Well that's a relief
Jan. 21st, 2008 02:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
johnridleyYesterday I spent an hour spelunking on our HR website, trying to figure out A) how much vacation I had accrued, and B) how much vacation I get per month.
You'd think I'd know the latter, but honestly, I've never run my vacation down low enough that I couldn't take a week if I wanted it (I want a buffer in case of emergencies/sickness), so I never paid much attention. It's just this box that has days dropped in it by someone else, and there's always enough in there, so I didn't bother finding out.
A few years back they converted us from vacation days + sick days (separated) to a unified "Paid Time Off" - this was to unify all Thomson operations and blah blah blah, whatever.
Well, as of Jan 1, they moved us from Paid Time Off to vacation days + sick days (separated). This is to unify all Thomson operations and whatever whatever, babble babble. Yeah, sometimes they really Dilbert things around here.
Anyway, around xmas I had about 100 hours in the bank. I looked yesterday and I had 42 hours of sick time and 13 hours of vacation time. Shit! I said. WTF? I said. Then "ah, whatever. They're always screwing with stuff."
Then a while later I remembered that the payroll people have not been terribly capable of keeping track of vacation hours for several months now; there have been notices seemingly every payday for about 2 months saying "Oops, we screwed up a bunch of people's vacation hours, we'll fix it shortly."
Today my boss confirmed that yes, they bungled it, and it should be fixed soon.
I think I have something on the order of 5 to 7 weeks of vacation to fry up this year, before October. We need to plan; I can't take it all at once.
I'll probably eat a week or more just taking days off to catch up on springtime stuff; I want a bigger pond, and I want to do a bunch of the landscaping I've been thinking about, and as I proved a couple of years ago, if you're going to dig a pond, dig it during spring thaw when the ground is muddy, before it sets into concrete.
You'd think I'd know the latter, but honestly, I've never run my vacation down low enough that I couldn't take a week if I wanted it (I want a buffer in case of emergencies/sickness), so I never paid much attention. It's just this box that has days dropped in it by someone else, and there's always enough in there, so I didn't bother finding out.
A few years back they converted us from vacation days + sick days (separated) to a unified "Paid Time Off" - this was to unify all Thomson operations and blah blah blah, whatever.
Well, as of Jan 1, they moved us from Paid Time Off to vacation days + sick days (separated). This is to unify all Thomson operations and whatever whatever, babble babble. Yeah, sometimes they really Dilbert things around here.
Anyway, around xmas I had about 100 hours in the bank. I looked yesterday and I had 42 hours of sick time and 13 hours of vacation time. Shit! I said. WTF? I said. Then "ah, whatever. They're always screwing with stuff."
Then a while later I remembered that the payroll people have not been terribly capable of keeping track of vacation hours for several months now; there have been notices seemingly every payday for about 2 months saying "Oops, we screwed up a bunch of people's vacation hours, we'll fix it shortly."
Today my boss confirmed that yes, they bungled it, and it should be fixed soon.
I think I have something on the order of 5 to 7 weeks of vacation to fry up this year, before October. We need to plan; I can't take it all at once.
I'll probably eat a week or more just taking days off to catch up on springtime stuff; I want a bigger pond, and I want to do a bunch of the landscaping I've been thinking about, and as I proved a couple of years ago, if you're going to dig a pond, dig it during spring thaw when the ground is muddy, before it sets into concrete.
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Date: 2008-01-21 07:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-21 08:54 pm (UTC)The current one is about 6x8 feet, 2 feet deep, and I dug the whole thing in about 4 hours; if you catch it right when the ground is a mucky mess, it's really easy to dig (and would be impossible to get an excavator out there without totally wrecking the yard).
A lot of what I'll be digging will be river between the two ponds. I'll also be using the fill I get out for various things around the place, and in all I'll be moving dirt around all summer, so I won't be able to rent anything that long.
Also, you're talking to the guy that hand-dug the foundation for his garage, and would RATHER shovel snow than use a power implement to do it, so doing the "sensible" thing is not guaranteed.
Besides, I plan to design the pond partially while I'm digging it. If I have an excavator for an afternoon, I won't have time to think before I'm done. The only real limitation is that I'd like to get the digging all done in at most 3 or 4 days, when the ground is the muddiest.
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Date: 2008-01-22 04:10 am (UTC)Use black powder. I think 350lbs would be enough.