Everybody plays each other. That's all anybody ever does. We play parts.

Saffron ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'


Natter 43: I Love My Dead Gay Whale Crosspost.  

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.


Kathy A - Mar 08, 2006 9:02:26 am PST #2731 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

Toddson, I work for a legal publisher, and even though I couldn't find anything related to general changes to an employee handbook, I did find this relating to employment-at-will status changes (which possibly might also apply to other issues):

CCH-EXP, HRM-PERSONNEL ¶6011, IS THE EMPLOYEE HANDBOOK A CONTRACT? [T]he Arizona Supreme Court has ruled that unilateral changes of an existing handbook that creates job security in order to turn the employment relationship into an at-will relationship cannot be done without providing consideration to existing employees. Continued employment is not sufficient consideration, nor is awareness of or receipt of the new handbook. Employees must agree to the new terms. The court said they must be informed of any new term, aware of its impact on the pre-existing contract and affirmatively consent to it.

Other than that, in my initial search I only found recommendations for how to create and maintain a handbook (these recs include get employee signatures for updates to the handbook, but nothing legally binding, unfortunately).


Jessica - Mar 08, 2006 9:02:40 am PST #2732 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I use both "perchance" and "persay" in everyday conversation, but I'm not unaware of their anachronisticicity. Also "mayhap."


Gudanov - Mar 08, 2006 9:04:24 am PST #2733 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping

Now, "perforce" -- that's a different story....

That's a source control system, and it is heard often around here.


Nilly - Mar 08, 2006 9:05:26 am PST #2734 of 10001
Swouncing

Teppy!

Remember once that you had a piece about how "writing was always a part of you, or rather how you have always been a part of writing"? A friend of mine, who writes, talked today about her writing, from very early childhood, about how she always felt it's something that belongs to her, and I brought your sentence up, talking about how she always felt connected to the world of writing. So, thanks, I guess.


Steph L. - Mar 08, 2006 9:05:31 am PST #2735 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism

Now, "perforce" -- that's a different story....

That's a source control system, and it is heard often around here.

How about "perambulate"?


erikaj - Mar 08, 2006 9:06:42 am PST #2736 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!

I've tried with this place...honest. I even pretended I could decorate. Still no real home. I have a hometown in theory, could even ride by my high school and be true to it, if I didn't think that was the most reactionary sentiment on God's green earth... Still feel homeless, if not houseless.


TomW - Mar 08, 2006 9:06:45 am PST #2737 of 10001
"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."

That's a source control system, and it is heard often around here.

Same here, although we pronounce "Perforce" (the source control system) differently to "perforce".


§ ita § - Mar 08, 2006 9:06:53 am PST #2738 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Perchance is totally cromulent. I think I'm overusing fiefdom and aegis though. I'm switching to purview.


Steph L. - Mar 08, 2006 9:08:09 am PST #2739 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism

Remember once that you had a piece about how "writing was always a part of you, or rather how you have always been a part of writing"? A friend of mine, who writes, talked today about her writing, from very early childhood, about how she always felt it's something that belongs to her, and I brought your sentence up, talking about how she always felt connected to the world of writing. So, thanks, I guess.

Nilly! First, I'm *very* touched that you remember that line! Really. And second, you're welcome!


Sean K - Mar 08, 2006 9:08:41 am PST #2740 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

What about "persnickety"?