Re: Which side are you on, boys?
 

Ms Slothrop is a blue-collar worker and a union member, and she called the guy audacious, so I'll stand with her. And I don't think they were earned. The guy got them on day one, and didn't get any more from working the rest of the year, so he wasn't working for them.

Suppose a company has Canadian owners, and gives everyone the day off on Canada Day, and Canadian Thanksgiving, and, uh, some third Canadian holiday like Poutine Day. No one earned those days off -- they're holidays. If someone decides to work on them anyway, it would be audacious to demand to be paid for it.

No, that's silly. Thanks for pointing that out.

Re: Which side are you on, boys?
 

Hey, I'm going there for lunch in an hour!

Re: Which side are you on, boys?
 

I was more thinking this:

https://a1cf74336522e87f135f-2f21ace...ol-scrooge.jpg

Re: Which side are you on, boys?
 

So someone's co-workers are all home sharing Poutine with their First Nations friends and saying everything in French, English and Innuit, but Roberta Cratchit is under the gun to finish sorting all your files alphabetically based on the last letter of the first word, the way you like them, and has to work the whole day and eat porridge at her desk for lunch and you aren't going to pay her?

Someone's audacious here, but it's not Roberta Cratchit.

Re: Which side are you on, boys?
 

I said they decide to work -- you changed that to "under the gun." If someone has to work then it really isn't a holiday, is it?

I have had so many co-workers who email from their vacations. No one makes them do it. It totally defeats the point. My rule is, I'm not responding to email during a vacation. If you need me, text or call me. Otherwise, it can wait until I'm back. I don't understand why more people don't that.

Re: Which side are you on, boys?
 

Fuck that. Real American lawyers in a border city- on american only holidays- Labor Day Memorial Day- Actual Thanksgiving day- we pack up some files and go visit canadian clients. My kids can't eat "day off."

Re: Which side are you on, boys?
 

Service economy, man.

Re: Sebby is a dumbass
 

Here it isn't even a consideration. They just aren't down here all that much outside of the public sector and the entertainment industry. I think some of the refinery workers may be unionized, but that's about it. Definitely not construction.

Re: We are all Slave now.
 

Export control is always tricky, but I think it's a perfectly legitimate question to ask since it's part of the job.

This is a HUGE issue right now in higher ed and research to the point that NIH sent out letters a few months ago about it: https://www.cogr.edu/sites/default/f...2008-20-18.pdf

Re: We are all Slave now.
 

No sewage smell today, Hank. Good octopus. You should come back.

Re: We are all Slave now.
 

More on the Democrat-controlled media:

Atrios

Re: We are all Slave now.
 

the looniest of my FB/HS friends is posting a meme claiming the bombs were mailed BY Dems- nice plot, but I'd wait for some, ummm, evidence before sticking my neck out like that?

Re: We are all Slave now.
 

Do you think s/he really believes that? I think a lot of conservatives see public political discourse foremost as an ideological battlefield where they want to push narratives for advantage, and where truth and reality do not really play into it. Like, there are a few dopes who really thought Hillary was running a sex ring out of a pizza place in NW DC, but I think most of the people who pushed that stuff did not believe it and pushed it for other reasons (fun, profit, partisan gain).

Re: We are all Slave now.
 

getting to the bottom of that would require talking to them. if you want I'll connect you, but I'm not up for that particular convo. this was the same person posting in 2015 that President Obama was going to get congress to grant him a third term.

Re: We are all Slave now.
 

I was at a family reunion in a very red state a number of years ago, and heard quite a few stories -- conspiracy theories, really -- about how Obama was going to take people's guns away and/or make firearms or ammunition more expensive. I didn't really want to pursue that line of talk with most of the cousins who were on that kick (which was many if not most of the men but none of the women, for whatever reason). But one cousin who has been decently successful in the corporate world and otherwise seems like a reasonable guy explained to me how Obama was going to pass a tax on ammunition that was going to make it much more expensive, and so I asked him how Obama was going to do that, since the Constitution reserves taxing power to the Congress, which at that time was controlled by Republicans. He stopped and thought about it for a few moments, and allowed that that was a good question that he hadn't thought of and that he would have to look into that. From all of which I conclude that these sorts of stories are shibboleths told for purposes of group bonding, not necessarily as part of a search for the truths of the matters asserted.