It was so pretty here today!! The HIGH was 77 and it was sunny all day with these big puffy white clouds! I love those clouds...they look like they would be really fun to just jump in! I know that isn't true because when I fly and we go through them it makes it very turbulent. After work I went to a nearby park to exercise with Al...all went well until it started raining and I was sort of far from the car...luckily I found a pavillion and did some exercises in there until the rain stopped.
This week has sort of flown by! My employee is very low maintenance so the days have been easy and I spent the first couple nights here trying to get my stupid proofing fixed on my website (which has still not happened) so that sort of consumed my nights. Then I started working on the finances and the taxes....UGH. Tonight I balanced all my mortgage payments in MS Money...well, 3 of the 4 of them. I was interested to see what equity I had built up..not that I am selling but I was just curious. Actually, Drena and I are going to look at properties on Sunday because I am thinking of getting a rental property. We will see, I hope that I find something that I like.
In other news, I am kind of sad today because it looks like I am going to miss the first UGA game. It sucks because I have tickets to it but no one is going that I sit with and I am having this whole debate with myself...I don't really know anyone else who would want to go and sit through a blazing hot 12:30 game and I don't want to sit with people that I don't know in that kind of heat. Dudley has tickets next to mine but she has a wedding for this game...thank goodness she will be around for all the rest of the games. I was going to go to Ohio for the weekend anyway but I was debating on whether I should go after the game or on Friday. Chances are that I would get out of work early on Friday so I could take an earlier flight and if I talk to my boss about the whole 4 days a week thing then I could even go on Thursday night. Tickets are selling on Ebay for a lot so that will be good, but I just hate to miss the game. I hope it will not be the only one that we are ranked #1 at and I hate missing the new UGA. I guess I just have to have faith that we will keep our ranking and I will get to see many more UGAs in my life. I just wish that it was on TV (it is only PPV in GA) so I could see it. I did miss the first game last year because I was flying back from Australia and we ended up our season pretty great so maybe I shouldn't go to the first game and we will have another great season. Ah, I remember the days when I didn't miss a game..growing up sucks!
Speaking of the 4 days a week thing, anyone have any advice on how to approach this with her? She is pretty laid back but I feel like I need a good reason...I was thinking just the fact that I travel so much and need a day for errands, especially since I don't ever get home when I am supposed to because of delays. I am just not good at this type of stuff and part of me just wants to do it the chicken way and write an email. The other thing about her is that she is really nice but very hard to read in person...I never know what she is thinking...
I think that I am going to get a frosty...I wasn't hungry for dinner but I am starting to be and there is a Wendy's across the parking lot..mmmmm, frosty!
1 year ago
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I'd just address it purely from how it would benefit your boss (the 4-day a week thing) - that when you work longer days, you get more done than if you have to re-acclimate yourself every morning to the task at hand, that with a 3 day weekend you have more time to find more direct, faster and more on-time flights, and that if you have four 10 hour days instead of 5 8-hours, it means that those 10 hour days, you're able to devote the extra time to something that may take up a longer time segment during the day. Stuff like that. I don't know your boss, but I know that when I asked for stuff like that in my old job, I really had to sell whoever on why it would make the company better rather than the whole "a happy employee makes better productivity" stuff.
Is there any way she might let you at least use one day a week to work from home? I don't know how possible that is, but just a thought! Oh, and I seem to remember that your company is committed toward going green, right? Maybe just drop a hint about how it would help the company to reach those goals as well and that it helps your image to the client that they're committed to a greener workplace.
Yeah, she is cool and she doesn't really care that much what I do as long as I get my work done. There are several people who work from home one day a week or two even, I just want a day where I don't have to worry about work (I would answer emergency emails). I think that your suggestions are good. I don't really see her having a problem with it at all, but I just wanted to sort of have a good "presentation" and yes, I will mention the green thing (she already knows I ride marta to help be green and that I bring my cardboard boxes from home to recycle at work so she knows I really am into green and not just saying it). I guess the worst thing is that she could say no...I think that I might also mention how I have to go the doctor sometime and the way it is now it interrupts my day but if I had one day a week then it wouldn't interrupt my day as much. She lets the girl who just had a baby work until 2 and the other girl did that before she went on maternity leave cause she had a 1 year old so she will probably be pretty flexible, I don't know why but I just get nervous about stuff like that...silly I know!
Sorry not really helpful here. Never had a 9-5 forty hour a week job. Very jealous.
The actual 40 hour a day WORK day I think is a misnomer anyway. We all work way more than 40 hours a week unless we're hourly, in my opinion. At my last job we had to bill time like a lawyer does, every 6 minutes have to be billed to a client. If you took too long on certain things though, you couldn't bill over, and nothing seemed to take you just the allotted time. You had to have 40 billable hours, which meant you ended up working closer to 70 in "real" time.
I miss leaving things "at work" like that though - if I decided "okay I'm going to take an extra day off", it doesn't really count like it used to. And Meghan, I'm guessing you put in more hours than we do anyway, and if you took a day off without any replacement...wow...you'd have crying kids, all the popsicles would be gone, there'd be 4 boxes of wipes strewn all over the house, and I'm sure that smart little Caroline would figure out how to order herself a pony to come over or something.
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