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| posted by Bucky 131 days ago |
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From the BBC: Has your company just nicked a day off you?
"Imagine that to adjust our timekeeping, ten minutes had to be added to one day each year. You would expect them to be ten minutes of free time, yours to spend as you will. You'd be miffed if they were added to one of your working hours, getting ten minutes more work out of you for no extra money.
But is this what leap year does to us? If you're on an annual salary, you will get the same pay as normal this year, while working one extra day. Is 29 February just another working Friday, or a sneaky bonus for your employer? Who does 29 February belong to?"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7269816.stm
I say that I own February 29th.
"If I had a horse, I'd horsewhip you."
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| posted by Lola 131 days ago (edited 131 days ago) |
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Or maybe your employer pays you for 29 days every February, but you only ever have to work one every four years.
Or maybe you scab 2-3 days off your employer every February because it's a shorter month, and a leap year offers some small reparation.
Dancing madly sideways
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| posted by EmilyBronte 131 days ago |
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Or, you could skive off on hkxpats most of the day, 5 days a week, 52 weeks a year, and still get paid for it.
I see it that way.
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| posted by geraldo 131 days ago |
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go work in a factory - where you get paid by the hour.
Or move to france - 35h a week
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| posted by bunthorne 131 days ago (edited 131 days ago) |
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quote:
Originally posted by Lola
Or maybe your employer pays you for 29 days every February, but you only ever have to work one every four years.
Or maybe you scab 2-3 days off your employer every February because it's a shorter month, and a leap year offers some small reparation.
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I say that I own February 29th.
Anything else to bleat about?? What a mean-spirited, whingeing f**king attitude.
Maybe they can arrange for Feb 29th to fall on Sundays in future so you can enjoy your precious time.
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| posted by Bucky 131 days ago |
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quote:
Originally posted by bunthorne
quote:
Originally posted by Lola
Or maybe your employer pays you for 29 days every February, but you only ever have to work one every four years.
Or maybe you scab 2-3 days off your employer every February because it's a shorter month, and a leap year offers some small reparation.
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I say that I own February 29th.
Anything else to bleat about?? What a mean-spirited, whingeing f**king attitude.
Maybe they can arrange for Feb 29th to fall on Sundays in future so you can enjoy your precious time.
Wow! You're a real arsehole!
"If I had a horse, I'd horsewhip you."
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| posted by geraldo 131 days ago |
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he's got a point though
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| posted by puyi 131 days ago |
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spare a thought for the poor kids who have a birthday on the 29th.......
darren rudd is a sinophile
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| posted by EmilyBronte 131 days ago |
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I don't think its Bucky with the mean spirit!
Just a topic of conversation, surely?
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| posted by drunk from coke 131 days ago |
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Or everyone is having a bad day today?
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| posted by Bucky 131 days ago |
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It's just a light-hearted piece of japery. There's no need to say I have a mean-spirited, whinging, f*cking bleating attitude.
Never mind.
"If I had a horse, I'd horsewhip you."
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| posted by geraldo 131 days ago |
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but if a labour union-idiot understands it wrong (s)he'll be up in arms this afternoon.
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| posted by Lucas 131 days ago (edited 131 days ago) |
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Just take an extra sick day.. it'll even itself out.
I can write you a note.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than open ones mouth and remove all doubt.
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| posted by xpat-Aussie 131 days ago (edited 131 days ago) |
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errr how much time a year in totoal would you spend surfing the net instead of f**king working?
Bludger, get back to work!
"...and once you have tasted flight,
you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward,
for there you have been and there you long to return...."
-Leonardo DaVinci
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| posted by Beer Boy 131 days ago |
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oi, who you callin' bludger???
I take under performing to new lows...
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| posted by shaky 131 days ago |
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Just seen some people getting married at City Hall.
Whacky.
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| posted by Beer Boy 131 days ago |
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ha ha ha... arranged by the husband I would guess
only have an anniversary to shell out for every four years
I take under performing to new lows...
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