September 24, 2008 - Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Odd sign at Kaohsiung Harbor, because this is not a major entry point into Taiwan, and the people who use this entry point don't speak English.
Dome of Light at the Formosa Boulevard KMRT station.
I'm just streaming along at work. For a while there it looked like they were going to cut my hours, and if that happened I was going to give notice on the spot. I don't know if my threat made it to my boss, who I never talk to anyway, or if my co-worker who handles scheduling took a more diplomatic tack to make that not happen so far.
Anyway, since there's no communication between in my boss, I was going to interpret a cut in hours as dissatisfaction with my work, and if I'm not doing a job satisfactorily, I don't want to do it at all. And if no one is noticing that newspapers I work on have less major/facial mistakes than papers on days I don't work, then I don't want to work at a place where my efforts aren't recognized.
When I mentioned that to someone, he actually said the boss wanted me to work more hours, full time instead of the 80% that I'm working now, but after thinking about that, I decided that makes no sense. If he wants me to work more hours, cutting my hours is not the way to go about doing it. So if I get back from vacation, and my hours get cut, I'll still quit.
I wonder if any of this has to do with the fact that I'm going on vacation for 3 weeks starting next Tuesday! Yay! It is strange for a worker to take 3 weeks off, but I argued that this trip was long in the planning before I was re-activated, and I couldn't take it earlier because I was waiting to get my citizenship and was still fulfilling the residency requirement. And it was non-negotiable, it was a condition of my accepting re-activation. The new editor-in-chief said OK, but it may have still stuck with him as uncool.
I don't know if I'm excited to go. Traveling is such a nuisance now with swine flu and security checks, and I flying on my father's miles, so the flights there and back are broken into 3 legs and multiple airlines. I definitely want to go, but why can't have someone invented a transporter like on 'Star Trek' yet.
I don't have any plans of what to do there. Think I'll just chill.
2 comments:
lol, about the first picture. :)
in so many ways i'm glad i'm not working. i don't miss office politics. or not being recognized for working my ass off while others just sit around picking their noses. i definitely don't miss the dumbasses that my boss was too chicken to let go. hope things work out for you.
i think your plans sound great...just chill. it's been a while since i was able to just chill. *sigh* i'll live vicariously thru you, as you eat your burritos and just chill. :)
haha, no one should want to live vicariously through me!
I did get the burritos by the way, had plenty of time, even with having to wait for BART, getting on the wrong SkyTrain, and I still had time to eat one while waiting to board. So good! That was really good since United doesn't have meals on their flights anymore. Still struggling after bankruptcy, I guess.
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