So, my new boss? On vacation for two weeks. I guess she'll actually be working from the beach this week, but still! I wasn't taking time this summer because I'm so new, and I've got two months of seniority on her!

I hope you can get your head fixed ita.

Insent DavidS

I've seen the quick vacation happen quite a bit with new people at places I've worked, don't know why.

They're usually leaving an old job that they disliked enough to find a new job, and have oodles of unspent vacation time. It's a burnout thing. Starting a new job without a break between the job that drained your soul can burn you out bad. It's a fresh start, recuperation.

And if you already had something planned when the new job came along, usually you make that part of the negotiation in taking on the new position. IME, anyway.

And if you already had something planned when the new job came along, usually you make that part of the negotiation in taking on the new position. IME, anyway.

Oh, of course. And she wasn't even actively looking when she got recruited for this job, so no reason not to plan a vacation with her family. But still. It's easy enough to go back to the CEO for approvals and stuff, but she's not that easy to get to, either.

Starting a new job without a break between the job that drained your soul can burn you out bad. It's a fresh start, recuperation.

I couldn't agree with this anymore if I tried. I took a week between last job and this job and it was the best thing I could for myself.

Oh, you totally need a break between jobs! I took two weeks before I started here, and I had already been out of school for a week. That was awesome.

Supposedly, Osama bin Laden lusted after Whitney Houston and wanted to kill her husband Bobby Brown so he could marry her. Or so says a woman who claims to have been bin Laden's sex slave.

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Boof says bin Laden couldn't stop talking about his favorite singer and had lofty plans for her. "He said he wanted to give [her] a mansion that he owned in a suburb of Khartoum. He explained to me that to possess Whitney, he would be willing to break his color rule and make her one of his wives."

But bin Laden's murderous side also emerged in his fantasies about the pop superstar. "[He would say] how beautiful she is," Boof claims, "what a nice smile she has, how truly Islamic she is but is just brainwashed by American culture and by her husband - Bobby Brown, whom Osama talked about having killed, as if it were normal to have womens' husbands killed.

From today's press conference with W:

George W. Bush was asked at this morning's press conference whether he'll support Republican candidate Alan Schlesinger in his race against Joe Lieberman. "I'm gonna stay out of Connecticut," Bush said. When a reporter shouted out, "You were born there," the president said: "Shh!"

I think I just had the most ridiculous work dispute in the history of forever. It was about whether or not to use blue envelopes for intramural mail. I and my boss say yes, accountant says you only use them for money. I think we almost came to blows. I normally wouldn't fight about it, and just go ahead and do it, since boss and I are pretty sure we are right ( since she has worked here 33 years and I 6, and the accountant 4), but the accountant has to order them!