Minor things that bother you

[Scott5114]

How about Social Media Videos sometimes are reversed.  For example a Dallas clip had the Texas map on the wall in JR Ewing's office backwards.  Then some Bugs Bunny clips had its subtitles written backwards.

Don't know how that's happening, but is getting more common watching clips in a reverse screen where left is right and right is left

This is because big media companies automatically scan the social media sites looking for clips to movies they own so they can make them be deleted. If the video is mirror-imaged it theoretically shouldn't register as a match, but you can still usually tell what is going on in them.

[Scott5114]

Minor thing that bothers me:  arrow tabs that aren't centered below the corresponding route shield.

Northbound Broadway Extension exiting at the Kilpatrick:

[kphoger]

Minor thing that bothers me:  arrow tabs that aren't centered below the corresponding route shield.

Northbound Broadway Extension exiting at the Kilpatrick:

Actually, this is the post that prompted mine:

IL-136 at IL-84 at Fulton


IL-084-136N by Paul Across America, on Flickr

[vdeane]

The fact that eclipse cruises and organized travel tours tend to be very long by American standards (2+ weeks).  Where are the trips for those of us who work for a living and can't afford to take that much time off?

Also the fact that my office pants get a lot of water spotting whenever it rains during the morning or evening commute.

[hbelkins]

When I have government alerts turned off on my phone, but my wife doesn't, and her phone goes off at 2:30 in the morning for a tornado warning that doesn't even cover the area of the county where we live, and it takes forever for me to get back to sleep.

[Bruce]

The fact that eclipse cruises and organized travel tours tend to be very long by American standards (2+ weeks).  Where are the trips for those of us who work for a living and can't afford to take that much time off?

Have to live in a country with decent labor standards first.

I took a few weeks to drive to a clouded-out spot in Texas, so you can only do so much. If I wasn't forced into an inflexible plan by my travel friends, I would have did some car camping and moved ahead of the clouds, but so be it.

[Max Rockatansky]

My problem isn't me getting two weeks off but rather my wife.  It isn't as though she doesn't get decent vacation benefits, she just doesn't manage the hours well. 

[kphoger]

My problem isn't me getting two weeks off but rather my wife.  It isn't as though she doesn't get decent vacation benefits, she just doesn't manage the hours well. 

My wife is self-employed as a home daycare provider.  So, even though she gives herself a certain amount of PTO in the handbook, she still doesn't like to use it unless there's a really good reason, because she knows it puts a burden on the parents.

Meanwhile, I get five weeks a year from my employer.  And I don't like taking time off unless it's for something with my wife, because staying home with a house full of someone else's kids is much less appealing than going to work.

This means that, come autumn, I'm always scrambling to use up my PTO for the year.  I think, this last year, I was working three days a week for a couple of months and taking PTO for the other two.

[kernals12]

The fact that eclipse cruises and organized travel tours tend to be very long by American standards (2+ weeks).  Where are the trips for those of us who work for a living and can't afford to take that much time off?

Also the fact that my office pants get a lot of water spotting whenever it rains during the morning or evening commute.

2 weeks or more of vacation isn't unheard of for many jobs.

[Scott5114]

2 weeks or more of vacation isn't unheard of for many jobs.

It's not unheard of, but it's definitely not commonplace. My last job gave me 40 hours of vacation a year. The job I had before that gave 0.

Now, I can basically take more or less all the time off that I want as long as it's not on Thursday, but if I take time off I'm also not getting paid. Still, though, I like the freedom of being able to go on a trip or whatever, just as long as I make sure I have access to the Internet on Thursday.

[kernals12]

2 weeks or more of vacation isn't unheard of for many jobs.

It's not unheard of, but it's definitely not commonplace. My last job gave me 40 hours of vacation a year. The job I had before that gave 0.

Now, I can basically take more or less all the time off that I want as long as it's not on Thursday, but if I take time off I'm also not getting paid. Still, though, I like the freedom of being able to go on a trip or whatever, just as long as I make sure I have access to the Internet on Thursday.

Amazon provides 88 hours consolidated time off (sick and vacation combined) for its hourly employees in their first year. https://www.amazon.jobs/content/en/benefits/paid-time-off-for-us-amazon-employees

[webny99]

Meanwhile, I get five weeks a year from my employer. 

Wow. That is verging on "too much of a good thing" especially if you have to use it or lose it every year.

[Max Rockatansky]

2 weeks or more of vacation isn't unheard of for many jobs.

