I haven’t stumbled (i.e., used StumbleUpon) at home much recently, but I’m waiting on laundry to finish up and I figured “what the hell”. The third page I came across was a blog called Beyond Robson, and it had the following image for a post dated February 5, 2006: The content of the post was:
Like the four shining heroes raising Old Glory at Iwo Jima, like Martin Luther nailing his 95 Theses to the chapel door, like John Carlos and Tommie Smith raising their hands at the Olympics in defiance; every act of resistance is a battle won, no matter how big or small. That is why, to my delight, walking past Blenz on Hastings to the Spartacus Books grand re-opening, I discovered a few notes taped to the door. Four employees, sick of slave wage labour and an ungrateful boss, up and left. Walked out, en masse, in the ultimate act of defiance against corporate middle management. For that one moment, anyone who has ever had a shitty boss stood and rejoiced. Every one who has worked for minimum wage stood together in defiance. We raise our glass to you.
I found this to be an excellent post. Partially, it is because my JAQ (Job Analysis Questionnaire) at work is still being worked on. As my job there started on July of 2004, that brings me to 21 months of not having the ability to apply for the job for real. True, that means I’ve got to keep the job, but it’s common for the person who has the job/position the JAQ was written for to get/keep the job. That means for the last 21 months, I haven’t had “real” vacation/sick days; I technically have to work over for any time missed. That’s not too bad, but that means I have to stress myself to work longer to get a day off, which practically negates the reason for taking a day off. Anyway, my JAQ is still going through all the red tape (and I will never see a reason not to call it red tape) and whatnot, and is probably sitting under a pile of papers somewhere. The worse part is, someone in the department recently had a position created as an assistant to someone else. There was no job yet, so a JAQ was created. The JAQ was revised. The JAQ was signed off on. Done… she now has the job. Unless I’m mistaken, the entire process took about 6 months. I wish I had a relative somewhere high-hanking in the university; then my JAQ would be finished too.
Update 3-25-06 3:42 PM: Oh yeah, I forgot to mention the fact that I do not have any medical insurance through the university until I get the job through the JAQ. So, not only do I not technically get sick days, if I get sick enough to go to the doctor, I would have to pay for all of it. Fortunately, Meghan and I have a policy through some other insurance provider, so that we wouldn’t have to pay the full cost. However, it’s probably more expensive than if I got it through the university, and it would be nice not to have that expense.
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