I am realizing with a vague kind of horror that while I now have the money to buy Lolita and other awesome clothes, I have almost no time or energy to wear them
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I remember working at Oaks Park over the summer so that I could earn money. I was doing that and freelancing at the same time, and I was making more money but I wasn't able to enjoy that summer at all. Pretty sad.
My neighborhood must be in a "your own route" place; we seem to have the same mail carriers for years on end.
Sort of sounds like when my spouse was working in a grocery store; they would work him full time for eight weeks or so then cut his hours in half, because the union rules said if you worked full time a certain number of weeks, they had to give full time regular hours (and accompanying raises etc.) after that. It's like they're hoping you'll quit so they can hire someone cheaper. Unfortunately, even my agency does it somewhat with scientific aides - they can work full time for nine months, but then they have to take three months off (or space out the limited number of work hours over the year) to avoid paying them benefits. Many of them go off to grad school and such, so they look at it as temporary anyway. We've been trying for years to change those positions to a permanent classification, so we're not constantly having retrain people every 9 months, but HR doesn't see it that way.
When I worked retail, you had to have 80 hours a month for four months to qualify for health care. Dip under 80 hours in a month, lose you health care.
It was retail. I worked almost full-time from June (we had a garden center) to the end of December. And then I was cut back to twelve hours a week for a few months.
I only had health care for about half of any given year.
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Sort of sounds like when my spouse was working in a grocery store; they would work him full time for eight weeks or so then cut his hours in half, because the union rules said if you worked full time a certain number of weeks, they had to give full time regular hours (and accompanying raises etc.) after that. It's like they're hoping you'll quit so they can hire someone cheaper. Unfortunately, even my agency does it somewhat with scientific aides - they can work full time for nine months, but then they have to take three months off (or space out the limited number of work hours over the year) to avoid paying them benefits. Many of them go off to grad school and such, so they look at it as temporary anyway. We've been trying for years to change those positions to a permanent classification, so we're not constantly having retrain people every 9 months, but HR doesn't see it that way.
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It was retail. I worked almost full-time from June (we had a garden center) to the end of December. And then I was cut back to twelve hours a week for a few months.
I only had health care for about half of any given year.
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