🎂The cupcake thread of celebrations.
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These and the tree ones are very nice. You should give yourself a cupcake for finding them.
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I got myself a connector for my headphones
Music, airmail, something... sounds like birds.
http://www.thecupcakeblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Mini-Bird-House-Cupcakes.jpg
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I'm celebrating starting my Xmas shopping (an out of print book for my wife that I found online).
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Dawww! (And it all works too.)
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i'm celebrating this thread getting more than 28 posts!
Congratulations @Yamikuronue! you've been quite the busy bee!
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The bees look so incredibly cuuuuute!
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and delicious!
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I said to my Chromebook "okay Google how hot it is outside" and it did this. Now I just have to figure out where my hat is at.
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wait... it does TTS when you ask it that sort of question‽ even on the desktop site?
IS THAT AWESOME OR WHAT! I'm gonna celebrate GoogleNow!
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how hot it is outside
Cupcakes themed to my local result for that link:
Incidentally, I never have to ask Google that, because my phone has the weather up at all times just a swipe away from my main home screen #GoogleHipster
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DiscoStability? If it stays like this, I might get some actual work done today.
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i'm celebrating the forums being back!
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I will likely be spending the day in my garage finally finishing (I hope) my kids' Christmas presents from last Christmas.
Since the forum seems to be alive again — so much for getting any work done — I will say that I am celebrating the successful completion of the above-stated goal, less than 9 months late.
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Christmas presents
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i'm celebrating necroing this topic back from the dead. we need moar cupcakes!
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I'm celebrating having every Friday off until next year as I had lots of annual leave to use up.
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Annual leave (as opposed to accrual-based PTO) is TRWTF.
I'm celebrating getting a pay raise on weekend eve!
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It's doughnut Friday. Maple bars with bacon! No cupcakes required ('though I wouldn't turn them down if you offered). :)
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I'm celebrating getting a pay raise
ERR: No more money cupcakes found.
Audible called!
You are now celebrating tasty figs and delicious fall apples:
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I'm celebrating the decision to extend "extending 'Jeans Friday' to 'Jeans Summer'" to "Jeans Dress Code".
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Now I actually want those cupcakes!
Annual leave (as opposed to accrual-based PTO) is TRWTF.
How so? While I'm pretty rubbish at actually using annual leave in the 1st 9 months of the year, having them all available at the start is pretty handy.
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While I'm pretty rubbish at actually using annual leave in the 1st 9 months of the year, having them all available at the start is pretty handy.
Does it carry over to the next year if you don't use it all?
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My company is going to start a program next year where you can buy more leave or cash in unused leave for $$$.
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Your company is pay2win?
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We used to be able to sell leave back, but it stopped this year. I used to sell 2-3 weeks back. So even though I got a raise last year, I still took an effective pay cut.
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I'm celebrating having every Friday off until next year as I had lots of annual leave to use up.
I'm very tempted to do that.
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Sort of - we can carry up to 5 over, and sell up to another 5 (which then gets split as pay across 12 months).
Any more than that and officially you lose it, although some managers will allow you to carry some extra days over.At the company I worked for previously, anything left over at the end of the year was just paid to you on January's pay day.
EDIT - as other people have mentioned it, we can buy up to 5 days too, if we wanted.
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Annual leave results in people "saving" their days (just in case, mind you) and then having a big barrage of days off in 4Q, usually resulting in half the office trying to work the no Fridays thing or the like.
Annual leave results in people who squirreled away their days all year and then took a bunch of November/December days off. These people then complain when management decides to go ahead and upgrade Christmas & New Year's Eve to half-days off (thereby screwing those of us that aren't PTO hoarders by ensuring management will never ever make those half-holidays again).
In most US states, annual leave means that if you leave the company, you get nothing for all those squirreled days that are still on your time card, even though you used 1 day out of the pro rated 1.67 weeks you "earned" through the first 8 months of the year. By comparison, PTO accrual typically will (or even MUST) be paid out on separation -- even hostile separation in many states & companies.
Annual leave means people get burned out by never ever ever taking a 3 or 4 day weekend earlier in the year, because they might need those days off later, and then they're gone for the entire month of December.
Since our consulting and installation services are pretty heavily slanted toward an increased 4Q workload, I'm expecting things to be a lot less hectic this December, now that we're on accrual PTO and there won't be the rash of "no Fridays" or "only work 3 days between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day" staff members this year.
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Annual leave results in people "saving" their days (just in case, mind you) and then having a big barrage of days off in 4Q
Which is exactly what I've done, I guess. If I could carry more than 5 days over then I wouldn't mind, but I can't, so the problem really is the "use it or lose it" policy which causes the Q4 rush to use it.
Most people here have other halves and children so they use it fairly evenly over the year.
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Maybe I'll take all Wednesdays off for the rest of the year. It'd be nice to break up the week.
