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Post by potentpotables on Jan 31, 2015 20:06:14 GMT -5
In my department there are 5 married women and me, a single dude. And there are plenty of times when it's crazy and I have to watch the landmines. But, most of the time they all take care of me like I'm their kid (which is a little weird with the one co-worker who is younger). But they are always inviting me over, bringing me food, etc.
Of course any time something needs to be lifted, I'm called upon, and I'm not allowed to say that they are sexist for asking me to lift...
In my department there are 5 married women and me, a single dude. And there are plenty of times when it's crazy and I have to watch the landmines. But, most of the time they all take care of me like I'm their kid (which is a little weird with the one co-worker who is younger). But they are always inviting me over, bringing me food, etc.
Of course any time something needs to be lifted, I'm called upon, and I'm not allowed to say that they are sexist for asking me to lift...
Price for getting the food and mothering. But you are right, it's sexist.
This isn't so much a grrrrr as a "first world frustration."
At work we get a primary vacation and a secondary vacation. These are the only days of the year that we can put in for and be 100% guaranteed that we get them off. They allowed our primaries to overlap each other by up to 3 days, our secondaries can't overlap anything. Well, my graduation ceremony is (Saturday) May 2nd and Shaky Knees is the following weekend May 8-11th, I believe. I wanted to take my secondary vacation for those two weeks to guarantee both events off. Someone put in their primary starting the 6th and is taking the two weeks following that off, so Shaky Knees weekend. Because of the way her days off and my days off fall, the only days that would overlap would be the Saturday and Sunday of SK, which they won't let me do. I don't want to waste my secondary on just one day (my graduation) but I don't want to put in for a voluntary request for the weekend of SK and have it not get filled. But I also don't want to take the whole week prior to that off because then I'd be guaranteeing SK doesn't get filled ("she just had a whole week off, why would I cover even more time off for her?"). So I'm torn on what to do. It doesn't look like I can get SK off, unless I mark off sick then take the write up when I get back. Which I'm not totally against, but it just seems silly I have to do that because of two days. That and I talked about this before she put in her primary so everyone knows about that weekend already- guaranteeing me a write up.
I already have a ticket to SK, and I reeeeally want to go. I'm torn on being an adult and saying I can't go and being selfish and going anyways. I also wish my coworkers were nice people who abided by the whole, "I scratch your back, you scratch mine" mantra. But the first shifters in here never cover the second half of anything. When I put in for a day off, I pretty much assume I'm only getting the first half off. Which is bullshit because I work a shit ton of overtime in this place to help people get days off.
I miss my old job where I could take whatever I wanted off. Life was easier then.
Oh, and other than these two events, there is nothing else I want in the year to take time off. If I did take two weeks off anywhere else it's be just for the sake of taking time off because I can. Which seems like a waste to me since I already take a lot of time off here and there for shows. And I plan on quitting in the fall anyways to either go to grad school or just relocate in general. Primaries are booked up through the end of September, so I have to take my secondary before my primary (June 9th-July11th) because I may not be here after September.
I already have a ticket to SK, and I reeeeally want to go. I'm torn on being an adult and saying I can't go and being selfish and going anyways. I also wish my coworkers were nice people who abided by the whole, "I scratch your back, you scratch mine" mantra. But the first shifters in here never cover the second half of anything. When I put in for a day off, I pretty much assume I'm only getting the first half off. Which is bullshit because I work a shit ton of overtime in this place to help people get days off.
I miss my old job where I could take whatever I wanted off. Life was easier then.
Oh, and other than these two events, there is nothing else I want in the year to take time off. If I did take two weeks off anywhere else it's be just for the sake of taking time off because I can. Which seems like a waste to me since I already take a lot of time off here and there for shows. And I plan on quitting in the fall anyways to either go to grad school or just relocate in general. Primaries are booked up through the end of September, so I have to take my secondary before my primary (June 9th-July11th) because I may not be here after September.
So you get five weeks off as a primary vacation, from Bonnaroo until mid-July?
1. How the hell do you get (at least) five weeks paid vacation time?
2. Do you really need five straight weeks off? Couldn't you move a week or two from June or July over to May?
3. Sure the lineup is nice, but do you *really* need to do SK? You're already doing Roo and whatever else.
totally pathetic but the blizzard is a giant pain in my ass. getting to work and back was a nightmare, they closed us 2 hours early which is nice but I need any hours I can get, and everything is much more difficult when there are 10+ inches of snow. grrrrrrrrr, grumble, growl.
I already have a ticket to SK, and I reeeeally want to go. I'm torn on being an adult and saying I can't go and being selfish and going anyways. I also wish my coworkers were nice people who abided by the whole, "I scratch your back, you scratch mine" mantra. But the first shifters in here never cover the second half of anything. When I put in for a day off, I pretty much assume I'm only getting the first half off. Which is bullshit because I work a shit ton of overtime in this place to help people get days off.
