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Side-burbs wrote:

vansmack wrote:
As executive management, if I work even one hour a day, I do not take PTO. 

so how many 1 hour work days do you do a year?

Less then you would imagine because I'm also an "at-will" employee.  But I do have one on Thursday, which was supposed to be a full day off but I've been asked to cover a meeting before we leave, so it's a bit of a double edged sword.

Julian, wrote:

sweetcell wrote:

Side-burbs wrote:
I'm salaried and fill out time sheets everyday…so we can bill the clients

same.  well, not daily - i have to log my hours once a week in one system, and separately twice a month in another system, and i have to use yet a third to track PTO. 

don't nobody know my troubles but god… and two different HR dept.

What is this inefficient trickery.

Fair enough on the "we have to bill clients" for those in the MSP/legal/etc world, but what is this three-systems nonsense?

agreed that it's inefficient, but such is my current life as a consultant:

[li]system#1 ("log my hours once a week") is the client's internal budgeting system.  they have a budget against which my hours are drawn down.  this tells my sponsor when it's time to go get more funding to keep me around.[/li]
[li]system#2 ("separately twice a month in another system") is my consulting firm's billing system.  they invoice the client twice a month.  not all our clients use this billing system.  the invoices from system#2 are fed into system#1.[/li]
[li]system #3 ("yet a third to track PTO") is my consulting company's HR system that tracks how much time off i have.  with some clients i wouldn't use system#2 at all, all my time-tracking would be done in system#3 - depends on their requirements.[/li]

now you may say "this could all be done in one system" or "why don't you integrate".  answer to #1 is "we are separate companies, hence separate systems", and answer to #2 is "it's not worth the investment."  and overall, my company needs the flexibility to serve all sorts of clients - this modular approach allow us to tailor timekeeping and billing to anyone.  or so i'm told.  i dunno, i just work here.  sometimes. 

sweetcell wrote: this tells my sponsor when

must be hard being a homebrewer and staying sober

i was hoping someone would pick up on that.  well done sidey ;D

Survived our second earthquake last night. Oh wait, I meant experienced.

Anyone else feel it?

Nope. Where! When?


And what day of the week?

guess i need to hand in my card as a mediocre white guy… and trust me i'm as mediocre and white as them come… 

but i just can't bring myself to criticize talented female athletes…  clearly i missed that day of training

anyways last time i checked scoring two goals in a game isn't "playing terribly", but the lard assed leader of mediocre white guys seems to think so.

guess i'll be content with barely existent white guy..

<a href="https://word.tips/singers-vocabularies">Billie Eilish and Patti Smith have the largest vocabularies of rock/pop singers</a>

excontradiction wrote:
&lt;a href=&quot;https://word.tips/singers-vocabularies&quot;&gt;Billie Eilish and Patti Smith have the largest vocabularies of rock/pop singers&lt;/a&gt;

The song with the most unique words is Lou Reed’s The Murder Mystery, recorded by The Velvet Underground, with 639 words

this was impressive and predictable: Bob Dylan used 12,285 unique words

what's odd is they mention  Nick Cave in the third paragraph, but he doesn't appear in the list?

We are at 186 cucumbers, 23 zucchini, 3 eggplant, many hundreds of cherry tomatoes, many dozens of slicing tomatoes, and a handful of snowpeas. total of 125 pounds of produce so far this farming season. Anyone else growing veggies?

the bunnies ate all my lettuce, I think the squirrels and chipmunks ate my corn and cherry tomatoes
I need to have an armed guard at my meager garden in arlington
I also let the green beans die on the vine

Kale did ok and have a bunch of onions to harvest

I've had very little gardening success over the years

Anyone here live in Baltimore? If so, which neighborhood?

Considering a move. Did think about DC but the shows are always better up there.

StoneTheCrow wrote:
Anyone here live in Baltimore? If so, which neighborhood?

Considering a move. Did think about DC but the shows are always better up there.

We are in Baltimore County, but have friends/family in Mount Vernon, Canton, Patterson Park, Roland Park. What areas are you considering?

Canton, Fells, Locust Point. Thats' it.

StoneTheCrow wrote:
Canton, Fells, Locust Point. Thats&#039; it.

I like Canton. Good bars and restaurants, and convenient shopping. You can come and go from Fells and Harbor East easily. Close to the highway for trips north and south. When WTMD does shows again at the waterfront park, that's a fun time.

challenged wrote:
We are at 186 cucumbers, 23 zucchini, 3 eggplant, many hundreds of cherry tomatoes, many dozens of slicing tomatoes, and a handful of snowpeas. total of 125 pounds of produce so far this farming season. Anyone else growing veggies?

186 cukes?!?  jeebus.  better start pickling.

we're limited what we can grow here due to the wildlife.  anything left accessible to animals will be decimated overnight.  despite this, we're managing: asparagus, several kinds of tomatoes, salad greens, snow peas, green beans, garlic, carrots, rhubarb, kale, and potatoes.  we don't bother counting/weighing our agricultural output…  we have a raspberry patch but have given up on defending it so we don't get anything.  we are surrounded by more wild blackberries than we know what to do with.  i have two sour cherry trees that are limping along for a third year now, they're clearly not happy here and i'm afraid they may never produce.

So I watched this show on NatGeo that featured an appearance of The Suffers, which turned out to be a soft sell for Texas Tourism.  I'm was thinking Texas sure  does have some interesting places to visit, but it with Florida are currently on the top of my list of places I have no desire ever to set foot in.  And it's not just the absolute bungling of the COVID response either… I feel no need to spend dollars in any state where the QOP is loosening gun laws, stomping on voter rights, lather rinse repeat..

kosmo wrote:
So I watched this show on NatGeo that featured an appearance of The Suffers, which turned out to be a soft sell for Texas Tourism.&nbsp; I&#039;m was thinking Texas sure&nbsp; does have some interesting places to visit, but it with Florida are currently on the top of my list of places I have no desire ever to set foot in.&nbsp; And it&#039;s not just the absolute bungling of the COVID response either… I feel no need to spend dollars in any state where the QOP is loosening gun laws, stomping on voter rights, lather rinse repeat..

I'm with you on Texas and Florida. I would visit Montana, Utah, or Wyoming.

Love Florida and Texas.  It's a shame that the people who live there that largely suck.