Missing Person

[Shin'Ar]

Hello my Others,

I apologize for having been so distant as of late.

My place of employment has made some life altering changes to our scheduling system which has forced me to restructure much of my time and the opportunity to pursue certain interests.

After having earned what was working out to be some nice perks from 26 years of seniority, I am forced to watch them disappear as the 'system' makes a deliberate effort to chase off all the veteran employees in their effort to configure a fleet of rookies that they can negotiate contracts with a little less economically hazardous to their budgets.

Everything is short term nowadays, which does not mean that the long term consequences will not come along to bite them in their asses; it just means they hope that they will be long gone when those consequences do arrive.

This is how it always seems to work.

It leaves me with very little time to drop by the forums to accomplish any amount of interaction. I can glance through to make quickies. And after picking my next shift it seems that the next three months will be more of the same.

Peace and good health to you all.

I will be hovering about when I can.

[Cyan]

Hello my Others,

I apologize for having been so distant as of late.

My place of employment has made some life altering changes to our scheduling system which has forced me to restructure much of my time and the opportunity to pursue certain interests.

After having earned what was working out to be some nice perks from 26 years of seniority, I am forced to watch them disappear as the 'system' makes a deliberate effort to chase off all the veteran employees in their effort to configure a fleet of rookies that they can negotiate contracts with a little less economically hazardous to their budgets.

Everything is short term nowadays, which does not mean that the long term consequences will not come along to bite them in their asses; it just means they hope that they will be long gone when those consequences do arrive.

This is how it always seems to work.

It leaves me with very little time to drop by the forums to accomplish any amount of interaction. I can glance through to make quickies. And after picking my next shift it seems that the next three months will be more of the same.

Peace and good health to you all.

I will be hovering about when I can.

That is how my social memory complexes generally work as well.

[Brittany]

Same here. Remember back when employees were valuable? When the company would give YOU incentive to stay? Sigh. 2013, please bring about some radical awesome.

[Patrick]

Well, I'm under the same situation. So I cannot be as active on the forums as I once was.

[Richard]

Good Luck Shin Ar & Patrick,

Have sailed those waters several times in my life. I don't envy you the voyage.

Take Care,

Richard

[Patrick]

...Sigh. 2013, please bring about some radical awesome.

I'm pretty certain that this sort of changes is exactly what is coming. Maybe not as radical as we would like, but it's going to happen.

[Unbound]

SO have you been found?

[Shin'Ar]

Hello my Others,

I apologize for having been so distant as of late.

My place of employment has made some life altering changes to our scheduling system which has forced me to restructure much of my time and the opportunity to pursue certain interests.

After having earned what was working out to be some nice perks from 26 years of seniority, I am forced to watch them disappear as the 'system' makes a deliberate effort to chase off all the veteran employees in their effort to configure a fleet of rookies that they can negotiate contracts with a little less economically hazardous to their budgets.

Everything is short term nowadays, which does not mean that the long term consequences will not come along to bite them in their asses; it just means they hope that they will be long gone when those consequences do arrive.

This is how it always seems to work.

It leaves me with very little time to drop by the forums to accomplish any amount of interaction. I can glance through to make quickies. And after picking my next shift it seems that the next three months will be more of the same.

Peace and good health to you all.

I will be hovering about when I can.

That is how my social memory complexes generally work as well.

lol, oh you are in for a great shock if you manage to add another twenty years to identity. Short tern memory loss is a true pain in the butt.

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SO have you been found?

WINK!

[jacrob]

hope all works out for you work-wise. I was in a similar situation, but I was able to make a major attitude adjustment and it all worked out for the better.

I was working 12hr days, using all my faculties to navigate spreadsheets and a gazillion business applications. When the 'powers that be' made drastic changes I quit.

At first I panicked...gone was the hefty pay cheque, familiarity, titles etc etc.

But it all worked out for the best. My new job involves basically answering phones and the remainder of the time I read or draw or meditate...really! I have sufficient abundance to provide organic food for my son and myself, and all our other needs are met.

Work stress just isn't worth the money they pay you.

[Shin'Ar]

hope all works out for you work-wise. I was in a similar situation, but I was able to make a major attitude adjustment and it all worked out for the better.

I was working 12hr days, using all my faculties to navigate spreadsheets and a gazillion business applications. When the 'powers that be' made drastic changes I quit.

