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mylittleredgirl
30 August 2006 @ 12:08 pm
and ribbons by Napoleon  
I'm completely burnt out at my job. Until this week, I thought I was just being a sissy, but external sources say the pressure and demands and the 10-hour-days-with-no-breaks are actually excessive, especially for what I am and am not being paid, so I feel better about that.

And I'd just come to the realization that I could make more money and have less stress (and fewer overtime hours!) at a different job that was pure admin... when I get an email telling me that I will FINALLY get my own business cards!

And I'm a happy camper again, because, omg! Business cards!

I AM SUCH A SUCKER.
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Little Red: b5 - talia pretty lie - thatfangirlmylittleredgirl on August 30th, 2006 07:35 pm (UTC)
I'm lobbying to have my official title be "Unlicensed Office Wench."
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Fi: rononmuldy on August 30th, 2006 07:37 pm (UTC)
Haha isn't it like that though?? You totally wanna leave but then something cool happens and you can't....like BUSINESS CARDS YAY!
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Little Red: b5 - corps is mother - thatfangirlmylittleredgirl on September 5th, 2006 11:29 pm (UTC)
omg! business cards are the BEST. And I have a real job title now and things! KICK ASS.
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stellar_dust: ST - janeway rosestellar_dust on August 30th, 2006 08:12 pm (UTC)
I get my own business cards soon too! I am also disproportionately excited! Yay! :D

That's no good about the hours, though.
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Little Redmylittleredgirl on September 5th, 2006 11:29 pm (UTC)
We should exchange them and pretend to network!
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miekecmiekec on August 30th, 2006 08:31 pm (UTC)
10-hour-days-with-no-breaks !!

Yeah. Too much. I was appalled to find this quote this morning (coincidence?) in a cnn article: "Almost all of the developed world has legislation limiting work hours, except for the United States"
One of the top-10 reasons why I think The Netherlands is a much better place to live.
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Little Redmylittleredgirl on August 30th, 2006 08:45 pm (UTC)
Well, actually, it's not exactly legal here either... but it's "the way it is in this industry," so that's how things are structured. I hear there is a secretary's union somewhere, though...
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ornithoptercatornithoptercat on August 30th, 2006 09:57 pm (UTC)
Actually, it's decidedly NOT legal. So far as I know, breaks are required by law, and so is overtime pay if you're on an hourly wage and working more than 40 hrs/wk.
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rokie on August 31st, 2006 12:00 am (UTC)
I second this. It's definitely not legal. From what I was told at a few of my otehr jobs, you're required by law to get a 15min break every...4? hours...or a lunch break if you're working fulltime...or some combination of the two...or something. my memory on this is kind of fuzzy...I learned it all when I was a cashier at Home Depot, but that was a few years ago and I forget.

Maybe they're laws by state?
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miekecmiekec on September 1st, 2006 05:39 pm (UTC)
Yes, breaks are required, and overtime pay probably too. But nothing says they can't set the hours for the job to be 12 hours a day, with 2 1-hr breaks somewhere in there....
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Little Redmylittleredgirl on September 5th, 2006 11:30 pm (UTC)
Well, I'm salaried, but I *am* able to put in for overtime, so that's good. :) And... I like money at all, but I also like SLEEP, so I'm in a bit of a bind.
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Gennavagenna on August 30th, 2006 08:37 pm (UTC)
My "little sister" and I once had this conversation about how we'd know when we'd be "real adults". She said that hers was when she had her own set of matching towels. I said that mine was when I had my own business cards. So yeah, I totally know.
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Little Red: cupid - claire/alex too cool - meegzi31mylittleredgirl on September 5th, 2006 11:30 pm (UTC)
Now I want to go out and buy matching towels. MY TRANSFORMATION WILL BE COMPLETE! :)
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Pooh: Cupid - goober love (by meegzi31)mspooh on August 30th, 2006 09:50 pm (UTC)
Business cards are LOVE!

My job totally suckered me in with my box of cards and their cute little happy logo and omg, it's actually pretty evil now that I think about it...
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Little Red: cupid - claire/alex too cool - meegzi31mylittleredgirl on September 5th, 2006 11:32 pm (UTC)
I want to watch Cupid now so badly!

And oooh! Mines are double-sided and one side is green like our building and the other side has our pretty logo! I am finally deserving of business cards!

... and work just called me. I'M NOT PICKING UP, RAH. But I'll totally check the message in one sec. *sigh*
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miera_c: girl powermiera_c on August 30th, 2006 10:38 pm (UTC)
I'd be more content with my new job if I got my friggin parking permit. I haven't gotten a ticket yet but I want it, dammit. I want it to be known to all I am FACULTY/STAFF now and not a student anymore thankyewverymuch.
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Little Red: sga - teyla girls only think - lizmylittleredgirl on September 5th, 2006 11:33 pm (UTC)
It is so all about the window dressing. :)

Miiiieeeera!!! We have not spammed crazy fanfics at each other in far too long.

And I imagine Weir and Teyla would give exactly the look in your icon if confronted with the Spice Girls.
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rokie on August 30th, 2006 11:58 pm (UTC)
*snuggleclings*

10 hour days are loong days

BUSINESS CARDS!!!! spiffiriffic!!!
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Little Redmylittleredgirl on September 5th, 2006 11:34 pm (UTC)
Aha! I figured out who you are!!!

*friends you with impunity*

Lalalala...
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rokie on September 6th, 2006 02:12 am (UTC)
heee! yyyeeeyyy! :D

*huggles*
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Lisa Yaegerlisayaeger on August 31st, 2006 12:57 am (UTC)
I got a box of 500 a year ago, and I still have 475. I gave the 25 away to family and friends.

The morale of this story is to look for a new job. ;-)
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ornithoptercatornithoptercat on August 31st, 2006 10:08 pm (UTC)
You can always just get business cards made yourself. You can even print your own and they can say whatever you want (Little Red, SciFi Fangirl Extraordinaire!).
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Little Redmylittleredgirl on September 5th, 2006 11:36 pm (UTC)
I have those! Little Red, Secret Agent. :)
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Little Redmylittleredgirl on September 5th, 2006 11:35 pm (UTC)
But I actually get to use mine FOR my job! And bwahahaha, one of my coworkers says I can come with him to young professionals meetings and network. Or not, but I can at least send them to family and friends. ;)
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Lisa Yaegerlisayaeger on September 5th, 2006 11:55 pm (UTC)
Sign me up for one then! :-D
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