No bereavement leave is just inhuman. I was bitter enough that though my company claims you can get up to a week, during the 18-month period where I had three family funerals (two grandparents and an aunt), I got four hours each time, which came out of my sick time. And none of these were local funerals, obviously.
This here's a recipe for unpleasantness.
Mal ,'Objects In Space'
Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet
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.
Dana - Apr 01, 2013 4:11:59 pm PDT #16871 of 30001
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
Maria - Apr 01, 2013 4:13:37 pm PDT #16872 of 30001
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
brenda, I'd jump in a heartbeat. My skills translate well from my current industry to yours.
brenda m - Apr 01, 2013 4:20:27 pm PDT #16873 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
I thought that might be the case.
NoiseDesign - Apr 01, 2013 4:24:22 pm PDT #16874 of 30001
Our wings are not tired
I just don't understand how employers can treat their employees like that.
Maria - Apr 01, 2013 4:29:45 pm PDT #16875 of 30001
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
ND, I had it so good at my previous two jobs and I didn't even know it. I miss my Chicagoland employer desperately.
brenda, I love you. This place is so fantastically awesome, and I thank whatever higher power there is on a daily basis that I stumbled across here 9 years ago.
Amy - Apr 01, 2013 4:31:34 pm PDT #16876 of 30001
Because books.
I thank whatever higher power there is on a daily basis that I stumbled across here 9 years ago.
As do we.
The "nine years" still freaks me out, though. Sara was just a few months old when I started posting here. What the hell.
§ ita § - Apr 01, 2013 4:43:03 pm PDT #16877 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I have never negotiated for shit. They've said "the position pays $XX, want it?" I've never negotiated from a position of strength--the one time I interviewed while I had a job, I got the job and they were so mad I turned it down they wouldn't let me interview again 2 years later, when I was unemployed.
Shit, I just turned on the TV in the middle of the Louisville NCAA coverage and my remote batteries are dead, and now it's "boy doctor from Syria" and WHERE ARE THE BATTERIES???
Hil R. - Apr 01, 2013 4:46:46 pm PDT #16878 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
A computer scans NY Times articles for sentences that work as haiku. Journalists pick the best ones to post: [link]
As dawn broke we warmed // strawberry Pop Tarts over // the dying embers.
As an engineer, // I'm sort of a student of // how things fall apart.
flea - Apr 01, 2013 4:51:14 pm PDT #16879 of 30001
information libertarian
Thanks, everybody. This has been really helpful. And if she's going to gently tell me I did not get the job after all, I will at least know for next time.
Jessica - Apr 01, 2013 5:04:42 pm PDT #16880 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
My company treats us very well benefits-wise, but there is basically no negotiating on salary. HR tells the managers what they're allowed to pay, and that's that. Raises are teeny, but reliable, and we pay nothing for health insurance, and I have more paid time off than I know what to do with. So there are trade-offs for not having a huge paycheck.