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Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Arlington, VA
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I'm almost 44. I screwed around for one year after college, working in a furniture restoration place, then I started temping at law firms as a paralegal and got hired after temping for about 6 months. I always planned to just do the job for a couple of years, but they kept promoting me. And then by the time I hit the middle management glass ceiling, I was getting like 4.5 weeks of vacation a year. I didn't want to leave and start over with only 2 weeks a year somewhere else for just a little more money. Now I get 6 weeks of leave a year.
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To shreds, you say?
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet!
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You look younger, except for that shovelling photo from this winter. That's amazing. 20 years...
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Join Date: Mar 2011
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glatt has only one fault: he's already married.
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#2089 |
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Posts: 8,360
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gee. I've been at my law firm for 12 years, and I still get my original measly 10 days.
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#2090 |
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Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Arlington, VA
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Sorry!
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Join Date: Feb 2007
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At my 10 year anniversary, I asked for more days, but was rebuffed. "Well, if we give you more days, we have to give everyone else more days." I think this is bogus. I plan to ask again.
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Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Arlington, VA
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Is it a combined annual leave that you have, and your sick days come out of those 10 days too?
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#2093 |
polaroid of perfection
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: West Yorkshire
Posts: 24,185
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Someone has knackered my tweezers.
It might even have been me, given I see them as a multi-purpose tool. But they can no longer perform their basic function. Bah. |
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To shreds, you say?
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet!
Posts: 18,449
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slaughtered, as in butchering animals. A knackering house is an abbatoir. Just double checked, I guess it refers more specifically to slaughtering old, worn-out horses and other animals unfit for eating. So especially destroyed.
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Join Date: Jun 2009
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#2097 |
I hear them call the tide
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Perpetual Chaos
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10 days is the starting here. It's double that in the UK and more in other parts of Eu. I find it a little archaic, but there ya go. But typically you earn an extra week with each 5 years in.
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To shreds, you say?
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet!
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What, no Urlaubsgeld?
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Join Date: Sep 2005
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Used to mean exceptionally tired (fit for the knacker's yard) or damaged. Buggered is used in the same way - to mean now unfit for purpose. Although slaughtered means very, very drunk. Knackers are also a word for plums. In the male fruit sense I mean. Is that like Danegeld? Didn't work for Ethelred. |
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#2100 |
The future is unwritten
Join Date: Oct 2002
Posts: 71,105
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Time off...
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