More about prison jobs and work schedules. As I said earlier, yes, in theory, everyone is supposed to have a job. The thing is, some jobs are more "work" than others and on some jobs you do not even have to spend much time at work.

For example, one lucky inmate is assigned to the AW (Associate Wardens) offices. He goes in and cleans for a half-hour and is back in the unit until lunch. Perhaps he goes back for a half-hour after lunch, but maybe not. Yet he gets paid for a seven or eight hour day.

My orderly job was emptying the trash cans at around 9:00 PM Monday to Friday and yet I got paid for a seven-hour day. Plus since I was technically assigned to work 4 - 12 PM, I was free to move to Rec and Library during those earlier mentioned moves during the day.

And while the orderlies in the unit were not allowed to leave if they were assigned to the 7AM - 3PM day shift, I could still go out in the evening in addition to going out during the day.

You got all that?

Anyhow, on Saturday, Sunday, and holidays we run a slightly different schedule just so we know it is a weekend.

Well, this afternoon we ended up staying in our unit after lunch. Today’s lunch was a very plain breaded chicken patty. Lunch didn’t finish until 1:00 PM and since they were having what they call an early recall, they scrubbed the afternoon work call. So I finished off the Sidney Sheldon book The Best Laid Plans, but lost another three hours of work time.

Enough bullshit about prison life. I almost want to say at you really have to be here to understand how utterly ridiculous the entire thing is, but hey, you asked, so I will donate several pages of each letter to the "you would not believe what they did this time" files.
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