53 thoughts on “January 16, 2015: Bonus Weekend”

      1. Our general counsel was in town yesterday. She indicated that she wanted to meet with me at 2:30 to discuss some issues regarding my development plan. It seemed odd to me -- I'd already gone over my development plan with my direct supervisor. Filled me with some angst. Then, at 2:30, she pushed it off ten minutes. Plus it was in the board room. Very odd, we had a conference room reserved for this space.

        I came up to the boardroom at 2:40 and she called me in. My boss, my assistant, my colleagues, general counsel, all my colleagues in Georgia via video were wearing these hideous orange t-shirts with my face on them. I had been had! 🙂

        It made me very happy. Not every general counsel is gonna put a t-shirt like that on.

        1. That's pretty cool. It's nice to be appreciated at work. (Where I work, the expectation is that the employee with the birthday/anniversary is the one that has to bring in the donuts. No one knows when my birthday is.)

          When my son was born, the company sent us a nice fleece blanket with his name and birthday monogrammed on. I don't think our new corporate overlords will do anything so personal.

          1. Where I work, the expectation is that the employee with the birthday/anniversary is the one that has to bring in the donuts. No one knows when my birthday is.
            I could write the same thing, except "donuts" is adjustible. Treats of any kind suffice.
            Also, I don't work on my birthday. I put in a PTO request a month or two earlier. "Personal Day." "Some things to do." etc.
            It's about three weeks in to crazy season, so it also makes sense that I just take a random day to get daylight while it's there.

        2. I have a bad habit of assuming my "cheers" are implied. But, cheers. Work appreciation is sorely overlooked everywhere I've ever gone to make money.

    1. The use of the word "stupid" really hurt. Also, hurt can be and usually is a verb. I hurt him. She hurt me. I was hurt by that falling object. I will hurt you.

  1. Monday I will be celebrating the many, many Academy Award nominations garnered by Selma. PROGRESS!

  2. Bonus 3-day weekend for me.
    It was announced on December 12 (5 weeks ago) that we'd get MLKJr Day and Presidents Day off, without surrendering any other holidays.

    1. Co-bus rider said yesterday she gets 12-13 holidays off a year. I'm not sure I can enumerate 13 holidays.

      1. I usually get 12 where I work. There are 8 specified holidays and 4 floating, so any day can be a holiday!

      2. I get 12-13 every year. Every day from Christmas Eve through the end of the year is a holiday. Plus the usual suspects.

        1. We get the same thing, but it doesn't count as holiday. To my knowledge, she does not get any of those extra days off. Instead, it's stuff like Columbus Day.

          1. 11 holidays, if I counted right. Plus two floating "Professional Development Days" in lieu of two former holidays (heh), plus a Personal Holiday (credited for one's birthday basically), plus 4 hours per year of "Holiday Informal Time Off" granted every year by the gubnor for the Christmas Eve/New Year's Eve non-holiday holidays. Plus vacation time. Yea.

      3. I get 9: NYD, MLK, Pres, Mem, Indep, Labor, Thx, BlkFri, Xmas.
        If you work Xmas eve, you can leave at noon. But if you're out all day, you have to use a whole day.

        1. Yea, I remember those days. Vacation? Oh, you mean the time when my wife and kids leave town and I'm not teaching, so that I can try to get a paper finished?

    2. "Holidays" doesn't really apply to my job. I have designated office hours, but I don't have to stick to them religiously. The only time I've ever seen "office hours" matter to people is if a) they feel you're not accessible to them or b) they feel you're not getting the work done. Nobody really cares what hours you work as long as you're available when they need you and you're getting done the things you're supposed to get done.

        1. What is this "staff" of which you speak? I have a secretary who's there from Monday-Thursday from 9:00 to noon. That's my staff. We do have some pretty awesome volunteers, though.

            1. Yes, but staff implies that people work certain hours, have certain titles,and are under my supervision. These are just the people I can call when things need to be done. Which, in some ways, is better than having staff.

    3. I'm an independent contractor, which is nice for the most part. I work when I choose, except when work isn't available. Of course, no work = no pay. For me, holidays just mean forced unpaid days.

  3. When I was at the UP HQ mothership this Mon/Tue, I found out that my (and some other) hiring on had been announced (finally) to my co-workers. I think it's going to be entertaining though when I attend the new hire orientation on April 1, having just short of 23 years already doing essentially the same work.

    1. Glad you're not at CSX. We met with some of their folks this week, none of whom know what job, if any, they will have at the end of the month. Other points of contact accepted retirement and disappeared over the weekend. And all of this, it seems, is largely a play for their investors.

    1. Having Steve Garvey is Torii Hunter's #1 comp is tooooooooooo perfect. The philandering, the ridiculous public image, the strong Republican politics, the overrated defensive reputation. Just toooooo perfect.

  4. Twins agree to terms with Trevor Plouffe ($4.8 million), Tommy Milone ($2.775 million), Casey Fien ($1.375 million), and Eduardo Nunez ($1.025 million).

    1. Trevor Plouffe! also announced that his wife is bearing his son.
      (via his Twitter, yesterday, IIRC)

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