already can't earn enough to keep up with my spending, as much as I talk about how that's prolly the worst mistake *almost everyone* makes, and I feel like spontaneously upgrading my whole wardrobe will bankrupt me.
Unless I Goodwill it all, in which case I'll end up with mismatching blazers and slacks that are all nattier for their trouble.
...so, not getting into details that may get me in trouble, but I think the carrot just vanished =( It basically deals with the things I would need to be an independent contractor that, in this specific kind of company, would cost me as much if not more than what the temp agency skims off the top... Therefore, it might not benefit me to go indy -_- and in fact might cost the company because they've been saying the other indies didn't need to do this, but they DO. So, suddenly a bunch of contractors might be saying they can't afford to work here anymore...
Now, it's possible--though it's simply an idea that popped in my head--that they could finagle something such that I can be a contractor under Earl Grey [who runs his own contracting business through which he has hired several of the other contractors at work so they can all "independently" work for the company], but I'm not sure how it would work with the contract they currently have with my agency. Also, not sure if he would take as much off the top as my agency 9_9
In other words, BONED T_T
Which runs counter to what I've heard about why we have this hiring glut from out of nowhere, such that Falco, Miss Priss, and I have been working overtime on their paperwork, but *shrug!* I'm not the one making the purchasing decisions, unfortunately.
...also, they totally called a maintenance guy to fix the copier... which turned out to have a smudge on the glass that he wiped off. Damn it, if y'all had asked me before you called an expensive maintenance guy, I would've saved you like $150 >_< [savings not guaranteed]