Yep, and up until then check out and just do the bare minimum… stop putting in the extra effort and going above and beyond molting/cockerel chook recovering nicely. For Chicken taxI thought a 'quiet quit' was, one day just up and leave...i.e. go away quietly, no notice at all...????
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Your missing tail feathers
Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock
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How are you feeling ? I hope princess and Tina make a fuss of you
.This “working at work” might actually let you spend even more time on this Chicken website than working from the barn office did!Work as usual.
I cannot wait to get a pipeline project, where people are organized, work is paid well, and I can come and go as I like get my work done and not be treated like a child and told 'you have to take lunch' and you need to work X amt of hrs ( which I am and more!), AND when I want to take a vacation day I can without having the new hr mngr tell me my coworker is swamped and if there was a travel issue she could not deal with it.
I didn't even bother to remind her I always take my laptop home to deal with any issues that crop up at any hour of the day even weekends and holidays!!!
I also told her that I don't count hrs I am not one of those people who get bent out of shape if I have to stay a bit late, and I will just maybe leave a bit early to make up for it. I also am not going to make an expense report of a $1.50 stamp on a letter I have the mail for the company, or charge mileage to deposit cheques or pick stuff up. I will plan my day so I can go to the store for myself also.
I feel a work environment should be free to allow one to do their job how they wish and that is how I have always worked. Of course I know there are many environments where you need more structured work. But for what I do I feel I should be left alone and let me do my job!
So now I am never bringing my laptop home again, I will not answer the cell phone after hrs. I am doing a quiet quit, the bare minimum, work to rule...
So here I sit with my feet up, cuppa tea, just finished some toast, had a lovely long chat with a few of the directors here about safety, slips trips falls (I am a safety admin / office manager when I do pipelines).
I put on my safety boots and my hard hat and went and took photos of the demo work being done in the other offices, chatted up the construction boss (I miss pipeline construction!), And generally just puttering about.
One of the guys just stopped by to ask me if his travel package (border crossing letter and essential worker letter, etc) was ready. I looked him in the eyes said no, see me tomorrow.
He blinked and seemed very surprised that perfect efficient Kelly didn't have things done as usual... Hahahah poor kid, I will do their stuff later for themit's not their fault I am ticked off.
Of course if I were on vacation today they wouldn't get it till tomorrow!
Now I am looking on the barn cam at the horses and chooks... Later on for my lunch break I MUST take I am going to the hardware store, them MacDonalds for fries because I feel like having junk food.
Holy cow it's ONLY 10AM... This doing nothing makes the day drag by....
Tax for being big whiny sissy
The horses are way out in the middle paddock ( can't find the pic I took of them...)
Most of the gals are hanging out in Truly's stall
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And I continue to sit with my feet up
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HR people are like weenie accountants, PITA side note your missed vacation day might just cost me as much in taxes as it does you 
GregnLety
Crossing the Road
Still trying for a pic of the doe and fawn in our backyard.Oh a little buck
Hard for me to get by without Flexi!
I had to bring Xzit outside. She need to join the tribe again. I put away her box, so she can’t pretend to be broody (no egg anymore) I feel like a bad chicken daddy 
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It is wonderful that we are eye to eye now. I think I am much less intimidating like this.I really think your 'open door policy' made a huge difference! Having you that close, with no barrier, and not being a threat probably led them to think of you as a safe thing that we now have access to actually interact with! (and build a TRUE bond with....you will become elevated from so thing to our human Rooster!)
I am so happy for you @BY Bob
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Of course. Only colorful eggs.They are so lovely Bob!!
If I can find some chicks late in the season I may get a few for one of my broodies! I did good so far this year and haven’t gotten any but that’s only because I have been so busy! After vacation next week I will start looking around for some! But they can only be producers of colorful eggs
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Good for you.Work as usual.
I cannot wait to get a pipeline project, where people are organized, work is paid well, and I can come and go as I like get my work done and not be treated like a child and told 'you have to take lunch' and you need to work X amt of hrs ( which I am and more!), AND when I want to take a vacation day I can without having the new hr mngr tell me my coworker is swamped and if there was a travel issue she could not deal with it.
I didn't even bother to remind her I always take my laptop home to deal with any issues that crop up at any hour of the day even weekends and holidays!!!
I also told her that I don't count hrs I am not one of those people who get bent out of shape if I have to stay a bit late, and I will just maybe leave a bit early to make up for it. I also am not going to make an expense report of a $1.50 stamp on a letter I have the mail for the company, or charge mileage to deposit cheques or pick stuff up. I will plan my day so I can go to the store for myself also.
I feel a work environment should be free to allow one to do their job how they wish and that is how I have always worked. Of course I know there are many environments where you need more structured work. But for what I do I feel I should be left alone and let me do my job!
So now I am never bringing my laptop home again, I will not answer the cell phone after hrs. I am doing a quiet quit, the bare minimum, work to rule...
So here I sit with my feet up, cuppa tea, just finished some toast, had a lovely long chat with a few of the directors here about safety, slips trips falls (I am a safety admin / office manager when I do pipelines).
I put on my safety boots and my hard hat and went and took photos of the demo work being done in the other offices, chatted up the construction boss (I miss pipeline construction!), And generally just puttering about.
One of the guys just stopped by to ask me if his travel package (border crossing letter and essential worker letter, etc) was ready. I looked him in the eyes said no, see me tomorrow.
He blinked and seemed very surprised that perfect efficient Kelly didn't have things done as usual... Hahahah poor kid, I will do their stuff later for them
Of course if I were on vacation today they wouldn't get it till tomorrow!
Now I am looking on the barn cam at the horses and chooks... Later on for my lunch break I MUST take I am going to the hardware store, them MacDonalds for fries because I feel like having junk food
Holy cow it's ONLY 10AM... This doing nothing makes the day drag by....
Tax for being big whiny sissy
The horses are way out in the middle paddock ( can't find the pic I took of them...)
Most of the gals are hanging out in Truly's stall
View attachment 3185765
And I continue to sit with my feet up
View attachment 3185775
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Aurora does the beak swipe all of the time. Shad says it is her way of being the provider for everyone instead of me.Mine would do that beak swipe thing, and knock the feed onto the floor. Or pick from my hand and drop it to the ground and eat it!
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