Sam M. '07 | October 29, 2005
"Amsterdesk"
I like working the night shifts at the Burton-Conner front desk because it gives me a captive environment in which I basically have nothing to do except homework. This is especially useful since almost all of my homework requires me to be online--so, while I'm supposed to be looking up the fugacity of carbon monoxide at 345 K, I'm more often than not looking for a challenge.
So, anyway, I'm working desk from 12-2 AM tonight... but it turns out that tonight, 2 AM is really 1 AM again (blast you, Benjamin Franklin!). What should I do? Work three hours? Work only two hours and leave the desk unattended at 1 AM? Just close up at 1:58 and avoid the issue altogether?
You'd think that as an MIT student, I would have taken a class that would help me to solve this quandary. Here are some classes in which that problem might potentially be addressed:
14.64: Labor Economics
8.033: Relativity
21W.765: Non-Linear Narrative: Theory and Practice
I've always said I don't believe in linear time, but this is ridiculous.
Remember to set your clocks back! This blog is actually part of the community service project I have to complete after embezzling $40,000 of the floor's money as apple bake chair.
Just playin'.
Also to be included in this entry later this evening: hot soldering pictures!
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Sam, lol, that's an awesome dilemma. Just work 12-2, meaning three hours, and demand to be paid for 3 hours. Unless of course the person on the next shift solves the problem for you by showing up at 1:59 before the time shift, in which case they can solve the problem.
Posted by: Jane on October 29, 2005 10:58 PM
yay homestarrunner. and to think i was actually going to resist the temptation to click on that link...
Posted by: nehalita on October 30, 2005 01:39 PM
Unlike the people in 14.64, you're getting more than minimum wage! (which, I should note, is the name of a computer in the economics lab)
Posted by: Mitra on October 30, 2005 09:15 PM
Haha... time totally isn't on your side. Can you even play it on the piano?!?!
Posted by: Mitra on October 30, 2005 09:16 PM
