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lydamorehouseSorry for the delay in posting. I realize, too, that it looks like I went off to work and NEVER CAME BACK.
I did survive,
Work was actually decent. The library I was at, New Brighton, does NOT allow the public inside the building. This is something I requested when taking assignments and I feel extremely grateful that my work attempts to accommodate me. I wish everyone had this kind of choice. or something akin to it. It didn't stop my boss from eating her lunch in her office, maskless, with the door open, but bosses be bosses, am I right? What are you going to do?
I'll be at White Bear Lake this Saturday (and also, later the same day at CONFabulous,) and then I'm going to try not to work for a long time. Wish me luck.
I have been generally absent here because my class at the Loft is in full swing. I have ended up with six students, which, it turns out, is plenty of work when you set your class up to basically be constantly rotating critique. Also as I was tellingnaomikritzer it's funny how easy it is to end up checking class several times a day and thus feeling like the I'm always at work. I have set up my email to only send me notifications every four hours, so I don't HAVE to go look, but you know how it is when an assignment drops. Then, I see that I have some critique work to do and.... suddenly I've spent the whole day in ONE class. I have no idea how instructors are doing this with several classes. It must be exhausting. At least, for me, with in-person, I would do a lot outside of class but I was better about thinking "Okay, today is prep day," you know?
When the pandemic started, I saw a lot of talk about how bosses were so worried about how much time employees would spend slacking off. Yet, almost immediately, I watched Shawn put in so much overtime. She would think nothing of answering an email at 7 or 8 pm, a time of night that, in the Before Times, she very vehemently and rigorously defended as HER TIME.
I'm sure there is less time where people devote exclusively to butt in chair, but I'd love to see some reporting on how much work gets done outside of regular hours.
Of course, this might be more of a case of how Shawn and I are outliers. We have always had firm lines about work we are wiling to do at home. I think there are probably a lot more people out there who always did work emails at 8 pm.
I did survive,
Work was actually decent. The library I was at, New Brighton, does NOT allow the public inside the building. This is something I requested when taking assignments and I feel extremely grateful that my work attempts to accommodate me. I wish everyone had this kind of choice. or something akin to it. It didn't stop my boss from eating her lunch in her office, maskless, with the door open, but bosses be bosses, am I right? What are you going to do?
I'll be at White Bear Lake this Saturday (and also, later the same day at CONFabulous,) and then I'm going to try not to work for a long time. Wish me luck.
I have been generally absent here because my class at the Loft is in full swing. I have ended up with six students, which, it turns out, is plenty of work when you set your class up to basically be constantly rotating critique. Also as I was telling
naomikritzer it's funny how easy it is to end up checking class several times a day and thus feeling like the I'm always at work. I have set up my email to only send me notifications every four hours, so I don't HAVE to go look, but you know how it is when an assignment drops. Then, I see that I have some critique work to do and.... suddenly I've spent the whole day in ONE class. I have no idea how instructors are doing this with several classes. It must be exhausting. At least, for me, with in-person, I would do a lot outside of class but I was better about thinking "Okay, today is prep day," you know? When the pandemic started, I saw a lot of talk about how bosses were so worried about how much time employees would spend slacking off. Yet, almost immediately, I watched Shawn put in so much overtime. She would think nothing of answering an email at 7 or 8 pm, a time of night that, in the Before Times, she very vehemently and rigorously defended as HER TIME.
I'm sure there is less time where people devote exclusively to butt in chair, but I'd love to see some reporting on how much work gets done outside of regular hours.
Of course, this might be more of a case of how Shawn and I are outliers. We have always had firm lines about work we are wiling to do at home. I think there are probably a lot more people out there who always did work emails at 8 pm.