Another strike

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It’s hard to believe that almost a month has gone by without an update on the blog. And what a coincidence that my previous post was about the transportation strike, and there is another one scheduled for Wednesday. The next one is supposed to be serious, because a week later there is a strike of teachers and utility workers, and the transportation workers think it’d be cool to combine the two. Why they don’t wait for them I don’t know, so the plan is to strike and renew the strike every day and make it last until the others strike.

Almost 7 years ago there was a big strike that lasted several weeks. It was really difficult for me since I was new to the area and didn’t know the system. Now it’s not so difficult. When there is a strike, I either go to work really early or really late. Same for leaving. There is a big impact on productivity, but it seems to be acceptable. Companies just deal with it.

I asked to work from home during the strike, I’ll be very happy if my client allows it. And it’s to his advantage that I work 8 hours at home instead of 6 in the office. I’ll ask again tomorrow.

There will be more posts for the next few weeks, I promise! And again, if anyone is interested in writing articles for the site just let me know.