Mondays suck. It’s the day we weigh the most, are low on sleep, half of us will be late for work, and 30% less productive. We complain more, heart attacks are up 20%, and if you live in the U.K. you won’t even smile until 11:16 A.M. On the other hand, it’s more likely that stocks will rise, rain won’t fall, and the best day to buy a car. How’s your Monday going, Deadsplinters?
Got 30 minutes of yoga in before starting work, so, better than most Mondays.
Great way to start the day!
I already get up at 5:15 for work. Ain’t a single extra thing happening “before work” for me.
Four dogs snoozing in the office? Lovely. As for work? Well, I am stuck at eye rolling so far today, which is far better than head exploding.
Definitely. And the dogs are a nice bonus. Have the boys accepted their new sister
Meh – a bit, but soooo jealous are they.
Lol, of course they are.
Which exposes me as living in the US because I smiled when I read that at 10:16 am.
I’m one of the lucky ones who can work from home so Monday’s aren’t nearly the morale killer that they used to be.
I can’t understand why more companies don’t go to complete WFH these days. I’m glad you smiled.
Because they still have their 1980’s management mindset which demands that people show up to the office so the company can be sure these people are actually working. God forbid professionals should be treated like professionals and not like children. Honestly, it took a once-in-a-century pandemic to finally force my company to figure that shit out.
My former company, which as I’ve mentioned previously, is having trouble filling open positions. The new CEO started his reign by demanding that everyone work in the office at least 50% of the week. Mind you, they went fully remote during the pandemic with zero loss of productivity. He claims he needs people in the office to “change the culture.” Now, that’s not the only reason they can’t hire anybody, but it damn sure doesn’t help.
My boss told me my company (which is still currently wfh) will probably eventually want people back in the office, ONLY because having people work from home complicates workers comp claims. That’s literally it. Production is fine, revenue is fine. “We have the technology.” If I bust my ass in the office, it’s relatively easy. If I do it at home, it is a whole mess. I am sure some legal mind could come up with something, but they aren’t there yet or don’t want to deal with it.
If my company could figure that out, yours can too. They just don’t want to.
Yep. My company has people around the world, and in at least half the states. It’s possible to sort out that stuff relatively easily — one way is through professional employer organizations (PEOs) that function as the employer of record while you work for your company. The only difference you see is the PEO’s name on your tax forms. And usually you get better benefits.
What I’m hearing more of is that “hey, we’ve got all this office space that we (own or lease) and we can’t have it sitting empty.” The second biggest reason is tax nexus — since I’m in Florida, the company has to file certain paperwork because my presence makes them a Florida company (we have other people here besides me) and they have to pay taxes to Florida (if applicable).
Even being in a state for a few days can create tax nexus, so some companies are rigid about you NOT working if you’re vacationing in another state. Quite a few ran into trouble during the pandemic, because they said “work from home” and people moved or went back home to take care of family in other states. Again, a PEO or most decent payroll providers can sort tax nexus out with a quickness, but companies have to take that step.
Sorry for all the accounting speak. But that’s what they pay me for.
Yeah, that’s one thing my company hasn’t yet decided to really lean into yet. They allow people to only live in one of four states (including the company’s home state) and still be WFH. So, of course, what lots of folks have been doing is moving to another state anyway and then setting up a dummy “home” address in the company’s home state (usually a friend or family member’s place, or they will even sub-let their old apartment), so they can live where they want anyway.
When I lived in Atlanta, people would do that so they could keep their cars registered in other states. Georgia had an “ad valorem” tax to register your car, based on the value of your car. So for a new car, it could amount to several hundred dollars. Every year. It would go down as the value of your car declined. I should have used my parents’ address to duck the tax, but I was law-abiding. People also drove around with temporary paper tags for years.
People in WA used to buy cars in Oregon because they have no sales tax and we have a very high sales tax. Problem is when you register your car in WA you will have to pay that sales tax. If you are driving around w/ Oregon plates and get pulled over with a WA license, you have 30 days to get your car registered or you will get fined. People on the border try to get away with it but the cops will actually tag cars and if they catch you after so many days you get fined. WA has no state income tax though so at least we got that going where Oregon does.
That was another thing that came up. “Hey why don’t they close all these offices?” Well, because they signed 3 – 5 year leases on most of the buildings, in some cases RIGHT BEFORE sending us home. So they’re borked for the time being. They closed two out of over a dozen.
