Ahh, yes.. the "breaking your teeth" jobs. Those suck. But - you can one day tell your grandchildren (or grand-friends-children, as it were) that you used to know the part numbers of tractor grease (I -think- that's what Ross said you did). It's nuts how much bizzare information you accumulate after a bunch of odd jobs are under your belt!
Anyway, I understand your refusal to work for a place with such rediculous standards. Work shouldn't trump the joys in life - if you show up most of the year doing 110%, why should you be punished by not being able to take the time to visit your out-of-state family? Sometimes I think corporations don't account for people with family in other states. When my uncle passed away, I didn't even get a freebie day for the funeral, much less time off to travel (to RI) to the funeral. I went anyway. They didn't fire me. It all worked out in the end and I got the closure I needed. Had they fired me, I would have known then that I wasn't cut out to work in that kind of environment.
Anyway, rambling. Must get back to work (yes, work - spent most of the day helping Chrysto get floors ready for refinishing, and now there's not enough work down there for me so I figured I should get hours in up here. Rambling again!
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Date: 2006-09-15 03:37 am (UTC)Anyway, I understand your refusal to work for a place with such rediculous standards. Work shouldn't trump the joys in life - if you show up most of the year doing 110%, why should you be punished by not being able to take the time to visit your out-of-state family? Sometimes I think corporations don't account for people with family in other states. When my uncle passed away, I didn't even get a freebie day for the funeral, much less time off to travel (to RI) to the funeral. I went anyway. They didn't fire me. It all worked out in the end and I got the closure I needed. Had they fired me, I would have known then that I wasn't cut out to work in that kind of environment.
Anyway, rambling. Must get back to work (yes, work - spent most of the day helping Chrysto get floors ready for refinishing, and now there's not enough work down there for me so I figured I should get hours in up here. Rambling again!
*HUGS*
T.