Congratulations on both the working-from-home and on the nomination! What a marvelous start to a long weekend.
My company doesn't allow people to work from home unless they've already worked eight hours in the office that day. All the extra night and weekend hours you must put in but for which you're not exactly paid because you get a salary, and that's supposed to make it all better? Those you're allowed to do from home, as long as you buy all the equipment yourself. ;-)
Wat would I do with four whole hours . . . actually, what's coming immediately to mind is laundry. How prosaic! But the laundry room in this building is locked from ten at night to eight in the morning, which means it's very difficult to sneak in a load after work.
>"Air Force brat"
Adding to the list of things I have in common with you. Golly!
All the extra night and weekend hours you must put in but for which you're not exactly paid because you get a salary, and that's supposed to make it all better?
Ick. You're quite right, I'm not impressed.
I'm actually still hourly, so I've only done overtime once in four years. It's reserved for dire emergencies in which attempting to get everything done in forty hours will result in violence. *wry g*
Adding to the list of things I have in common with you. Golly!
I'm thinking we must have known that at some point, but if I'm getting any bells on it, they're very faint indeed.
I suppose it's something that wouldn't really come up in the fandom where we met. I'm so used to everyone knowing it about me from Stargate fandom, where I was on a mini-campaign for a while to get people to stop calling the mess a "commissary" in fic. *g*
>"I'm actually still hourly, so I've only done overtime once in four years."
Oooooh, the envy. :-) It has gotten so bad from time to time -- weeks that average twelve hours a day, plus commute -- that I've thought about looking for a non-exempt (hourly) job, if I could figure out how to manage without taking on a roommate (I'm too picky for roommates). I don't entirely understand why being salaried means I have to work so very many hours; I do understand why the company prefers salaried employees, obviously.
Now, you already have a second job, I'm quite conscious of, for all you're not frequently much recompensed for it!
>"I suppose it's something that wouldn't really come up in the fandom where we met."
The military experience of the centurion, the crusader and the conquistador does mostly pre-date manned flight. ;-)
>"where I was on a mini-campaign for a while to get people to stop calling the mess a "commissary"After I picked up my jaw and laughed, it occurred to me to wonder whether Atlantis canonically has a commissary
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It was canon's fault, as these things often are. My primary hurdle was the fact that it was called that in "Window of Opportunity," the thoroughly delightful Groundhog-Day-premised ep that everyone has rewatched a zillion times. I don't know how it got past Tom (the AF consultant), but it was subsequently fixed in a bit of dialogue in "2001" between Sam and a visiting civilian official who asked her out. The scene always sounded to my ear as if it had been engineered specifically to include the word "mess" as mnay times as was feasible in order to establish it. *g*
But Atlantis is so full of people, and so many of them civilians, that there must be something of the sort, mustn't there? I mean, where else is Claire Rankin's character getting her hair dye? ;-)Hee! Maybe it was her "one personal item" first season. There were a lot of jokes about Weir's being a blow dryer
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My company doesn't allow people to work from home unless they've already worked eight hours in the office that day. All the extra night and weekend hours you must put in but for which you're not exactly paid because you get a salary, and that's supposed to make it all better? Those you're allowed to do from home, as long as you buy all the equipment yourself. ;-)
Wat would I do with four whole hours . . . actually, what's coming immediately to mind is laundry. How prosaic! But the laundry room in this building is locked from ten at night to eight in the morning, which means it's very difficult to sneak in a load after work.
>"Air Force brat"
Adding to the list of things I have in common with you. Golly!
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Ick. You're quite right, I'm not impressed.
I'm actually still hourly, so I've only done overtime once in four years. It's reserved for dire emergencies in which attempting to get everything done in forty hours will result in violence. *wry g*
Adding to the list of things I have in common with you. Golly!
I'm thinking we must have known that at some point, but if I'm getting any bells on it, they're very faint indeed.
I suppose it's something that wouldn't really come up in the fandom where we met. I'm so used to everyone knowing it about me from Stargate fandom, where I was on a mini-campaign for a while to get people to stop calling the mess a "commissary" in fic. *g*
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Oooooh, the envy. :-) It has gotten so bad from time to time -- weeks that average twelve hours a day, plus commute -- that I've thought about looking for a non-exempt (hourly) job, if I could figure out how to manage without taking on a roommate (I'm too picky for roommates). I don't entirely understand why being salaried means I have to work so very many hours; I do understand why the company prefers salaried employees, obviously.
Now, you already have a second job, I'm quite conscious of, for all you're not frequently much recompensed for it!
>"I suppose it's something that wouldn't really come up in the fandom where we met."
The military experience of the centurion, the crusader and the conquistador does mostly pre-date manned flight. ;-)
>"where I was on a mini-campaign for a while to get people to stop calling the mess a "commissary"After I picked up my jaw and laughed, it occurred to me to wonder whether Atlantis canonically has a commissary ( ... )
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It was canon's fault, as these things often are. My primary hurdle was the fact that it was called that in "Window of Opportunity," the thoroughly delightful Groundhog-Day-premised ep that everyone has rewatched a zillion times. I don't know how it got past Tom (the AF consultant), but it was subsequently fixed in a bit of dialogue in "2001" between Sam and a visiting civilian official who asked her out. The scene always sounded to my ear as if it had been engineered specifically to include the word "mess" as mnay times as was feasible in order to establish it. *g*
But Atlantis is so full of people, and so many of them civilians, that there must be something of the sort, mustn't there? I mean, where else is Claire Rankin's character getting her hair dye? ;-)Hee! Maybe it was her "one personal item" first season. There were a lot of jokes about Weir's being a blow dryer ( ... )
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