I am in the weird position of having so much vacation, I regularly lose it. I am carrying over 5 weeks per year and I get 5 weeks per year. I cannot take 10 weeks vacation and I wish I could give it to others. This is still because of a terrible job I had at the same company 17 years ago who would not let me take vacation, plus Covid, plus the fact that I am a single person dependency for several things. Basically I COULD, right now stop working for the rest of the year! And I feel guilty about it because I also have unlimited sick time, but after 10 days I have to apply for short term disability.
We are working on fixing this, but it is a slow process to untangle 17 years of single person dependency on an urgent problem solving thing…
I am sorry guys- the actual pay is terrible.
Take a day every couple of weeks. They will be fine for 1 day. Or start with taking half days. You deserve to have your time.
It's true! That's what I did in 2020, and it was great.
Okay, so I know I'm an apostate. Here are photos from my oldest boy's wedding.
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Oldest boys wedding? Surely that can’t be right Cindy! Old enough to marry???
I have never had a job with separate sick and vacation time, only PTO. Which is maybe BS for in office jobs but I’ve worked from home (and/or traveling) for 15 years, so almost never need sick time anyway. (And after 5 days we can do STD)
Aw, how sweet, Cindy. Congratulations! They look just lovely and happy, as do you, even though you're crying, hee.
Awww, how absolutely delightful! Congrats to all.
Those pictures are delightful!
Congratulations, Cindy! And many congrats to your son and DiL!!!
I haven't seen Atropa around here in a while, but if you see her around other parts wish her the happiest birthday.
OMG, doing prep for Thanksgiving. Missing so many things! Shop Shop Shop. The front desk of my building sometimes sees me multiple times a day for my deliveries.
My BIL texted and asked me if it was okay for his BIL and family to come too, and duh, of course, because they are lovely people. Then the big question was, what can they bring? Well, Pouchon is a serious chef, like executive chef for several huge chains before opening his own restaurant in Kissimmee, which was featured on the Cooking Channel. So I emailed him my basic plan of what various people were bringing and what I was making and told him to feel free to tell me to skip the potatoes or roasted veggies or anything he wanted to substitute because he was bringing some insanely tasty risotto or something instead. Or bring something he felt was a hole missing in the plan. I always love when he is at family gatherings, both because he is a beautiful person, and oh the food is so yum.
