In Vermont I had...something other than Next door and it was all online sign up. I tries to sign up with Next door and never got the postcard thing. Which is weird because almost everything else Ivery tried to put in my PO box has come to the physical address but that.

Mom's signed up for it though so I can get info from her. I think it's mostly info about flooding, escaped chickens and a few other things.

management a couple of levels up bumped everyone in our group down to Performing.

I hate that.

Why isn't doing my job well enough to get a decent raise?

Sing it, sister.

Although the whole concept of "getting a raise" assumes that we are getting paid something close to what we are worth currently and most of us, I am pretty sure, are not. But the whole pricing-labor-as-commodity model pisses me off too much to really think about it clearly.

I have a half-formed idea about how the accumulation of wealth is a distortion of economies that should be increasing wealth AS A WHOLE. Someone should give me a grant to really figure that out, because I obviously can't devote enough time to it while I'm eking out a living.

I have half-formed ideas about the perniciousness of the concept of money as a whole, but I don't have time to think about it, either.

Time for a carb binge!

I have half-formed ideas about the perniciousness of the concept of money as a whole

Fuck capitalism, y'all.

And if you meet your stretch goals, that becomes the new "normal."

UGH. I hate that so much.

Husband got status from the OK City job, in the sense that some interviews got pushed back, so the whole process has been delayed.

I have a small magnet that I found left on my desk when I worked at Duke (so, in like 2004) that says "Remember: The Better You Do The More They Expect." I never found out who gave it to me.

We get like less than 1% raises here for "good". It sucks.

I don't actually think I'm paid too little for the quantity and difficulty of my work most of the time. But replacing me would require the term-of-project hiring of several people with different skillsets. I deal with designers who are more creative than I am, who are more detail-oriented/technically adept than I am, and illustrators that paint better than I do (although I can match the best I've encountered at drawing), but no one who can can do all the above as well.

When I got this job, my BFF told me to start out slow and not give people expectations that I could do a super human amount of work. It has sort of worked out.

That's the first rule of temping. My first several jobs I lost a whole week of work by completing all the tasks in two days.

You learn the work, find out what they consider a normal pace and you make damn sure the week assignment you got lasts the whole week.

I don't actually think I'm paid too little for the quantity and difficulty of my work most of the time.

Years ago, I felt I was well-paid. Now, I'm feeling like I should be making a bit more. Once I found out what the top of my salary band is, I figured I knew about how fast my salary was going to rise over the rest of my career here. It shot up quickly the first five years then the raises leveled off, and now it's creeping up. They want to make sure they have room to keep giving me "just enough to keep me" raises if I stay until I retire, without having to promote me (there's nowhere for me to go anyway). No matter how well I do, I suspect there's an unspoken upper limit.