If I could get away with never wearing a bra again, I totally would.

Only public decency laws and the need to keep flesh from touching flesh during high temperature events keeps me clothed.

Sophia - does the differentiation between other meetings and "on-time" meetings mean that people can be late for the other meetings?

To be reimbursed for travel meals you have to be at least 50 miles away from your office. Business meals are reimbursed, but require a bunch of justification. Non of our expense reimbursements are taxed.

The receiving employee is taxed for any spot bonus's processed through payroll and any gift certificates received. I don't get the logic of taxing the purchasing employee. It sounds like there isn't a mechanism to recognize that the purchase is not personal.

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I tried on a corset at Folsom Street Fair and it was SO comfortable. I wish I could have afforded to purchase it.

Oh goodness! That was a typo- it was "one-time meetings"!

I never really have had much problems wearing a bra, except this rash, while mostly gone, has left me able to feel EVERY SINGLE THING that touches my skin. It isn't really itchy, just prickly and uncomfortable and makes me want to be naked. I can't even sleep with a fleece blanket on me, it is too scratchy. I can stand the sateen weave sheets, however. But I feel like the Princess and the Pea.

I don't get the logic of taxing the purchasing employee. It sounds like there isn't a mechanism to recognize that the purchase is not personal.

I think this is it, because later on the same document seems to say that if you want to buy the employee a gift, either you are taxed, or you process an extra compensation payment for the employee in the amount of the gift and have them pay you back. It isn't really clear and asks me to see a policy that I can't find.

All white people want corsets.

Corsets made of muffins?

Tom, you could do a prepared slideshow or you could take candids throughout the party and pull your slideshow from that. Or make a website later. ETA: Seriously, hiding behind a camera is a great place for an introvert at a party.

The receiving employee is taxed for any spot bonus's processed through payroll and any gift certificates received.

At one of my former firms, they calibrated spot bonus payments so that the taxes were accounted for. So if you got, say, a $100 bonus, you would get a check for that amount, but what showed up on your paystub was $132.47 or something. Nice.

we could not buy food or coffee for "standing monthly or weekly meetings"

No coffee! That's like saying you can't provide water.

No coffee! That's like saying you can't provide water.

Here is the crazy part- for our staff meeting the members of the staff committee take turns paying for the coffee!!! And I found out that our Christmas party is also paid for from the pocket of the staff committee.

Meanwhile, at the theatre, all the food and wine for the opening night party, at the director's house, is paid for by the department.

Mark Boreanaz?