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It will be 15 years this December that I've been with my company. Ironicly my work anniversary is also my birthday which this year I will be 50.
We start off with 2 weeks PTO time and 48 hours of floating holiday time. Since we are a part of the trash industry, we only get 6 holidays off and the rest are made up with floating holidays. Then at 5 years we get another 2 weeks of PTO time and at 10 years we get another year of PTO time. So, if one makes it to 10 years with the company you end up with 5 weeks PTO time and 48 hours of floating holiday time. Bereavement, jury duty, military, and anything else has their own time off policy. We do have some pretty good benefits here.
Dr. Sanchez Lapband 9/12/2003
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Revision from Lap Band to Bypass on 2/4/2015 by Dr. Pohl
Get Rudy certified as an emotional support animal. Then they have to let him on the plane. You can do it online.
Real life begins where your comfort zone ends
I don't know if I want to go down the creami rabbit hole. LOL. It would really be more for my husband than me. Don't get me wrong I do like a good ice cream, but my husband could eat ice cream every single day if it were in the house.
Dr. Sanchez Lapband 9/12/2003
hw305/revision w280/cw197/gw150
Revision from Lap Band to Bypass on 2/4/2015 by Dr. Pohl
I've been here for 28 years, and I only get 20 days off. That includes sick time bereavement, any reason I am out of the office. If it was too terrible I would not still be here. Sometimes I wish I had a government job. They are off all the time.
HW 299 SW 290 CW 139 GW 140 2/08/2019 OPERATION: Surgical Hernia with excision of total surface area of 55 x 29 cm of abdominal skin.
Good morning Jen and Menuers,
Quick for me today I got to get my act together and tie up loose ends. I have Jim and Marilyn heading my way and I do not want anything pending while I am off enjoying a weekend of fun. I am done with politics. It's over we can't change it. I am just going to live my best life and pray my 401 grows in the process. If it gets too ugly, I have a room in a quiet little villa in Costa Rica with my name one it. My only worry is how to get Rudy on the plane.
QOTD: I would say my air fryer. I find it is the best way to heat leftovers, and I always have a lot of those.
Accountability: To many nuts and cheese.
TSS: 6 years 11-months 2-days 167.6 Lowest (129.4)
B: Coffee with SF Coffee-mate pumpkin spice creamer
MS: snack select, Oikos Pro Greek yogurt, pear
CB: Coffee with SF Coffee-mate pumpkin spice creamer
L: crack chicken and plum.
D: White chicken chili clementines
Exercise: Dog walking
Water and Vitamins: On track. I take a Bariatric Advantage Ultra multi w/iron I use bariatric advantage Calcium chews and 500mg of Magnesium. I also use MiraLAX and fiber in my first coffee of the day.
Have a great day my friends.
Brightest blessings
Chrissy
HW 299 SW 290 CW 139 GW 140 2/08/2019 OPERATION: Surgical Hernia with excision of total surface area of 55 x 29 cm of abdominal skin.
I worked for EDS, the computer company run by Ross Perot. You got two weeks off starting the first year. You were required to take the two weeks off all together. He believed you needed the first week to get over the stress of work and the second to actually enjoy a vacation and relax. It was an additional week every five years. But the rule was one two-week vacation a year.
I see people who make their vacation really a stressful experience by doing things like working late the last day, driving for too long when tired and worrying about being late for a plane or other event. Now there are also cell phones and tablets and many people never disconnect from work for even a week. My vacations were always very flexible. When I travel with other people, I sometimes see them so stressful. Around here many people drive to Ocean City or Myrtle Beach. We all run into each other at the beach and the men often have conversations where they compete on who drove there the fastest.
It is amazing to me that someone I consider well educate, like a teacher, can be so stupid as to make a post like that. My sister worked in a bank and told me stories about teachers and their strange ideas about money. They would come in with their check and ask to cash the check and make a mortgage payment and a savings deposit. But they wanted the cash first and then count out the money for savings and the payment. They just could not comprehend that it could all be done at once.
A FEMA worker in Florida was fired for skipping homes with Trump signs. There is an old saying that common sense is not that common.
After surgery I bought a Magic Bullet and wore out three of them in the first two years. The Instant Pot is my go-to appliance now. I am old enough to remember a world before microwaves. When we got a microwave, I cooked everything in it and ruined a lot of meat dishes. It quickly became the coffee warmer.
The Instant Pot and the Air Fryer really do what we thought the microwave would do fifty some years ago. They have made cooking so much easier for the modern generation.
Hope everyone has a wonderful rest of the week.
Real life begins where your comfort zone ends
Good morning, everyone!
To commemorate Veterans Day we did this workout called Chad 1000x. The full RX workout is 1000 20 inch box step-ups with a 45/30 pound pack.
There was a supplemental training program to build up to it, but between our trip to Asia and swimming, I didn't do the extra training. Instead, I scaled to 45 minutes of step-ups without a pack. I ended up getting 536 in.
My calves are a little sore, but no joint pain or anything like that. All in all I was pretty happy with how it turned out. Hopefully Chrissy doesn't kick me this weekend.
Last night I found out that CrossFit is going to be closed Thanksgiving morning, so I signed up for a Turkey Trot. It's early (8:00) and has a pancake breakfast.
QOTD: Probably the microwave, I eat a lot of leftovers.
Breakfast: Bagel
Lunch: Chicken sandwich
Dinner: Butter Chicken and Naan
Have a great day, all!
Jim Age 59 Height 6 Feet Consult Weight 344 SW 289 Pre-Surgery -55, M1 -25, M2 -16, M3 -21, M4 -10, M5 -5, M6 -1, M7 -4, M8 0, M9 +4, M10 -4
29 years!, wow. We made the same change. Since we didn't take away previously accrued time, the employees seemed kind of neutral about the switch.
Jim Age 59 Height 6 Feet Consult Weight 344 SW 289 Pre-Surgery -55, M1 -25, M2 -16, M3 -21, M4 -10, M5 -5, M6 -1, M7 -4, M8 0, M9 +4, M10 -4
How long have you been with your company? We switched to ?unlimited? time off a few years ago, which is really just a balance sheet change for companies and puts the requirement to be sure to take time off on the person. I?ve been with my company almost 29 years so I say I have 5 weeks pto and try to take that amount off (I am very good about it!) but when I hit 30, I plan on upping that to 6 weeks.
I like to benchmark against other companies that still have defined vacation or sick time.
HW: 306 SW: 282 GW: 145 (reached 2/6/19) CW:150
Jen
Good Morning, it sure feels like Thursday but Wednesday it is. It's great to have lots of time off, one thing I do miss about my old job for sure. Now we get two weeks from year 1-5 then it goes to three from like years 5-10. I hope some day that is improved.
QOTD: My instant pot (for meat and I used to make yogurt) and more recently my creami
TSS: 10 years 3 months
B: SF latte, 3 turkey sausage links, and an orange
L: Turkey and cheese sticks, carrots, light and fit yogurt and some fruit
S: A piece of fruit, protein puffs and yogurt
D: tri tip, green beans, a banana, and 2 mini York peppermint patties
ES: Protein ice cream and carbmaster toast
E: 1/2 hour elliptical, 1 1/2 miles on treadmill and 20 mins Pilates bar
V/W: On track
Totals: Cals:1259 Protein:137 Carbs: 110 Fat:37
Have a great day!
RNY 8/11/14 with Dr. Kelvin Higa PS Lipectomy 4/12/17 with Dr. John Burnett HW291.4/CW165/GW150
