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Post by Wisconsin Beth on Jun 12, 2019 10:14:51 GMT -5
6-8 months or so. But definitely still in his 1 year probation period.
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Post by jerseygirl on Jun 12, 2019 12:56:53 GMT -5
So I’ve been a contractor (1099) (medical writing) for pharma companies for last 10 years. I’ve always kept track of hours worked which usually fluctuate wildly,eg, 10 hours one week other weeks 60 hours
Just started discussions about new position that is 40 hrs/week. I really know hours will fluctuate as I can’t write till I get stats from stat team and their output is variable
So what are people’s thoughts? Do I just put down 40hrs/week routinely?? Even if only eg, 20 or 20 hrs some weeks???
Also based on working regular 40 hrs/wk hourly rate is lower But overall if actually 40 hrs/wk should do better (much better)
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Post by Knee Deep in Water Chloe on Jun 12, 2019 13:11:35 GMT -5
So I’ve been a contractor (1099) (medical writing) for pharma companies for last 10 years. I’ve always kept track of hours worked which usually fluctuate wildly,eg, 10 hours one week other weeks 60 hours Just started discussions about new position that is 40 hrs/week. I really know hours will fluctuate as I can’t write till I get stats from stat team and their output is variable So what are people’s thoughts? Do I just put down 40hrs/week routinely?? Even if only eg, 20 or 20 hrs some weeks Also based on working regular 40 hrs/wk hourly rate is lower But overall if actually 40 hrs/wk should do better (much better)
As in you're asking for 40 hours per week, or, you're reporting what your previous hours are?
If it's the first one, I'd go with 175 hour per month.
If it's the second one, and they're asking specifically how much you've been working, I think writing either 40 hours average per week or 30 - 50 hours average per week also works.
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Post by empress of self-improvement on Jun 18, 2019 9:42:50 GMT -5
Soooooo....i just got a new job. It's doing customer service/warehouse work for a small company that sells products for people like DH. Mobility and that kind of thing. It's a normal schedule-Monday through Friday, free parking, pretty commute and making a buck more than I do now. The only downside I can see if I have to figure out how to buy my own health insurance. DH is going on Medicare. I have to admit, I don't hate my job but I don't love it either. It's nice helping people but not so nice listening to them bitch about things beyond my control. Anyhoo, I am also looking at picking up either weekend work and/or setting up a virtual assistant sideline so I can make a little extra cash.
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Post by CCL on Jun 18, 2019 9:44:22 GMT -5
Congratulations!
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Post by justme on Jun 18, 2019 10:26:02 GMT -5
Quasi job hunt - related rant!
So work does this weird accrual of PTO with an expiration date. I had 80 hours expiring in May and my boss didn't want me to take 2 weeks then since it's our year-end (and TBH I didn't want to either) so they informally extended it to July, but I was to turn in a pre-dated PTO form for the 40 hours I'm taking in May to be expensed before they expired.
HR took it out of my current PTO!!! My boss is trying to get it fixed but they're giving him the run around saying that because he didn't forward it until 2 days after the PTO expired (I gave it too him at least a week before) that they had to put it on the current one, but they're also telling him I didn't have any extra expiring PTO to use?? They're just all sorts of confused. He's trying to figure it out and says I'll still get my 120 hours to use. Which I do believe him on that they've been great on this before -- but my next PTO isn't until Oct. So it'll all "even up" then, but my work pays out PTO if you leave. So if for some reason I found a job before my PTO at the end of Oct HR would have it that I'd be paid out 40 hours less of PTO than I should be. Unless I take a week of PTO right before I quit or something.
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Post by TheOtherMe on Jun 18, 2019 11:30:06 GMT -5
Soooooo....i just got a new job. It's doing customer service/warehouse work for a small company that sells products for people like DH. Mobility and that kind of thing. It's a normal schedule-Monday through Friday, free parking, pretty commute and making a buck more than I do now. The only downside I can see if I have to figure out how to buy my own health insurance. DH is going on Medicare. I have to admit, I don't hate my job but I don't love it either. It's nice helping people but not so nice listening to them bitch about things beyond my control. Anyhoo, I am also looking at picking up either weekend work and/or setting up a virtual assistant sideline so I can make a little extra cash. Congratulations.
