I honestly don't know. I'm looking at it from a student's perspective. There are days when my school is flat out closed. You can't go anywhere or do anything on campus.

When I worked at a uni, it depended on the office.

lisah - did you ever get a chance to talk with your neighbor about the chair at sara's house? I have a couple other vintage things if you see her soon to talk to her about.

This year, we call those days, "furlough," and we do not get paid. Otherwise, the library is open every weekday (and most weekends) whether classes are going on or not, except for obvious holidays like 4th of July. And most campus offices are the same.

msbelle, I just found a dozen other good videos in the boys' room. Chicken Run, Disney's Hercules, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and more.

Opera looks very pretty. I'm tempted.

When I worked at my grad school, I learned that the offices were closed on Fridays in the summer, but (at least admin) staff had to take leave or not get paid for those days. Sweet.

If one were to hypothetically work at a university, would one typically get the days that the university is closed off?

Define "closed". Also, define "work". For us, the only days the university is actually closed are the holidays you'd get in most jobs -- Christmas, Thanksgiving, July 4th, etc etc. Staff get those days off. Faculty sometimes get those days off, although until a few years ago the university had an idiotic policy of holding classes on some of the days they also considered holidays.

The days that classes aren't in session is a much bigger list, and that's what most people seem to be thinking of when they keep asking me if working at the looniversity means I get all summer off.

The health system (which is actually the majority of looniversity employees) doesn't ever officially close, but they have a totally different time off structure.

Sparky's looniversity seems to close on a regular basis for The-Pope-Said-So day, but on the other hand is much stricter than ours about needing a personal note from the dean to leave an hour early.

And would these be paid days off?

That totally depends on the university. If theoretically job hunting, it'll be on their HR websites -- universities tend to be either totally cash-strapped, or brag a lot about their awesome bennies to make you ignore the fact that you're making 2/3 what you'd make in the private sector. Sometimes both. If theoretically asking to enable me to waste time at the end of the work day while making productive typing noises, THANK YOU.

Oh....Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Love that flick.

I have a ton of VHS I should do something with. While we still own a couple of machines, none are hooked up right now.

One more hour of work and then a hair cut. Not sure if I'm just going to get a trim or if I will ask my guy to do something different.

I am dying of the "define 'closed'" x-post, y'all.

(eta: I am also editing to add single quotes inside my double quotes. More typing noises!)

One of my favorite things in grad school was writing a paper for my HR class about the admin staff of my school -- I had been working on the dean's floor part-time for a year, so knew the people, and some of the issues, but it was EXCELLENT to get deeper into it, with a good reason.

Possibly this just confirms that nosiness is my biggest motivator.