I hope you don't think that I just come over for the spells and everything. I mean, I really like just talking and hanging out with you and stuff.

Willow ,'First Date'


Spike's Bitches 36: Did I Sully Our Good Name?  

[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.


meara - Jul 25, 2007 1:38:19 pm PDT #8009 of 10001

Serious? Maybe my industry is more generous than usual--my job before this I got 24 (total), and current-now-ex-job I got 18.

Partly I guess because people in my position do tend to work a lot of hours either in the office or travelling, and we don't get comp time for that...


-t - Jul 25, 2007 1:43:15 pm PDT #8010 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

You could certainly mention that you got 18 at your last job once you're to the the ironing out the details stage.


javachik - Jul 25, 2007 1:44:45 pm PDT #8011 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.

Partly I guess because people in my position do tend to work a lot of hours either in the office or travelling, and we don't get comp time for that...

Same industry, as you know. Old job was 10 days sick, 2.5 weeks vacation starting. New job is 18 days of PTO.


beth b - Jul 25, 2007 1:57:23 pm PDT #8012 of 10001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

5 sick days a year? If I was working full time I would use them up just going to the doctor. Dentist 4 times a year;doctor twice; eye doctor 1 reg, 1 diabetes; mammogram. Not that they take all day - but when would I have time to be sick?

( i work part time - and get about 6 full days of sick leave- but they can add up - and because of my schedule, i don't have to take time off for doctor's apointments


javachik - Jul 25, 2007 2:00:43 pm PDT #8013 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.

beth, how does your company deal with appointments? I just leave for appointments and come back later. No worries about spending sick time on it.


megan walker - Jul 25, 2007 2:04:17 pm PDT #8014 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

5 sick days a year? If I was working full time I would use them up just going to the doctor. Dentist 4 times a year;doctor twice; eye doctor 1 reg, 1 diabetes; mammogram. Not that they take all day - but when would I have time to be sick?

We're not really allowed a certain number of sick days here. At first I thought okay, fine, you're sick when you're sick, but then I looked at the manager guidelines and learned that 7-8 days in a year was considered "poor" and 9 days or more was considered "excessive" (both of which were less than the 10 days we automatically got at my last office job way back when) . That made me even sadder than the 10 days vacation time that I get for my first 18 months.


Trudy Booth - Jul 25, 2007 2:07:04 pm PDT #8015 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

15 vacation days (going up to 20 at my two year anniversary), six sick days, 3 personal days, half-days can be made up with OT (good for doctors appointments, auditions, voice over work). Oh, and if we need additional time we get it with a docked pay check.

It's pretty sweet.


Pix - Jul 25, 2007 2:07:22 pm PDT #8016 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie

Random meara:

My old orchestra conductor teaches at the Meadow School of Music and lives in Plano.

Emily, your box story just made both ND and me laugh out loud. We have been there, my friend.

My good friend J. takes pole dancing lessons and has a ton of bruises but holy crap great abs from it. Her boyfriend just bought her a pole and installed it in the living room. LA is an interesting place.

ND and I are frustrated. Our new, carefully researched PCP is no longer at the practice, and apparently no one else there takes HMO patients.Yeah, sure we live in a classless society.

Vw, glad you're having a good birthday.


Vortex - Jul 25, 2007 2:07:39 pm PDT #8017 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

I earn a day and half a month of vacation, a day of sick. But I have like 300 hours of sick. ridiculous. Also, here you take a full day or nothing, so I never take off for doctor's appointments or whatever unless I want to.


§ ita § - Jul 25, 2007 2:11:34 pm PDT #8018 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

If I was working full time I would use them up just going to the doctor.

I don't take sick time for partial days, just whole ones. I think that's how salaried is supposed to work. I've had a couple days where I left the hospital, went home and cleaned up, and came in after lunch.

Which is sad, but allowable.

Her boyfriend just bought her a pole and installed it in the living room. LA is an interesting place.

A friend's brother just did that for his wife, and another friend (who is, I think, single) just put her own in.

Apparently they disguise the installation so when it's disassembled it just looks like a hook for a hanging plant. Unless, of course, you've seen one before, in which case it's clear.

There are at least two talented female krav/fitness instructors who do both trapeze and pole dancing...perfect women or scary as hell--you decide.