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my company added a Family Sickness category to the days off that we have available. I've used it to take mrs. zork to hospital tests - zork Mar 27, 08:37 1
- Those could also be called Personal Days. -- nm - lileve Mar 27, 08:42
Why the hell are there about ten walking, talking snot rags outside on skateboards? - Will Hunting Mar 27, 08:37 1
- "Let's egg Old Man Hunting's house!!" -- nm - con_carne Mar 27, 08:38
mmm, grilled cheese sandwich, yall -- nm - prayformojo Mar 27, 08:36
great. now this guy who attacked has somehow managed to get my account banned. - Jovian Mar 27, 08:34 6
- From the Pillory: - Reagen Mar 27, 08:36 3
  - yea, I called him a dipshit. account banned for a day I guess. -- nm - Jovian Mar 27, 08:37 2
    - alternative strategy - don't swear at people that are just playing the game. -- nm - Reagen Mar 27, 08:39 1
      - thanks, thats helpful. -- nm - Jovian Mar 27, 08:40
- PLEASE ALLIANCE, please mess this guy up. now I cant even play -- nm - Jovian Mar 27, 08:36 1
  - I want to wipe him out so badly right now. - Krusty Mar 27, 08:39
If any Canucks are interested in filling in 6 text fields for a chance to win a 46" tv, join my pad! -- (link) - Shaun Mar 27, 08:32 2
- and this link gets you extra entries or something? -- nm - zork Mar 27, 08:34 1
  - Nope. There's a 1st prize that goes to the person with the most people in their pad. The 46" tv is the second prize. All who join get entered. -- nm - Shaun Mar 27, 08:36
pippy, what's this super speeder law you mentioned? is it like the one here ... - zork Mar 27, 08:32
I seriously would blow off my grading today if I didn't have a convertible to get me to and from school to do it. -- nm - five tuesdays left love mandy lane Mar 27, 08:29 2
- Grading and Zeno's go perfect together. -- nm - Don Homer Mar 27, 08:30 1
  - it's *gorgeous* out. tomorrow it'll be rainy -- that's when grading and zeno's go together. hm. maybe I'll go pick it up today and do it tomorrow at z -- nm - five tuesdays left love mandy lane Mar 27, 08:33
has anyone found a firefox app that lets you tile/something the open windows? - tRuMaN Mar 27, 08:25 2
- giyf -- (link) - marcel Mar 27, 08:38
- you could open them in separate windows and arrange them that way -- nm - zork Mar 27, 08:27
Wait, even though my Final Four got torpedoed, I moved up to third place? - General Spawn Mar 27, 08:24
Dane Cook's half-brother held on $1 million bail for stealing "millions of dollars" from the actor -- (link) - zork Mar 27, 08:22 2
- arguably justified crime. -- nm - Reagen Mar 27, 08:23 1
  - The crime was Dane getting paid enough to have millions to steal. -- nm - TWuG Mar 27, 08:32
*ding* Spam's ready! -- nm - TaurusII Mar 27, 08:16 2
- For the last time, I don't need your enlargement product. -- nm - HdnAgnda Mar 27, 08:17 1
  - If you think that's the last time, you're sorely mistaken. -- nm - email spammer Mar 27, 08:24
Wait, wait, beth was here? - TaurusII Mar 27, 08:09
Uploaded some new pictures if anyone's interested. -- (link) - Don Homer Mar 27, 08:04 [flickr] 6
- Not in the set you're posting, but I like the Violet Beauregarde look -- (link) - Roger More Mar 27, 08:11 [flickr] 1
  - Yeah, he loves that thing. We eventually had to cave and buy one because he would get so super-excited every time we went near the bin at Target. -- nm - Don Homer Mar 27, 08:13
- great "lifestyle choice" :) - Danedukenuuk Mar 27, 08:05
- I like this one... -- (link) - Don Homer Mar 27, 08:04 [flickr] 2
  - i'll call it "gone fishin" :) -- nm - Danedukenuuk Mar 27, 08:24
  - I think I prefer 42 where he attempts a Billy Idol -- nm - HdnAgnda Mar 27, 08:20
NWBR, how do you feel about people who call in because their kids are sick? Do you get angry b/c having kids is a lifestyle choice? - kelly Mar 27, 08:03 88
- If it's a baby or toddler, then more power to 'em. If not, then they're probably spoiling their child. -- nm - con_carne Mar 27, 08:11 7
  - Which, come to think of it, it's their business if they want to. At my co., people use "sick" time for all kinds of non-sick reasons, and I think it' - con_carne Mar 27, 08:23 6
    - We get everything lumped together...Personal Time Off (PTO) days - amoxy Mar 27, 08:24 5
      - We had that at Monster for a time. It was sweet, but at the time I never used them -- nm - con_carne Mar 27, 08:35
      - is vacation part of that? (i like this approach.) -- nm - Andie for Earth Hour! Mar 27, 08:31 3
        
