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Sason:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on March 02, 2017, 12:31:09 pm --- America's stupid fondness for rugged individualism vs. collective action and people supporting each other and helping those in need.
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Unfortunately there are many signs over the last 20 or so years, that we are headed in that direction too >:(
Our conservatives's favourite mantra is "free choice", even if that choice doesn't include everyone and has a lot of negative effects on society.
CellarDweller:
*waves*
Hiya everyone!
Today is Bring Your Action Figures to Work day, and everyone has been commenting on my collection of Super Friends.
:laugh:
some people have one or two figures out, one has 5, another about 8.
I have 19!!!
:o :laugh:
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on March 02, 2017, 01:58:08 pm ---I'm not quite sure what to say about that right now.
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Well, me neither, frankly. I can't say it's overtly a ripoff. But it just doesn't seem fair that some people should spend their time off in Hawaii and others in the hospital. Then again, if everybody got X amount of sick days and X amount of vacation days, the healthy might feel cheated. I guess life is unfair.
But you can bet all the changes in employment customs in recent years -- the skyrocketing practice of companies filling their staffs with long-term contract employees, the emphasis on part-time rather than full-time workers to avoid health insurance, etc. -- benefit employers. Even the switch from pensions to 401(k)s, initially popular even among employees because they were transportable from one job to the next, saves employers from having to maintain their pension fund through stock-market volatility. Instead, individuals get to suffer the consequences of a stock market crash, as well as the human hardwired difficulty in delaying gratification on behalf of the future.
--- Quote ---And if you have to take time off to care for a seriously ill parent or child, there is also time off under the Family and Medical Leave Act. Twice last year I took off a week/five work days under FMLA when my dad had serious health issues.
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The Family Leave Act does not require payment. But my paystub says I have 40 hours in something called "income protect." Maybe that's a similar thing. Since that would only amount to about a week and a half for me, it's not hugely valuable, but I guess every little bit helps.
Meanwhile, the paystub says I have almost 7 weeks of vacation this year (172.50 hours, with 25-hour weeks). How did that happen?? Either it's a mistake, or that last union contract was better than I thought.
serious crayons:
Meanwhile, Jeff, I'm disappointed that you did not explain the historical roots of "rugged individualism." I find it baffling, and I rely on you to be our BetterMost historian! :)
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: CellarDweller on March 03, 2017, 01:23:09 pm ---Today is Bring Your Action Figures to Work day, and everyone has been commenting on my collection of Super Friends.
:laugh:
some people have one or two figures out, one has 5, another about 8.
I have 19!!!
:o :laugh:
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If I worked there, I'd have spent last night at Target. :laugh:
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