Testy
Seems like a lot of people are testy around here this week. I’m surrounded by testy, irritable people, both at work and outside of work. No wonder I stayed in bed all day yesterday.
Is everyone testy where you are?
posted by kStyle @ 10:42 AM
4 Comments:
Perhaps I've surrounded by all the irritability in the world so that everyone else can have a break. Your time will come.
Lah, glad you're alive! Every other day, Greg and I ask each other, Do you think Lah's OK? Glad you've been away for good reasons. :)
We're surviving on gallows humor, here in the land of working-but-not-getting-paid. Whenever I get an email saying that someone is "working at home," I assume they've got an interview somewhere. Now if I could only get one of those . . . or the (as of Monday) seven paychecks I'm owed . . .
But no, other than that, not really testy. More than my usual, anyway.
carla
Why do you all keep working for no pay? Is there that much loyalty and goodwill at your company?
Keeping my fingers crossed for a fat paycheck with your name on it...
For at least two, maybe three, of the people, if the company survives, the work they're getting to do is better/more interesting than anything they're likely to find. One of those people also has some personal quirks that will make finding anything that pays a living wage a difficult task. For two other people, one's a founder and the other has a lot of money sunk into the place. One person is finishing b-school, and, I assume, is looking and will probably find something. Two people I really don't know--it may be that there aren't comparable jobs out there, but that seems a little unlikely to me. And then there's me, and I just haven't been able to find anything that I really want to do and that will pay me a good salary. I've been applying to things--about two-three/month--but I don't even get nibbles. And now we're entering the no-hire zone--a lot of places really don't hire anyone around the holidays. We keep showing up I think partly for companionship; some people are actually being productive; the internet connection is faster; and at least we're piling up "lost-wages" days, which I'm hoping can be declared as a bad debt, if worse comes to worst. And it's just too depressing to sit home all day--plus, as noted, the internet connection is faster at work. Inertia, however, is the short answer.
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