Taking your vacation time is like stealing from the company. If your desk is empty for a week and we can get by then it can be empty forever.

The words of the sociopath I used to work for.

Your penis?

cellphone?

brane maik me smart

"you mean a fork?"

Di Atribe: Your penis?

Beat me to it.

/shakes tiny penis

W.C.fields forever: Di Atribe: Your penis?

Beat me to it.

/shakes tiny penis

Same here.

/shakes enormous penis.

Nah, this can't be true. Wouldn't this mean Europeans are smarter than Americans?

...oh wait. Hmm.

Vaticans are good for me?

Thus begins another fark thread where various and sundry psychology experts will engage in free spirited debate with free market capitalists imbued with the spirit of Henry Ford. Back and forth and to and fro, endlessly examining the merits of more vacation time while pondering the betrayal of the Protestant ethic represented by vacations.

Meanwhile, down in their mom's basements, hundreds of thousands of farkers will follow all of this disinterestedly, the light of their mom's computer monitor basking their faces in a garish blue light while they're thinking: "What's a vacation? What's a job? I hope mom bought some more Dew and Cheetos."

Mr. Coffee Nerves: Taking your vacation time is like stealing from the company. If your desk is empty for a week and we can get by then it can be empty forever.

The words of the sociopath I used to work for.

You had one of those too, eh?

I was in college when I asked for one day - a Friday - to go to a conference on my major. He said nearly the same thing. I quit mid-shift, stood up on a chair over a large store and yelled "THIS STORE DOES NOT LET EMPLOYEES PLAN TIME OFF, PLEASE TAKE YOUR DOLLARS TO (insert other store I'm not giving free advertising to) HERE BECAUSE THEY TREAT WORKERS LIKE SHAT."

Customers liked me. They promptly left. A dozen people said they'd stop shopping if I left. They gave me the time off, paid, if I would stay. I did for another month, and when I went back after the fall for Winter Break, he was no longer employed.

Well I don't like you and you don't like me so lets just get through this thing and I'll go back to killing you with alcohol.

Looking forward to 20 days in Vietnam is what keeps me tied to this desk.

Have to wait for monsoon season to be over.

Joe Peanut
W.C.fields forever: Di Atribe: Your penis?

Beat me to it.

/shakes tiny penis

Same here.

/shakes enormous penis.


Just remember:
Last one to cum has to eat the toast.

saintstryfe: Mr. Coffee Nerves: Taking your vacation time is like stealing from the company. If your desk is empty for a week and we can get by then it can be empty forever.

The words of the sociopath I used to work for.

You had one of those too, eh?

I was in college when I asked for one day - a Friday - to go to a conference on my major. He said nearly the same thing. I quit mid-shift, stood up on a chair over a large store and yelled "THIS STORE DOES NOT LET EMPLOYEES PLAN TIME OFF, PLEASE TAKE YOUR DOLLARS TO (insert other store I'm not giving free advertising to) HERE BECAUSE THEY TREAT WORKERS LIKE SHAT."

Customers liked me. They promptly left. A dozen people said they'd stop shopping if I left. They gave me the time off, paid, if I would stay. I did for another month, and when I went back after the fall for Winter Break, he was no longer employed.

Sounds like you just confused a bunch of shoppers because they had no idea what you were yelling about.

Joe Peanut: Same here.

/shakes enormous penis.

dude... Joe... I know you are trying to make a point, but hands off my penis.

Mr. Coffee Nerves: Taking your vacation time is like stealing from the company. If your desk is empty for a week and we can get by then it can be empty forever.

The words of the sociopath I used to work for.

Don't tell them what it's like in Europe.

/just took a new job with no paid vacation
//tears

Arbeit macht frei

As someone who's on vacation right now and going to a butterfly house and aquarium with a toddler tomorrow, I agree. (I'm also bring said kid's mom so I don't have to deal with any diapers or tantrums.) I took time off work because, fark them, that's why.

... that thing I think with?

You mean, my wife?

Ever since having a kid the best vacation is going to work.

Wish I had longer hours

I'm about to embark on 2 weeks vaca. Hope my brain will work a lot gooder when I get back.

Yeah, we're overworked and underpaid. But what can you do? Regulation and taxes are strangling the job creators and unions are just commie socialist fronts.

Y'all are pampered. It's like you forget that most Americans are off work some 14-16 hours a day + weekends. Plenty of time for the brain to recharge.

/+ I imagine there's a strong correlation between the rise of reality TV and intelligence

Ladies and gentlemen, start your penis jokes.

"I'm having That thing with pictures ..."

Di Atribe: Your penis?


Over in two.

Joe Peanut: W.C.fields forever: Di Atribe: Your penis?

Beat me to it.

/shakes tiny penis

Same here.

/shakes enormous penis.

Ohh, fapping thread!

**ziiiiip**

brap: Ladies and gentlemen, start your penis jokes.

We're waaaaay ahead of you.

I'll just leave this here:

Link

Old commercial. It is so, sadly true.

Joe Peanut: W.C.fields forever: Di Atribe: Your penis?

Beat me to it.

/shakes tiny penis

Same here.

/shakes enormous penis.

I came here to say this too, but was too busy shaking my penis.

Mr. Coffee Nerves: Taking your vacation time is like stealing from the company. If your desk is empty for a week and we can get by then it can be empty forever.

The words of the sociopath I used to work for.