I miss my old job where I could take whatever I wanted off. Life was easier then.
Oh, and other than these two events, there is nothing else I want in the year to take time off. If I did take two weeks off anywhere else it's be just for the sake of taking time off because I can. Which seems like a waste to me since I already take a lot of time off here and there for shows. And I plan on quitting in the fall anyways to either go to grad school or just relocate in general. Primaries are booked up through the end of September, so I have to take my secondary before my primary (June 9th-July11th) because I may not be here after September.
So you get five weeks off as a primary vacation, from Bonnaroo until mid-July?
1. How the hell do you get (at least) five weeks paid vacation time?
2. Do you really need five straight weeks off? Couldn't you move a week or two from June or July over to May?
3. Sure the lineup is nice, but do you *really* need to do SK? You're already doing Roo and whatever else.
See, this is logic. It's what I need in my life.
My primary vacation (Bonnaroo) can be how ever long we want it to be. Everyone takes 4 weeks usually. I'm taking 4 weeks as well, not 5, because I'm starting in the middle of a work week because I tried to work with someone to get them the days off they wanted (even though they ended up switching it and fucking someone else over. Irrelevant though.) Moving my time around has nothing to do with it. I can't take SK off because someone else is taking it off and they won't let me over lap with them because their primary overrides my secondary, if that makes sense.
And I build comp time (aka PTO) by working overtime. For every OT shift I work I earn 6 hours of comp time. I work a shit ton of overtime in the winter so I can have time in the summer. We can carry up to 120 hours of comp time, plus whatever vacation time you have (which accrues throughout the year, but I don't use vacation time- I always use comp because it's "renewable.")
Yes, you are right. I need to not do SK. But I want to and it's giving me a complex.
I'm debating between Forecastle 2015 (on my 30th birthday) and Roo 2016. Waiting to do something next year also allows me to do something smaller this year.
Hey, remember that time when I had a tooth ligament abscess & my face swelled up like a overindulging chipmunk? Yeah, I think it's happening again. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
Do you ever get in those moods where you're just suddenly sad out of nowhere? Like the feeling overwhelming sadness that you can't snap out of that makes you feel really lethargic and you don't want to get out of bed? That's me right now. It's been me for the past couple of days, but right now I'm really feeling it. I feel like if I could get a good cry out I'd feel better, but I can't seem to make it happen. These are really the only times I hate living alone...
Do you ever get in those moods where you're just suddenly sad out of nowhere? Like the feeling overwhelming sadness that you can't snap out of that makes you feel really lethargic and you don't want to get out of bed? That's me right now. It's been me for the past couple of days, but right now I'm really feeling it. I feel like if I could get a good cry out I'd feel better, but I can't seem to make it happen. These are really the only times I hate living alone...
Went through this recently. Just keep productive in some way like your life depended on it. Only thing that worked for me besides time
Hey, remember that time when I had a tooth ligament abscess & my face swelled up like a overindulging chipmunk? Yeah, I think it's happening again. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
Do you ever get in those moods where you're just suddenly sad out of nowhere? Like the feeling overwhelming sadness that you can't snap out of that makes you feel really lethargic and you don't want to get out of bed? That's me right now. It's been me for the past couple of days, but right now I'm really feeling it. I feel like if I could get a good cry out I'd feel better, but I can't seem to make it happen. These are really the only times I hate living alone...
Happens to me sometimes. Especially during winter. What I try to do is resolve to make plans for something that I can look forward to and is happening in the near future (so not Bonnaroo for example, too far away).
Do you ever get in those moods where you're just suddenly sad out of nowhere? Like the feeling overwhelming sadness that you can't snap out of that makes you feel really lethargic and you don't want to get out of bed? That's me right now. It's been me for the past couple of days, but right now I'm really feeling it. I feel like if I could get a good cry out I'd feel better, but I can't seem to make it happen. These are really the only times I hate living alone...
Went through this recently. Just keep productive in some way like your life depended on it. Only thing that worked for me besides time
This. When I get like this, a lack of activity just allows me to dwell on all the possible reasons for my sadness, so it hangs around for longer than it has any right to. Doing things helps shift my focus to the awesome things going on and shortens the sadness.
Hey, remember that time when I had a tooth ligament abscess & my face swelled up like a overindulging chipmunk? Yeah, I think it's happening again. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
I had never really experienced serious tooth pain until this year, and it is the worst. I hope you can get it taken care of as quickly as possible.
Do you ever get in those moods where you're just suddenly sad out of nowhere? Like the feeling overwhelming sadness that you can't snap out of that makes you feel really lethargic and you don't want to get out of bed? That's me right now. It's been me for the past couple of days, but right now I'm really feeling it. I feel like if I could get a good cry out I'd feel better, but I can't seem to make it happen. These are really the only times I hate living alone...
