Aunty Acid by Ged Backland for February 28, 2023

never did with me (and not yet even after retirement sigh)

I don’t recall ever saying that.

I never thought that. Then again, if anyone uttered the “q” word, we got slammed with admissions, transfers, code blues, and sundowning patients.

When I was a contract worker in biotech, I didn’t want a slowdown, because my contract wouldn’t be renewed. It always slowed down after we submitted our data to the FDA.

I win. It didn’t slow down but I did!

In my work, we got overtime pay as non-exempt employees. Many people depended on it to soften the fact we were paid relatively less than surrounding similar businesses. That, and piecework pay. Later, some “smart” managers decided to outsource work to eliminate our overtime, and the piecework, and we had trouble getting motivated workers. Then, the “Lean Maufacturing” craze took over …

Sometimes it seems so anticlimatic when it does slow down.

It also gives you time to think, “What bad thing is going on now that I don’t know is happening and will bite me in the you-know-what next week?”

I don’t think I’ve ever heard or said that phrase. Or felt that way.

Well that is the most Childish logic I have heard in a long time.

Yep.

In yesterday’s cartoon, Aunty Acid was imagining herself after death.

Guess I never expected it to slow down.

And then when you retire, it’s like being on a bullet train, every day!

it slows down…?

For me it wasn’t so much, “If it ever slows down…” as it is "If we can just get through [enter any number of crises, large and small]. And we did. Til the next one. sigh.