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2 things I don't miss in ER
08-27-2014, 03:01 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: Texas
Posts: 1,065
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2 things I don't miss in ER
wearing a wrist watch...
and corporate babble...
what are 2 things you don't miss?
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08-27-2014, 03:14 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jul 2006
Posts: 11,401
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I love that video! 
Two things I don't miss are long work hours, and stress.
....and writing academic papers, and competing for grant money, and endless meetings, and egos, and business attire, and business travel, and patients with unrealistic expectations, and, and, and.....
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08-27-2014, 03:19 PM
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 12,901
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1) waking up to the sound of an alarm clock
2) office politics - It got so bad at my last place of employment that it made the newspaper earlier this year...
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08-27-2014, 03:32 PM
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Administrator
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Chicagoland
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There is so much I don't miss, but I don't want to drudge up the memories. 
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08-27-2014, 03:47 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Pittsburgh, PA suburbs
Posts: 1,796
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Having to schedule my personal life as best I could around w*rk, often times leaving many things undone (now catching up).
Increasing bureaucratic demands at w*rk and resultant poor morale were draining my previous enthusiasm for the job so I sure don't miss being there. I am sleeping better at night and have more energy during the day.
Actually no a.m. alarm clock was my Number One but FIREd beat me to it.
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08-27-2014, 03:48 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Toronto
Posts: 3,321
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Administrators, paperwork, useless meetings at 7 am (or sometimes 6:45 if the agenda was packed, traffic, working 34 hours straight...
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08-27-2014, 03:52 PM
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Moderator
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Eastern WV Panhandle
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 Quote:
Originally Posted by WhoDaresWins
Actually no a.m. alarm clock was my Number One but FIREd beat me to it.
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That was mine too. Even in H.S. I argued that early AM classes (i.e., before 10:00 AM) were unconstitutional because it was "cruel and unusual".
Nobody cared. 
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08-27-2014, 03:59 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Mar 2007
Posts: 14,328
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1) Basement windowless cubes 
2) Weekend surprise assignments, especially those requiring ASAP travel. 
Bonus: Performance reviews 
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08-27-2014, 04:03 PM
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: New Orleans
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Tailgate
wearing a wrist watch...
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Quote:
Originally Posted by FIREd
1) waking up to the sound of an alarm clock
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I still wear a wrist watch, and after several years of retirement I have been using an alarm clock again for the last year or so. Granted, it just plays sweet, gentle birdsongs instead of that annoying "BLATTTT!!!", but it does its job. I feel better when I am keeping regular hours, for some reason, and that is why I am doing this.
Two things that I will never miss, are:
1) work travel
2) meetings
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08-27-2014, 04:17 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Eastern WV Panhandle
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The work travel I did have didn't bother me, and in fact I enjoyed it, but it was only three or four times a year for training or teaching and I thoroughly enjoyed both.
For 14 years running the last week in April and the first week in May I was at a training conference in Altamonte Springs, FL (near Orlando) as a volunteer coach/instructor teaching computer forensics for a non-profit (really!) law enforcement organization back when that topic was generally regarded as just this side of Black Magic at least in the law enforcement community. Even though had the "weekend off" there was still a lot to be done and at the end of one conference I realized that I had just spent two weeks in Florida (I lived in MD) and had never left the hotel! And I had a ball. Okay, hard-core geek.
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08-27-2014, 04:53 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2010
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+1
I'll go with alarm clock at 5:45am and generating useless CYA reports for senior management who usually didn't even read them.
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08-27-2014, 05:14 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: North Scottsdale
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Airports and HR people.
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08-27-2014, 05:17 PM
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gone traveling
Join Date: Nov 2013
Location: Westcliffe
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17 years without a vacation.
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08-27-2014, 05:23 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Mar 2012
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+1
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08-27-2014, 05:36 PM
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Moderator
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Eastern WV Panhandle
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr. Paul
17 years without a vacation.
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Yeow! That's harsh.
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When I was a kid I wanted to be older. This is not what I expected.
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08-27-2014, 05:56 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Feb 2014
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Two things I won't miss: Commuting and sitting in a 5x5 box in the middle of a cube farm for ~10 hours a day... Might as well be 6 feet under in a pine box.
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08-27-2014, 06:40 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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My two things:
The support events that were measured in days. You were there for the duration.
The guy sitting behind me for the last 1.5 years. Every day after lunch he would pull out a piece of floss from a sandwich bag. He'd sit there and floss, talking away. Then he'd put the floss back in the bag. I never saw a new bag or floss. 
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08-27-2014, 06:53 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Fair Lawn
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1) Stating the obvious, lack of leisure time to do my running, swimming and cycling pursuits.
2) Damned office politics.
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08-27-2014, 07:06 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Thailand countryside, Sisaket province
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1. Stress
2. Performance appraisals
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