brvheart 1,752 Posted August 2, 2019 Share Posted August 2, 2019 Why longer hours in the summer? Link to post Share on other sites
Essay21 2,385 Posted August 3, 2019 Share Posted August 3, 2019 more daylight in the summer. i’m at work between 830 and 9 and i leave between 5 and 530. i prefer to eat my lunch at high noon. Link to post Share on other sites
BigDMcGee 3,352 Posted August 3, 2019 Share Posted August 3, 2019 August 3rd Des Moines 84 RF 88. Brownsville 88 RF 98 Link to post Share on other sites
CobaltBlue 662 Posted August 3, 2019 Share Posted August 3, 2019 When do you guys go to work/get home? What are you commutes like? I have a 14 minute commute. During school, I work 9am until whenever. Sometimes that's 3pm...sometimes 9pm. During our busy span, I was working like 55-60 hours per week...and 7 days per week. During the summer, it has basically been 5 days per week for a total of 20 hours or so. I have a 12-17min commute depending on traffic and lights. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
BigDMcGee 3,352 Posted August 4, 2019 Share Posted August 4, 2019 August 4 Des Moines 86 RF 95 Brownsville 89 RF 102 Link to post Share on other sites
brvheart 1,752 Posted August 5, 2019 Share Posted August 5, 2019 I'm a big fan of this, Big D. Keep it coming. Link to post Share on other sites
InternetExplorer 2,609 Posted August 5, 2019 Share Posted August 5, 2019 I have been reading this book off and on for a few weeks: https://www.amazon.c.../dp/B01NAIQV62/ It's what prompted me to directly talk to the CEO about my path and express frustration with the lack of guidance. The guys they interview talk pretty directly about establishing succession timeframes, meta discussions about roles and responsibilities before anyone is hired, etc. It made me realize that I was stupid for taking a passive approach after getting completely passed over back in the last review season; that I should have been more direct in asking for next steps on the road to becoming the next C-suite operations person. Anyway, the book is interesting because the titles and responsibilities are all over the place at these huge public companies, but yet it seems to make infinitely more sense than how my firm is set up. We have a #1 and a #2 stepping all over the rest of the organization's responsibilities, seemingly at random. The reality is that I'm not in contention for the #2 spot in the firm, which is how most COOs seem to define it, but maybe I could be #3 or #4 someday as CTO or Chief Innovation Officer or something. Title is kind of irrelevant, I just want to be the person translating strategy into execution in terms of technology and process, and maybe someday that can be a new business line that I run, outsourced to other firms. I have said privately to the #3 or #4 in my company that, if my career at this firm has hit a plateau, it makes no sense for me to live this far away from the rest of my family. I can easily get a similar job back home in this absurd job market.. the distinguisher to this firm, and the sole reason for living here, was that I could work hard in exchange for career progression. I'm pretty sure that was a factor in bringing these role/responsibility discussions back to the fore. 2 Link to post Share on other sites
InternetExplorer 2,609 Posted August 5, 2019 Share Posted August 5, 2019 Always nice to get emails from recruiters in my work inbox, especially when they have verbiage in their email about having the utmost discretion. Link to post Share on other sites
Napa_Don 688 Posted August 5, 2019 Share Posted August 5, 2019 Because a lot of people go to their cabins on the weekend in the summer so they just allow people to work the different schedule to take advantage of it. And because the days are longer. I would work this year round if I could though. It’s awesome. Don’t feel like I miss anything during the week and Friday ends up feeling like an extra day off. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
BigDMcGee 3,352 Posted August 5, 2019 Share Posted August 5, 2019 Aug 5 Des Moines 87 RF 90 Brownsville 87 RF 99 Link to post Share on other sites
SuitedAces21 2,722 Posted August 6, 2019 Share Posted August 6, 2019 And because the days are longer. VINDICATION 1 Link to post Share on other sites
