Monty: Whaddya mean she ain't my wife? Mal: She ain't your wife... cause she's married to me.

'Trash'


Natter 40: The Nice One  

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.


Fred Pete - Dec 01, 2005 9:10:15 am PST #8366 of 10006
Ann, that's a ferret.

...but not on a Saturday.


DavidS - Dec 01, 2005 9:10:43 am PST #8367 of 10006
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Damn. I want a Green Day holiday.

Well, schedule one for April 29th.


Calli - Dec 01, 2005 9:11:06 am PST #8368 of 10006
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

How much sick time to folks get per year?

I get thirteen days personal leave, usable as sick or vacation. I also get Federal holidays, though, which makes it a tad better.


sarameg - Dec 01, 2005 9:12:32 am PST #8369 of 10006

We have what's called full time accounting, which means we can't take leave and work on the same day, technically. However, you can take a portion sick and a portion vacation. Which seems crazy to me, but vacation days are more precious to me than sick. If I had kids or lots of appointments, I'd probably appreciate it.


DavidS - Dec 01, 2005 9:13:58 am PST #8370 of 10006
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

How much sick time to folks get per year?

7 sick days, 15 vacation days, 2 Personal Holidays (like...Green Day). They can roll over, but only up to a maximum plateau (25 days of vacation for me, 13 sick days). At my job you can only cashout your accrued unused vacation/Personal Holiday time. Not the sick leave.

JZ has unlimited sick leave accrual which she'll exploit whenever she needs to take maternity leave.


Kathy A - Dec 01, 2005 9:17:43 am PST #8371 of 10006
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

We have Paid Time Off, which is sick and vacation time combined, as well as a varying number of floating holidays (depends on when holidays like July 4th land during the week). Employees with under five years of employment here get 20 PTO days, 5-9 years 25 days, and 10 and up get 30 days (the most available). PTO can be taken in increments of one hour up to eight per day (which is great for those with appointments, etc., in the middle of the day), but floaters can only be taken as a whole day off.

I've been here 13 years as of yesterday, so I got 30 days (I've taken 29 1/2 so far) plus the 3 floaters (all of which I still have).

ETA: We can no longer roll any of this over, so if I don't take the 3 1/2 days, I'll lose them completely.


Sue - Dec 01, 2005 9:19:51 am PST #8372 of 10006
hip deep in pie

I have 18 sick days, 19 vacation days. (We also have short term and long term disability leave, which does not affect your sick time.) I also work a modified work week and get every third monday off, which can be moved around a little. According to the rules, you can't bank MWW days, but people do, if they have a sympathetic boss.

ETA: And there are 11.5 holidays we also get paid time off for. Non union people only get paid for 5 or 6 of them.


§ ita § - Dec 01, 2005 9:22:04 am PST #8373 of 10006
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

My father had unlimited vacation accrual, and when he retired (read: returned as a contractor at a higher rate) he had a year's accumulated, for which they had to pay him.

Government. Hmmph.

I accrue four hours of sick time a month (15 days max)...I wonder how much I have left.


Aims - Dec 01, 2005 9:23:14 am PST #8374 of 10006
Shit's all sorts of different now.

There was a whole article in Readers Digest this month about government workers who retire and cash out their accrued time. Some of it was twice what they yearly salaries were.


Jesse - Dec 01, 2005 9:23:16 am PST #8375 of 10006
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

We need to join a Buffistas union. No one is allowed to be annoying, offensive, or frustrating, and it is mandated we spend at least 5 hours on the board.

Love it.

I gave notice finally! So I will work my ass off in January, but then be free FREE! to do school work all Spring. Or, you know, screw around here.