        yes, that's what I have. I don't totally love it because we end up getting less days total. -- nm - loosilu Mar 27, 08:32 2
        
        i get no paid vacation or sick days or pto days, so .... -- nm - Andie for Earth Hour! Mar 27, 08:33
        
        Oh, we got an extra 2 days total when we switched to PTO, which made my coworkers bitching about it completely crazy to me. -- nm - TFox Mar 27, 08:33
- maybe you have to live on the prairies to understand, but you can't let a little snow keep you from work out here. - Reagen Mar 27, 08:05
- I'm more permissive on that to a point. We consider that "sick time" in our company and because I know the value of families to society, I take... - Name Withheld By Request Mar 27, 08:05 74
  - I don't care if people beg off because their kids are sick. I really dislike when companies allow them to use sick time for this. - five tuesdays left love mandy lane Mar 27, 08:09 67
    - What do you expect parents to do? Love the kids at home alone? - amoxy Mar 27, 08:15 14
      - vacation time. see? -- nm - five tuesdays left love mandy lane Mar 27, 08:17 13
        
        So if you get 10 sick days a year and a parent gets 10 sick days a year - amoxy Mar 27, 08:22 4
        
        The point as I understand it being: there are more acceptable uses of that time for a married person with kids than a single person. - TFox Mar 27, 08:32 3
        
        This is sorta where I fall. I really believe that society here needs to promote family growth, so I can accept this usage to a point. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Mar 27, 08:36
        
        say a single person actually gets sick and uses them all. is that unfair to healthy people? -- nm - loosilu Mar 27, 08:34 1
        
        technically? yeah. but that speaks more to why having a "sick days" benefit is inherently dicier than a PTO system. - TFox Mar 27, 08:38
        
        so people with kids might eat all their vacation time. therefore they're not allowed to have vactaions? -- nm - loosilu Mar 27, 08:22 2
        
        Isn't Vaction time objective and sick time subjective? -- nm - lileve Mar 27, 08:24 1
        
        Vacation. -- nm - lileve Mar 27, 08:24
        
        it's not a vaccation to take care of a sick kid (well depending ofcourse) - Danedukenuuk Mar 27, 08:20 4
        
        Well, technically, they don't have the right to more than one "family leave" type day per year according to Manitoba labour law, so no, they are not.. - Name Withheld By Request Mar 27, 08:23 3
        
        So per Manitoba law, a parent gets one "Sick Kid" day - amoxy Mar 27, 08:24 2
        
        Essentially. The law reads seven days per year for sick days thought, so we'll pretty run that one out. But here's the thing... - Name Withheld By Request Mar 27, 08:32 1
        
        Those that abuse the "leave" days makes it really difficult for those who don't to turn a blind eye. - Danedukenuuk Mar 27, 08:38
    - only a person without kids can say this! -- nm - Danedukenuuk Mar 27, 08:13 4
      - it's a lifestyle choice. I prefer "interviews" to children. -- nm - five tuesdays left love mandy lane Mar 27, 08:14 3
        
        it's a fortune if it is a choice a good one indeed that other bring up tax payers so you can get the help you need when you get older -- nm - Danedukenuuk Mar 27, 08:16 2
        
        I live in the US. there'll be no such thing as entitlements in twenty years' time. -- nm - five tuesdays left love mandy lane Mar 27, 08:16 1
        
        so eeryone in the public sector works for free in the US? -- nm - Danedukenuuk Mar 27, 08:17
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      - we're not allowed to get sick at school, so we have to use "interview days" for hangovers. -- nm - five tuesdays left love mandy lane Mar 27, 08:13 26
        
        it's not a human right to get drunk and have a hangover thoose day you take on you'r own - Danedukenuuk Mar 27, 08:28 4
        
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        what if what if...fight for your right to party - Danedukenuuk Mar 27, 08:33 2
        
        dude, jack and I just said we don't do this. it's the principle of the thing. we have to lie to get the same number of days away from work is all. -- nm - five tuesdays left love mandy lane Mar 27, 08:36
        
