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Ah. Here's the downside.
Oct. 16th, 2005 05:08 pmEveryone at the office is telling me how fortunate I am to be paid by the hour instead of on salary. Means I can't be kept any later than I want to be.
Maybe, if I had my own transportation, that would be true. But I have to get a ride from someone else, both going to and from the office.
But you have three people to give you rides! you say.
Well, yes, but frequently Allen leaves by 5 (having started at 7am). Hacker, lately, has also been asked to start work earlier than he'd like, and has retaliated by leaving at 4 every day. This leaves Brian, who usually leaves around my eight-hour mark (6pm). ...except when he's working VERY late because something tech-related needs serious adjusting. (Just last Thursday I found myself still at the office at 8:45pm.) So I can either get less than eight hours a day in, and cut my budget appropriately, or I can risk staying way later than intended.
Well, you're still getting paid for all that extra time if you chose the latter, right?
Well, here's the other thing. The three QA supervisors are Allen, Hacker, and Fei. The last of those three to leave (almost inevitably Fei) is required to establish that the QA rooms are cleaned, orderly, and secured. "Secured," as in, "locked up." So once Fei decides to leave, I'm not on the clock anymore; I'm just hanging around the office waiting for Brian.
Given a choice, I'd rather risk staying late, just so long as I have reading material to distract me. But this is just a reminder of why it was nice to have a car. If only gas weren't so frellin' expensive...
Maybe, if I had my own transportation, that would be true. But I have to get a ride from someone else, both going to and from the office.
But you have three people to give you rides! you say.
Well, yes, but frequently Allen leaves by 5 (having started at 7am). Hacker, lately, has also been asked to start work earlier than he'd like, and has retaliated by leaving at 4 every day. This leaves Brian, who usually leaves around my eight-hour mark (6pm). ...except when he's working VERY late because something tech-related needs serious adjusting. (Just last Thursday I found myself still at the office at 8:45pm.) So I can either get less than eight hours a day in, and cut my budget appropriately, or I can risk staying way later than intended.
Well, you're still getting paid for all that extra time if you chose the latter, right?
Well, here's the other thing. The three QA supervisors are Allen, Hacker, and Fei. The last of those three to leave (almost inevitably Fei) is required to establish that the QA rooms are cleaned, orderly, and secured. "Secured," as in, "locked up." So once Fei decides to leave, I'm not on the clock anymore; I'm just hanging around the office waiting for Brian.
Given a choice, I'd rather risk staying late, just so long as I have reading material to distract me. But this is just a reminder of why it was nice to have a car. If only gas weren't so frellin' expensive...
