Woke up before 8am on Saturday and by 8:30 I was scrubbing the deck. After 90 minutes of work, our previously green-hued deck is back to something resembling actual wood. Tomorrow I get to do it all over again ...but this time I'm sealing it ( Read more... )

The strike ended a day ago. Today is Wednesday ...I've now logged 10 straight days without a break and it'll be 12 before I hit the weekend. Twelve days and 112 hours of work ( Read more... )

I have decided that working four 12-hour days back-to-back is utterly ridiculous. That did not stop me from driving through monsoon-like conditions to attend my cousin's b-day party at Dave and Busters in Addison last night. I got to sleep at 2am and was up at 6am to be at work just after 7 ( Read more... )

I got to work at 7:30am. Now it's about 1:30pm. My coworker just leaned back and said, "Hey ...six hours to go."

I fucking hate 12-hour work days. Especially those that come with no pay.

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Anyone know where the union-busters are?

The CWA walkout is 12:01am on Friday (05/21). So, because they want to prove a point to the corporation, I get to report to work at 7am on Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday. Plus, I get to work 12 solid hours on each of those days ( Read more... )

From the Communication Workers of America official union website:

"National Update, Special Report for May 18, 2004

Today, CWA gave 24 hours' notice to SBC of its intent to terminate the contracts effective 1 p.m. EDT on May 19, 2004."Yup, they're going on strike tomorrow - right after lunch. (Okay, this is not set in stone ...but as of tomorow ( Read more... )

But not so much for business.

Late last night, it was announced that the union workers at SBC (about 2/3 of our total 165k employees) would probably be giving 24 hours' notice of a strike. If the announcement is correct, then around noon today (it's about 9:30am now) the official notice will be that as of noon tomorrow, the CWA (Communication ( Read more... )

This Saturday, Mish and I are meeting with Rabbi Leo Wolkow at his home on the south side (hey, he lives off of 183rd in Glenwood ...that's the south side, aight?). Leo is the rabbi that Michele knew growing up and the one that her mom used to work with at TBY in Olympia Fields. He's a close friend of the family and he's officiating at the ( Read more... )

Kang, not Belushi. Anyway, according to Jim Kang, I have "an instinct for ham-human relations lingo" because I guessed the meaning of this made-up Internet-only abbreviation:

JMFIADH

Like I mentioned to him not long ago, I'm eaither really good, or really fucked up.

'Cause apparently I've been kissing too much ass ( Read more... )