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        attendance, but more the TA stuff. for cancelling my OH on tuesday, I actually get my (already laughable) pay docked. -- nm - five tuesdays left love mandy lane Mar 27, 08:19 19
        
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        when I had mono, I worked. I didn't have the choice of not working. -- nm - loosilu Mar 27, 08:23 6
        
        You should have made out with the head of HR -- nm - Roger More Mar 27, 08:25 5
        
        HR? I was a TA. maybe the head slave driver. -- nm - loosilu Mar 27, 08:26 4
        
        Failed joke, obvie - if the person responsible for the policy gets sick, change of policy -- nm - Roger More Mar 27, 08:28 3
        
        oh, she had malaria. -- nm - loosilu Mar 27, 08:29 2
        
        if you worked in a generalised, hypotehetical Dilbert-style workplace it would have been funny! -- nm - Roger More Mar 27, 08:31 1
        
        *laughing* -- nm - loosilu Mar 27, 08:32
        
        you have no idea. (if I had a kid and my kid was sick? I would not be docked.) - five tuesdays left love mandy lane Mar 27, 08:22 10
        
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        15 days...ask her whats wrong perhaps the firm can help -- nm - Danedukenuuk Mar 27, 08:29
        
        15 sick days in less than three months? Has she been written up? Got a Doctors Note? Been fired? -- nm - amoxy Mar 27, 08:27 6
        
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        if she's unpaid, what's the problem? I had bronchitis for four months a couple years ago. - loosilu Mar 27, 08:30
        
        Wow. Is she sleeping with one of the partners? - amoxy Mar 27, 08:30 2
        
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        That is a bummer, Sorry man -- nm - amoxy Mar 27, 08:32
        
        if it exceeds her allotted time off, she should be taking LWOP. -- nm - loosilu Mar 27, 08:28
        
        and she hasn't bought you a single starbucks gift card. that bitch. what about *our* needs? -- nm - five tuesdays left love mandy lane Mar 27, 08:27
    - It's not like they would get any more sick time than you do. I guess I don't understand. -- nm - Don Homer Mar 27, 08:11
    - they'd just eat their sick time faster than you, not get more days off. -- nm - loosilu Mar 27, 08:10 17
      - how is taking a sick day at home *not* a day off? -- nm - five tuesdays left love mandy lane Mar 27, 08:11 16
        
        I don't understsand the problem. Everyone gets a fixed number of sick days, right? how are they getting more? -- nm - loosilu Mar 27, 08:11 15
        
        *nods* -- nm - Don Homer Mar 27, 08:13
        
        but they're not sick. their child is sick. that should be vacation. -- nm - five tuesdays left love mandy lane Mar 27, 08:13 13
        
        you're crazy ! -- nm - Danedukenuuk Mar 27, 08:15
        
        what does it matter which one they take it as?? You have the same amount available as they do. -- nm - Don Homer Mar 27, 08:14 5
        
        sure, but if my ... cat is sick, I can't beg off work. they have more "acceptable reasons to beg off," sort of. whatever, obviously you think I'm bit - five tuesdays left love mandy lane Mar 27, 08:16 4
        
        You can always make up the vague "hurt my back moving some stuff" ;-). (I agree that I like the general single category of leave vs distinct sick/ - Don Homer Mar 27, 08:17 3
        
        i really love that WOMEN complain about other woman's (perhaps single) right to stay home and take care of kids! -- nm - Danedukenuuk Mar 27, 08:21 2
        
        if you think women always support each other in the workplace, you think wrong. -- nm - loosilu Mar 27, 08:27 1
        
        well seems a bit counterproductive to complain about having a right that has made it possible for many women to stay on the workforce after having a c - Danedukenuuk Mar 27, 08:31
        
        sounds to me like it's not really your business. -- nm - loosilu Mar 27, 08:14 5
        
        Sure it is. Mandy is talking about fairness towards people without kids. It's a valid point. -- nm - con_carne Mar 27, 08:18 1
        
        well sickness is never fair! -- nm - Danedukenuuk Mar 27, 08:22
        
        as a childless person, it's not yours either. we should both exit the discussion. -- nm - five tuesdays left love mandy lane Mar 27, 08:17 2
        
        exit if you want. I got nothing to be embarrassed about. I think adults can decided what to do with the time off they're allowed. -- nm - loosilu Mar 27, 08:19 1
        