At first I panicked...gone was the hefty pay cheque, familiarity, titles etc etc.

But it all worked out for the best. My new job involves basically answering phones and the remainder of the time I read or draw or meditate...really! I have sufficient abundance to provide organic food for my son and myself, and all our other needs are met.

Work stress just isn't worth the money they pay you.

AMEN to that sister, which is why I have recently been taking retirement a little more seriously. 54 is too young to retire, but the way I look at this, is we live a system within we must interact in order to survive. So no matter where I choose to find a paycheck, I would still be working in one aspect of the system or another.

Same old same old, right?

I could try to adapt to another system, but the hierarchy rules over the planet and few are out of its reach.

We must all do the dance at some point, somewhere.

[jacrob]

agree, need the catalyst of the work environment for growth I suppose.

[Plenum]

Same here. Remember back when employees were valuable? When the company would give YOU incentive to stay?

I remember when I won Employee of the Month at McDonalds.

they gave me an umbrella.

highlight of my time there

[Cyan]

Hello my Others,

I apologize for having been so distant as of late.

My place of employment has made some life altering changes to our scheduling system which has forced me to restructure much of my time and the opportunity to pursue certain interests.

After having earned what was working out to be some nice perks from 26 years of seniority, I am forced to watch them disappear as the 'system' makes a deliberate effort to chase off all the veteran employees in their effort to configure a fleet of rookies that they can negotiate contracts with a little less economically hazardous to their budgets.

Everything is short term nowadays, which does not mean that the long term consequences will not come along to bite them in their asses; it just means they hope that they will be long gone when those consequences do arrive.

This is how it always seems to work.

It leaves me with very little time to drop by the forums to accomplish any amount of interaction. I can glance through to make quickies. And after picking my next shift it seems that the next three months will be more of the same.

Peace and good health to you all.

I will be hovering about when I can.

That is how my social memory complexes generally work as well.

lol, oh you are in for a great shock if you manage to add another twenty years to identity. Short tern memory loss is a true pain in the butt.

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SO have you been found?

WINK!

Nah, not really when you got the butterfly effect down, down downunder. =D

[Brittany]

Kroger used to give out vouchers and gift cards on holidays, and to reward good behavior. Not no more. I enjoyed getting free turkey at Thanksgiving, too.

[Karl]

I just don't do unneccessary work anymore. If it is dumb I avoid it. I like to call it efficiency, other people sometimes call it laziness. This really doesn't really apply to the topic at all though besides trying to relate...

Anyways feel better and may the most enjoyable out-come befall you so you can pursue your interests more fully.

[jacrob]

I think the vile treatment of employees is the last ditch effort for ultimate slavery in these times of economic instability. People are scared to lose their jobs so will accept any treatment as long as they can keep the pay cheque coming in.

My last place of employment introduced a Desktop Mgmt system for all staff below management levels. It intermittently took a snapshot of your desktop and sent it to your manager i.e. they can see everything you have open. When you stopped typing it recorded it as "idle time" and sent a daily total of your idle time to your manager. If your typing speed slowed down it recorded it as low output. If you were more than 5 minutes late in the morning or back from lunch, more than 3 times in 12 months you lost your bonus. Lots of other heinous behaviour modification practices, and complete loss of privacy.

Staff were constantly running....to and from the toilets lest they log too much idle time, to and from lunch. Nobody would speak to anyone else while they worked incase they get low output for the day.

I thought it was evil....sorry let me rephrase that, it was wonderful catalyst.

[Patrick]

...a Desktop Mgmt system for all staff below management levels. It intermittently took a snapshot of your desktop and sent it to your manager...

That's disgusting! You're right, it's good catalyst.

[jacrob]

...a Desktop Mgmt system for all staff below management levels. It intermittently took a snapshot of your desktop and sent it to your manager...

That's disgusting! You're right, it's good catalyst.

The most interesting thing about this is that all staff were so angry about the Desktop Mgmt that in the 12 months it was in use, it actually only worked for about 2 weeks. The company paid millions of dollars for what they assumed would boost productivity, yet hundreds of angry staff co-created the constant crashing of the system! What power we have in large numbers! It's inspiring to be honest.

[Karl]

If I had worked there I would probably have had not done any actual work at all just to spite them. Like spend all my time learning to manipulate the system so it has good "output" indicators while nothing is actually done.

[Spaced]

I think I'm allergic to working.

[Cyan]

I think i'm severly allergic to not working.