It's not unheard of, but it's definitely not commonplace. My last job gave me 40 hours of vacation a year. The job I had before that gave 0.

Now, I can basically take more or less all the time off that I want as long as it's not on Thursday, but if I take time off I'm also not getting paid. Still, though, I like the freedom of being able to go on a trip or whatever, just as long as I make sure I have access to the Internet on Thursday.

Amazon provides 88 hours consolidated time off (sick and vacation combined) for its hourly employees in their first year. https://www.amazon.jobs/content/en/benefits/paid-time-off-for-us-amazon-employees

Last I checked piss bottles were standard issue PPE for Amazon delivery drivers.

[Max Rockatansky]

My problem isn't me getting two weeks off but rather my wife.  It isn't as though she doesn't get decent vacation benefits, she just doesn't manage the hours well. 

My wife is self-employed as a home daycare provider.  So, even though she gives herself a certain amount of PTO in the handbook, she still doesn't like to use it unless there's a really good reason, because she knows it puts a burden on the parents.

Meanwhile, I get five weeks a year from my employer.  And I don't like taking time off unless it's for something with my wife, because staying home with a house full of someone else's kids is much less appealing than going to work.

This means that, come autumn, I'm always scrambling to use up my PTO for the year.  I think, this last year, I was working three days a week for a couple of months and taking PTO for the other two.

I'm up to eight weeks a month due to tenure and my wife is up for six.  Both of our jobs pay out sick leave also.  FWIW the most vacation time I got annually in the public sector was four weeks.  I never had paid sick leave prior to working in government. 

My wife tends to waste a lot of vacation days on personal errands or when she should use sick leave.  For that reason I often start trips before her and end up picking her up somewhere along my path of travel. 

[webny99]

2 weeks or more of vacation isn't unheard of for many jobs.

It's not unheard of, but it's definitely not commonplace.

For full time employment, two weeks is fairly standard. But I would agree that more than two weeks is less common.

[Rothman]

My problem isn't me getting two weeks off but rather my wife.  It isn't as though she doesn't get decent vacation benefits, she just doesn't manage the hours well. 

My wife is self-employed as a home daycare provider.  So, even though she gives herself a certain amount of PTO in the handbook, she still doesn't like to use it unless there's a really good reason, because she knows it puts a burden on the parents.

Meanwhile, I get five weeks a year from my employer.  And I don't like taking time off unless it's for something with my wife, because staying home with a house full of someone else's kids is much less appealing than going to work.

This means that, come autumn, I'm always scrambling to use up my PTO for the year.  I think, this last year, I was working three days a week for a couple of months and taking PTO for the other two.

I'm up to eight weeks a month due to tenure and my wife is up for six.  Both of our jobs pay out sick leave also.  FWIW the most vacation time I got annually in the public sector was four weeks.  I never had paid sick leave prior to working in government. 

My wife tends to waste a lot of vacation days on personal errands or when she should use sick leave.  For that reason I often start trips before her and end up picking her up somewhere along my path of travel. 

Eight weeks a month is a feat...

[formulanone]

Meanwhile, I get five weeks a year from my employer. 

Wow. That is verging on "too much of a good thing" especially if you have to use it or lose it every year.

I have no problem using up all my 5-6 weeks a year; the sixth week is really just five days I can use for doctor visits and appointments. It's implied you use it on a Monday or Friday so you don't block out an entire travel week. Usually one of those days winds up getting spent on a "gap" weekday next to a near-weekend holiday (like the day after Thanksgiving). It's also use-it-or-lose-it, whereas we use to be able to store 5 days, then just two days, but they're generous if we need an extra day or two (especially if you get sick).

My only gripe is trivial; at the moment I earned that fifth week for ten years on the job, they gave the same time off policy to all employees after 90-180 days on the job. They also say we can't use more than two weeks at a time, but I like spacing out my vacation time with this job. Travel wears you down.

[SEWIGuy]

I have unlimited. I probably use about three weeks when all is said and done. The most I will ever take at once is a week. Mostly I just take a Friday...or a Thursday and Friday...to make a long weekend.

My workplace is also closed, with pay, between Christmas and New Years.

[kernals12]

I have no problem using up all my 5-6 weeks a year; the sixth week is really just five days I can use for doctor visits and appointments. It's implied you use it on a Monday or Friday so you don't block out an entire travel week.

Can't you use sick time for doctor visits?

[Rothman]

I have unlimited. I probably use about three weeks when all is said and done. The most I will ever take at once is a week. Mostly I just take a Friday...or a Thursday and Friday...to make a long weekend.