BigDMcGee 3,352 Posted August 6, 2019 Share Posted August 6, 2019 Aug 6 Des Moines 84 RF 87 Brownsville 89 RF 104 Link to post Share on other sites
Essay21 2,385 Posted August 6, 2019 Share Posted August 6, 2019 can you add in a third city? maybe like paris, texas. Link to post Share on other sites
Essay21 2,385 Posted August 6, 2019 Share Posted August 6, 2019 can you add in a third city? maybe like paris, texas. Link to post Share on other sites
BigDMcGee 3,352 Posted August 7, 2019 Share Posted August 7, 2019 No Link to post Share on other sites
Napa_Don 688 Posted August 7, 2019 Share Posted August 7, 2019 My annual Ribfest is Sept 14th if any of you are in the area that weekend. Unfortunately, I will be out of town. 2 Link to post Share on other sites
BigDMcGee 3,352 Posted August 7, 2019 Share Posted August 7, 2019 Aug 7 Des Moines 88 RF 95 Brownsville 89 RF 100 Link to post Share on other sites
brvheart 1,752 Posted August 7, 2019 Share Posted August 7, 2019 What site and what time are you getting these stats from? Don't think we didn't notice you slacking on the 6th. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
BigDMcGee 3,352 Posted August 7, 2019 Share Posted August 7, 2019 What site and what time are you getting these stats from? Don't think we didn't notice you slacking on the 6th. 1) Real Feel is proprietary for Accuweather, which is the website I use 2) I use the high temp, when ever that occurs 3) I didn't skip the 6th, I just had the days mislabeled. I had two august 4th's and the wrong august 5th. I've edited them to represent the correct dates. There will be no Fritzing in year one of the Iowa vs South Florida Real Feel August statistical comparison. . 2 Link to post Share on other sites
hank213 1,823 Posted August 8, 2019 Share Posted August 8, 2019 Listen, some of us depend upon the accuracy of the IvSFRFASC so let's make sure we're 100% on target with accuracy before hitting that post button, mkay? Tighten it up man, don't make us have to get a fact checker up in here. 2 Link to post Share on other sites
Essay21 2,385 Posted August 8, 2019 Share Posted August 8, 2019 Been having some abdominal pains over the last few weeks. Feels like a vice, squeezing my insides. Blood work all normal, they tell me. Have an ultra sound tomorrow. Doc thinks it might be gallstones. Let’s hope it’s not my colon, or they might have to get in there and find some answers. Link to post Share on other sites
brvheart 1,752 Posted August 8, 2019 Share Posted August 8, 2019 Colon stuff is horrible and I want to avoid it at all costs, even though I shouldn't. Hopefully it's gallstones. Link to post Share on other sites
InternetExplorer 2,609 Posted August 8, 2019 Share Posted August 8, 2019 CEO apparently took our conversation about path as a request to change managers. This quickly escalated into a proposal to have my position reassigned under an IT director who pretty clearly has a desire to roll operations up as a subordinate unit. Initially, it looked like I had screwed myself pretty badly, but I finally just got with my current manager and explained that: I would prefer to stay where I am and keep a relationship that’s working, intact I want to sit down with the CEO and my current boss and the COO to collectively map out what we are doing to get me ready for the COO seat over the next five years I need my title to be changed to reflect that I am not simply working on data and reporting anymore I should have just come to her with the path discussion, and that I didn’t mean for it to turn into this She was good with all of that. I don’t know if the CEO is going to get bent out of shape, guess we will find out. I am ready to quit if this change is forced on me, because in my mind, giving this IT douche the ability to set narrative on me over the next several years can only be bad for me. Link to post Share on other sites
Essay21 2,385 Posted August 8, 2019 Share Posted August 8, 2019 Colon stuff is horrible and I want to avoid it at all costs, even though I shouldn't. Hopefully it's gallstones. it was gallstones. whole mess of them apparently. googled it and i can’t eat anything that tastes good, so life is basically over. Link to post Share on other sites
InternetExplorer 2,609 Posted August 8, 2019 Share Posted August 8, 2019 Just tell me you can still eat Chipotle Link to post Share on other sites
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