Even when i'm in the astral hanging out with deity level dudes i feel the compulsion to always do something funny.

Thats called the cognitive mind running down the maze of reality.

Anyway. My work is just a tad bit different.

I feel, at times, that i could use a small team of underlings to run errands so i'd be more efficient but i feel it would be demeaning to ask another human being to do that kind of work. So, I'm going at my 3rd near infinite and cheap energy generator design. *sighs* Some of the stuff we do to help the human collective hologram move along cus we are looking for strange experiences.

Humans right! *shakes head*

[Spaced]

I meant working as in a day job. I am one of those underlings running errands for someone else. After around 6 months of working any job I get this urgent desire to quit and become unemployed again. I really miss the freedom, I hate having to spend 40+ hours a week doing work that I'm just not interested in at all.

[reeay]

I meant working as in a day job. I am one of those underlings running errands for someone else. After around 6 months of working any job I get this urgent desire to quit and become unemployed again. I really miss the freedom, I hate having to spend 40+ hours a week doing work that I'm just not interested in at all.

What brings you joy and excitement?

[Spaced]

I meant working as in a day job. I am one of those underlings running errands for someone else. After around 6 months of working any job I get this urgent desire to quit and become unemployed again. I really miss the freedom, I hate having to spend 40+ hours a week doing work that I'm just not interested in at all.

What brings you joy and excitement?

Learning, reading, observing art, spending time with my girlfriend, looking at trees.

[reeay]

I meant working as in a day job. I am one of those underlings running errands for someone else. After around 6 months of working any job I get this urgent desire to quit and become unemployed again. I really miss the freedom, I hate having to spend 40+ hours a week doing work that I'm just not interested in at all.

What brings you joy and excitement?

Learning, reading, observing art, spending time with my girlfriend, looking at trees.

somehow I 'saw' you as a scholar and eventually teacher lol

[Spaced]

I meant working as in a day job. I am one of those underlings running errands for someone else. After around 6 months of working any job I get this urgent desire to quit and become unemployed again. I really miss the freedom, I hate having to spend 40+ hours a week doing work that I'm just not interested in at all.

What brings you joy and excitement?

Learning, reading, observing art, spending time with my girlfriend, looking at trees.

somehow I 'saw' you as a scholar and eventually teacher lol

That's how most people see me, yet I have proven to be fairly incompatible with the academic world.

[reeay]

I meant working as in a day job. I am one of those underlings running errands for someone else. After around 6 months of working any job I get this urgent desire to quit and become unemployed again. I really miss the freedom, I hate having to spend 40+ hours a week doing work that I'm just not interested in at all.

What brings you joy and excitement?

Learning, reading, observing art, spending time with my girlfriend, looking at trees.

somehow I 'saw' you as a scholar and eventually teacher lol

That's how most people see me, yet I have proven to be fairly incompatible with the academic world.

No not in academic sense. More scholar of mysteries etc.,.

[AnthroHeart]

I meant working as in a day job. I am one of those underlings running errands for someone else. After around 6 months of working any job I get this urgent desire to quit and become unemployed again. I really miss the freedom, I hate having to spend 40+ hours a week doing work that I'm just not interested in at all.

What brings you joy and excitement?

For me it's feeling normal.

[Cyan]

I meant working as in a day job. I am one of those underlings running errands for someone else. After around 6 months of working any job I get this urgent desire to quit and become unemployed again. I really miss the freedom, I hate having to spend 40+ hours a week doing work that I'm just not interested in at all.

What brings you joy and excitement?

For me it's feeling normal.

For me, its feeling like not feeling is a position that I can reach, it isnt, but feeling that it is is what makes me have joy and excitement.

[AnthroHeart]

What sent me over the edge in the past was getting myself super emotionally charged with different areas. I became obscessed with anthros and that caused me to psychologically break down. I once strove to feel Creator's love in my heart, and I was pushing very hard, putting myself through a lot of stress. When I did feel love for a few seconds I pushed even harder, and I just couldn't handle it.

So now, I don't subject myself to extreme stimuli now. I take it easy, and use a lot of Reiki. If I dwell too much on negative thoughts it's easy to get stuck in those patterns which pull me downward. I also do not try to strive too much for positive experiences because I tend to also experience an equal and opposite negative experience to balance that out. So bad news is I can't try to feel Creator's love because then I get an equal amount of fear.