Saturday Morning Post

[supermatt41]

This was the first full work week I’ve had in a little while, thanks to holidays and back-to-back colds, and I swear it feels shorter than the short weeks.  It’s a strange phenomenon, this.  As much as I love three day weekends, I’m always surprised at how long the following week feels.  A four day week can feel like it takes ten days to finish.

Comments

[sahlah]

What a lovely post - I can just imagine the neighborhood excitement. Not every day you get a relatively harmless accident that everyone can feel good about. :)

Sorry for the work strain. I feel your pain. Hopefully you will get a replacement person, takes an act of god here for a re-hire.

Have fun at the thrift store on your treasure hunt.

[supermatt41]

It was fun, in a way, to have an accident like this happen where no one was hurt, the property damage wasn't something that troubled me at all, and people were friendly about the whole thing. Naturally, I'm glad it wasn't far worse, because it certainly could have been

[rockingthemike]

I got my 15 year pin (it has a single sapphire atom), even though I’ve actually been here 16 years because of where my hire date falls. It’s a weird feeling to see a chunk of my life represented in a tiny metal pin like that.

i know that feeling all to well matt. i was working for a college for nearly six and a half years. at the five year mark you're supposed to get a pen (a really nice one, coincidently). i didn't hear about this until i was there nearly six years, and inquired. i was told that human resources takes about a year to issue the pen and the written announcement (really? a total organizational staff of 500 with hr staff of 6 and it takes you a full year to recognize the maybe three people a year that get that benchmark? oooookay...). so finally, two months before i leave for greener pastures, i get the pen, but they forget to include my name on the written notice. they retract it, amend it, and then send it back out, but forget to send include me on the e-mail distribution list.

i was flabbergasted to say the least.

[supermatt41]

Why bother honoring staff at all if it's going to be handled that poorly? Honestly, it can't be that hard, can it? A nice pen sounds kind of cool actually. I don't think there's anything given out for five years, only after the ten year mark are things given out every five years.

I know many people dont't care about this sort of thing, but I really wanted that pin. It's a marker for that chunk of my life and I wanted something symbolic for it. At least I actually got it. And I'm surprised how much the cheering of staff meant to me when it was handed out. I'm a sap sometimes.

[rockingthemike]

all questions that i asked at the time. oh well, that was almost three years ago, onto bigger and better things (though i do still use the pen on a daily basis, and i've never had to replace the ink!

[anita_margarita]

Be glad they didn't also hand you one of those leftover Eagles too.

Occasionally I get ants in my bathtub also - beats those swimming spiders! - and they seem to come out of the faucet, though how they got there remains a mystery

[supermatt41]

Where did all those extra eagles end up? She had dozens!

Yeah I'll take ants over spiders any day.

[runawaytroll]

We had the same kind of excitement across the road from us last year. A car ran straight into a house. No one was hurt and we suspect the driver and passenger switched places before anyone got out. People came from blocks away and they stayed until the last emergency vehicle left.

[supermatt41]

There's nothing like a little live-action entertainment. I'm surprised no one was hurt in the car-vs-house incident!

[yummydeb]

A good catch-up post, that's what I like :-). ...a single sapphire atom... made me laugh. 15 (16) years in the same job is pretty impressive, nowadays. Remember when people used to go into a job fresh out of high school and stay there until they retired? Different world now... Go you for having endurance :-D. Though it does sound like times are incredibly tough as you take on so much more work without any relief in sight :-(.

YAY for no-hassle, no-quibbling insurance payouts! And for the lucky placement of the smash :-).

Did you get good junk?

Which sounds like a euphemism, but isn't, even though with me it usually is. :-D

I had chocolate ice cream last Tuesday, the first ice cream I'd had in MONTHS, and I tipped my little plastic shovel-shaped spoon in your direction, in salute.

[supermatt41]

I did indeed get good junk! A stack of books for $2, and TWO rotary phones in colors I don't have for $5 each. That find thrilled me to no end. I do love it when the hunting pays off, you know?

Well done, Ice Cream Army Volunteer!