{"id":5630,"date":"2021-11-03T22:00:34","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T03:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/?p=5630"},"modified":"2021-11-03T22:00:35","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T03:00:35","slug":"dont-call-it-a-bonus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/2021\/11\/03\/dont-call-it-a-bonus\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Call it a Bonus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I had a CPPC meeting early this morning. They predictably didn&#8217;t have much to show us, and basically just promised they were working on it &#8220;really really hard.&#8221; Karen asked about a Christmas bonus, and we actually got what I thought was a more-than-satisfactory answer. With ESSER funds, they could actually give us a pretty substantial not-a-bonus bonus as long as we report it as an incentive for recruiting and retaining employees. Many were unhappy about it being too late for Christmas, but to that I say it is not the district&#8217;s job to manage the finances of its employees. If you&#8217;re <em>dependent<\/em> upon unpredictable and totally-not-at-all-guaranteed compensation to maintain your lifestyle, then that&#8217;s your own goddamned fault.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the end of the day, nobody would turn down free money, so that felt like a win to me. I went on back to the shop and spent a really quiet day in my office. Zach, Gary, and I went to Slim Chickens for lunch, where the girl gave me a teacher discount without me even saying anything about it. Then it was more time killing in the afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bryan came down to visit me for a little bit, which was a nice break in my day. Then I worked a little late on getting CPPC meeting minutes put together. I should be able to turn that around tomorrow for publication, so that makes me feel pretty good about doing my part.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After work, Mom called me over for some more ph\u1edf. Then I headed on home for a cold, quiet night alone. I was pretty tired after a stressful evening of planning last night, so tonight will be a good night of sleep before a long weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The cold comes quickly.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a CPPC meeting early this morning. They predictably didn&#8217;t have much to show us, and basically just promised they were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-5630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5631,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5630\/revisions\/5631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}