I thought the same thing...Jewish people are going door to door now?
I'm honestly surprised to hear that Jehovah's Witnesses are still doing that, I haven't had a visitor in at least a decade, probably closer to 2.
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I thought the same thing...Jewish people are going door to door now?
I'm honestly surprised to hear that Jehovah's Witnesses are still doing that, I haven't had a visitor in at least a decade, probably closer to 2.
Aww, c'mon carvers, it's the off season, and hoibergwatch has settled down, we gotta have some entertainment!
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EH, he loves my brother-in-law who would have the "e," when they have come to visit, he stays home with him while the rest of us go to church.
Not sure I can spell Jehovah Witnesses correctly? But we are inundated with them, Latter Day Saints, children's books pushers, and guys selling meat out of a truck. Oddly enough, the ice cream truck going by doesn't rile him up in the least.
There is a definite advantage to living out in the country. Most groups are content to let us wallow in our uneducated, poorly fed, heathen ways.
I have a feeling our location on the edge of a small town with lots of old people draws the door-to-doors. Better chance of finding someone at home in the middle of a weekday.
I have a buddy who sold books door to door down south during his college summers. He says that he could always tell which houses to start with the educational books and which to start with the Bible. In a nutshell, if they answered the door with their arms raised and their hands resting on the gunrack above the front door he knew that he needed to start with the bible and maybe find an opening for some education books later.
Same.
On a related but totally irrelevant note: My buddy who was raised Catholic and converted to Judaism when he got married was nervous about getting struck down by lightning if he set foot in the church when I invited him to my daughter's baptism.
That is stupid if that's the reason, but honestly, I could see my department doing something like that if PTO rolled over for us. Not out of spite but for "budgetary" reasons.
There was a culture of expecting everyone to spend their entire career in the same organization that they had a real hard time adapting to the later 20th and 21st century. They started to find that having a huge proportion of people who had never worked anywhere else lead to a real dearth of innovation.
Man, who ISN'T a sucker for.... wait, nevermind.... I guess I read that wrong! :unsure:
confused:Pants, it may be your Friday, but we just finished naps at my house. Me on the couch, der hund on the loveseat. Good times. He's getting a little longer one than I, it appears.
My wife, still feels a little weird to say that, is a teacher on summer break. She's been sleeping in until 9 or 10 in the morning. Oddly enough she's not tired at 10pm any more and wants to stay up late with me. I'm crashing hard.
Man, who ISN'T a sucker for.... wait, nevermind.... I guess I read that wrong! :unsure:
I immediately thought of the Dicken's Cider skit (thinking maybe it was a Bob and Tom thing?)
Similar. I was getting 26 days a year (only 13 for "rookies", than 18.5 after three years). You can carryover until you hit a max of 240 hours banked than everything is use-or-lose. I got paid for those when I "quit".
We can also carry over and bank sick leave which was 13 days/year. People that **** away the sick leave under that plan are kind of dumb because it's essentially their disability pay if they get sick enough to miss week's worth of work.
Another nice (great) option is the ability to donate leave. If someone is really sick (cancer/major surgery etc) and burns through all of their vacation and sick leave we can donate some of our own vacation time to them so they can continue to get paid.
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We used to be able to carry over 180 hours and the max accrual was 180.
Two years ago they cut the max accrual and carry over to 100
Eventually they will only let us carry over 40 hours.
I've lost hours the past two years because I couldn't carry them all over and we were too busy in December for me to take time off.
Sucks.
Two years ago they cut the max accrual and carry over to 100
Eventually they will only let us carry over 40 hours.
I've lost hours the past two years because I couldn't carry them all over and we were too busy in December for me to take time off.
Sucks.
My 4 month old puppy has zero interest in peanut butter. It is the weirdest thing. He'll chew the heck out of tree bark and walnuts though.
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