Working is highly overrated

“Hey can you do this section of the project? I will work on the other part.”
“Sure. I’ll email it to you when I am done.”
“OK. I will be working on it over the weekend.”
So I work on my portion. Basically it consisted of doing some calculations to determine a value, that will be added into a software formula that will compute a benefit cost ratio for a project we are working on.
I then send it via e-mail.
I then get back a message, “Can you send me the data points I need?”
“Which ones?”
“The square footage, the discount ratio, the date of construction, the project costs” etc.
“Should I just run all the numbers in the software?”
“No, I’ll do that part.”
Yeah she will do the actual importation of the data into the software, but none of the background information. So, I ended up having to 95% of the work including putting it into the importable spreadsheet format, so that another person could hit run on the software.
Then we heard her say: “I got all the numbers to work.” Yeah, thanks for all your hard work.


I have a community I work with weekly on the development of a grant application. We have a standing Wednesday appointment. We have a deadline of Halloween. So the last two weeks on a row, he emails me and wants to move it to Thursday. No problem. Except that on both Thursdays he had to cut our work sessions short by about half. So we have a standing meeting for 3 months now, and he moves them to a busier day where we can’t actually accomplish all we need to. Of course he didn’t tell me we had to cut it short until I was there. Oh yeah, it is a 1 ½ hour one-way drive for me to get to his office.

For the past year I have been told that any time I work over 40 hours in a week, can be used for time off. I can only use it at 50% but still. So last march I took a comp time day off. I used 16 hours to take off an 8 hour day. So there is a state holiay comming up that is not company holiday. No problem I have over 100 hours of overtime. So I ask my supervisor how he wants me to record this on my time sheet. It turns out I am not authorized for comptime, and the company has no record of me earning any. Wow, thanks. The company gets to bill the client more hours (and they get on my case for not working additional overtime) and I get the saisfaction of kowing they are doing it.