Distracted living

[MMM_donuts]

I am working on option A, waiving goodbye to a leadership that claims they appreciate our hard work and devotion (because they don't) Just because they say we will no longer be responsible for X does not mean they mean it. We will continue to be held responsible for the work, it just won't be in the PD. What people don't understand is that STRL is much like private industry, you aren't rated against a standard, your standard is adjusted based on your experience and past performance (i.e. there are expectations). Fewer people does not mean schedules or the quaity of the product can slip. Us highly valued employees must simply "work smarter". Another one of those catch phrases that someone who doesn't have to do the job uses. If you had 4 people and a day to move 100 pounds of rocks and you lost 3 of those people, they would tell you that "you'll just have to work harder to move those rocks in one day with one person". Then they would add that because of budget cuts wheel barrows are not available. Down scaling my effort would be teaching an old dog new tricks. Bad habits are hard to break. Seriously, it was only under penalty of law that I scaled back my work week during sequestration. Being literally run out of the building and then locked out.

Weird, sounds like we work for the same people. I've already put in my notice and am headed elsewhere. It's sad, really, because I have a neat job. It only took as long as it did because I had to convince my husband to take a chance on my alternate plan. He'll stay in a toxic environment if it pays well enough. I won't.

We were told we weren't going to be sequestered because our contract was already in place, then we got a notice two weeks prior that we were. Then we were all approved overtime and expected to show up to work as usual but start billing overtime at 32 hours.

 

[vraiblonde]

BUT it scared the heck out of me to realize I had basically no memory of the drive.

Why? I don't specifically remember brushing my teeth last night before I went to bed, but I know I did it. I know I made dinner last night but can't pull up the video in my head.

At the time of driving you were completely conscious and aware, then your brain purged the memory for some reason. There can't be a true "autopilot" when driving because there are too many variables. The route is routine, but what happens in traffic is constantly changing. So I don't think it's that you were unconsciously puttering along in an oblivious daze, but that your memory of that puttering got deleted because your brain didn't think you needed it anymore.

 

[Larry Gude]

Why? I don't specifically remember brushing my teeth last night before I went to bed, but I know I did it. I know I made dinner last night but can't pull up the video in my head.

At the time of driving you were completely conscious and aware, then your brain purged the memory for some reason. There can't be a true "autopilot" when driving because there are too many variables. The route is routine, but what happens in traffic is constantly changing. So I don't think it's that you were unconsciously puttering along in an oblivious daze, but that your memory of that puttering got deleted because your brain didn't think you needed it anymore.

That's right.

Just because one doesn't remember every second of something doesn't mean they were not paying attention.

In driving, and this is key, there is the absent minded routine where you find that you don't remember the last mile BUT, your practiced sub-conscience was doing fine; had something become a risk, it would have snapped your focus to, and then there is the bad; when you FOCUS on something else, like the radio or the cell phone and your subconscious THEN becomes disengaged from driving and you are now a risk.

Just because I drive past the bank 10 times talking to you doesn't mean I'm not driving.

 

[Taz]

Jeez, remember the good ole days when we did not have to be so PC and could just say some folks had their head up their a$$?