Posted By: mt on 2008-05-28
In Reply to: Umm...that's supposed to be one of the few - benefits we have working at home s/m

with MQ if I was required to work a schedule. THey changed the rules in the middle of the game, not me. I have every right to be bothered by it. For those of you who started AFTER the fact and were required to give a schedule, of course you don't feel the same way. You started under those circumstances so it was just thrust upon you one day.

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