Natter .38 Special
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.
Also (from the AP):
Katrina was "unmitigated bad news" for motorists across the nation because it shut down offshore production of at least 1 million barrels of oil daily and threatened refinery and import operations around New Orleans, said oil analyst Peter Beutel. He predicted crude oil could top $70 a barrel by Monday or Tuesday.
And some black humor:
"We're choosing the best of two evils," said Bryan Steven. "It's either be stuck in the hotel or stuck on the road. ... We'll make it through it."
His wife, wearing a Bourbon Street T-shirt with a lewd message, interjected: "I just don't want to die in this shirt."
Doctors can provide notes, Cass. Also, you should check in with your company's policy about 'temporary disability', which at least in my company's case, doesn't count against your sick days.
I should say, I suppose I prefer the constant commercials to the usual "We don't have any new news yet, so we're going to randomly speculate about completely unrelated alarmist crap."
Happy Birthday Casper!
God, Katrina is scary, even by hurricane news standards. I hope all of our NOLAistas and their relatives are okay.
Doctors can provide notes, Cass.
My doctor's office actually faxed a note to the company on Friday when he found out I was at work (In my defense, he forgot to mention on Thursday that I should be on home rest), the HR people have the documentation and my boss knows about it.
I just honestly fear that my boss is going to make life a little more difficult for me if I actually take the time. I offered to do some work from home because I can do anything email-y and actually manage the projects but she dismissed that idea. It's frustrating.
I'm going to call her later to talk about it and hopefully she'll be a whole lot less of a stressbomb today.
Cass, how long have you been there now?
Casper decided to celebrate being 2 by staging The Great Nap Battle of 2005. She's just fallen asleep on the couch (after nearly 2 hours of attempts), and we're expecting people in 45 minutes. I am drinking a big iced coffee and considering inserting Kahlua.
She is long and lanky - we haven't had a checkup in a while, but I measured her against the wall about a month ago and got 35", which is a smidge taller than I was at that age. Based on "double your height at age 2 to get adult height" she'd be 5'10", but then, by that measure I'd be 2 inches shorter than I actually am. She's several pounds heavier than I was at her age. She's consistently been 90% for height and 75% for weight, though to my eye she's gotten thinner lately.
Anybody got a good site with detailed histories of earlier hurricanes? I'd like to read up on Camille, Gloria which I witnessed in CT, and whoever it was that hit New England in the 1930s that my grandmother drove a car through.
Started there in April. Became official, and done with the probationary period, on July 18. Which is when my health insurance was supposed to have kicked in...
As opposed to the fiasco that did happen where the coverage wasn't in place until last Thursday, which is when I finally got in and saw my doctor. Frankly, I would have gone Monday given the chance and likely my back would have healed much faster if I had started treatment then.
This, in my bitter bitter heart, is partially their fault.
My doctor's office actually faxed a note to the company on Friday when he found out I was at work (In my defense, he forgot to mention on Thursday that I should be on home rest), the HR people have the documentation and my boss knows about it.
I just honestly fear that my boss is going to make life a little more difficult for me if I actually take the time.
Man, that's such bullshit on your boss's part. (Though I don't think *my* bosses *really* believed how badly my back was injured until I had the surgery scheduled; I think they thought I was just being a whiner who would take any excuse to miss work.)
Still, if your doctor actually wrote a letter saying that you *shouldn't* be at work, can't your HR department bring the smackdown on your boss? Even a little?
You should check their policy about sick time and even short term disability then. Unfortunately, the federal medical leave laws don't kick in for a year after you are hired, and most companies follow that, but some have it kick in earlier.
Either way, I hope your boss stops being a jackhole about it.