My workplace is also closed, with pay, between Christmas and New Years.

Sounds like the dark side of unlimited to me -- you end up limiting yourself, sometimes more than you would otherwise.

My workplace has a 300-hour cap on banking annual leave.  So, it forces me to take what I accrue above that, which is four weeks or more.

[kkt]

Remember the whole lockdown thing was stupid.  We never done that during flu epidemics.

Well...maybe we should have?

Of course politics didn't enter the norm before.  Just like for years things were named after Confederate Generals and now all of a sudden we have to rename as it's all of a sudden offensive to people.

Or what about the Cleveland Indians all of a sudden became offensive to Native Americans.  The FSU Seminoles almost had to change but the Seminole Tribe spoke up and said leave us alone.

Neither one of these things were "all of the sudden" offensive to people. You just weren't listening.

Then explain why all these years you had the Washington Redskins, Cleveland Indians, Fort Hood, Fort Gordon, and Fort ( Braxton ) Bragg with no one thinking much of the names.  All of a sudden some Rogue Police Officers murder a suspect and it's now a big deal with the military bases named after Confederate people.

I'm not sure the events that lead to renaming sports teams, but we lived with it for decades and now we decide to move. 

All of a sudden?  Stanford changed its sports team from the Indians to the Cardinal back in the 1970s.  Big stink at the time, but generally regarded as the right thing now.

[webny99]

Meanwhile, I get five weeks a year from my employer. 

Wow. That is verging on "too much of a good thing" especially if you have to use it or lose it every year.

I have no problem using up all my 5-6 weeks a year; the sixth week is really just five days I can use for doctor visits and appointments.

Sounds like you and kphoger differ in that regard then, and personally I come down closer to his side.

 Sure, I would absolutely love to just be able to travel 5+ weeks a year, but there are all sorts of financial and family and other considerations that come first and prevent that from actually being realistic. But if you can work all that out, by all means, more power to you.

[kkt]

Regarding the Confederate associated monuments and other stuff, I say if we're going to have people who want to expose unflattering aspects of US history such as slavery, we should also be willing to expose unflattering aspects such as the Confederate States of America and the post-Civil War efforts to ruin the advances of Reconstruction. The C.S.A. did occupy various states in the southern US, so if you see a flag of Spain, the UK, France or other nations in the Old Tallahassee Capitol Building, it shouldn't be a bad thing to see the "Stars and Bars" among them and shouldn't be viewed as an endorsement of white supremacy, or segregation. The confederates had battles on old trails that became roads, as well as courthouses, train stations, and other sites, and even cemeteries where they buried their dead. So when I see confederate monuments at these locations, it's just part of history as far as I'm concerned. It doesn't make me think white people are better than everyone else, and anyone who isn't white had better do as they're told. And if you actually think white people are better than everyone else, and non-whites should "stay in their places," then you're an idiot.

I don't believe we should be honoring Confederate generals with their names on military bases.

I agree.  Almost all the Confederate generals were officers in the U.S. Army before the war.  They betrayed their officer's oaths by taking up arms against the United States.  If they want a memorial, let the Daughters of the Confederacy or some other private group to it, not the country they betrayed.

[SEWIGuy]

I have unlimited. I probably use about three weeks when all is said and done. The most I will ever take at once is a week. Mostly I just take a Friday...or a Thursday and Friday...to make a long weekend.

My workplace is also closed, with pay, between Christmas and New Years.

Sounds like the dark side of unlimited to me -- you end up limiting yourself, sometimes more than you would otherwise.

My workplace has a 300-hour cap on banking annual leave.  So, it forces me to take what I accrue above that, which is four weeks or more.

On the one hand, I can just wake up and take a day off. On the other, I don't have anything banked, so when I leave I won't get any sort of payout.

[formulanone]

Meanwhile, I get five weeks a year from my employer. 

Wow. That is verging on "too much of a good thing" especially if you have to use it or lose it every year.

I have no problem using up all my 5-6 weeks a year; the sixth week is really just five days I can use for doctor visits and appointments.

Sounds like you and kphoger differ in that regard then, and personally I come down closer to his side.

 Sure, I would absolutely love to just be able to travel 5+ weeks a year, but there are all sorts of financial and family and other considerations that come first and prevent that from actually being realistic. But if you can work all that out, by all means, more power to you.

Honestly, at least two of those weeks are spent lying around the house or doing a staycation, since I'm not home as much. So they're typically weeks on the cheap.