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Post by debthaven on Jun 19, 2019 1:32:11 GMT -5
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Post by Rukh O'Rorke on Jun 19, 2019 7:51:28 GMT -5
Quasi job hunt - related rant! So work does this weird accrual of PTO with an expiration date. I had 80 hours expiring in May and my boss didn't want me to take 2 weeks then since it's our year-end (and TBH I didn't want to either) so they informally extended it to July, but I was to turn in a pre-dated PTO form for the 40 hours I'm taking in May to be expensed before they expired. HR took it out of my current PTO!!! My boss is trying to get it fixed but they're giving him the run around saying that because he didn't forward it until 2 days after the PTO expired (I gave it too him at least a week before) that they had to put it on the current one, but they're also telling him I didn't have any extra expiring PTO to use?? They're just all sorts of confused. He's trying to figure it out and says I'll still get my 120 hours to use. Which I do believe him on that they've been great on this before -- but my next PTO isn't until Oct. So it'll all "even up" then, but my work pays out PTO if you leave. So if for some reason I found a job before my PTO at the end of Oct HR would have it that I'd be paid out 40 hours less of PTO than I should be. Unless I take a week of PTO right before I quit or something. ugh! Hope this gets figured out and you get your time back!
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Post by justme on Jun 19, 2019 9:53:55 GMT -5
Quasi job hunt - related rant! So work does this weird accrual of PTO with an expiration date. I had 80 hours expiring in May and my boss didn't want me to take 2 weeks then since it's our year-end (and TBH I didn't want to either) so they informally extended it to July, but I was to turn in a pre-dated PTO form for the 40 hours I'm taking in May to be expensed before they expired. HR took it out of my current PTO!!! My boss is trying to get it fixed but they're giving him the run around saying that because he didn't forward it until 2 days after the PTO expired (I gave it too him at least a week before) that they had to put it on the current one, but they're also telling him I didn't have any extra expiring PTO to use?? They're just all sorts of confused. He's trying to figure it out and says I'll still get my 120 hours to use. Which I do believe him on that they've been great on this before -- but my next PTO isn't until Oct. So it'll all "even up" then, but my work pays out PTO if you leave. So if for some reason I found a job before my PTO at the end of Oct HR would have it that I'd be paid out 40 hours less of PTO than I should be. Unless I take a week of PTO right before I quit or something. ugh! Hope this gets figured out and you get your time back! Honestly, I don't have the greatest faith in HR fixing it. They messed up giving me the last of my earned HSA money (the stuff the company gives employees) and after getting the run around I was over it trying to keep explaining what they weren't getting and it wasn't worth $50. I do believe that my boss will make sure I still get to take a week off. He's been great about things like this before and I have an email. So as long as I don't leave before my next planned PTO lol
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Post by jelloshots4all on Jun 19, 2019 20:28:40 GMT -5
Well still in job hunt. Had a lot of interest, but a lot of jobs in my general field are in a slightly different technology than I have worked with. I have 2 onsite interviews scheduled, one next week and one at end of month. The one next week is preferred location, but the one at end of month is a better company (industry leader with great employee reputation) and job more related to past experience. Friday was my last severance paycheck. Bonus will last another 3 months or so before we have to tap savings. Also doing some temp work to pick up a few (very few) bucks to help stretch money. Good luck alabamagal!!
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Post by Rukh O'Rorke on Jun 20, 2019 17:13:26 GMT -5
Unexpected mid year bonus.
Just 1k but it's nice to feel appreciated....after #oldjob #noraise #deadinmyheart
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Post by alabamagal on Jun 20, 2019 21:58:04 GMT -5
Sent out thank you emails from Tuesday interview. Got very positive response from the guy who I think is key decision maker. Also got note from HR rep saying they will be in touch next week. HR manager is out this week. I read them like I will get offer next week.
Also have onsite interview with another company next week.
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Post by Rukh O'Rorke on Jun 21, 2019 15:57:20 GMT -5
The biggest client I had just quit oldcompany!!
This may have been the largest client in my old division.
Kind of sad, a little feeling of justification. Trying to get a few more details.
