We have it here, and it's usually used in the cases Ginger describes. I've never managed to accumulate enough leave to be eligible to donate (you have to have something like 200 hours or more), but I'll do so if I ever reach that point. It just seems like the decent thing to do.
A year and a half ago, I could have eviscerated him with my thoughts. Now I can barely hurt his feelings. Things used to be so much simpler.
Anya ,'Dirty Girls'
Natter 55: It's the 55th Natter
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.
Susan W. - Dec 04, 2007 1:05:30 pm PST #5563 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Ginger - Dec 04, 2007 1:06:37 pm PST #5564 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
At my last job, I didn't ever have time to take all my vacation and I was getting to the use it or lose point. I'd have gladly donated that time.
aurelia - Dec 04, 2007 1:21:40 pm PST #5565 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
My dad has often given away time he wasn't going to use.
Glamcookie - Dec 04, 2007 1:28:26 pm PST #5566 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
In celebration of the first day of Hannukah, an lolcat: [link]
Strega - Dec 04, 2007 1:34:58 pm PST #5567 of 10001
I would love it if my company did PTO and/or allowed donations. Because I have 300+ hours of sick leave, and that's just silly.
Sheryl - Dec 04, 2007 1:52:30 pm PST #5568 of 10001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
Happy Hannukkah!
It's supposed to snow tomorrow.(It actually was flurrying when I left for work this morning)They're talking about maybe an inch. Ah, time for this Connecticut-born-and-raised girl to laugh at the people panicking.
Jesse - Dec 04, 2007 1:53:07 pm PST #5569 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
You better get pregnant ASAP, Strega.
Walking around New York this week, I was thinking, they couldn't have held off on all the big Christmas decorations until next week? Let Hannukah have this week all by itself? Or, possibly, put up the Hannukah decorations three weeks ago. Either way.
flea - Dec 04, 2007 1:56:20 pm PST #5570 of 10001
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My company does PTO donations, but only for vacation leave, not sick (that is, you can donate vacation, but you can't donate your 6 billion hours of sick leave if you never get sick). We see requests for donations fairly often, though (I can think of 3 or 4 in my 5 years), and since 200 people work in my immediate part of the organization, it can add up.
flea - Dec 04, 2007 1:59:34 pm PST #5571 of 10001
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In celebration of Hannukah I bring you this from the Casper archives:
mr. flea: Who comes at Christmas?
Casper: Santa and his little elves!
mr. flea: What do they bring?
Casper: Um, presents?
mr. flea: For who?
Casper: For the children!
me: There are other things we celebrate about Christmas. Like, the birth of the baby Jesus...
Casper: And some people celebrate a harmonica!! [makes shy face, because she knows something about that is wrong]
mr. flea: I was telling her about Chanukah the other night.
aurelia - Dec 04, 2007 2:01:08 pm PST #5572 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
There should totally be a day to celebrate a harmonica!