#Work related

[mikefrawley]

With You By My Side

It ended poorly, there's no denying but we both went down swinging along with more than a little crying all the stars were aligned against us yet my broken heart knows we tried and even in our shared losing effort at least I went down with you by my side

[luidilovins]

Fun tip of the day when you're getting a doctor's note regardless if its a work related injury or not tell the doctor what kind of tasks you do at your job and have them write a specific description on your current limitations such as weight limit or that you need take frequent or extended breaks. I learned by giving my boss a doctor's note saying that i should be on light duty and she said it wasn't enough to warrant any changes to my daily tasks and just told me to "take it easy" :))))

[objecthusbandry]

sorry for typos i just got into work and the object they want me to help raise is a baby utility pole how the hell am i goign to do that I LIVE IN A HOUSE NOT AN OPEN FIELD

[ltwharfy]

For those of you who read my non-fandom posts, you may recall that I haven't been super happy with my job for a while. Today, I accepted a new job that starts next month. So, my last day at my current job is going to be Halloween.

I will spend all the time between now and then trying to figure out a way to convince everyone that I was a ghost the whole time.

[anything-but-predictable]

Me reading text from work 🥴 Well sorry, won’t be back until next week from my holiday, tantanan nyo ko 👋🏻

[bibliophilicwitch]

Time for a Life Update

Long-time followers may remember my time struggling in retail which led to retail pharmacy. I worked for a Shopko pharmacy until Shopko went out of business and then a Kroger pharmacy that had purchased our profiles but was a brand new location. Opening a brand new pharmacy with existing profiles and staff that does not know the system is a heckin nightmare fyi. Right when our pharmacy was finding its stride the pandemic started and by the time we had reached our first vaccine season that would include the COVID vaccine as well, I was Over It. Our manager left about late spring and as we were heading into that dreaded vaccine season one of our techs got a job elsewhere and it was at that point that I opened up the internet to job hunt.

Y'all may also remember that I had worked for my public library since 2008, first as a page shelving materials, then at the circulation desk, and finally, as the adult program and volunteer coordinator which morphed into marketing and volunteer coordinator. I had spent about 10 years begging the library director for full-time hours so I could have more on-the-clock time to dedicate to my duties as well as to have benefits and not have to constantly juggle two jobs both physically and mentally, but the timing was never right. Around 2021 our City realized they had really messed up the budget and we still haven't recovered, so when I opened up the internet to hunt for an alternative to working in pharmacy (or general retail) and saw a full-time job as a marketing assistant and office manager for my City's destination management organization (convention and visitors bureau), I bit the bullet and applied.

When offered the position I chose to leave not only the retail pharmacy job that I was miserable at but also the library position that I was passionate about. Upon leaving I was told my position at the library was going to be frozen because of the budget, but shortly after, they ended up giving my hours to another part-time person making them full-time and requiring giving them benefits as well. This person had been working for the library a couple years longer than me and could also use the full-time hours, but it still hurt that it had essentially been a game of who will leave first so the hours can be juggled. (I continue to be bitter that the work I put into branding was thrown out the window by this person as well and the fact that their marketing material style does not fit the voice we had been building.)

I've been at my new job for almost two years. We have a board of directors in addition to myself and my executive director. He is a very chill person and we work very well together. It's wild to be encouraged to take an hour lunch after a working lunch or to go home and enjoy the rest of my birthday instead of working the whole day. We work very well together imo and, though the office building we lease with our local chamber has plenty of drama, we are very stress-free. I am not constantly stressed trying to herd cats to reach deadlines and I am financially stable with 9-5 work weeks leaving me with personal time.

That said, my landlord of 15 years sold our building so I have a new landlord. Currently, my new landlord has been pretty chill, but he did issue tenants a letter letting us know that we would likely see a rent increase in the new year and I happen to know my rent is about $100 less than the others and very low for the area. I have to pay for a yearly parking pass for a City lot. We have a single washer and dryer for four apartments and no change machine and I have lived over 15 years without HVAC or a dishwasher. If the rent goes up enough I will be looking into alternatives including the possibility of buying a house. This likely change will likely make me feel much less financially secure which sucks, but that's definitely life.

