Back at work..

Michael,
 
We sound like we are on similar schedules this year.  

Ya, I'm up to like 27 days off a year now, unless I carry some over. Our busiest part of the year is from January till June, so I don't have much opportunity to take any off until the second half of the year. I used to carry a bunch over to the next year, but then it was all the more a challenge to use them up, so now I just take them...maybe carry a day over to next year.

The latest thing for us, my company is encouraging some of us in management to work remotely more often. I am not sure what I think about that. I think it works OK for sales guys, but when you manage people, how do you do that when you are not around to manage the people??? My GM said in my last review that if I wanted to work out of the house 1 day a week, feel free to do so. I think that I am going to do that VERY sparingly. I fear that some penny pinching accountant type will get the idea that people are not needed if they routinely are not in the office. Maybe I am old school, but it doesn't feel right to me, to not go into the office and call it working.

I probably shouldn't worry about it and take advantage of the offer, I have a really good relationship with my GM. With every promotion and career move he has made for himself, he has hand picked me to advance with him. I suspect that he is just throwing me a bone. Still, it just doesn't feel right....so I will probably not make a routine out of it.

I like my job a lot, but I don't love it. I have to many hobbies that I would rather be doing. :-)

No, I just don't seriously see how you can do what I do and not be there most of the time. I was thinking to myself, does he really not understand what we do?

I work for the largest trade show contractor in the US. We do about 60% of the countries trade shows. We do NAMM in January, along with CES coming up in Vegas in January. I manage a department that can have anywhere from 8- 40 Union Carpenters working on a given day and also a handful of full time salaried employees and 6-10 non-union laborers. On average we probably have 10 - 14 exhibit projects going on at one time, prepping or being built to go to trade shows. They all keep me very busy, seems like there are no shortage of labor decisions to ever be made.

I have been lucky enough in the last couple of years to build up a little staff underneath myself and I guess that might be what he is trying to tell me. Sit back and enjoy what we have developed a little. I am actually lying a little low right now because I really don't want to be asked to travel to Vegas for CES. I spend to much time there already and would like to stay away until May.

Moshkiae
Hi,
 
You ... had ... STEAK ... for Thanksgiving?
 
Wait until Bapu gets a hold of this for the next CHB song!

My wife suggested it and since she cooks turkeys for us to make sandwiches I thought it was a great suggestion. It was very cool to have my grand daughter grill them...my first meal prepared by her and it was excellent.
Bapu is welcome to the song idea...he could have had steak though.
 

jbow
Wow... I am sorry. Unless of course, you love your work!  
If it is not too presumptious, what do you do? It sounds like you have a great job!!
 
J

J, I work for a worldwide chemical company. I can't go into details but I'm more or less my own boss. I spend my days in my office at a computer or driving around in the woods via company truck. I've been doing it for over 20 years....can't say I love it but I try to do it better than what any other could. I can say that retirement is something that I look forward to...if not for the fact that ageing sucks.
Hey...we even had a manager from England for a while. He was a funny cat...not a very good manager but couldn't take funny away from him.
 
 

I don't complain Mike. I'm glad I have a job but it's a job.
I have a 25 minute drive (highway).
I'm about 5 hrs NE of you. When Myolpay rolls rocks to the south they land in my yard. Takes a couple of hours but he can rock and roll.
 
What's nice is I've become very proficient at what I do....and nobody but me knows LOL.
I can get out anytime I care to and get lost in the woods. Really the hardest part is just making it to the job.
 
I really like the very small community that we live in. Our home is under the Homestead exemption so it's tax free...nice that when we paid it off that was that. There is some little community tax we pay that is like 17 dollars or something.
No building codes either...I sure like that. Any ol fool with a hammer can do his thing which has been good for me! LOL.
 
Once you cross that ol Red River hoss....it just don't mean a thing. Uzzz otta know whats I'm sayin' Mike. :)