Happens to me sometimes. Especially during winter. What I try to do is resolve to make plans for something that I can look forward to and is happening in the near future (so not Bonnaroo for example, too far away).
Winter definitely doesn't help. I have diagnosed depression, I need to refill my prescription, but this feels different. Idk. I think it started last Wednesday on the anniversary of my friends death, but sadness has never lingered for me like this. I usually get lasting anxiety exasperated by stress, but I don't really have "stress" in my life right now (aside from my job and financial stress). But this feels weird to me. This feeling is abnormal and I don't like it.
It could be made worse by inactivity, I suppose. I graduated, so all I do is work and hoop. And although my hooping is definitely a release for me, I can't go outside and be really active. Both things just feel routine to me now too. I'm going Cherub on Friday, alone, but hopefully a show will lift spirits a bit. I don't like this feeling and I really just want to cry to get it out. It feels like a ball inside of me that is constantly pushing me to get it out, but I can't. Last night was just especially bad because I couldn't sleep and I was just kinda left thinking about it. I think watching that herion commercial also made it worse because my friend (several actually, but the one whose anniversary on the 28th is whom I'm speaking of here) died of a herion overdose, so it just worsened my feelings of sadness and made me think about things I don't like thinking about.
Happens to me sometimes. Especially during winter. What I try to do is resolve to make plans for something that I can look forward to and is happening in the near future (so not Bonnaroo for example, too far away).
Winter definitely doesn't help. I have diagnosed depression, I need to refill my prescription, but this feels different. Idk. I think it started last Wednesday on the anniversary of my friends death, but sadness has never lingered for me like this. I usually get lasting anxiety exasperated by stress, but I don't really have "stress" in my life right now (aside from my job and financial stress). But this feels weird to me. This feeling is abnormal and I don't like it.
It could be made worse by inactivity, I suppose. I graduated, so all I do is work and hoop. And although my hooping is definitely a release for me, I can't go outside and be really active. Both things just feel routine to me now too. I'm going Cherub on Friday, alone, but hopefully a show will lift spirits a bit. I don't like this feeling and I really just want to cry to get it out. It feels like a ball inside of me that is constantly pushing me to get it out, but I can't. Last night was just especially bad because I couldn't sleep and I was just kinda left thinking about it. I think watching that herion commercial also made it worse because my friend (several actually, but the one whose anniversary on the 28th is whom I'm speaking of here) died of a herion overdose, so it just worsened my feelings of sadness and made me think about things I don't like thinking about.
Happens to me sometimes. Especially during winter. What I try to do is resolve to make plans for something that I can look forward to and is happening in the near future (so not Bonnaroo for example, too far away).
Winter definitely doesn't help. I have diagnosed depression, I need to refill my prescription, but this feels different. Idk. I think it started last Wednesday on the anniversary of my friends death, but sadness has never lingered for me like this. I usually get lasting anxiety exasperated by stress, but I don't really have "stress" in my life right now (aside from my job and financial stress). But this feels weird to me. This feeling is abnormal and I don't like it.
It could be made worse by inactivity, I suppose. I graduated, so all I do is work and hoop. And although my hooping is definitely a release for me, I can't go outside and be really active. Both things just feel routine to me now too. I'm going Cherub on Friday, alone, but hopefully a show will lift spirits a bit. I don't like this feeling and I really just want to cry to get it out. It feels like a ball inside of me that is constantly pushing me to get it out, but I can't. Last night was just especially bad because I couldn't sleep and I was just kinda left thinking about it. I think watching that herion commercial also made it worse because my friend (several actually, but the one whose anniversary on the 28th is whom I'm speaking of here) died of a herion overdose, so it just worsened my feelings of sadness and made me think about things I don't like thinking about.
And now I'm overwhelmingly sad again.
Sometimes you've just got to be sax but not for long bc then I will get sad. ??????????
Post by NothingButFlowers on Feb 3, 2015 11:29:55 GMT -5
I bought this awesome fabric to make a bag, and I cut out the main pieces upside down, so now I have to reorder it and recut those pieces. At least it's only 4 (out of 44) pieces that will have to be recut, but it'll take like a week for the new fabric to get to me and I'm not very patient.
I bought this awesome fabric to make a bag, and I cut out the main pieces upside down, so now I have to reorder it and recut those pieces. At least it's only 4 (out of 44) pieces that will have to be recut, but it'll take like a week for the new fabric to get to me and I'm not very patient.
I bought this awesome fabric to make a bag, and I cut out the main pieces upside down, so now I have to reorder it and recut those pieces. At least it's only 4 (out of 44) pieces that will have to be recut, but it'll take like a week for the new fabric to get to me and I'm not very patient.