Baby, I want a worm's eye view of you...

[llamabitchyo]

Robert had no doubt that Ianto knew Jack flirted with everything that moved--you couldn't breathe within a hundred meters of the guy without getting hit on. But flirting and openly propositioning a perspective employee for sex were two different things.Mmm, mmm. Nothing like a little hot'n'heavy, one-on-one point perspective. Though... I wonder

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[pensnest]

Also, *nitpick mode on*, why didn't Ianto just ask for the day off? A 'personal day', indeed. In any British workplace I've ever been that would have made him the subject of increasingly ribald jokes until he fled the building.

[llamabitchyo]

I didn't get far in that series of fics. For one, I couldn't quite get a handle on whether the writer was British or not.

The "personal day" didn't make a blip on my sensors, because I have said to my boss, "Can I take Friday as a personal day"? And yet... it seemed something a woman was more likely to say than a man. (Not that the men in our company don't use their three personal days per year, but still... I don't think they'd say it.) As I read further, though, it bothered me because Ianto was asking for the day off to go to his mother's funeral. Now... yes, this Ianto was supposedly keeping his private life out of work, but don't most places allow for that sort of leave without it counting as a personal day?

Another thing that really bothered me was repeated references to the ALF doll that Ianto had as a child. I have no way of knowing, but I have a hard time thinking ALF was such a big hit in the UK.

[nopseud]

Personal days don't really exist in the UK. There's just holidays, sick days (which aren't a set number of days, anyway), and then sometimes discretionary days for things like funerals depending on where you work.

I have a hard time thinking ALF was such a big hit in the UK.

Ooh, I remember ALF! I was a teen at the time, but it was definitely on TV over here.

[llamabitchyo]

I thought ALF was incredibly obnoxious and never sat through more than five minutes of it. Though... I suppose he could vaguely look like a shrunken down and furry Weevil.

You don't have a set number of sick days? Having a set number always makes me anxious when I'm feeling just a bit sick. Do I use up a day? What if I get really sick later?

Personal days didn't make much sense to me until this year when it was finally explained to me. I never had them before working at this company. And most people at this company seem to just use them as extra vacation time. But apparently it's time off that your manager is not allowed to inquire about why you need it off. So I guess, if you need to go to the doctor for embarrassing reasons or something, you take personal time. Somehow, I usually end up using my time to go get my hair done.

Your answer makes me quite certain the author isn't from the UK, then.

[nopseud]

You don't have a set number of sick days?

There's usually a number that if you go over then personnel will want to have a word with you and see why you're taking so many.

But apparently it's time off that your manager is not allowed to inquire about why you need it off.

That's a very good idea.

[llamabitchyo]

Now that I know what personal days are supposed to be, I think they're a great idea. Not that I need them for that reason, but I could imagine many reasons one might need them sometime. But then going back to the fic, the first thing Jack says after Ianto asks for the personal day is "Can I ask why you need one?" So maybe Jack doesn't understand the concept either. But... I don't know. It doesn't quite seem right to go from hiding a cyberwoman in your basement to asking for personal days.

[nopseud]

"Can I ask why you need one?"

Looks like not many people know what a personal day means.

Mind you, if I was Jack, I'd be *very* careful about giving Ianto personal time for anything. You never know what else might end up in the basement and wired to the National grid.

[llamabitchyo]

An expresso machine made from salvaged Dalek parts comes to mind. Or maybe a whole coffee-shop franchise based on future technology. ("Cup of Boe" instead of Joe, maybe...)