Looks like it might be similar to Asana or Trello but geared to developers. Not my field but I'll check it out and see if it has any good processes that might relate to me. Thanks!

Honestly it's the opposite for me. Nobody else does my job so when I'm out of office work piles up, emails come in, stressful crap happens and I end up having to deal with it anyway or when I get back and I'm buried.

However, if I take my vacation days during the holiday season (like right now when globally my industry more or less shuts down) then I'm more likely to get uninterrupted restful time off and not come back to the office walking into a dumpster fire.

Try the Adult ADHD test.

This is hard but try to not lose sleep on things you can’t control.

Using a tool like jira can help you manage multiple projects/teams with lots of room for epics/stories/tasks/sub tasks.

Not sure of your role, but jira helps me on a daily basis.

As my daughter said, “Do we have to wait until our animal is miserable and in incredible pain before we let it go?”. No. The answer is no.

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Boiled is not enough. Pressure cookers kill the bacteria tho

I 100% agree with this. If they are yowling they are probably trying to tell you something. Could be that they are hurting but only a vet can help you get that insight.

I am really sorry to hear about your cat.

It’s better to have a sweet good by then a sour one.

Or better suggestion. Use your PTO for its intended purpose. Need an extended weekend to re-energize? Got a trip planned in a few months? Friend coming back to visit for a month and needs a pickup at the airport? PTO is there to help you in maintaining that work life balance, so use it when you need it. Don't sit on it until the end of the year and then schedule it.

Keeping in mind I am talking generally here, and am not a lawyer etc.

You can employ someone as "casual" which means you basically work shift to shift - and generally they only have to give 1 day/shift notice for termination. You don't earn PTO on casual. Usually these employees are paid a better rate. But they have less perks. Casual work is pretty good in certain scenarios, I've done it before.

But to attract good workers, workplaces are usually permanent. There's usually a 6 month probation period - in which the first 6 months they can fire you if they're not happy with your performance etc. After being made permanent, they need a really good reason to fire someone (wilful negligence etc).

TLDR: Labour laws/unions are great.

If a company does the dodgy, they're opening their selves up to litigation.

I'm not saying it doesn't happen in Australia, but I would imagine it happens a lot less than the US etc.

Counterpoint: taking time off when your peers do not leads to tons of pressure upon return, and you’ll be generating crap for them to do during the holiday season.

Sync up your time off (if it works for you) and it’ll be a more stress-free experience for everyone.

We're going through almost the exact same thing with our 17 year old cat. He eats at least six times a day, uses the litter box normally and drinks plenty of water. He keeps losing weight. The vet has done blood work and says no sign of cancer. He yowls randomly but mostly from about 4 am until someone gets up and feeds him. Could it be a tape worm? Both of our cats had fleas last summer but our other cat is going to turn into a fatty because she keeps trying to eat all the extra food we're feeding him. We have no idea what to do.

Nah. I take 3 days of PTO, and get twelve days off for Christmas, without losing any pay.

Put the cat out of its misery.

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Do companies find ways to cheat the system? Like avoiding permanent full time designations? For sure that’s what companies in the US would do, and they would pay politicians to keep that legal.

This sounds like what one of mine started going through when he was 19. At the beginning of year 19 the vet said he was in excellent health especially for a cat that age. He had to be put down 8 months later. Everything caught up with him suddenly. He was skin and bones, dementia, going blind, going deaf, yowling at night. Near the end he started having seizures and stability issues. He was a sweet boy and a very cuddly guy sometimes. I hated having to put him down, but it was the right thing to do.

Not sure I'd call em jackasses ass this is just sorta how things go. Not minizing that it's a PITA for those still working

Did you read the post? A cat with dementia on that level lives in a world of fear.

The ole company man eh

What we found worked for our extremely old cat when the constant yowling started was a kennel, as bad as that seems. During the day he was noisy but ok if someone was around him. At night he just yowled and cried. We got a medium sized dog kennel so he would have room to move, put some cushions in it, put him in there and covered it with a blanket. He would go right to sleep. We would leave him in it for only a max of 4-5 hours though, we had housemates on different schedules so this worked for us. We did eventually decide to put him to sleep though, he was just too old. This worked for a few months though!

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This is ridiculous, I’ve had cats that lived for longer than 17 years. You don’t have to euthanize them just because they’re getting old

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