Not much to report on J today. I have notes, but they're pretty penny-ante. The one truly pertinent comment is this: "pattern: start, stare, ignore, start, stare, ignore...".
What this refers to is J's general method of "working" these days, where he starts a run, then turns immediately to his phone. He stays on his phone for at least a minute or two after his run has ended. Then he loads another run, and does the same thing. This pattern will continue all day, occasionally changing things up by, rather than being on the phone, sitting down and writing something (rap lyrics, I think) or simply wandering off for a couple of minutes. If one had the time to spend doing nothing but watching J (or had a camera trained on him), you'd probably find that he is goofing off something on the order of 2 minutes out of every 3.
Another thing: J claimed that last year he made $40,000 dollars. Now, it's assumed (but not known) that he's making about $10 an hour, which would require him to have worked over 22 hours of overtime every week. Not impossible, but somewhat unlikely (not nearly as unlikely as it ought to be, though). On the other hand, if he makes $12.50 an hour, then he would only need 12.3 hours of overtime every week to make this amount, which is pretty easy to imagine him doing.
This is especially imaginable because for a while, he had the day manager and the night manager both thinking that the other had asked him to stay late, and was racking up anywhere from 2 to 5 hours of overtime some, if not most nights. There was also a rumor that for a period of time he was coming into work an hour or so early, clocking in, then leaving again to eat breakfast before returning (more or less) on time.
Addendum: I have been told that J makes $10.50 per hour, which would require a bit above 19 hours of overtime a week, which, while high, is not unimaginable.
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