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topenga posted:I have no idea. Is Yogaville bad? It's just a yoga-themed commune thing not that far from DC. I haven't been because I hate yoga but have driven by, they have a pretty nice piece of land and supposedly nice trails but is a bit cultish like any commune. It's the only commune I've heard about in Virginia so it came to mind. It's not like that place in Oregon that tried to take over a town by poisoning people as far as I know.
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topenga posted:We were all "why don't you just take a sabbatical?" Do sabbaticals still exist? Is that just for teachers or something?
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They're not called sabbaticals, but I've seen leave of absences at a couple companies. Not sure if they cover leaving to travel the world for a year.
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Sabbaticals are encouraged among academic faculty at colleges and universities, especially if you use it for a period of independent growth you'd be unable to accomplish otherwise or have to care for some pressing family matter, but yeah I've heard of them at corporate jobs, too, just probably much more rare.
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Apr 7, 2017 20:29
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Academic sabbaticals are for writing books
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Apr 7, 2017 20:30
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I get a sabbatical of 4 weeks off every 5 years. Hoping to take this summer...though I have no real plans except "not be at work and get paid for it."
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ate all the Oreos posted:I know nothing about it except the name but I can already tell you with 100% certainty that yes, "yogaville" is bad. Somehow I don't trust your authority on this matter.
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22 Eargesplitten posted:They're not called sabbaticals, but I've seen leave of absences at a couple companies. Not sure if they cover leaving to travel the world for a year. Intel gives you a sabbatical every 7 years, I believe full continuous month off on top of your 3-4 weeks normal vacation. You can stack them to be gone for 6 weeks or something no problem while drawing full salary.
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Apr 7, 2017 20:39
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Spermy Smurf posted:Do sabbaticals still exist? Is that just for teachers or something? I'm pretty sure our company would have let him. If not officially then "yeah, you'll totally have a place here when you get back." We're fairly small.
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Apr 7, 2017 20:47
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I'm thinking of pitching an (unpaid, probably) leave of absence for a month next year so I can burn my bazillion airline miles and visit people and/or WWOOF, but I work in government so everything is Policy Policy Policy so it'll probably get shot down.
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Apr 7, 2017 20:59
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topenga posted:I'm pretty sure our company would have let him. If not officially then "yeah, you'll totally have a place here when you get back." We're fairly small. Yeah, this. Several (small-to-medium size) companies I have worked for have been chill with unpaid time off. I've had several colleagues take extended leaves of absence without issue. A couple years back I did a combo of PTO + unpaid time off to do a 6-7 week trip, and I'd certainly do it again. If you are a highly valuable employee in a smaller company you have a lot of leverage to negotiate stuff like this case by case. I think a lot of people just don't push for it, or are living so paycheck to paycheck (even at high income levels) that they can't stomach the thought of missing a couple weeks of pay.
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Apr 7, 2017 21:04
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We have a sabbatical program which is basically you don't get paid but you can ask for as much time off as you want.
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Apr 7, 2017 21:23
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Twerk from Home posted:Intel gives you a sabbatical every 7 years, I believe full continuous month off on top of your 3-4 weeks normal vacation. You can stack them to be gone for 6 weeks or something no problem while drawing full salary. Can confirm. Good loving luck if you expect a good review that year though!
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Apr 7, 2017 21:42
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I know a dude who combined his 8 week sabbatical with 8 weeks of bonding leave and a few weeks of vacation and was out of the office from August to January 
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Apr 7, 2017 22:57
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pig slut lisa posted:I'm thinking of pitching an (unpaid, probably) leave of absence for a month next year so I can burn my bazillion airline miles and visit people and/or WWOOF, but I work in government so everything is Policy Policy Policy so it'll probably get shot down. It was a big shock to me coming over from the private sector that the government cares so much about taking unpaid time off. I used to do it all the time in my old job, because well, I could afford it and they don't give enough paid vacation. Now I have more vacation time but there's a policy about taking any time unpaid. Shocker: it's still not a decent amount of vacation time.
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Someone I work with told me about an old coworker he had that was on a 36 month contract. During those three years she had three kids and took full maternity benefits for each one, 45 weeks at a time. Short term GWM, but needless to say she didn't get offered another contract. e. also my rent/utilities/insurance is 27% of gross because I'm the sole earner in a family of four. Guest2553 fucked around with this message at 23:05 on Apr 7, 2017 |
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Apr 7, 2017 23:01
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Quick! Everybody humble brag about exactly how much vacation time if you have! 
