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?? How does that work then?
Well it's half the hours I did last week, so will feel like a holiday....
Plus there's a deadline due for yet another project, and I have 3 weeks worth to take before Jan or lose it, so if I take it as holiday I can turn off the phone/email and focus on the project work. Bang it out by Thursday, and then take a long drunken weekend.“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
-- President John F. Kennedy”0 -
Celery is part of a mirepoix: the starting point of most French and Italian food. No celery = no chicken cacciatore, no boeuf bourgingon, no bouillabaisse, no ragu.
A mirepoix is that mix of onion, carrot, celery and garlic cooked in oil or butter.
Which is lovely and all but it's still a green stick shaped turd.
“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
-- President John F. Kennedy”0 -
HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »Well it's half the hours I did last week, so will feel like a holiday....
Plus there's a deadline due for yet another project, and I have 3 weeks worth to take before Jan or lose it, so if I take it as holiday I can turn off the phone/email and focus on the project work. Bang it out by Thursday, and then take a long drunken weekend.
...ah I see.....so can you add the rest to Xmas/ NY?
Son has the same thing in his place where you lose the entitlement so has taken 2 days next week but has to work late in order to complete whatever it is he is working on.0 -
Sorry, wasn't clear...how come if you are n holiday you have to work for 50 hours?.
Because my role is measured by results and not number of hours at work.
You work until the work is done. Hours and days have no meaning.
If the CEO throws you a project you work 18-20 hours a day and 7 days a week until it's done if that's what's required.
A lot like being self employed in a small business I'd imagine. Just with more financial security....ah I see.....so can you add the rest to Xmas/ NY?
No.
Working most of that as well.
You just lose it, but probably make a bigger bonus due to all the hours you put in leading to better financial performance.“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
-- President John F. Kennedy”0 -
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HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »Because my role is measured by results and not number of hours at work.
You work until the work is done. Hours and days have no meaning.
If the CEO throws you a project you work 18-20 hours a day and 7 days a week until it's done if that's what's required.
A lot like being self employed in a small business I'd imagine. Just with more financial security.
No. Working that as well.
:rotfl:
I must be sounding dough brained tonight.....yup...like being SE.
We don't get 'paid' holidays either.....so only take the minimum required to prevent a total burnout.;)
Having said that I can't have a moan about slave driving myself as I am currently practising Work Smarter and a Lot Less Harder.
It took a while to get used to....working less hard and we are earning less of the £££ now (as less busy) but, oddly, I have become more efficient.0 -
LIR I would say yes to continuing the under-floor heating into the utility,,,,and your hairdressers sounds luxe. Did you sort out the pill brand issue?
No. And they failed to bring me a replacement docket ( last week they brought be back one weeks worth on the basis that changes to script might be made to allow drug change, and they were. They are now saying they cannot get hold of that one either.
The docket they brought me ran out today I think.0 -
lostinrates wrote: »I like cucumber a lot ( but not cooked) I like celery to and adore it cooked.
I don't mind cucumber cooked, but prefer it raw.
Not keen on celery. Very rarely add it to anything I cook. I'll eat it if it's well disguised in other things (such as the dishes Gen mentioned). If it's in larger chunks (e.g. in a casserole) I'll pick it out and eat it first to get it out of the way.0
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