Off Music-Topic: How many vacation days do you get a yea

[ggw]

Originally posted by walkonby:
  i make my own schedule, my pay is what i sell, my vacations are when i feel like it, and unless there is an appointment, my wake up call is a nice ten am.  i don't have benefits or insurance, but gladly do without for the business profile of freedom that i fell feet first into.

How much for a 'z of the purple haze?

[chaz]

I get 15 days a year to be used for whatever...sick or vacation.  In a year or so it goes up to 20.

[edbert]

any chart that has France at the top that isn't titled "Biggiest Pussies in the World" or "Least Thankful Bastards post WWII" I have a problem with.

The French are very thankful for what we did in WW II. It's WW III that they're not down with.

[Venerable Bede]

Originally posted by Stairmaster E:
   

any chart that has France at the top that isn't titled "Biggiest Pussies in the World" or "Least Thankful Bastards post WWII" I have a problem with.

The French are very thankful for what we did in WW II. It's WW III that they're not down with. [/b]

i think they not down with anything put forward by the u.s. and england. . at least that's what mitterand (and gaullism for that matter) based his foreign policy on- we'll see how sarkozy does.

[TheDirector217]

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
   

Originally posted by walkonby:
  i make my own schedule, my pay is what i sell, my vacations are when i feel like it, and unless there is an appointment, my wake up call is a nice ten am.  i don't have benefits or insurance, but gladly do without for the business profile of freedom that i fell feet first into.

How much for a 'z of the purple haze? [/b]

Our first contender for post of the week.  On fire, lately ain't ya?

[vansmack]

Originally posted by Venerable Bede:
  i think they not down with anything put forward by the u.s. and england. . at least that's what mitterand (and gaullism for that matter) based his foreign policy on- we'll see how sarkozy does.

On the rare occassion that Venerable and I agree outside of music, it's on French Foreign Policy post WWII.
 
 Sure, they may not be down with this Bush administration, but they really weren't down with much of anything since they fucked up Vietnam and got us heavily involved in that debacle.  Now they're looking to us to fix their colonies in Africa because they bauched that too - condoning genocide?
 
 Somehow it's always forgotten that we backed their ridiculous Vietnamese government at their request and were asked by them to come in and train the Army because they weren't capable.
 
 That's us, always picking up after their messes, and what gratitude do we get - looks of disdain upon visiting their country.  Fuck 'em.  Speak German next time.

[walkonby]

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
   

Originally posted by walkonby:
  i make my own schedule, my pay is what i sell, my vacations are when i feel like it, and unless there is an appointment, my wake up call is a nice ten am.  i don't have benefits or insurance, but gladly do without for the business profile of freedom that i fell feet first into.

How much for a 'z of the purple haze? [/b]

i plead the half on that question, but i can sell you a nice, river front lot for under $200k.

[thegazelle]

My old job started everybody at 3 weeks CTO (combined time off) and by the time I left after close to 6 years I had full 6 weeks off. People maxed out at 8 weeks. CTO was used for whatever purpose you wanted (sick time, vacation, doctor's appt's, etc.). My manager didn't make us mark down a 2 hour doctor's appointment or anything like that. The real beauty was that from Memorial Day 'til Labor Day we had every other Friday off and half Fridays on the alternate week. Plus there was a company shut down from a few days before Christmas until the new year, so you could take a good 10+ day vacation and only use 2 or 3 of your days if you planned it right.
 
 Now I've only got the standard 2 weeks that accrues over the year and however many sick days I get.

[Frank Gallagher]

1 week per year, plus we're closed Christmas day, New Years Day and Thanksgiving Day. Open all the other ones, yes, even July 4th!!!    :eek:
 
 Smackie, as for the French and vietnam....I don't think the US had french guns to their heads when they headed over. Britain was asked to get invovled and I believe the response was, "fuck off, that's not our mess" or words to that effect. American could've said the same. I just wish Britain had the balls to tell Bush to fuck off, when he decided to invade Iraq.

[Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface]

With my current position (complete sales) I make my own days/schedule.
 
 With my previous positon (network support), 2 weeks vacation (1 can roll over to next year), 4 personal days, and a 1.5 sick days every month (all rollover for the life of the job). I got a raise annually without asking.

[vansmack]

Originally posted by Roadbike Mankie:
  "fuck off, that's not our mess"  

Well it's a good thing Roosevelt and Eisenhower didn't feel the same when Churchill came knocking!
 
 The English were a little busy rebuilding their infrastructure after the Blitz and were stretched pretty thin on the mainland holding order between the Soviet Bloc and the West.  And yes, yes, the US could have said no, but that left the French out on a limb on their own with half a country that didn't want to be communist.  What were we to do?  Anyhow, but my beef is more with the way the French have handled all of their colonies in Indochina and French Africa and the audacity with which we are expected to bail them out time and time again, the hammering the US takes from the heads of the French state (and it's people) when they've decided they've had enough and the corresponding lack of respect Americans get when they visit their country.  All that after saving their necks and losing hundreds of thousands of US lives in Europe after D-Day?  Bullshit - they should love us for 100 years, not 100 days.  
 
 The English are always willing to take the piss out of Americans, then share a pint in England.  The French would rather we just went home.  And to that I say good riddens.  Your military is on it's own from here on out.

[alex]

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:
  I'm sure that helps the good ole USA come in a respectable fifth in overall quality of life index:
 
  http://www.il-ireland.com/il/qofl07/
 
 

Your questionable unsourced-source aside, I'll take an excellent economy that provides me with better chances to forge my own path than a nanny welfare state that holds people back any day.

[Herr Professor Doktor Doom]

I just moved to a new job where I get 20 vay-cay days a year... score!
 
 http://doomlink.dreamhosters.com

[edbert]

Originally posted by vansmack:
 Well it's a good thing Roosevelt and Eisenhower didn't feel the same when Churchill came knocking!
 The English were a little busy rebuilding their infrastructure after the Blitz and were stretched pretty thin on the mainland holding order between the Soviet Bloc and the West.  And yes, yes, the US could have said no, but that left the French out on a limb on their own with half a country ...

Four days after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, Italy and Germany declared war on the US; that's when and why we entered the war. We weren't driving the Nazis out of France as a favor to either the French or to Churchill

[Samantha]

fuck the government, France is pretty