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by h4pless
3568 days ago
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When you're responsible for everything, the weight of the world is on your shoulders at all times. When you're a cog in an accepted system, you aren't singled our for your inefficiencies . Perhaps less gratitude for being a baller, but a lot more comfort in knowing you aren't going to be wrongfully terminated because the CEO has a personality disorder. |
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I really envy her ability to leave work at 5 PM (or whatever her shift's 5 PM is) and not have to think about work until 9 AM the next day. I'm always 'on', always thinking about the next problem or outage or project, and frankly it's exhausting. If she calls in sick, they call in someone else to cover for her. There's no wondering 'will this get done' or 'what if...'. She never books a day off and then ends up having to work that day anyway.
Add to that that she's working a union job and getting a pension. She's got four weeks of vacation now, five or six years in, and it's only going to go up (her mother had months every year by the end). She's guaranteed raises based on how long she works there, and if she's qualified for another position and she's the most senior person then she'll get it (rather than having to kiss the boss's ass, or 'sorry we can't do without you in your current position'). Her pension is based on her 'best five years', so if, down the road, she does five years in operations, in a stressful, difficult, and frustrating job, she can then hop back out and do something simple until she retires.
There are no highs or lows in bus driver scheduling like when a server goes down and you're losing thousands of dollars an hour, but honestly, when a server goes down and we're losing thousands of dollars an hour, that sounds pretty good to me sometimes.