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floatingleaf) wrote2010-01-07 08:50 pm
floatingleaf) wrote2010-01-07 08:50 pm
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We are switching to a new time-recording system at work. Up until now, we have been filling out our timesheets manually, printing them out and physically handing them to our manager. From now on, we are going to 'punch in' our arrival & departure each day through an online system that will automatically record the exact time and calculate the hours. Which is simpler, perhaps, than doing the math on your own at the end of the week... but, on the other hand, gives no leeway and no opportunities for cheating. For example, so far we've been following a general rule that said: if you're supposed to start at 9:00, but arrive no later than 9:07, you can still round it up to 9:00 on your timesheet. If you arrive at 9:08 or later, you should round it up to 9:15, etc. So then you have to stay 15 minutes longer at the end of the day, to complete your 8 hours. But, of course, without a 'clock-in/clock-out' system, your manager doesn't really know if you've done that. Especially if she leaves work earlier than you do. So, more often than not, I've been leaving at 5:30 even though I had arrived at around 9:15. Well... no more. Now I have to either stay longer in the evening, or actually get my act together and start showing up to work on time (which is probably the more sensible option, considering that the boss will be able to see my 'punch in' record each morning).
Not happy about that. I might have just shrugged and said 'oh, well' if they were paying me decent money - but this is the second year without any raises, so really, taking into account the constantly increasing costs of living, it amounts to a pay cut. And it's not like I am deliberately coming in late. I keep trying to leave earlier in the morning - it just usually doesn't happen, due to some mysterious disconnect between my inner sense of time and reality. And when it does happen, there is usually some external circumstance in place to prevent my timely arrival. Either the weather totally sucks, or the traffic is worse than usual, or they start road construction out of the blue somewhere along the way, or... you get the picture. I swear that's the typical scenario whenever I manage to leave home earlier. So most of the time I don't bother, because it doesn't seem to be making much of a difference. I am late anyway. I know it probably sounds extremely pathetic to some people... and I do consider myself lucky to have a job that doesn't see this as a problem (as long as I make up that time later in the day and/or get my work done). Or, at least, it didn't use to be a problem. I'll find out if that changes now, I guess.:/
In other news, I went to Whole Foods and bought a natural, non-toxic anti-wrinkle eye cream (Kiss My Face brand) and Desert Essence Cinnamon Burst toothpaste (haven't tried it yet - will finish my final tube of Colgate first). With no sodium lauryl sulfate (a supposedly evil chemical added to most soaps, toothpastes and shampoos) and no fluoride. That's it for now, because I didn't really need anything else - though I was extremely tempted to grab one of those deliciously smelling organic soaps (why, oh why did my mother have to give me that Dove bar for Christmas?... LOL). There was also a good variety of shampoos, conditioners and even hair dyes (ammonia-free, of course). Oh, and I also found perfectly safe eye makeup remover pads (Andrea's EyeQ) at - surprise, surprise - Jewel's (NOT a health-oriented store by any stretch, lol). The moisturizing ones, saturated with natural oils (the oil-free variation has some bad chemicals, though). So it seems that detoxifying my personal care isn't going to be such a great challenge, after all. I only need to somehow persuade people to stop buying me cosmetics as gifts, without sounding rude or ungrateful. And I honestly don't know how to do that. *bites lip* Especially with coworkers - because, obviously, getting cosmetics for a female coworker is the easiest, universally accepted solution when you don't really know what to buy them. I wish we could just skip the whole Christmas gift exchange at work; I'm still getting used to it - this is the first workplace I've been in where it happens - and it makes me really uncomfortable. Because I don't have much money to spare or much of a clue what to get for my coworkers either, and the gifts I receive are mostly useless. I just think it's a big waste of time and funds for everyone involved. But I won't be the first one to say it, lest it be taken the wrong way. *sigh*
Such are my petty concerns as of tonight.:P
Not happy about that. I might have just shrugged and said 'oh, well' if they were paying me decent money - but this is the second year without any raises, so really, taking into account the constantly increasing costs of living, it amounts to a pay cut. And it's not like I am deliberately coming in late. I keep trying to leave earlier in the morning - it just usually doesn't happen, due to some mysterious disconnect between my inner sense of time and reality. And when it does happen, there is usually some external circumstance in place to prevent my timely arrival. Either the weather totally sucks, or the traffic is worse than usual, or they start road construction out of the blue somewhere along the way, or... you get the picture. I swear that's the typical scenario whenever I manage to leave home earlier. So most of the time I don't bother, because it doesn't seem to be making much of a difference. I am late anyway. I know it probably sounds extremely pathetic to some people... and I do consider myself lucky to have a job that doesn't see this as a problem (as long as I make up that time later in the day and/or get my work done). Or, at least, it didn't use to be a problem. I'll find out if that changes now, I guess.:/
In other news, I went to Whole Foods and bought a natural, non-toxic anti-wrinkle eye cream (Kiss My Face brand) and Desert Essence Cinnamon Burst toothpaste (haven't tried it yet - will finish my final tube of Colgate first). With no sodium lauryl sulfate (a supposedly evil chemical added to most soaps, toothpastes and shampoos) and no fluoride. That's it for now, because I didn't really need anything else - though I was extremely tempted to grab one of those deliciously smelling organic soaps (why, oh why did my mother have to give me that Dove bar for Christmas?... LOL). There was also a good variety of shampoos, conditioners and even hair dyes (ammonia-free, of course). Oh, and I also found perfectly safe eye makeup remover pads (Andrea's EyeQ) at - surprise, surprise - Jewel's (NOT a health-oriented store by any stretch, lol). The moisturizing ones, saturated with natural oils (the oil-free variation has some bad chemicals, though). So it seems that detoxifying my personal care isn't going to be such a great challenge, after all. I only need to somehow persuade people to stop buying me cosmetics as gifts, without sounding rude or ungrateful. And I honestly don't know how to do that. *bites lip* Especially with coworkers - because, obviously, getting cosmetics for a female coworker is the easiest, universally accepted solution when you don't really know what to buy them. I wish we could just skip the whole Christmas gift exchange at work; I'm still getting used to it - this is the first workplace I've been in where it happens - and it makes me really uncomfortable. Because I don't have much money to spare or much of a clue what to get for my coworkers either, and the gifts I receive are mostly useless. I just think it's a big waste of time and funds for everyone involved. But I won't be the first one to say it, lest it be taken the wrong way. *sigh*
Such are my petty concerns as of tonight.:P
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I've thought about that... but the thing is, I usually only buy gifts for my closest family (parents + sister) and very few close friends - and the stuff I get from my coworkers is not something I would have picked for any of those people, who all know me well and would be immediately able to recognize any of those gifts as something 'recycled'.:/ That leaves only my coworkers - and I really don't think that presenting coworker A with a gift I had received the previous Christmas from coworker B is a good idea.:P
donate what you don't want to a women's shelter
That probably makes more sense, all things considered. Thanks for the suggestion.:)