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This week's questions were suggested by amguynes

1. What would you do if a random stranger gave you a bouquet of roses?
2. What is the most commonly used color in your house?
3. What color is your favorite t-shirt?
4. If you could go back in time, what time would you live in and where would you live?
5. If you could have any ONE thing in the entire world (not including money) what would it be?

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Our new Director of HR was handing out the latest employee handbook a few weeks ago. I was joking with him that one of the previous HR guys would have me read over the handbook to point out any issues with it. Haha. Very funny, right?

Well, I read it that day and noticed a few interesting things. I wasn't sure if this was a new direction the company was going or if they missed editing it to customize it for the PA operations. One of my coworkers was having a bad migraine day so I was sending her funny and interesting tidbits from the handbook to try to cheer her up. One of those tidbits was:

If the company's executives decide to close early the day before a holiday, non-exempt employees are paid for unworked hours. That seems pretty straightforward, right? We do that. It's already been announced that we're closing at 2pm next Wednesday and I'm sure everyone is getting paid for the rest of the day.

Then the handbook goes a little further...

Any employee required to stay past office closure due to their job function will be paid double time.

Our warehouse workers are constantly told that when the office closes at 2pm, it doesn't mean them. They have to stay and work and they don't get any overtime. Normal OT is 1.5x, but this says double time. Wow.

I was discussing order cutoff for Wednesday and the warehouse manager mentioned his guys would have to stay. I said, "Yeah, but at least it's at double time." He laughed and said, "Oh, we don't do that. I wish." I replied, "According to our new handbook, we do!" He was most interested in this. I found the page and the warehouse manager went right in to point it out to the Director of HR who didn't realize it said that. (Hello? Again, I am the only one who reads these handbooks.) Now the warehouse manager is off to the VP of Finance who will dislike the idea so much that he will rearrange everything to let the guys go on time, most likely.

I have asked to leave my name out of it because the VP of Finance will be most displeased with me.

Our warehouse employees are treated like such second class citizens around here. They get yelled at, told they can't eat in the kitchen with the rest of the employees, can't use our bathrooms, etc. It's such a disgrace. The PA operations are so small that there is no sense in segregating us like this. I'm kind of happy to be the one to score a win for the little guy.

In other words, you choose your life, that is to say, you choose all the conditions of your life, when you choose the thoughts upon which you allow your mind to dwell."

~Anthony Bloom

I just got over what looked an awful lot like Strep Throat and now I have what looks an awful lot like pink eye. Feh. I need my eyeballs intact, kthnxbai!