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I want my vacation!
Avenging Washcloth, An unhurried sense of time is, in itself, a form of wealth. Started conversation May 31, 2004
My point exactly. 
http://www.iwantmyvacation.com/
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted May 31, 2004
All work and no play makes the Washcloth a dull...er...washcloth.
Okay, it needs fine-tuning. If you need me, I'll be in the workshop trying to come up with something better. 
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Avenging Washcloth, An unhurried sense of time is, in itself, a form of wealth. Posted May 31, 2004
Paul
*runs self through pencil sharpener*
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted May 31, 2004
Going through a pencil sharpener is quite a sacrifice! What have you given up for Lint? 
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Avenging Washcloth, An unhurried sense of time is, in itself, a form of wealth. Posted May 31, 2004
I've given up my vacation.
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted May 31, 2004
How awful! 
Tragic!
Sad!
Predictable, given what you've told us about your boss.
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Avenging Washcloth, An unhurried sense of time is, in itself, a form of wealth. Posted May 31, 2004
No, it's just that the only way I can survive the year is to tack an extra day of vacation on a three-day weekend, thus making it a four-day weekend.
I need to save days for around the holidays too since I only get Christmas Day and New Years Day as paid holidays. 
I haven't had a full week off in several years. 
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Lady Scott Posted May 31, 2004
I've looked at that site... says Americans get an average of 13 days of vacation per year?
And many employers tend to begrudge even giving *that* much!
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Evangeline Posted May 31, 2004
I've worked for those begrudging bosses. 
Still, I only get one week of paid vacation time a year.
I want my vacation!
Avenging Washcloth, An unhurried sense of time is, in itself, a form of wealth. Posted May 31, 2004
That's a worse situation than I have, Evangeline! 
We need to revolt.
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted May 31, 2004
The tide will turn some day. It has to. Employers will find that accommodations have to be made after the Baby Boomers start retiring en masse, and potential workers get the upper hand in their demands for perks.
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Evangeline Posted May 31, 2004
Altogether, I get New Year's, July 4th, Thanksgiving and Christmas as paid holidays then one paid week of vacation and a Christmas bonus that does not exceed a full day's pay. With a little creative timing I've stretched that into taking two weeks off at the end of the year.
That might explain the rants in my journal... 
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Avenging Washcloth, An unhurried sense of time is, in itself, a form of wealth. Posted May 31, 2004
My Christmas bonus is $25.00 ... the generosity of these people is astonishing.
That's the maximum tax-deductable amount, or so we are told.
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted May 31, 2004
Well, at least they give you cash instead of a plum pudding. Buckingham Palace gives the plum puddings. Martha Stewart does, too. 
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Avenging Washcloth, An unhurried sense of time is, in itself, a form of wealth. Posted May 31, 2004
That's disgusting. I've never sacrificed a plum pudding in my life.
What would you do with one other than fashioning it into a doorstop?
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Michele - Doily Mogul: Don't leave me! If you go there'll be no braincells in the room at all! Posted May 31, 2004
It's disgusting I tell you! 
And just when I had been at my last job long enough to get 3 weeks of paid vacation - he up and sold the company just because his soon-to-be-ex-wife had him by the family jewels!
7 years to get up to 3 weeks - and GONE! In the time it took for him to have one affair with a bimbo blond... (and trust me, that doesn't take very long! ) GONE! ALL GONE!!!
And now that I'm working for myself and making a whopping... um... *quickly adds figures in her head* a measeley $1.42 per year... I can't afford to give myself any vacation!
Except for tomorrow... I'm taking tomorrow off as a symbol of all that is wrong in corporate America because, well, because I can...
So there!
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted May 31, 2004
There!
Up in the sky!
It's a bird!
It's a plane!
It's...one of Michele's rants!
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Avenging Washcloth, An unhurried sense of time is, in itself, a form of wealth. Posted May 31, 2004
Michele! 
Why don't you write a book called "How to Live Well on $1.42 a Year" ... It would sell into the billions of copies and quite possibly lead to the economic demise of the free world. 
I'm placing my order for a copy now. 
$$$
s Michele -- Rant on.
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted May 31, 2004
If there's money to be made by writing such a book, I'l volunteer to write it for Michele.
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Lady Scott Posted May 31, 2004
Maybe you should collaborate, I'm sure it'll make enough money to support several of you...
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- 1: Avenging Washcloth, An unhurried sense of time is, in itself, a form of wealth. (May 31, 2004)
- 2: paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant (May 31, 2004)
- 3: Avenging Washcloth, An unhurried sense of time is, in itself, a form of wealth. (May 31, 2004)
- 4: paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant (May 31, 2004)
- 5: Avenging Washcloth, An unhurried sense of time is, in itself, a form of wealth. (May 31, 2004)
- 6: paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant (May 31, 2004)
- 7: Avenging Washcloth, An unhurried sense of time is, in itself, a form of wealth. (May 31, 2004)
- 8: Lady Scott (May 31, 2004)
- 9: Evangeline (May 31, 2004)
- 10: Avenging Washcloth, An unhurried sense of time is, in itself, a form of wealth. (May 31, 2004)
- 11: paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant (May 31, 2004)
- 12: Evangeline (May 31, 2004)
- 13: Avenging Washcloth, An unhurried sense of time is, in itself, a form of wealth. (May 31, 2004)
- 14: paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant (May 31, 2004)
- 15: Avenging Washcloth, An unhurried sense of time is, in itself, a form of wealth. (May 31, 2004)
- 16: Michele - Doily Mogul: Don't leave me! If you go there'll be no braincells in the room at all! (May 31, 2004)
- 17: paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant (May 31, 2004)
- 18: Avenging Washcloth, An unhurried sense of time is, in itself, a form of wealth. (May 31, 2004)
- 19: paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant (May 31, 2004)
- 20: Lady Scott (May 31, 2004)
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