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That was my alternative idea, but I'm usually away with work either Tues-Weds or Weds-Thu (or both) and that isn't really compatible with not working Wednesdays.
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I suppose, at the end of the day, the "annual lump" method can work, especially for businesses who naturally taper off in 4Q (agriculture, construction in areas that have winter that time of year, etc).
I just really hate the "use or lose" that typically goes along with it, and the "you ain't getting crap" results at separation of employment, and the "oh, you're out of days, better get off that operation table and get to work!" that results for people who do try to use a sane amount of days early in the year and then wind up with a large unforeseen medical situation later in the year. (Or, worse than the unforeseen surgery is someone who gets genuinely sick with a communicable disease and then brings it in to make everyone's holidays miserable because they don't have time off left).
Just let me (a theoretically responsible adult, since employing children is generally frowned upon) manage my sick time and keep a bank of days in reserve as I need, without penalizing me for over-saving days by poofing them all in December.
< /rant>
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We used to be able to sell leave back, but it stopped this year.
Yeah, this. Plus it no longer rolls over; it's now use it or lose it. And we're still stuck with having to use a big chunk of it (or taking time off without pay) for our end-of-year holiday shut-down.
This is in the wrong topic; it belongs in the demoralizing employees thread.
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the "oh, you're out of days, better get off that operation table and get to work!" that results for people who do try to use a sane amount of days early in the year and then wind up with a large unforeseen medical situation later in the year
Here medical leave != annual leave. Even if all of your annual leave is still available, being sick or needing an operation etc is handled differently. Then if it's over x (I forget how long) amount of time then the sickness insurance kicks in for y amount of extra time.
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Here, before the merger, we had five sick days and a certain amount of vacation time. But if you went over five sick days in the year, you had to use vacation or not get paid. (Don't get me wrong, if I do no work, I shouldn't get paid!) So that led to people saving vacation time (and/or getting mysteriously high amounts of flu around November when they still had five sick days left).
After the merger, the new company had unified (but annual) PTO, so those of us that don't get sick actually get the same amount of time off as the chronically ill or those who don't mind calling in with brown bottle flu. So you had even more squirreling and big rushes for November/December time off.
That said, when they transitioned to accrual PTO this year, the initial plan was to let people go negative this year and pay it back if they were in the hole when they separated (which got met with a bunch of bitching). So then management gave us all a COMPLETELY FREE extra 50% of our PTO accrual (in lieu of having a negative accrued PTO balance) in January, plus the normal accruals all year long... and people still bitched.
On further consideration, maybe people are TRWTF.
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Here medical leave != annual leave.
I hate that. I rarely used sick leave due to illness when I had that sort of leave package. It just leaves to people calling into their supervisors and faking a cough and going to Disneyland.
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On further consideration, maybe people are TRWTF.
This.
I hate that. I rarely used sick leave due to illness when I had that sort of leave package. It just leaves to people calling into their supervisors and faking a cough and going to Disneyland.
As someone who's not had a single day off sick in the 5 years I've been here (and only half a day in the last 10 years) I agree. That said, if I was actually ill long-term (or, like a colleague of mine, claimed to be despite Facebook showing otherwise) then I'd probably quite like this way of doing it.
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I'm celebrating because the Go team fixed this:
and then this happened:
This CL appears to have broken the windows-386 builder.
See http://build.golang.org/log/b6bdad9e6d07a1f67c6068264dd51980eac356e5
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My company actually breaks time off into "floater", "sick", and "vacation." I seem to be the only one in my office that realizes they're not really validated, and my boss once made a comment about using up sick time first because it doesn't rollover. So I usually use up all my sick time, then my floater time, then my vacation time up to the amount of vacation I can roll over. In practice I usually don't use up all my time, so this year I've been trying to get to it earlir in the year.
Plus we effectively can't take time off after approximately Thanksgiving, because it's our busy season.
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However. One of our customers had a bunch of people that were abusing FMLA. "I need an hour off for a headache" I was told.
The joke was on those idiots, though. When the recession hit, the company laid off a lot of their workers. When their business picked back up, they rehired most of them back, but none of the FMLA abusers were rehired.
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Since our consulting and installation services are pretty heavily slanted toward an increased 4Q workload, I'm expecting things to be a lot less hectic this December, now that we're on accrual PTO and there won't be the rash of "no Fridays" or "only work 3 days between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day" staff members this year.
Solution - have the 'use it or lose it' day in Q2 instead of on Dec 31.
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Woah, woah, woah. This is a business decision. No logic allowed.
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I'm celebrating because the Go team fixed this
Shoofly pie cupacke, because that typo don't bother me:
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Solution - have the 'use it or lose it' day in Q2 instead of on Dec 31.
Ours is the end of August; our business year starts at the beginning of September ('cos that's best aligned with when we get undergraduates).
Filed under: didn't take enough time off this past year because of a horrendous — but successful — death-march…