Comments on: Sick http://codylogan.net/2007/10/29/sick/ Randomosity at its randomest Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:38:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: bagel of everything http://codylogan.net/2007/10/29/sick/#comment-1080 bagel of everything Mon, 05 Nov 2007 08:52:25 +0000 http://codylogan.net/2007/10/29/sick/#comment-1080 When I graduated way back in 99, we programmers were in such high demand that we wrote our own ticket. Show up whenever you felt like it. Employers couldn't complain, because we were too difficult to replace in time to keep the millennium bug from blasting us back to the stone age. *grin* After y2k, so many systems and projects had been abandoned to deal with the bug, we were still in high cotton. Good times. We no longer have <i>them</i> over that barrel. I'm glad I'm not in the industry anymore. When I graduated way back in 99, we programmers were in such high demand that we wrote our own ticket. Show up whenever you felt like it. Employers couldn’t complain, because we were too difficult to replace in time to keep the millennium bug from blasting us back to the stone age. *grin* After y2k, so many systems and projects had been abandoned to deal with the bug, we were still in high cotton. Good times.

We no longer have them over that barrel. I’m glad I’m not in the industry anymore.

]]> By: Cody http://codylogan.net/2007/10/29/sick/#comment-1048 Cody Wed, 31 Oct 2007 21:49:58 +0000 http://codylogan.net/2007/10/29/sick/#comment-1048 I figured as much. I'm lucky in my part-time job because it's in food-service and if you're even slightly sick, it's better to stay at home than cough and/or sneeze over all the food. But if I keep going for my intended major...there's no way you can claim you're too sick to write a computer program. Maybe 10 years ago, when laptops weighed more than your car and had a battery life of roughly three minutes, but not in this day of 2 pound laptops with super-high-ultra speed wireless cards and 5 hour batteries. Ah well. I figured as much. I’m lucky in my part-time job because it’s in food-service and if you’re even slightly sick, it’s better to stay at home than cough and/or sneeze over all the food. But if I keep going for my intended major…there’s no way you can claim you’re too sick to write a computer program. Maybe 10 years ago, when laptops weighed more than your car and had a battery life of roughly three minutes, but not in this day of 2 pound laptops with super-high-ultra speed wireless cards and 5 hour batteries. Ah well.

]]> By: bagel of everything http://codylogan.net/2007/10/29/sick/#comment-1044 bagel of everything Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:45:58 +0000 http://codylogan.net/2007/10/29/sick/#comment-1044 It gets worse. After you graduate, you'll find yourself doing your work from your sick bed, or dragging your illin' carcass to the office because you can't afford to take use a sick day that you could otherwise "sell back" to the company at the end of the year, or you absolutly <i>have</i> to finish a project to be considered for a promotion. The last place I worked, my boss had to send someone home even though he wanted to work through his illness, because he was "highly contagious". It gets worse.
After you graduate, you’ll find yourself doing your work from your sick bed, or dragging your illin’ carcass to the office because you can’t afford to take use a sick day that you could otherwise “sell back” to the company at the end of the year, or you absolutly have to finish a project to be considered for a promotion.

The last place I worked, my boss had to send someone home even though he wanted to work through his illness, because he was “highly contagious”.

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