Tiny Things That Annoy You • Page 209

Alarm clocks

 

Forgetting to put your phone on the charger before you go to sleep and waking up with 6%

 

Making questionable decisions when you're half-awake (like taking a sick day)

 

I don’t know, sick days are 99% of the time a good idea

 

There's more context re: needing 37.5 hours of personal time that I may or may not reach before my honeymoon, so I think that's making me question my decision, but they've been great about everything so far (including the time off I needed for kidney stones) so I'm trying not to worry. I'll be within like a day of that and they will hopefully let me use sick time or take an unpaid day for it. I wanted to take a mental health day last week anyways and didn't, so maybe I just needed a day off.

 

Fingers crossed you're able to sort it!

Does your company not offer paid sick leave? (I'm not sure if that's a common thing in the US?)

 

I’ve been working for 15 years and the job I’m at now (since 2019) is the only one that’s offered any paid sick leave.

 

Even when they offer it, it’s not enough. When I get sick, I’m usually out 3 days. They give you like half a day per month of work lol

 

That's incredibly gross and needs to be added to the list

- companies not offering or giving minimal sick pay. (although that's not a tiny thing)

 

And now they’ll use the remote thing only in their favour. Like, you need to be in office every day. But if your sick, you know what, we’ll “let” you work from home oh thank you

 

When neither of you know if you’re going in for the hug or the handshake

 

They do! And good news, I checked my balance after doing some time-sensitive things from home that I forgot about (they'll pay me) and I must have gained a day when it hit September 1st, because I have enough time now. I think my last job traumatized me because I really do work with great people now that take care of their employees. I'm lucky. Like Mr Serotonin said, most places either do not offer it or do not offer enough of it - just unpaid time off (and you'll get shit for using it). Right now, it seems I'm accruing one day of paid sick leave and one day of paid personal time per month, which is pretty good all things considered.

Phew. Now I can enjoy the second half of this day off.

 

when you wake up in a like a groggy fog and stay that way all day.

and of course today i have a face to face with our main director/boss guy, then i'm supposed to go have drinks with some friends and THEN go out for drinks with my department for a wedding party / surprise party thing and all i wanna do is go back to bed to get rid of this grogginess

 

I think I get about 24 days of time off per year, but they're combined with sick days, so you have to just hope you don't get sick when you plan out vacations and whatnot. It sucks. We call it "Flexible time off"

 

Yeah we have PTO and 2 floating holidays which I think comes out to 22ish days for me? No sick time though.

 

I went from having 5 days / 40 hours of sick time to “whenever you need” amount of sick days when I went to a salaried position in February which is nice but also sketchy as fuck imo because as salary I don’t have to tell anyone I’m using that time or how much I’m using so like, salary people can abuse the shit out of that.

We also track our own vacation so like… again, can abuse the shit out of that. Which everyone should, just sucks that hourly people are watched so much more closely on that shit.

 

I’m expecting this to be the rest of my life ever since I turned 30

 

Yeah that’s me now but 12 days. I just get paid 75% more than my old job so it’s worth it no matter what.

 

People that don't replace the water cooler at work. I don't drink coffee and I need something cold in the morning to wake me up

 

That six years later I still think of how Now You See Me 2 should have been called Now You Don’t.

 

Lmao

 

I loved the first one, 2nd was just okay

 

When thrift stores put their one cute outfit on the window mannequin, lulling you into a false sense of security, and everything else inside is ugly

 

Related how every thrift shop I see has a weird vibe,where are the cute ones from tiktok

 

when the kiosk or website or whatever does the tip in whole numbers versus percentage, don't make me do math