Ah, I hadn’t thought of that.
Co-sign. Mondays are far less arduous now that I work from home.
I missed my Monday (Sunday Night) because I took the day off. As you might have guessed I’m on the night shift part of my rotation so it is vampire hours for the next two weeks.
Strangely, I’m on my way out to an interview (they called on Thurs.)
Problem, I’m not experienced in what they do so it might just be a waste of time for both of us (it’s happened before.) I’m still going to give it my best shot.
Good luck!
…even when I was a kid everyone seemed to associate a loathing for mondays with garfield…but I swear I remember having a duvet cover that predated those strips & had snoopy getting there first?
The idea of little SplinterRIP snuggled under a Snoopy duvet made me giggle, not sure why. But thanks for brightening my Monday.
My Monday started off by driving my wife’s busted-up car to the shop to get it fixed, then spending an interesting half-hour in the rental car office waiting to get a car. They were way overbooked. I’m calling the whole experience a good thing because we originally had a repair date of March 22, which was a month away at the time. We were able to find another shop that got us in today.
It’s absolutely fascinating to watch people come into the rental car office and pitch hissy fits and try to work any scam imaginable. One woman was incensed that she would have been mildly inconvenienced with a 20-minute wait and finally stormed off. (After trying in Spanish to get the guy behind the counter to give her our rental – yes, lady, I can follow what you’re saying if I try and conspicuously asking to switch to Spanish in front of the gringos is a dead giveaway that I should start paying attention, or, y’know, switch on Google Translate. I was tensing up, but the dude behind the counter shut her down because what a bitch.)
We sat there pleasantly chatting up the staff and when a car came back they had it back to us in six minutes, along with profuse and multiple thanks for our patience. Score one for catching more flies with honey.
I always assume I’m going to have to wait, whether it’s getting my oil changed, ordering food, or at the doctor’s office. Nobody is making me wait as a power play FFS, it’s just the way things work. And it makes the whole process easier for everyone if we are all polite to each other. If it goes quicker than I expect- hooray! But I’m not going out of my way to dump all over someone who has no more control of the situation than I do. No doubt you were a pleasure to serve and made the rental agent’s day a little better after the aggravating woman before you.
They all told us that, so I think so. They were actually going to give us a ride home and deliver a car to us later, but then a return showed up. The aggravating woman was behind us, hence my tensing up when she tried to finagle our car. No, you’re not jumping ahead, ma’am. As far as I could tell, she didn’t even have any place to be. Just a complainer.
It’s actually been a long time since I encountered the “Spanish is a secret language no white person knows” bullshit routine. She was in her 50s or so, so I guess she thought that was still a thing. Younger folks won’t try it because they know better. Spanish-speaking tourists will, but even they’re learning about Google Translate.
The whole “white people don’t know Spanish” thing always cracks me up. I grew up in Chicagoland and worked in restaurants… I can generally pick out enough words to know what’s going on! Some of the guys at the bar tried that shit, talking nasty about me in Spanish right in front of me. One of them knew I knew what they were saying and he gave the other ones enough verbal rope to hang themselves, which was pretty funny.
Yeah, pretty much every Spanish-speaking person I know has a story where they were talking about an orthodox Jew’s yarmulke in an elevator and he turned around and told them in perfect Spanish that his grandmother made it.
Or a similar story, maybe not that exact one.
It was over 60 on Saturday, in the 40s yesterday, and snowed today. All the melt progress is gone. I hate this part of the world but I don’t have it in me to uproot my existence and move to Fiji or Costa Roca.
It was in the 70s over the weekend but our temps are dropping, snow in the forecast for this coming weekend. But like you I can’t really imagine moving to another part of the world.
big national fundraiser here today
as all the main radio stations teamed up to form radio 555 for a day that means my work day was longer than average feeling thanks to all the music people were requesting in exchange for donations…
theres only so much love and peace for everybody music i can take before i start considering murdering things
https://nltimes.nl/2022/03/07/national-fundraising-day-ukraine-kicks-eu214-million-donated-giro555
still…they’ve raised 41m so far…i guess i can put up with terrible music for a day for that
It’s worth the sacrifice but it will be nice to get home and unclench your jaw, lol.