[ask-roach-questions]

@ask-calico-jack you got any leads on a good grave robber? I need to submit my CPE (continuing pirate education) anatomy credits this year.

[henrysglock]

what today has felt like in a nutshell

[keithsandwich]

Keith, come pick me up 😭

[aliorsboxostuff]

Guys my teacher says we can make a presentation about anything as long as thats a thing that we're familiar w and idk which i wanna choose reblog to reach more into the community lol

can y'all tell how much of a loser i am LMAO

[burningspy]

Today was my 11 year anniversary at work.

And in typical corporate fashion, the event was celebrated by giving me ... a pizza party for my entire team at lunch. I wasn't even able to pick out the pizza. You would think they'd at least ask me what type of pizza I'd prefer, but nope. That kind of consideration will never happen in the workplace.

I guess I should be thankful that after so many years I still have a job with yet another round of cuts and layoffs happening (not just at my employer, but with most big companies lately).

I won't complain too much, because after a recent "promotion" (more like a lateral move to lead a different team in the same department) the higher ups were forced by the compensation committee and HR to offer me a much larger raise than the senior director of my department wanted to give (almost triple than what he had intended to offer me).

I guess I can live with just a pizza party on my anniversary, as long as I can continue to receive this bigger paycheck every week.

[wavesoutbeingtossed]

I really do fucking hate it here lmao

[objecthusbandry]

a couple days ago someone brought in an entire family of vinyl records that they found on the side of the road. lo and behold, they were... completely healthy wild objects... that had no reason to be picked up or put in a car... we released them back in the area they were found after doing a checkup to make sure they were okay. god i hate people who think objects are exclusively domestic creatures.

[ltwharfy]

The eternal struggle: I want to write "Bob's Burgers" fanfiction tonight but I'm so fucking tired from work.

[belethlegwen]

Real Life, Sorry

How do I tell some of my best friends in the world that I am leaving them?

Like, specifically it's a work thing. I love these girls to bits and pieces. If I could handle it, if I could keep it up, if I could roll the dice with them and take these gambles that the year keeps throwing at all of us, I would. Over and over again, I would.

I signed paperwork today. I agreed to a job offer at another location. It's different; it's probably not going to be 'as good' in so many ways as what I have/had with these guys. But it's going to be easier. It's going to be stable. It's what I need for the next year; maybe the next two.

Two of the girls I've spoken to about it, but it was before it was fully set in stone. Tomorrow I pay rent for my current place, and I feel like I need to be upfront and tell the business owner/person I rent from that I'm gonna be gone (before, technically) by the end of the month. I need to start telling my clients. I need to figure it all out.

It's terrifying. For all the not-great parts of the last four years, these girls are the reason I survived the pandemic and the reason I was able to do what I do and love for this long. I'm still going to do what I love! There will be less control, but again: sometimes you need to let another person take the wheel for a while and just ride.

I don't know that I've ever left a job where I was missed after I went. I don't know that there's been a job I've left where there wasn't just... resentment or something for me in the wake of me going, no matter how it happened. Maybe that's just the paranoia, maybe that's just my anxiety, but I'm terrified it'll happen this time. I'm terrified at least one of them will see it as some kind of betrayal; that I'm abandoning them while all of this shit is going on.

I love them.

I'll miss them.

Maybe they won't miss me.

Maybe these pipe dreams of getting through the next year alive and being able to reevaluate, reassess, and regroup with them and go back to this are just that.

But for a while we had the best thing I ever had and I have to tell myself I can always be thankful for it. For any bad, there was so so so much good. There will be good for me wherever I go; I'll make it good. I know I can. They've shown me I can.

Life changes. It feels like life won't stop changing; that it's all changing.

Normally when there are major periods of change in my life, I've previously had dreams of Orcas and dolphins. They haven't shown up this time. I don't know what to make of that. The dreams always involved me seeing them in the distance, or hearing of them, and not being able to get as close as I wanted to. Not being able to really see them. Maybe this time I'm more in control. Maybe this time it's not something running away from me.

I hope I get to see the Orcas, finally.

Sorry for the ramble and rant, I was exhausted when I got home at 5pm and made the mistake of slamming back a Monster Java. My feelings are everywhere.