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Jan. 21st, 2004 07:11 pmMy day off was just spent productively... at work.
But getting paid. This is the vital bit.
In fact, it looks like I'm working full time again. This is probably a Good Thing - I'm billing them for the extra hours but am not changing my contract, so if I have a week where where I'm not up to doing 5 days, it won't count against me in any way. Also, on the 5th day, because it's extra, I don't *have* to be there at 8:30 - life was much more civilised getting up an hour later today.
I can't get paid for the extra hours I've been doing on top of this, (3 so far this week - eek!) but with any luck I can build up enough to get a few days extra annual leave. I've never kept track of my overtime before, because it's always been more or less balanced out by the days I crawl in at 10 or take an extended lunch break.
It's not like I was actually accomplishing anything meaningful in my added spare time, so I might as well go back to accomplishing nothing meaningful but getting paid. So the house will go back to being a complete tip. I'll live.
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I bought a new battery for my mobile phone last week. It's nearly 3 years old - I was shocked that I still could. The guy looked very surprised that I wanted the battery, because it cost nearly as much as trading in the phone would have. Ha!
But getting paid. This is the vital bit.
In fact, it looks like I'm working full time again. This is probably a Good Thing - I'm billing them for the extra hours but am not changing my contract, so if I have a week where where I'm not up to doing 5 days, it won't count against me in any way. Also, on the 5th day, because it's extra, I don't *have* to be there at 8:30 - life was much more civilised getting up an hour later today.
I can't get paid for the extra hours I've been doing on top of this, (3 so far this week - eek!) but with any luck I can build up enough to get a few days extra annual leave. I've never kept track of my overtime before, because it's always been more or less balanced out by the days I crawl in at 10 or take an extended lunch break.
It's not like I was actually accomplishing anything meaningful in my added spare time, so I might as well go back to accomplishing nothing meaningful but getting paid. So the house will go back to being a complete tip. I'll live.
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I bought a new battery for my mobile phone last week. It's nearly 3 years old - I was shocked that I still could. The guy looked very surprised that I wanted the battery, because it cost nearly as much as trading in the phone would have. Ha!