Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[TwoSix]

Thing is I generate so much of it. I work from home, and can pretty much do anything I need to do and not use my vacay. I know, bad problems to have right?

In other news, the company used to pay out vacay upon layoff. My former boss told me (probably shouldn't have) that during a round of layoffs they looked over each employee's file. He said the HR guy did a cartoonish double take at my figures. Based on years with the company, and vacay reserve, they would owe me like 9 months severance. Average was like 6 weeks. I was too expensive to lay off. Of course, that just means if layoffs come around again (God forbid) i'll probably be doing the work of three people like last time.

So, yeah, Id love a cash out option.

At my former employer, they transitioned us from "bank your vacation, we'll pay it out" till "Nah, we're not going to do that anymore, 0 rollover" in a 6 month period.

Trying to take 47 days of vacation over 6 months while still getting actual work done was an interesting challenge.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

At my former employer, they transitioned us from "bank your vacation, we'll pay it out" till "Nah, we're not going to do that anymore, 0 rollover" in a 6 month period.

Trying to take 47 days of vacation over 6 months while still getting actual work done was an interesting challenge.

Serious Face for a second.

Yeah, unless you're covered by a CBA or a written contract (or in certain states where vacation time is a vested right) ... your employer can change the terms and conditions of employment.

They don't even need to give you a grace period to use it in many places. Just one day say, "That's a lotta good looking vacation time you got banked there. Be a real shame if something happened to it."

 

[TwoSix]

Serious Face for a second.

Yeah, unless you're covered by a CBA or a written contract (or in certain states where vacation time is a vested right) ... your employer can change the terms and conditions of employment.

They don't even need to give you a grace period to use it in many places. Just one day say, "That's lotta good looking vacation time you got banked there. Be a real shame if something happened to it."

This is America, Snarf. I wasn't expecting anything like legal protections around something as frivolous as employment.

 

[Umbran]

Now, stop this foolishness before I am forced to go Maurice Chevalier on you.

(Don't worry. The best he can really manage is Marcel Marceau.)

 

[payn]

At my former employer, they transitioned us from "bank your vacation, we'll pay it out" till "Nah, we're not going to do that anymore, 0 rollover" in a 6 month period.

Trying to take 47 days of vacation over 6 months while still getting actual work done was an interesting challenge.

I did have job once with no roll over and they made you take it by year end. Boss did not like me taking a week off in December in retail lol.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

(Don't worry. The best he can really manage is Marcel Marceau.)

True fact-

I do all my French accents in mime.

 

[TwoSix]

True fact-

I do all my French accents in mime.

After the head of Gwyneth Paltrow, mimes are my second favorite thing to find in a box.

 

[Gradine]

So, "echo chamber" has especially come up a lot regarding some social media places lately.

Is there a word for a place where the folks in that space argue with each other, repeatedly, over the same things, for a long period of time?

The internet?

 

[Gradine]

"Tell me why?"

 

[TwoSix]

B99 is a great show, but that's probably my single favorite scene.