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September 23, 2004

comp time

I am so unmotivated to do work today.

I'm supposed to be working on two projects right now and instead, I am writing this and listening to The Kleptones.

The funny thing is that I'm pretty much shooting myself in the foot by lazing about today. One of my projects is very high profile and was supposed to be finished months ago. But for various reasons (not entirely in my control) it has languished.

The other project is new. I was supposed to start it on Monday and over the course of two weeks, design some bullshit device. Instead I will have one week, because I've been working on my other project.

But wait, the first project will get in the way again in the middle of that week because I'm supposed to visit the client in BFE New Jersey to give a demonstration.

Understand? Good, because I don't either.

The best part is that when The Boss came over to give me a pep talk about how much work I have to do over the next few weeks, he dangled the "comp time" carrot in front of me. The idea being that I would get compensated with extra vacation for not having a life or seeing my fiancée over the next few weeks. Gee thanks.

Comp time is the biggest bullshit perk ever.

What I really want is extra fucking money. Now that would seriously motivate me.

But instead I'm going to have a few extra days of vacation. What the fuck am I supposed to do with that? Belinda isn't going to be granted extra vacation out of sheer generosity from her employer, so I will have to spend my extra vacation days in solitude.

Oh, and vacations can be expensive. Where am I supposed to round up a couple of extra thousand dollars to send myself (alone!) to Key West or some shit?

Sure, I could stay home and just relax on the couch for a couple of days and watch Dr. Phil and HGTV, but I'm really not that kind of person.

But I can't say, "No thanks, I'll be leaving at 6 every night and the project will get done when it gets done." Nope, can't say that. So I have to pretend that I am grateful for their bullshit comp time and spend the next week or two in hell.

posted by grumpy at 10:53 AM

1 Comments:

Blogger Eric XXL said...

Comp time is pretty fucking useless, but it's all we have as salaried employees. Hopefully your boss doesn't use a top-secret algorithm to determine comp time the way mine does. Somehow working 6 extra hours on a Sunday translates into me getting to leave only 45 minutes early the next day. WTF?

September 24, 2004 12:18 PM  

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