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casimendocina · 03-26-2011, 11:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Cloud

gee. I've been at my law firm for 12 years, and I still get my original measly 10 days.

Only 10 days???????!!!!!!! I've been lucky enough to have 6 paid weeks the last few years. Most non-teachers in Australia get 4 paid weeks.

Cloud · 03-25-2011, 01:38 PM

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.

glatt · 03-25-2011, 01:41 PM

Is it a combined annual leave that you have, and your sick days come out of those 10 days too?

Cloud · 03-28-2011, 09:22 AM

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Originally Posted by glatt

Is it a combined annual leave that you have, and your sick days come out of those 10 days too?

no, sick days are calculated separately. I usually take my main vacay at Christmas time, combining it with paid holidays (usually 2) so stretch it that way.

glatt · 03-28-2011, 09:43 AM

For me, my annual leave must be used if I call in sick. I get no sick days. So it sounds like I have a lot of leave, and I do because I've been here so long, but I don't have sick days.

On the one hand, the system my firm has is better, because I can manage my time and if I'm not sick, I can take a lot of vacations. It's good for my employer because you don't have people calling in sick on a Monday simply because they just don't feel like coming in. It would take away from the big vacation plans they have. But on the other hand, it's bad because when people really are sick, they sometime come in instead of staying home and keeping their germs away because they want to use their leave for vacations.

Sundae · 03-26-2011, 06:18 AM

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.

glatt · 03-26-2011, 07:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Sundae Girl

Someone has knackered my tweezers.

"Knackered" sounds like it must be a bad thing, based on the context here. Does it mean "damaged?". At first I assumed it meant "taken" but that doesn't seem right considering the next couple sentences.

footfootfoot · 03-26-2011, 08:05 AM

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.

monster · 03-26-2011, 12:04 PM

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.

footfootfoot · 03-26-2011, 01:02 PM

What, no Urlaubsgeld?

Sundae · 03-26-2011, 05:44 PM

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Originally Posted by glatt

"Knackered" sounds like it must be a bad thing, based on the context here. Does it mean "damaged?". At first I assumed it meant "taken" but that doesn't seem right considering the next couple sentences.

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Originally Posted by footfootfoot

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.

It probably is from the term for butchering.
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.

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Originally Posted by footfootfoot

What, no Urlaubsgeld?

Is that like Danegeld? Didn't work for Ethelred.

xoxoxoBruce · 03-28-2011, 01:04 AM

Time off...

ZenGum · 03-28-2011, 02:20 AM

Hiya Brutus!

Re: that graph - In Australia, we have (by my wall planner) 10 public holidays per year. I get 20 days personal (holiday) leave and 20 days sick leave. AND we get "long service leave" - after 10 years out here in the colony, it is presumed you will need three months to visit family back in Old Blighty. Still.

casimendocina · 03-28-2011, 10:38 AM

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Originally Posted by ZenGum

20 days sick leave.

20 days sick leave. (Just repeating that because I'm still so incredulous). You done good!

In my current job, I get 15...no idea how I am even going to come close to using them all.

And re the trip back to old Blighty every 10 years, yep, it's six weeks on the boat there and 6 weeks back.

monster · 03-28-2011, 07:07 AM

I think they legally have to pay you for bank holidays in the UK too.

03-25-2011, 01:38 PM	#2
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03-26-2011, 08:05 AM	#8
footfootfoot 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	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. __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

03-26-2011, 12:04 PM	#9
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	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. __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

03-26-2011, 01:02 PM	#10
footfootfoot 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	What, no Urlaubsgeld? __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

03-28-2011, 01:04 AM	#12
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03-25-2011, 01:41 PM	#3
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	Is it a combined annual leave that you have, and your sick days come out of those 10 days too?

03-28-2011, 09:43 AM	#5
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	For me, my annual leave must be used if I call in sick. I get no sick days. So it sounds like I have a lot of leave, and I do because I've been here so long, but I don't have sick days. On the one hand, the system my firm has is better, because I can manage my time and if I'm not sick, I can take a lot of vacations. It's good for my employer because you don't have people calling in sick on a Monday simply because they just don't feel like coming in. It would take away from the big vacation plans they have. But on the other hand, it's bad because when people really are sick, they sometime come in instead of staying home and keeping their germs away because they want to use their leave for vacations.

03-26-2011, 06:18 AM	#6
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	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.

03-28-2011, 02:20 AM	#13
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	Hiya Brutus! Re: that graph - In Australia, we have (by my wall planner) 10 public holidays per year. I get 20 days personal (holiday) leave and 20 days sick leave. AND we get "long service leave" - after 10 years out here in the colony, it is presumed you will need three months to visit family back in Old Blighty. Still. __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

03-28-2011, 07:07 AM	#15
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	I think they legally have to pay you for bank holidays in the UK too. __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

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