2 things I don't miss in ER
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Meadbh
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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.....
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.....
There is so much I don't miss, but I don't want to drudge up the memories.
WhoDaresWins
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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.
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.
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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1) Basement windowless cubes
2) Weekend surprise assignments, especially those requiring ASAP travel.
Bonus: Performance reviews
2) Weekend surprise assignments, especially those requiring ASAP travel.
Bonus: Performance reviews
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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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Meadbh
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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.
You were way ahead of tour time, Walt.
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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.
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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I love that video!
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I'll go with alarm clock at 5:45am and generating useless CYA reports for senior management who usually didn't even read them.
RockyMtn
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Airports and HR people.
Mr. Paul
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17 years without a vacation.
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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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Yeow! That's harsh.
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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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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.
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.
martyp
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1. Stress
2. Performance appraisals
2. Performance appraisals
Chuckanut
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Trite, meaningless phrases that are supposed to inspire us, but leave me wondering if the people who speak them are in touch with reality.
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1.) Acronyms. We used to receive e-mails about once a week announcing some new program (often it was just an old program that had been dusted off and slapped with a new name). The name would be used once, then its acronym would be used thereafter. As if it had come into being through normal usage.
Probably belongs in the "pet peeves" thread.
2.) Everything everyone else has already mentioned.
Probably belongs in the "pet peeves" thread.
2.) Everything everyone else has already mentioned.
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1. The commute
2. Administrative crap - reports, meetings, proposals, time cards, phone calls, emails
2. Administrative crap - reports, meetings, proposals, time cards, phone calls, emails
LitGal
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1. New curriculum fads every 3-4 years; usually the same requirements as before, packaged in new jargon (history constantly repeating itself, claiming to be something "new")
2. Grading thousands of essays and research papers, in an effort to truly help students improve their writing; I was happy to do it, but it consumed weekends, evenings and all holidays (never with any extra pay or comp time).
After 34 years, I needed some weekends and evenings, so RE'd.
2. Grading thousands of essays and research papers, in an effort to truly help students improve their writing; I was happy to do it, but it consumed weekends, evenings and all holidays (never with any extra pay or comp time).
After 34 years, I needed some weekends and evenings, so RE'd.
1) Commuting
2) waking up in the middle of the night worrying.
Last week I was sitting at my volunteer j*b when a little old lady sat down next to me. She started to talk to me about her case of "toxic mold poisoning". I just smiled and nodded, because it is no longer my role to tell her that toxic mold is a scam and that I can't refer her to a toxic mold specialist. I got home and DH wanted to tell me about his lunch with a former coworker who still w*rks for his bipolar ex-b*ss. We spent the rest of the evening feeling happy.
2) waking up in the middle of the night worrying.
Last week I was sitting at my volunteer j*b when a little old lady sat down next to me. She started to talk to me about her case of "toxic mold poisoning". I just smiled and nodded, because it is no longer my role to tell her that toxic mold is a scam and that I can't refer her to a toxic mold specialist. I got home and DH wanted to tell me about his lunch with a former coworker who still w*rks for his bipolar ex-b*ss. We spent the rest of the evening feeling happy.
