Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[billd91]

And it's wrong that you're put in that position.

I agree. A friend of mine worked for a young company that did the same thing - combined sick/vacation days and with the number too low (though it was more than 5, it wasn't by much). It's the kind of stupid decision that only young men regularly make when starting up a company or setting benefits. They fail to understand other perspectives than their own young, relatively healthy, unmarried (or at least without kids) lives. Those of us who are older, have kids, and actually pay attention to the women around us (like our wives) know better.

 

[Thomas Shey]

I agree. A friend of mine worked for a young company that did the same thing - combined sick/vacation days and with the number too low (though it was more than 5, it wasn't by much). It's the kind of stupid decision that only young men regularly make when starting up a company or setting benefits. They fail to understand other perspectives than their own young, relatively healthy, unmarried (or at least without kids) lives. Those of us who are older, have kids, and actually pay attention to the women around us (like our wives) know better.

Yeah, it requires a particular sort of tunnel vision at best.

 

[Thomas Shey]

In Canada as well. Bad bosses are everywhere.

Some places, however, have laws that make it hard to pull that sort of thing. I just don't feel qualified to talk about it outside of the U.S.

And sometimes its not even bad bosses, per se. Sometimes it just general corporate culture (and I don't mean just within one corporation).

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Rewatching old movies on Netflix.

• Fletch: Very dated, and not just for the ludicrously wealthy "struggling" newspaper. LA's beaches are apparently empty except for homeless drug addicts, George Wendt and crooked cops. Obviously, today there'd also be tourists there as well. Chevy Chase using fake mocking Spanish throughout isn't cute by today's standards, although it certainly fits in with what we know of him nowadays.
• Legend of Zorro: You can see the DNA of Pirates of the Caribbean coming out a few years later and how you don't need an increasingly drug- and alcohol-addicted Johnny Depp to derail it. Divorcing the super-sexy couple at the heart of the franchise is dumb, but saddling us with a "cute" kid really makes large parts of the movie almost unwatchable. The fight scenes are also not nearly as good as the original or any of the PotC movies. The insistence on all of the Californians being super-excited about joining the US (but never explaining to the audience who they're a part of at the moment) feels both confused and cowardly. Confederate agents running around as Nazi stand-ins is weird (at least Sergio Leone didn't seem to understand the geography of the US when he did it), as are the heroic (?) super-spy Pinkertons. Magic nitroglycerin is dumb, but kind of expected for the era. They did a great job killing off a promising franchise with this sequel.
• Death Becomes Her: Fantastic. Holds up amazingly. I'm kind of surprised this hasn't been remade yet, but grateful that it hasn't. Also wonderful to see Bruce Willis at the height of his post-Moonlighting quipiness, before he decided he needed to be a brooding action hero and, of course, his future cognitive health issues.

 

[RealAlHazred]

Some places, however, have laws that make it hard to pull that sort of thing.

Oh, they're headquartered out of Ohio so they can get away with anything. For instance, they're their own health insurance provider, so they can ask their employees all of the health questions employees aren't allowed to ask their employees.

 

[Zardnaar]

And it's wrong that you're put in that position.

Yeah. Minimum here us 10 sick, 4 weeks holiday and 11 stat days give or take.

Wife was made to take 3 weeks off to use up extra leave as they dont like it on the books. Counts as liability.

Mate got bored took 3 months off.

Normally we break it up. 2 weeks off Christmas, 1 week of January lots of 3 day week ends or take 3 days off get 10 on over lapping long weekends.

 

[DrunkonDuty]

It depends on the state.

In California, you accrue OT if you work more than 40 hours in a week OR you work more than 8 hours a day.

We have the same law in Australia.

But some employers, such as the public service, have flextime. Which means you can work various hours, doing longer or shorter days, and bank the difference. My employer allows you to go up to 10 hours in deficit and bank up to 15 hours.

 

[Zardnaar]

We have the same law in Australia.

But some employers, such as the public service, have flextime. Which means you can work various hours, doing longer or shorter days, and bank the difference. My employer allows you to go up to 10 hours in deficit and bank up to 15 hours.

You guys had some advantages over us.
Prison colony for starters.