My company had separate sick and vacation days until about 14 years ago, a few years after I started. It was a pain because they gave us ten sick days, but if we used six days before the end of the third quarter or so, they'd send us a nasty letter telling us not to do that just in case we had an emergency before the end of the year and had to take five days before short-term disability kicked in. So, as a result of not wanting that letter, most people would just take five days and end up not taking the other five because that emergency never happened. The company cleaned up there.
After they went to paid time off (sick and vacation time combined), they let us roll over up to five days until 2000, when they eliminated the rollover. I complained to the CFO (who happens to be my cousin-in-law), and he explained that doing so saved them $6 million on the books.
I know a lot of people who don't use all their days and end up losing them. I've still got four days to take in the next three weeks, and have to arrange with my boss when to take them ASAP.
Our sick and vacation days are now the same. Good in theory but they didn't give us any extra days! And I'm not going to use my vacation days on being sick. I'll work from home if i have to.
Tribune Co. Files for Bankruptcy
Tribune owns eight major daily newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and Baltimore Sun, plus a string of local TV stations.
It looks like the Cubs and Wrigley Stadium aren't included in the filing, though.
We have two floating holidays that don't roll over -- so we use this first. Vacation rolls over-- but there is a limit. Sick rolls over -- and I don't think there is an end. Sick time can also be given to other people once you have a certain amount. And then there is IN-Lieu time. If we have a monday off -- but I don't work on monday I get 7.5 in=lieu hours. If it is a day like christmas I get 3.8 holiday hours and I have to used 3.7 in-lieu hours. If I don't use my in-lieu by a certain time -- I get the dollars.
Add the fact that I have to split the time between two locations-- and I have a really fun time card.
Let's not add in all the complications of extra hours.
Schedules and time cards for libraries are complex. We usually work for the government -- that lives on a 5 day schedule -- we usually have to schedule 7 days a week. The other departments that do 7 days have over time -- we can't.
We don't do personal days. We can carry over/acculmulate 10 vacation days every year, but five have to be used in the next fiscal. We get 18 sick days, but once you're sick for 5 days in a row, it becomes short term disability, and doesn't count as being out of those 18 days. There is also long-term disability, which can last for up to 2 years. But we don't get to cash out on any days.
while others are grousing about the fact that he's just another elitist schlub who would turn his nose up at the majority of commercial fiction that also allows publishing houses to take chances on five hundred page novels comprised of a single sentence and translated from the French. (True deal, btw.) because he mentioned Twain and Dostoevsky and Didion as his examples.
The idea of Mark Twain representing elitism makes me laugh and laugh.
Tribune Co. Files for Bankruptcy
This makes me so sad, yet I am considering canceling my weekend newspaper subscription because I end up reading most of my news online.
yet I am considering canceling my weekend newspaper subscription because I end up reading most of my news online.
Me too, except my reasoning is that the new format of the Sun sucks and the actual content dropped drastically. It's crap now.
About the only reason to get a paper is the ads that get stuck inside.
I like having the actual paper on weekends to curl up with on the couch. During the week, the online edition works just fine.
Me too, except my reasoning is that the new format of the Sun sucks and the actual content dropped drastically. It's crap now.
Seriously. I am not sad at all about the Tribune company. I feel bad for the people who work there but they treated their papers like shit and now they are shitty papers.
...although I do enjoy the traffic column that's in there now.