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Apr 7, 2017 23:18
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If you insist 3 weeks of PTO per year, fully provided by the contracting company (as opposed to their client whom i am assigned to) I think that's super rad because I expect nothing out of contract gigs
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Apr 7, 2017 23:23
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Breetai posted:Quick! Everybody humble brag about exactly how much vacation time if you have! What's the point of vacation if you never get to use it. 160 hours as of today
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Apr 7, 2017 23:32
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Gorman Thomas posted:What's the point of vacation if you never get to use it. My boss was really sticky about giving me this week off, but if he hadn't I'd have been up to 210.
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Apr 7, 2017 23:39
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Breetai posted:Quick! Everybody humble brag about exactly how much vacation time if you have! 0 because I'm a contractor. The only job I got vacation time had 10 days until you were there for five years. I took 4 days finding a new job because they had me working twelve day weeks and gently caress that. Having no vacation or paid holidays while being paid less than FTEs: BWM. A company hiring people like that: GWCapitalism.
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"Unlimited" I am seriously debating do a bunch of crunch work we have at work and taking a month off I've officially taken 21 days off over the past year and a half. But some of that was "workcation". So I'll call it 3 weeks? Edit2: actually it isn't as good as that sounds because I don't automatically get federal holidays off. But if I do work a federal holiday I work from home. I mean I work from home most days of the week anyways. I could most likely get away with way more but my SO doesn't get as many vacations and gets upset if I go places without her. I also am taking 5 days off Wednesday to make it a long weekend. freeasinbeer fucked around with this message at 23:58 on Apr 7, 2017 |
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Apr 7, 2017 23:50
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I have 420 hours of vacation and my mortgage is 6.9% of my net
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my summer at fat camp posted:I have 420 hours of vacation and my mortgage is 6.9% of my net if you'd please follow me and stay close to the group, we'll be making our way to the Guillotine shortly
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Apr 7, 2017 23:56
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I get Arbor Day as a paid holiday, checkmate bitches!
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Apr 8, 2017 00:16
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Our competitors pay you 25% extra on your days off.
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Apr 8, 2017 00:22
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Working for state government can be BWM in a lot of ways, but I do get 200 hours vacation, 160 hours paid sick leave, and 12 paid holidays a year.
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my summer at fat camp posted:I have 420 hours of vacation and my mortgage is 6.9% of my net nice
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Apr 8, 2017 00:40
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13ish days of annual leave, plus a bunch of compensatory time for random poo poo (training, travel, etc). Oh, and 36%, but thats my total inclusive housing cost (utilities internet etc). Considering it isn't a shithole, not bad for the area.
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Apr 8, 2017 00:47
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 Shut the gently caress up about your loving leave entitlements, for gently caress's sake
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Weatherman posted:
You're mixing up the BWM and the schadenfreude threads. I tried posting derail bird in the schadenfreude thread once and no one got it. The schaden is on me.
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quote:Pre approved for 1,100 a month. How much house should I be looking at? https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/6402zp/pre_approved_for_1100_a_month_how_much_house/ Starting the house buying process with a budget directly dependent on monthly pre approval amount seems BWM. How do you even begin to correct someone's entire perspective and expectations on buying a house when it's this skewed?
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CmdrRiker posted:How do you even begin to correct someone's entire perspective and expectations on [anything BWM]?
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Weatherman posted:
Tipping is bad BWM!!!!
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Apr 8, 2017 13:27
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Do you tip the doctor after a circumcision? We were thinking of doing it at our wedding.
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I haven't had a paid vacation day in over 6 years. The pains of being a contract employee. Back when I was a FTE I got a 3 month unpaid sabbatical to do my student teaching. So even then I didn't get paid and I still had to work the whole time. To help fund that I sold my Apple shares at $80 (this was before they went to $600) and my Netflix shares at $50. Wait, are we humble bragging good things or bad things?
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Apr 8, 2017 17:07
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Car chat bad with money edition. Got a little speeding ticketaroony this morning. Nasty little unplanned expense. Could be a lot worse.
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Apr 8, 2017 19:06
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FrozenVent posted:Do you tip the doctor after a circumcision? Yes, the doctor keeps the tip.
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Apr 8, 2017 19:09
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I keep buying $8 jars of nail polish even though I already have a box full. Can we pleeeeease get back to bwm?
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I bought a condo and sold it after three months. That's probably my biggest BWM moment, but it was the right choice for my life if not my bank account.
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