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dogwonder · May 23, 2006

MancilG said:
Well at 6:00 this morning I get a call from MWG's daycare lady telling me that she isn't feeling well and needs the day off. So I had to call in today; most days I really wouldn't care but I only have 12hrs of leave and 9hrs of sick. I hate wasting the in the middle of the week.

But I guess that is a small price to pay for such a great little boy.

Go on a day long bender, call in sick tomorrow, repeat.

denjen · May 23, 2006

Welcome to parenthood. Luckily for me my wife can work from home most times this happens to us. How is the bike search going? Coming to SS this weekend?

I Are Baboon · May 23, 2006

What's an MWG?

Greyhound · May 23, 2006

That sucks, Mancil.......is your boss cool about situations like that?

jacksonpt · May 23, 2006

MancilG said:
I only have 12hrs of leave and 9hrs of sick.

Yikes... are you new to the job or have you used a bunch of your time lately???

I've got 40 vacation days and 60 sick days at the moment...

narlus · May 23, 2006

how many man gravy batches are you gonna cook up today?

denjen · May 23, 2006

MancilG said:
No I can't make SS this weekend, I'm hoping to get up there in a few weeks.

As for the bike search, I think I'm just going to make some upgrades to mine and go from there. I was able to get a pretty good time on it at Mass, with some more pratice I'm sure I'll get faster

Yeah you were rockin' for the first time doing real DH runs. A couple mods to your bike will definatly get you through the summer. A new fork and an 8" rotor in the front would be good starts.

binary visions · May 23, 2006

narlus said:
how many man gravy batches are you gonna cook up today?

SkaredShtles · May 23, 2006

jacksonpt said:
Yikes... are you new to the job or have you used a bunch of your time lately???

I've got 40 vacation days and 60 sick days at the moment...

Jeezus, dude. Take a f***ing vacation already! :dead:

I've got ~48 *hours* of leave right now and I'm about to use it all up on a trip to California next week. :thumb:

I can't ever seem to accumulate any vacation time. I always use it.

jacksonpt · May 23, 2006

SkaredShtles said:
Jeezus, dude. Take a f***ing vacation already!

I've got ~48 *hours* of leave right now and I'm about to use it all up on a trip to California next week.

I can't ever seem to accumulate any vacation time. I always use it.

I've taken about 3 weeks already this year...

SkaredShtles · May 23, 2006

jacksonpt said:
I've taken about 3 weeks already this year...

And you still have 40 *DAYS*?!? How much vaca do you get a year?

I'd be taking a month off. :thumb:

narlus · May 23, 2006

3 already? damn, i thought i was near king of vacation hill w/ 4 weeks. how many do you get?

jacksonpt · May 23, 2006

1.5 days per month, plus about 6 extra vacation days here and there over the course of the year. I've been collecting them for 6+ years.

jacksonpt · May 23, 2006

SkaredShtles said:
And you still have 40 *DAYS*?!? How much vaca do you get a year?

I'd be taking a month off.

I actually had more than that in December... but for some reason, I can only carry a max of 40 days into the next year.

dogwonder · May 23, 2006

dang...and I thought I was doing well having already taken two trips this year. I too am a vacation user, but probably won't be doing anything until the fall...

narlus · May 23, 2006

jacksonpt said:
1.5 days per month, plus about 6 extra vacation days here and there over the course of the year. I've been collecting them for 6+ years.

do those 24 days also include state/national holidays?

that's a very liberal vacation policy anyway; usually one gets 8-9 holidays so you are still over 4 weeks. what do people start at, vacation-wise?

we can't roll any time over, and i lost about 6 days last year. :mumble:

SkaredShtles · May 23, 2006

WTF is this about people losing vacation that they couldn't roll over??

That is a complete and total TRAVESTY!!

I Are Baboon · May 23, 2006

Does anyone here get to cash in unused vacation time? Given my salary grade and tenure, I can cash in up to eight unused days. I can also carryover up to two weeks. I get 26 days off (plus holidays on top of that) and I'd never use them all, so I usually cash in the max. Also, as long as I work four hours in a day, I get paid for the entire day (I don't have to burn half a day to split at noon to go riding).

jacksonpt · May 23, 2006

narlus said:
do those 24 days also include state/national holidays?

that's a very liberal vacation policy anyway; usually one gets 8-9 holidays so you are still over 4 weeks. what do people start at, vacation-wise?

we can't roll any time over, and i lost about 6 days last year. :mumble:

what 24 days? The 6 extra days we get do include state/national holidays. Sometimes the office is closed, so we have to take a vacation day (memorial day, 4th of july, etc) sometimes not (election day, president's day).

New folks get 1.25 days per month. I'm due to be upped to 1.75 days per month soon. That's the max you can get, regardless of how long you work here.

jacksonpt · May 23, 2006

I Are Baboon said:
Does anyone here get to cash in unused vacation time? Given my salary grade and tenure, I can cash in up to eight unused days. I can also carryover up to two weeks. I get 26 days off (plus holidays on top of that) and I'd never use them all, so I usually cash in the max. Also, as long as I work four hours in a day, I get paid for the entire day (I don't have to burn half a day to split at noon to go riding).

I can't, but I can turn them in (not sure if it's sick days or vacation days though) for a break on my health insurance. I think it's 60 sick days for a $300 break on insurance.

SkaredShtles · May 23, 2006

I Are Baboon said:
Does anyone here get to cash in unused vacation time? Given my salary grade and tenure, I can cash in up to eight unused days. I can also carryover up to two weeks. I get 26 days off (plus holidays on top of that) and I'd never use them all, so I usually cash in the max. Also, as long as I work four hours in a day, I get paid for the entire day (I don't have to burn half a day to split at noon to go riding).

No wonder health care costs the rest of us so f***ing much. :mumble:

I Are Baboon · May 23, 2006

SkaredShtles said:
No wonder health care costs the rest of us so f***ing much. :mumble:

Us office suits need to be well taken care of.

splat · May 23, 2006

I Are Baboon said:
Us office suits need to be well taken care of.

then how come every time I say Lets play hookey and Ride ,you say you can't ! :mumble:

denjen · May 23, 2006

MancilG said:
I put the 8in rotors on

I have been looking at forks, just not sure what I like.

What are you looking at?

narlus · May 23, 2006

jacksonpt said:
what 24 days?

the 1.5 days per month (*12) + 6 = 24.

jacksonpt said:
The 6 extra days we get do include state/national holidays. Sometimes the office is closed, so we have to take a vacation day (memorial day, 4th of july, etc) sometimes not (election day, president's day).

New folks get 1.25 days per month. I'm due to be upped to 1.75 days per month soon. That's the max you can get, regardless of how long you work here.

15 days off per year to start is very good for the US; that's our starting point too (but you don't get to 4 weeks off until 10 years of service, and 5 weeks is after 20 years... :mad:

).

IAB, i can't cash in vacation days; the HR policy is that they are there for a mental break and should be used as such. however, this policy kinda sucks when you get in situations like mine and can't use all of them due to project demands.

we used to be able to roll over up to one unused week, but they got rid of that because it was a liability on the books.

jimmydean · May 23, 2006

One thing I like about my job is I can work from home. I get a lot of work done too most days because I don't have to listen to the crap that goes on here.

I have 48 hrs of PTO, we don't have leave/sick, just PTO in a big bucket. I've only been here since January, but I haven't had to use any.

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