Comments | silver05: I know, right?

silver05

I know, right?

Dec 13, 2010 20:03

Got a message from Marty's new owner today:

Hey, Kelsey. I just wanted to let you know that Marty is adapting well to his new home. We felt really badly taking him from his mommy like that, but we didn't want to see him end up in a shelter. He sure is a cutie pie! I just wanted to re-iterate that you guys can come by any time to visit with him ( Read more... )

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sillyliss December 14 2010, 01:30:28 UTC

Oh, that is so great to hear from the new owners that everything is going well! That really makes everything seem okay, doesn't it? Yay!

Haha, you jest about coals on a fire, but some places actually do turn the heat down! When I worked at a university in Oregon, they didn't give any days off around Christmas/New Year's, but they encouraged everybody to take vacation by turning down the heat to freeze us out. Unfortunately, I hadn't built up any vacation. I thought it was a bit of madness, actually.

I can't believe, though, that your office needs to be open on Christmas Eve!

silver05 December 14 2010, 02:41:33 UTC

The managing partner likes things really, really cold, so when he's around it's like we're Scrooge and Cratchitt, demanding more heat. Most of us have gotten space heaters. Right now I don't have my own electrical outlet, so I'm stuck warming up in other people's cubicles or by the copier. Fortunately he wasn't here today so my comments about coal were made in jest.

That seems really silly that they wouldn't give you any time off for the holidays! Not even federally mandated ones? So weird.

We got started really, really late on tax planning, so we're working right up until the 31 on them. I don't do anything with tax planning, so I forsee no problem in getting myself off early. And if not, well, that's money in the bank I guess.

sillyliss December 14 2010, 15:34:13 UTC

Yikes, that's terrible that everybody has to be uncomfortable because one person likes it cold. Although it probably makes going out in winter not as bad?

Yeah, we did get the federal holidays off. But a lot of universities give you extra days, since the kids weren't on campus anyway, and the professors don't have to work when the kids aren't there. Not EOU, though. They just tried to force us to use the vacation we accumulated or freeze us to death!

candacetrauma December 14 2010, 06:59:35 UTC

That's so sweet of him to do! Sounds like Marty has a good home :)