Honestly, you meet the most appalling sort of people....

Giles ,'Chosen'


Natter 32 Flavors and Then Some  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Sue - Feb 11, 2005 6:47:51 am PST #6218 of 10002
hip deep in pie

Sue, I saw a woman wearing leg warmers yesterday (with FLIP FLOPS) and thought of you!

Did you smite her?

Yeah, but you live in - wait for it - Soviet Canuckistan.

Yeah. I also work for the Gubbermint and am unionized, so it's probably a more generous plans than most. (But still not as good as working for the Feds.)


juliana - Feb 11, 2005 6:48:03 am PST #6219 of 10002
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…

10 days sick leave, which is pretty standard

Wow. We get 5 sick days, 2 personal days. Start out with 10 vacation days.

Huh. We get 20 days (160 hours) of PTO, and move up to 25 after 5 yrs., and 30 days after 10.


§ ita § - Feb 11, 2005 6:49:14 am PST #6220 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Re OC: I'd like to think that legal privilege was more important than spousal. I do not want my lawyer talking about my case at home with her husband. I know it's naive, but it doesn't seem fair. Would that husband be prevented from ratting me out? However, as it applies to the OC, it's a damned good idea to not get the personal and the work mixed up. Mr. Cohen needed to tell Mrs. Cohen. Rebecca's lawyer needed to keep his mouth shut.


Tom Scola - Feb 11, 2005 6:49:54 am PST #6221 of 10002
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

So Jason Giambi made a heartfelt apology to Yankee fans the other day. Except that he never actually mentioned what he was apologizing for.


Gudanov - Feb 11, 2005 6:50:32 am PST #6222 of 10002
Coding and Sleeping

We get 10 personal days (sick leave, but it's really more like personal days) and go from 10 to 15/3yrs to 20/7yrs days of vacation. Right now I'm on 15 days of vacation which is really cool.


Kat - Feb 11, 2005 6:52:28 am PST #6223 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

ita, yes. I think that's true also. Too bad Sandy has a history of mixing the personal with his business. As in always does it. Granted it brought Ryan to the show, but as his only business = lame.

Well not lame, so much as ill advised.


sarameg - Feb 11, 2005 6:53:15 am PST #6224 of 10002

My corporate employers do accrued 10 days sick/10 days vacation for the first four years, then you go up to 15 days (maybe on both, maybe just vacation.) I think at 14 you go up to 20 and that's it.

But my noncorporate coworkers start out accruing 25 days vacation a year. And 25 sick days.


Kat - Feb 11, 2005 6:54:26 am PST #6225 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

We get 10, and only 10, accrued sick/personal/holiday days. However, we also get a total of 4 months off a year.


sarameg - Feb 11, 2005 6:59:14 am PST #6226 of 10002

At my mom's school district, they have similar minimal PTO days. But, they do rollover and they also have a leave bank where people can donate time off for people to use for severe illness. I don't know whether mom used it when she was out for a month with pneumonia.


lori - Feb 11, 2005 7:01:06 am PST #6227 of 10002

I've worked here since 1988 and currently have 881 hours of sick leave accrued. Why don't I take more attitude adjustment days off? I are a loser.