        are you intimating here that I'm embarrassed? I'm not. thanks in advance for refraining from making assumptions about me. -- nm - five tuesdays left love mandy lane Mar 27, 08:26
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  - Are there legislative implications as well? For the employer I mean. - Roger More Mar 27, 08:07 1
    - up to a certain point if the kid require you to stay home more than 6 workmonths a year there is no protection anymore, and a "parenting sabbathical" - Danedukenuuk Mar 27, 08:09
  - ofcourse it's "sick time" it also part of the general agreement you have the right to 3 days sicknes of a child in a row - Danedukenuuk Mar 27, 08:07
  - Once a month? I have plenty of PTO to take a day a month or more. - TFox Mar 27, 08:06 1
    - which is why I favor PTO to sick vs. vacation pay. if your "kid is sick" time comes out of my "out in the convertible" time? awesome. -- nm - five tuesdays left love mandy lane Mar 27, 08:12
- Yeah, -- nm - TFox Mar 27, 08:05
- hmm let's see a "lifestyle choice"? perhaps but it's also a human right! -- nm - Danedukenuuk Mar 27, 08:04 2
  - Having children is indeed a choice. - kelly Mar 27, 08:09 1
    - it is a choise luckily for most (for some it aint) but it's still a Human right and there needs protecton - Danedukenuuk Mar 27, 08:11
LYC: 4th last night out of 60 in Poker, walked away with 2 gift cards - Strongbad Mar 27, 08:02 1
- what is REI? and congrats $ 75 in cards is pretty darn good - btw: I am in fear of Super Speeder laws coming here to TX - Epiphany Mar 27, 08:22
znu- they just do not make it- or at least i have never seen it -- nm - beth445 Mar 27, 08:00 1
- do I smell a business opportunity? :) -- nm - znufrii Mar 27, 08:26
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- 57. -- nm - TaurusII Mar 27, 08:10
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- 9 -- nm - Don Homer Mar 27, 08:00
- 31.250 -- nm - General Spawn Mar 27, 08:00
- 12 -- nm - Roger More Mar 27, 08:00
Earth Hour should be once a month, not once a year. Discuss. -- nm - Roger More Mar 27, 07:59 16
- Sorry but stuff like that makes me want to put every light on in the house. - lileve Mar 27, 08:04 10
  - Fight the power! -- nm - Don Homer Mar 27, 08:08
  - You are an oxymoron. -- nm - General Spawn Mar 27, 08:06 1
    - I wouldn't do it. It's just a feeling. -- nm - lileve Mar 27, 08:13
  - mature. -- nm - Reagen Mar 27, 08:04 6
    - It's like a make you feel happy for conserving for one hour. That does not get you off for the whole year. -- nm - lileve Mar 27, 08:10 5
      - who said it does? - Reagen Mar 27, 08:20 1
        
        Ok. Good point. -- nm - lileve Mar 27, 08:42
      - People need to be responsible everyday. Not for one hour a year. I do try to be responsible everyday. -- nm - lileve Mar 27, 08:11 2
        
        it's a symbolic act to gain attention for energy conservation. how is that bad? -- nm - Andie for Earth Hour! Mar 27, 08:16 1
        
        (also - go out and mingle - it's totally fun.) -- nm - Andie for Earth Hour! Mar 27, 08:18
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  - It's kind of like not buying gas for a day. - psilotum Mar 27, 08:02 3
    - not really - it's more like not using gas by not going into work one day. - Reagen Mar 27, 08:04
    - Yeah, on the one hand, one hour a year seems more about symbolism than actually doing something. But on the other, if it's too regular people become - Roger More Mar 27, 08:04 1
      - this is why i think it works as an annual event. also because it is an *event*. there are special activites etc planned. -- nm - Andie for Earth Hour! Mar 27, 08:17
MIZ- - Strongbad Mar 27, 07:58 3
- yep. They were underestimated some by the selection committee (imo). -- nm - Diva Mar 27, 07:59 2
  - Their coach gonna stick around? I'd guess he would be a target moving forward. -- nm - Strongbad Mar 27, 08:02 1
    - That's usually the way. We'll see, I guess. -- nm - Diva Mar 27, 08:03
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- He sucks, but I have to give him credit... - TFox Mar 27, 08:02
For those of us that thought nubby would just hang out and do research? We were very wrong. - General Spawn Mar 27, 07:58

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