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So many characters I want to play so little time.
Internet came back, so I get to hold onto my personal time!Great news. What was it, a local service outage?
More or less, yep!
I had a tough week so I need all the hugs. :(
I had a tough week so I need all the hugs. :(
You can have one migraine-suffering hug?
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..mornin'.
Sleeping with migraine is no-go, so laying in bed for eight hours is not very restful.
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*gives all the hugs to Selene*
and, since hugs are an infinite resource, shares more hugs with everyone else.
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I am so way behind in reading this thread, but I'd like to belatedly thank everyone for the well wishes, and also hope for the best for all those who are going through similar circumstances.
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And the BBC just announced (Twitter video clip) the actor who will be portraying the next regeneration of The Doctor...
Good to see you back, Amb, and wow, goodness, a *REDACTED* Doctor.
FREAKIN' B***** TIME!
Sends good feelings and distribute hugs all around in honour of Sunday and in prevision of the coming week
And the BBC just announced (Twitter video clip) the actor who will be portraying the next regeneration of The Doctor...
I could not see seem to find the news....so what is it?
From the io9 site
xxxxx First Comments as Doctor Who's New Doctor
spoilered; don't hover on link if you don't want to know
*offering a great place fro smiles, hugs, conversation, companionship, gaming and merrymaking*
*hot and cold beverages*
Morning and good feelings over coffee provided by campfirer Elemental, John.
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Sale here, except for me the morning is already nearly done with, and I feel I might crash any moment.
I've just been abroad (spent a fortnight in Majorca, twas delightful) and I met some French people who do and have lived in America for 20 or so years and just go married.
they were in Majorca for 4 days (long weekend) before getting back to life. Apparently their friends in America insisted it was the honeymoon and basically never take vacations. The guy said vacation was a dirty word and then when his wife walked over and heard him say vacation she said laughed and said it was an unspoken word in America.
Apparently its just work work work, till people burn out and are miserable and no-one ever holidays?
Is this true? I've realized now it seems to be a running joke in American tv shows that no-one ever takes a vacation.
I'm suddenly very curious and saw you guys talking about vacation or lack their of a couple pages back, figured you'd be the people to ask?
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No more TERFs! I'll drink to that :D
Durgon, it depends on where you work, but it's definitely A Thing™. There's definitely a work culture here; nobody wants to take all of their vacation days because we all have to prove our commitment to the company or capitalism might suddenly decide to kill us. I'm lucky to work at a place that is very strong on "taking care of their own," so I've grown out of worrying overmuch about actually using the majority of my vacation days... although it took me a couple of years to stop worrying every time I got a sniffle.
Obviously, for the rich? Completely different story.
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Apparently its just work work work, till people burn out and are miserable and no-one ever holidays?Is this true? I've realized now it seems to be a running joke in American tv shows that no-one ever takes a vacation.
I'm suddenly very curious and saw you guys talking about vacation or lack their of a couple pages back, figured you'd be the people to ask?
Much like Rysky said above, most workplaces are run on such a razor-thin level of personnel (to 'save costs', of course) that any sort of illness of coworker/training of coworker/death in family of coworker/accident on the job/transfers from location/transfers to location/etc can upset the already not-working hours dynamic.
I've been joking lately that our team at my workplace is at 'broken skeleton crew' status for about a month, and we may be about to transcend that, with a co-worker who has an illness they're going to the doctor for (as a 2xdifferent cancer survivor they CAN'T take any risks) and a manager who is on vacation.
In addition, we *used* to be allowed to 'work through' our vacations -- until Corporate realized "Oh, crap, they're earning a WEEK of OVERTIME!". HERESY!!
So now it becomes a race to get vacation time that's actually viable, and seniority IS a thing, and if one needs a physical/mental health day it is highly and strongly discouraged because of lack of coverage.
When we actually *do* get to vacation, because we only get a week or so (typically) the first two or three days are burnt up on logistics of getting to/from/etc (except for the dreaded 'staycation' of staying home and doing nothing) as are the two or three days on the backside of it, so there really isn't a lot of 'down time'.
But a proper 'holiday' like most civilized nation-states have?
...also, if one has to go on the unpaid leave for something like a medical emergency or such (The Family Medical and Leave Act, or FMLA) then one's entirety of personal 'paid time off' has to be exhausted *first* before the unpaid time off can begin.
So yes, folks may have to take *vacation* for a life-saving surgery, or because they broke their leg and it's not healing right...
Apparently its just work work work, till people burn out and are miserable and no-one ever holidays?Is this true? I've realized now it seems to be a running joke in American tv shows that no-one ever takes a vacation.
I'm suddenly very curious and saw you guys talking about vacation or lack their of a couple pages back, figured you'd be the people to ask?
Much like Rysky said above, most workplaces are run on such a razor-thin level of personnel (to 'save costs', of course) that any sort of illness of coworker/training of coworker/death in family of coworker/accident on the job/transfers from location/transfers to location/etc can upset the already not-working hours dynamic.
I've been joking lately that our team at my workplace is at 'broken skeleton crew' status for about a month, and we may be about to transcend that, with a co-worker who has an illness they're going to the doctor for (as a 2xdifferent cancer survivor they CAN'T take any risks) and a manager who is on vacation.
In addition, we *used* to be allowed to 'work through' our vacations -- until Corporate realized "Oh, crap, they're earning a WEEK of OVERTIME!". HERESY!!
So now it becomes a race to get vacation time that's actually viable, and seniority IS a thing, and if one needs a physical/mental health day it is highly and strongly discouraged because of lack of coverage.
When we actually *do* get to vacation, because we only get a week or so (typically) the first two or three days are burnt up on logistics of getting to/from/etc (except for the dreaded 'staycation' of staying home and doing nothing) as are the two or three days on the backside of it, so there really isn't a lot of 'down time'.
But a proper 'holiday' like most civilized nation-states have?
...also, if one has to go on the unpaid leave for something like a medical emergency or such (The Family Medical and Leave...
yup...
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Yep. The modern American career is basically terrible. A few of us (self included) are lucky and work at good companies, but that's far from standard. And honestly, the "good company" I work at might not even be up to European standards, but for the States? Amazing.
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Seeing as how this has drifted from LGBT related to about US work practices regarding vacation and medical leave I suggest we let the conversation drop or be moved to another forum, as politics are still not being hosted on the Paizo forums.
(don't know how the Roobit spotting algorithm works or if this counts but if felt like politics so i figured I'd post this as heads'up)
In fairness, most AI in video games completely fails to check the water for intruders, so I'm considering this a victory for programming.