Curious, mostly. Little bit of recognizance in case Rukh, Inc. may be a potential in the future 🤓
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Post by Knee Deep in Water Chloe on Jun 23, 2019 11:01:12 GMT -5
I have been mildly involuntarily transferred. It's tricky business. A person does their job in a way that has caused a massive problem for kids. That person has been transferred. I'm being sent in to fix the problem. This is not work that I want to do, but I am capable of doing it. My assignment for the last year and what was supposed to be this upcoming year (I live by the school year.) was something I'd really been enjoying. It's too late in the year to look for another job. It's taken me two weeks, but I've processed through denial, grief, acceptance, and I'm ready to start the new job. I don't know what this means for next school year though. I may need to look for other work.
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Post by oped on Jun 23, 2019 11:23:33 GMT -5
Is it really too late to look? How long can they hold you?
I’m sure you will be awesome at whatever. But the older I get the less willing I am to fix other peoples shit. Sigh.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2019 11:53:29 GMT -5
Is it really too late to look? How long can they hold you? I’m sure you will be awesome at whatever. But the older I get the less willing I am to fix other peoples shit. Sigh. It would be too late here. We have to give notice 45 days before the start of school, which is August 5 this year, or the state will pull our teaching certificate. I know Knee Deep in Water Chloe's area starts back much later. Her state/district probably has different standards. But it would still be close at this point. More importantly, the "good" jobs are filled or are in the process of being filled by this point.
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Post by Knee Deep in Water Chloe on Jun 23, 2019 12:10:02 GMT -5
Yes, definitely too late: We have to give 60 days notice. There are no more jobs around here to apply for--unless I wanted to long term sub, and, again, it's just not that drastic of situation to make that choice. I could apply for jobs elsewhere. However, I don't want to live separately from my husband, and I'm not upset enough about this re-assignment do something that drastic. It'll be interesting, for sure. I still have to do about two-thirds of my previous assignment plus this new assignment which is at least a 0.75.
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Post by oped on Jun 23, 2019 12:28:59 GMT -5
Oh. There are quite a few jobs here teaching open. I guess it isn’t as open elsewhere, or maybe you aren’t looking for classroom exactly.
Ive had to give 60 at a point that went into the school year and not been held to it because the admin was great and were like, why mess up two classrooms going into the fall, as we still have time to hire.
Susanna, so there is no out at all? If you are in an untenable position you have to finish the year or lose your license? Alabama?
So you get to do both jobs Chloe? More pay?
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Post by geenamercile on Jun 23, 2019 12:50:52 GMT -5
We have a 60 days period too once the contract is signed. The district I work in will work with people to let you out of it as quickly as possible. But most positions here are filled or being filled by the end of June. Those that are open are open because of an increased in numbers and added positions or a last min vacancy.
Chloe- I went through something simliar with being moved from one subject to another this year.
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Post by oped on Jun 23, 2019 15:53:24 GMT -5
I guess there aren’t tons like earlier in the season, but twice at least in the last few weeks I’ve had to stop myself from applying to one im not even sure why I look except maybe to convince myself if / when I need to they are out there. These new listings are probably other people who have moved as well as what geena said.
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Post by TheOtherMe on Jun 23, 2019 15:56:19 GMT -5
DN3 has not yet signed his contract with the new district because he hasn't received it yet. There is an opening posted in the school district where I live for the same type of position that was just posted last week. He was going to call to check on it. He already coaches in this district and would have an entirely different student population here than in the district where he accepted a position.
He can coach in this district because the teacher day at the alternative school ends in time for him to get to this district to coach. He would not be able to do so if he was at a regular school.
The head girls' soccer coach will be open and the coach already asked if he would like to take over and she would recommend him to the AD. She has adopted her disabled sister and doesn't feel she will have time to teach and coach. He was her assistant for two seasons when he was in college so she does know him.
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Post by Knee Deep in Water Chloe on Jun 23, 2019 17:01:43 GMT -5
Oh. There are quite a few jobs here teaching open. I guess it isn’t as open elsewhere, or maybe you aren’t looking for classroom exactly. Ive had to give 60 at a point that went into the school year and not been held to it because the admin was great and were like, why mess up two classrooms going into the fall, as we still have time to hire. Susanna, so there is no out at all? If you are in an untenable position you have to finish the year or lose your license? Alabama? So you get to do both jobs Chloe? More pay? It's fair to say there is probably a "classic" teaching job I could get if I had to.