Sounds familiar. Just today I was threatened to be fired by my boss if I got out of my chair again because I was talking to someone about something that we were working on for our company President and needed it asap, and he didn't know if it was work related.

HighZoolander: Joe Peanut: W.C.fields forever: Di Atribe: Your penis?

Beat me to it.

/shakes tiny penis

Same here.

/shakes enormous penis.

I came here to say this too, but was too busy shaking my penis.

Damn! Always a day late and a penis short.

/ one shake only! Any more is playing with yourself.

Mr. Coffee Nerves: Taking your vacation time is like stealing from the company. If your desk is empty for a week and we can get by then it can be empty forever.

The words of the sociopath I used to work for.

*shudder*

These very words could have easily come from the mouth of one of my old bosses. I used to have very vivid fantasies about punching him in the face and walking out. One of the guys we worked with used to put his wallet and car keys in his desk everyday. In case he one day snapped and beat the crap out of our boss, so his wife would be able to pick them up.

Joe Peanut: W.C.fields forever: Di Atribe: Your penis?

Beat me to it.

/shakes tiny penis

Same here.

/shakes enormous penis.

Ditto

/shakes penis of adequate length, but impressive girth

Haven't had a real one in years...

I am farked/

So, today I was thinking about the whole world's banana when I forked into a diskette and chundered.

;)

spoon

brap: Ladies and gentlemen, start your penis jokes.

But this thread isn't about the sausage-fest that is Airtime.

Being that I just started a month-long vacation, I'm getting a kick... Management has a big part to play.

I have been doing three-to-six weeks vacation every year for the past decade. My management feels (appropriately) that it is their job to have other people who understand what I am working on (ya never know when someone will win the lottery, or worse).

As a result, when I get back from vacations, since others are covering my previous projects, I get assigned to work on newer efforts. It's easy to keep a few people current on the projects, if you do it as a normal part of the job, and it can be very informal. No one learns and retains much from a brain dump.

I had a pointy-haired boss, once, that made it my responsibility to find and train my backup, but she wouldn't give me time with any of the people who would be able to learn and comprehend the details. I quit that job, and they were stuck for awhile. Her bad. She would never let me leave on vacation for more than 3 days at a time and refuse to let me carry it from year to year.

There's a word for bad bosses... but, since I am on vacation, I don't have to think about it! And yes, the long breaks do wonders for the mind and soul.

Di Atribe: Your penis?

I had the "Oh I thought of a funny comment to make!!" happiness followed by the quick "Oh I bet someone made this comment already." let down.

Mrs. Kritter has been with her employer over 20 yrs and gets some 5 weeks paid vacation annually. They never allow her more than 1 week off at a time. So she never truly gets to really relax and unwind. I can see it take its toll on her over the years. It world do her a world a of good to go spend a month in Europe.

/would be even better if she moved there permanently

Mr. Coffee Nerves: Taking your vacation time is like stealing from the company. If your desk is empty for a week and we can get by then it can be empty forever.

The words of the sociopath I used to work for.

Sounds like the president of the first company I worked for. He was a Harvard MBA. Told my boss that he wouldn't give any vacation if he thought he could get anyone to stay at the company, that it was wrong to pay people not to work. Define: Sociopath.

At my current company, which is a pretty damn good place to work, there are still quite a number of people who take their laptops on vacations so they can keep up with email. I will go to my grave believing that this is a mental illness perpetrated on great numbers of our society. We're devolving as a species, moving back to caveman times... kill or be killed mentality.

That.
Is.
Wrong.

I'm on vacation right now, so I'm getting a kick out of these replies.

/in NOLA w/ a bunch of friends for my birthday. Drinking sweet tea vodka FTW.

I figure that I work about the same amount of days as a teacher. But way less hours.

/4 10 hour days a week, 4 weeks of vacation, 6 (or is it 7?) holidays, and 6 days of sick time/year
//smrt, very smrt

We Americans are collectively suffering from "vacation deficit disorder," insists Joe Robinson. And we don't even admit we have a problem. Workers often compete to see who has less of a life than the next guy.

"Vacation Deficit Disorder"? Ah, I would like to promote the use of this term.

Di Atribe: Your penis?

so how are farkettes responding to this thread?

Oznog: We Americans are collectively suffering from "vacation deficit disorder," insists Joe Robinson. And we don't even admit we have a problem. Workers often compete to see who has less of a life than the next guy.

"Vacation Deficit Disorder"? Ah, I would like to promote the use of this term.

"Vee-dee-dee?"

It's musicality is delicious, no?

I agree.

You know what I hate, this notion from companies that you can't bank annual leave after a certain amount - if you not allowed to take leave, and/or your management can't schedule your responsibilities so that you can use your leave each year.... it's basically theft.

Oh wait, it's not theft if you take (burn, destroy) something that belongs to your employees. Silly me.

One place I dealt with (thankfully never worked for) told me that the didn't roll over leave and didn't properly manage when people took it, thus a heap of people made it to December / January and had to burn their stockpile, thus meaning the company struggled to continue projects the entire month.

I'd love to see this go in as law - you can't expire leave, it's an asset of the employee. Employers: If you're worried about having 'too much leave' on the books, then pay it out.

Just_a_Bear: Di Atribe: Your penis?

so how are farkettes responding to this thread?

Pointing and laughing?

brap: Just_a_Bear: Di Atribe: Your penis?

so how are farkettes responding to this thread?

Pointing and laughing?

Not again!!!!

/sobs