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Explaination of Absence
15 years ago
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Anyone who's actually noticed I've been gone the past couple weeks, here's why in two versions:
Short - I was at work.
Long - Starting last week, everyone was going on vacation except for a few of us, so we had to cover their hours. Wasn't going to be a big deal, just a few more hours each...
Then, almost simultaneously, one person who takes a lot of hours got arrested and went to jail (forcing more hours on us) and another who takes a decently large workday up and quit to pursue other ambitions. Can't blame him, but still, more hours for the few of us left. Then another person's daughter had a baby, so we all had to take her hours too, and many of the remaining individuals are lazy punks who would (and did) call an hour or so before their shifts started to ask if someone else could take their shift if anything comes up (like a party, or friends want to hang out... )And...
Well, you get it. Work-based catastrophe. On the bright side, I make back all the money I lost buying games on Steam during their big sale with all the extra pay for extra work. On the downside, I feel badly for my boss. He's the first actually good boss I've had at a job, always friendly, knowledgeable, helpful, efficient, ETC... And while he's trying to take his one break in the year, his one vacation, everything coincides to make it as stressful as possible while he can't even do much to help. My sympathies are extended to him, and I can only hope that my extra time put in has been helping dampen all this going on a bit.
Anyway, this upcoming week looks a bit more mellow. I've actually got a couple days off. I have no drawings yet, but some ideas have been sloshing around, so I may get a few doodles headed your way eventually.
Also, NEW WATCHERS! Gorram, for a couple weeks there, I got a new watcher a day for some reason. Not to sound like I'm complaining. I'm just confused as to what could have enticed the lot of ya. Regardless, hope to not disappoint with future postings. Enjoy.
And that's all, just wanted to let y'all know what's going on. Take care, everyone.
Short - I was at work.
Long - Starting last week, everyone was going on vacation except for a few of us, so we had to cover their hours. Wasn't going to be a big deal, just a few more hours each...
Then, almost simultaneously, one person who takes a lot of hours got arrested and went to jail (forcing more hours on us) and another who takes a decently large workday up and quit to pursue other ambitions. Can't blame him, but still, more hours for the few of us left. Then another person's daughter had a baby, so we all had to take her hours too, and many of the remaining individuals are lazy punks who would (and did) call an hour or so before their shifts started to ask if someone else could take their shift if anything comes up (like a party, or friends want to hang out... )And...
Well, you get it. Work-based catastrophe. On the bright side, I make back all the money I lost buying games on Steam during their big sale with all the extra pay for extra work. On the downside, I feel badly for my boss. He's the first actually good boss I've had at a job, always friendly, knowledgeable, helpful, efficient, ETC... And while he's trying to take his one break in the year, his one vacation, everything coincides to make it as stressful as possible while he can't even do much to help. My sympathies are extended to him, and I can only hope that my extra time put in has been helping dampen all this going on a bit.
Anyway, this upcoming week looks a bit more mellow. I've actually got a couple days off. I have no drawings yet, but some ideas have been sloshing around, so I may get a few doodles headed your way eventually.
Also, NEW WATCHERS! Gorram, for a couple weeks there, I got a new watcher a day for some reason. Not to sound like I'm complaining. I'm just confused as to what could have enticed the lot of ya. Regardless, hope to not disappoint with future postings. Enjoy.
And that's all, just wanted to let y'all know what's going on. Take care, everyone.
Also, we have what is easily the most versatile scheduling I've ever seen. If you want a weekend off at my work, you need only ask by thursday. Therefore, these kids have no excuse for being so irresponsible and suddenly calling out for the day.
I should be around to hassle and be hassled again very soon. If you're around this week, I'll look forward to hearing from you during it.
Thank you for your concern. :3
In any case, I'm glad you made it out OK and kept strong. Stuff like this is inspiring to me, because it's the sort of thing I wrestle with as I'm waking up...calling in and risking affecting the workload, or coming in and having to put up with the pain/heat/exhaustion but making decent money.
It makes me both glad to still have a job and more willing to wrestle with those feelings of fatigue. Thank goodness for ibuprooofen~
Nice to see you getting a couple of days off!