Mine does! Because we get paid twice a month. If we got paid every two weeks, it would all come around in the end. Right?

And we get paid once a month, a base salary so we get screwed. Though it's possible since we only work X number of school days that it might not actually be like that. I'm not sure. And it's hard to get really all worked up about it enough to actually investigate it. There are too many other obvious irksome things, like the fact that I'm still paying back $4K.

Although, I guess you could say we get paid extra in February no matter what?

Stop looking at it from the Man's perspective!

Tom, I thought he worked in risk management and that's how he knew to manipulate the system. Bummer that he lost all of the money. But if he had made money and cashed out (not the entire total but the earnings) would it seem so bad?

Yeah, we own it and had the place reroofed THIS YEAR. I think last nights Crazy!Rain was too much for it.

bad roof. no biscuit.

someone at work just tried to argue with me that Feb. sometimes has 30 days. seriously. And even after I was all "nope. never." He tried to insist and then did an internet search. I explained to him nicely that when I state something positively as a fact - just go with it.

I explained to him nicely that when I state something positively as a fact - just go with it.

hah! I think I've said this same thing many times (not about there never being 30 days in Feb. though).

Ay yai yai, Scrappy! That sucks.

someone at work just tried to argue with me that Feb. sometimes has 30 days. seriously.

Well it does. OK, it did. But then emperor Augistine decided to take a day from February and add it to August (which was the month named after him).

ION - the water cooler talk in my work: [link]

This part of the article left me gawping.

It also raised the possibility that the bank, in its haste to close out Kerviel's bad bets, may have exacerbated the European stock plunge earlier this week. That decline, in turn, was partly responsible for the U.S. Federal Reserve's extraordinary three-quarter-point interest rate cut Tuesday.

One guy. One guy might have done that.

One. Guy.

Admiration is not what we're going for here, Joseph.

He worked in a group that dealt with transaction limits on traders.

Societe Generale's loss swamps the previous high water mark for activity by a rogue trader set by Nicholas Leeson, who lost $1.38 billionin Asian futures and other derivatives at Barings Bank in 1995. The damage bankrupted the 233-year-old British bank, which was subsequently taken over by Dutch financial firm ING.

I did not know that about ING. Although I did know that the previously mentioned rogue trade was made into a movie starring Ewan McGregor and Alexis Denisof.

And I also know that Scrappy's situation sucks.

I guess you could say we get paid extra in February no matter what?

Maybe it depends on when you get hired. When they say your annual salary is $150,000 (because that's the kind of money we make), were they saying that about 1984 or 1986?

So I should assume this guy is some sort of immortal and mis-remembering things from his ancient days?