Monday, October 24, 2005

[Work] I'm Not Making This Up

For those of you whose jobs are not as ... interesting as mine, here is a conversation from my workplace (abridged):
My Supervisor: Phoenix-sensei, we're sorry we forgot to pay you last week. Maybe you'll get paid today!
Me: (thinking "Maybe? It's 5 Days overdue. I'm close to living on 'hurricane chow' my predecessor left me... yeah, MAYBE they'll pay my contractually agreed upon salary, and MAYBE I can eat tonight and MAYBE I can buy some heating oil...") Yeah, that would be nice.
My Supervisor: Also, we're going to have a LOT of English tests to mark. Do you mind staying late after work to help?
Me: ...
To recap:
  1. They're not paying me, AND
  2. They're asking me to work unpaid overtime.
Of course, "unpaid" is redundant...

UPDATE: Swung by the bank on my way home from work today (and left work actually AT 4:15PM, because hey, if you're not going to pay me...well, I'll do the job you're not paying me for, but no extra!) and THERE WAS MONEY IN MY ACCOUNT! And I looked upon the money. And it was GOOD.

"There's a monster in my pants, and it does a HAPPY dance...

3 comments:

  1. You know you're always welcome to share my food and heating if you ever get caught short again!

    Love your fellow Asahi gaijin.

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  2. PS How are your "Goals for Japan" going? Surely you can tick a few off now?

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  3. Lewis! Actually, it hadn't even occurred to me to ask for help.

    I guess I was having too much fun, shivering and hungry and complaining. ^_^

    My "Goals for Japan"! I had forgotten all about them! I'm not sure I have any to tick off, but I'll check. Thanks for the reminder.

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