Ewwww....that sucks hairy donkey balls.
Stop that right now! I can hear the smacking!
Giles ,'Never Leave Me'
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.
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?
-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.
Jessica - Dec 16, 2009 10:03:47 am PST #25597 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
We can roll over up to 5 days, but we have to use them by March. So I usually treat myself to a long weekend in January no matter how busy we are.