Nope.
Death is your art. You make it with your hands day after day. That final gasp, that look of peace. And part of you is desperate to know: What's it like? Where does it lead you? And now you see, that's the secret. Not the punch you didn't throw or the kicks you didn't land. She really wanted it. Every Slayer has a death wish. Even you.
Spike ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
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.
brenda m - Dec 16, 2009 9:34:01 am PST #25587 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
ChiKat - Dec 16, 2009 9:34:27 am PST #25588 of 30001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
Ewwww....that sucks hairy donkey balls.
-t - Dec 16, 2009 9:35:50 am PST #25589 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
None of our PTO days carry over
So very wrong.
msbelle - Dec 16, 2009 9:37:31 am PST #25590 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
lots of long weekends is the easiest way to make a situation like that work. But really, workplaces find a way to work without staff all the time and they need to allow for it.
javachik - Dec 16, 2009 9:40:32 am PST #25591 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
If I am in a group, say, of 5 or 6 people, I'm going to hug all of them or none of them (if they're coming to me for hugs). I am not usually a touchy/feely person, but I would hate to be the one person left off of someone's "hug list" during such an occurrence, I wouldn't think that person had boundary issues, having seen her/him hug everyone else in the group; I'd think they just really didn't like me.
ChiKat - Dec 16, 2009 9:42:05 am PST #25592 of 30001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
I'm a hugger if I know the person well. If not, I'm much more reserved. I'm fairly shy around people I don't know, so hugging is just an extension of that.
Calli - Dec 16, 2009 9:44:08 am PST #25593 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I'm not taking as much time off as I had planned for the holidays because a major project got pushed back (for reasons way beyond my control) about two months. Luckily, all the time I took off for my Greece trip drained my PTO hours enough that I can carry the remainder over. My manager, a good guy who also got caught up in the project madness, will lose PTO. We are allowed to carry an ungodly amount of PTO over (I'm bringing ~120 hours), which says sad things about the last time he had a break.
Kathy A - Dec 16, 2009 9:45:18 am PST #25594 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Brenda and I are in the same boat when it comes to PTO. They used to let us rollover 5 days to the next year, but they changed that policy about 7-8 years ago. I happened to be at a party with my cousin's husband (the company's CFO) a week after they announced the change in policy and asked him why the change, and he said it saved them $5m on the books, and it was either that or layoffs.
Sophia Brooks - Dec 16, 2009 9:58:31 am PST #25595 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
We can roll over up to the amount we get each year (which for me is 4 weeks). It is really easy to not take time off when you are the only person who does your job, and your job is supporting someone. They never want you to leave.
msbelle - Dec 16, 2009 10:01:22 am PST #25596 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
But do they take vacation? I think it's being a bad manager not to have a plan for absences, and not encourage employees totake their leave.