Quick update and some writing to share:
Update -
I had a cold this past week. I think it’s because it just started getting very cold where I live. Finally started to feel better. Along with that have a bunch of family issues related to an immigrating family member that, long-story short, my parents got tricked into having him stay at our house.
I’ll post some work tonight, but the past few days I just worked on some other non-philosophy related things. I worked on fixing up an exercise routine and a sleep routine. The workout routine has been going well (yes I did workout sick, probably not the best but my sickness wasn’t debilitating plus I’m fine now so idk) for the past week. I think I’ll be able to keep it up. Trying to get consistent sleep has been 75/25. For the past two weeks or so I’ve been going to sleep most days around the same time of 11 and waking up at 7. Quitting caffeine has really helped my sleep quality. I think the only way I could get a very consistent sleep schedule is working out some scheduling kinks with my job. Though thats going to take a while. I can get a better schedule, but the more restrictive my availability the less hours. I do need to work on some spending habits.
Writing -
I’m sharing two things today.
First, a catch 22 from work. A coworker of mine has been calling out sick quite often recently. Manager has a discussion with her over these call outs and tells her because she doesn’t have sick time she can get in trouble. Apparently (I say apparently because I can’t find the policy and I don’t trust anything managers say anymore) the policy is that you have to use one hour of sick time per hour you’re calling out sick for. So for a four hour shift you need four hours of sick time to call out sick. She points out she can’t work while sick. So she asked what she is supposed to do if she’s sick with no sick time. Come to work sick? My manager said no. I’ll write you up, What if I call out sick with no sick time. That’s also a write up. Wack.
Second, my managers husband has been a stay at home husband for quite a while from what I understand. He only recently (in the past two months) got a job at a different Starbucks. He works low hours as a regular barista. Today he brought in their five daughters because some of them needed to get their hair done in some manner (I know nothing about hair so I forgot what she told me when I asked why her kids were at work) for a dance thing. I just thought it was kinda weird he hasn’t bothered learning about this stuff when he’s a stay at home dad with all girls. Instead, he had to bring all the kids to work and my manager took her meal break to fix their hair. Reminded me of something you said in the Analyzing Relationship Drama Reddit Story thread: