The end of the trip went a bit south. The clutch failed on sister's pickup. So she had to get towed to Cheyenne and have it replaced, cost her about 4K. I told her I had about 3K to give her from CO refund, prius sale, and sale of dad's pickup early in the trip and she was "no you keep it, I owe you some for skid steer from years ago" I pressed the 1500 I had in cash for the trailer on her after the clutch situation. I figured she would probably just rip up a check if I wrote her one for the full amount.
It has been hard to get back into work and taking care of the place now after having had the time off. Does not help that work did a big reclassification of all the 'scientist' job titles and we got merit raises and I am the same level I was just with a new job description and my raise is just the midpoint raise. In previous years the UCP director would stress that almost everybody is getting the midpoint raise, if the new director did that I missed that meeting. The money is decent and its not like they gave me a lower raise for not hitting th e'meeting, and sometimes exceeding expectations' mark. But I used work as the distraction from sucky life the last couple years and saved their bacon a few times from outages and it feels like our group director has ZERO appreciation.
But I need to just take this as "here's your sign that you need to not shortchange home life, horse fun, etc. for those ingrates" Well, mostly not ingrate(s), just the director; but the rest of the group tell me thanks, etc. but that is as far as it goes. They mostly feel overworked as well. My supervisor and the sys admin ARE overworked. Others, not so much.