Couple things: I don't have to--I'm more shocked at the turn of events than upset at them. Since it's not an unbearable situation, I don't want to give up seniority for another teaching position.
I am getting paid more than I would have--which I negotiated more than originally specified. I wasn't going to be paid less than one of the two people who screwed up and whose mess I'm fixing. An advantage to being a public sector worker is knowing what everyone makes.
I need to figure out what to do resume-wise. There's a bit of a title glitch created for me by this transfer. I'm annoyed by that. I understand why the new title assigned is what it is, but I don't like it. I can still use the other title as I'm still doing that work.
I also need to decide what my next step is qualifications-wise. Do I officially pursue my doctorate?
Or, for the next school year, Do I throw down with my husband and insist that we move to a new area next spring? Or, if he doesn't want to move, Do I become an underwater basket weaver so I don't have to align my work so closely with my husband's? (That's part of the problem here, but I don't want to go into too much detail.)
Anyhoo. Mostly venting.
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Post by Knee Deep in Water Chloe on Jun 23, 2019 17:05:04 GMT -5
DN3 has not yet signed his contract with the new district because he hasn't received it yet. There is an opening posted in the school district where I live for the same type of position that was just posted last week. He was going to call to check on it. He already coaches in this district and would have an entirely different student population here than in the district where he accepted a position. He can coach in this district because the teacher day at the alternative school ends in time for him to get to this district to coach. He would not be able to do so if he was at a regular school. The head girls' soccer coach will be open and the coach already asked if he would like to take over and she would recommend him to the AD. She has adopted her disabled sister and doesn't feel she will have time to teach and coach. He was her assistant for two seasons when he was in college so she does know him. Does whomever manages the contracts in the new district realize that DN3 doesn't have one yet? I've worked in four districts, and that's unusual that there wouldn't be someone in the district pushing for a signature. Thirty years ago, that happened to DH, and he ended up not having a job. He'd been verbally told he had a job. His name was printed in the high school course catalog as the teacher of the various social studies classes he was supposed to teach. There was a political or familial disagreement somehow in the district, and because he never had a signed contract, he ended up without a job in that district. He had to sub for another year.
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Post by TheOtherMe on Jun 23, 2019 17:29:01 GMT -5
I don't know. He did say it could be in his mail box because he doesn't check it very often.
I will try to contact him and see what he has decided. The position with the district in my town is still listed.
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Post by geenamercile on Jun 23, 2019 18:55:30 GMT -5
He may really want to check the mail. Normally they have a time limit on when you have to accept by or they reopen the position. For renewing contracts we had to give our intent by Feb, that isn't binding just gives and idea to the district, and signed by June 5th or we would not be guaranteed a positions.
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Post by TheOtherMe on Jun 23, 2019 20:00:41 GMT -5
It was not a contract renewal. It was a new job. His girlfriend, who does not live with him, had not received hers either.
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Post by geenamercile on Jun 23, 2019 22:39:37 GMT -5
When I accepted this job I had 2 weeks to review my contract and get it back to HR or they would repost. They emailed to me as well as mailed it as soon as I accepted. I would be to worried about something going wrong not to be bugging HR.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2019 23:16:10 GMT -5
When I accepted this job I had 2 weeks to review my contract and get it back to HR or they would repost. They emailed to me as well as mailed it as soon as I accepted. I would be to worried about something going wrong not to be bugging HR. Here all personnel decisions have to be approved by the BOE. The principal recommends you, but you receive your contract after they meet. Still, I would check. Meanwhile the other job still being posted may be meaningless. Sometimes they post even though they have hired someone since it is the law that vacancies must be posted. I tried to complain about this once, but it is apparently following the letter of the law,since you aren't "really" hired until the Board approves it.
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Post by geenamercile on Jun 24, 2019 7:36:01 GMT -5
Susan our BOE has to approve too, I would have to go back and find my original contract but I think it had wordage of the BOE approval being the last step. In effect upon BOE approval or something like that. Our renewal ones don't they get sent out after the BOE meeting. We are pretty big district, my new hire year we had over 300 new hires, my guess is that the BOE just get a list of names maybe with a sentence or two.
My district also post opening base on anticipated openings as well. In other words they always have at least some of the different areas grades/subject areas open online to see what they get. I know my school normally have a few positions online posted, but with being in the school I know we don't really have them "open."
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