assorted work scheduling thoughts
Nov. 8th, 2024 05:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
edenfallingI have spent the past two days doing very little at work. I'm not doomscrolling or anything, but I am definitely not focused on my actual job. By which I mean I have answered a few emails, talked to a few people who walked into the office, reviewed a few apartment videos, uploaded a few other videos to YouTube, and talked to the Maintenance department about a few issues. And that's it.
Admittedly I didn't want to leave the office to take care of some pending tasks because Mr. Geniality is out of state visiting his family and it's not great to leave the office entry unattended, but still.
I was out sick Wednesday-Friday last week (general exhaustion, full-body aches, minor but persistent headache, minor but persistent upper respiratory gunk, minor but persistent lack of correct internal temperature regulation) and used paid sick leave to cover two of them, but I need to save some paid time off for Thanksgiving and Christmas visits to family in Minnesota.
So I'm thinking I might come in tomorrow afternoon to stage a couple studio apartments and take photos and video. The forecast predicts sunshine, and this way I could make up at least part of that missing day.
Next week I will be in the Collegetown office Monday and Thursday, and downtown Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday. Hopefully this is a sign that I will be able to return to my normal one-day-per-week in Collegetown before the end of the year.
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Unrelatedly, I had a paid training session for Not the IRS on Monday evening, which included a 1-hour Teams meeting and then some online assessments. On Monday the 11th I will get the results of those assessments in the form of personalized additional paid training. Apparently there's like 55 potential training modules, but you only get assigned ones to covered points where your assessment results were a bit wobbly.
The thing about tax training is that if something is a government requirement (continuing education in order to renew your PTIN) that's unpaid. But if the company assigns additional training/education beyond the government's requirements, and makes completing that training/education a condition of employment, that usually has to be paid.
Admittedly I didn't want to leave the office to take care of some pending tasks because Mr. Geniality is out of state visiting his family and it's not great to leave the office entry unattended, but still.
I was out sick Wednesday-Friday last week (general exhaustion, full-body aches, minor but persistent headache, minor but persistent upper respiratory gunk, minor but persistent lack of correct internal temperature regulation) and used paid sick leave to cover two of them, but I need to save some paid time off for Thanksgiving and Christmas visits to family in Minnesota.
So I'm thinking I might come in tomorrow afternoon to stage a couple studio apartments and take photos and video. The forecast predicts sunshine, and this way I could make up at least part of that missing day.
Next week I will be in the Collegetown office Monday and Thursday, and downtown Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday. Hopefully this is a sign that I will be able to return to my normal one-day-per-week in Collegetown before the end of the year.
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Unrelatedly, I had a paid training session for Not the IRS on Monday evening, which included a 1-hour Teams meeting and then some online assessments. On Monday the 11th I will get the results of those assessments in the form of personalized additional paid training. Apparently there's like 55 potential training modules, but you only get assigned ones to covered points where your assessment results were a bit wobbly.
The thing about tax training is that if something is a government requirement (continuing education in order to renew your PTIN) that's unpaid. But if the company assigns additional training/education beyond the government's requirements, and makes completing that training/education a condition of employment, that usually has to be paid.
