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Post by kristalina on Jul 19, 2014 16:54:13 GMT
I swear, I answered this post but don't see my response!
I forget to hover and usually read the posts that I have an opinion on or if they seem interesting. see - I've opened this thread twice, I'm curious as to what others do I guess.
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Post by kristalina on Jul 19, 2014 16:44:50 GMT
omg that Chip mug is adorable!! My dh's favorite movie is Beauty and the Beast! lol So you can use sharpies, but you have to bake the item to set the color? I've never heard of that.
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Post by kristalina on Jul 19, 2014 16:39:36 GMT
Ornaments These are the ones I want to make. They're all cute, but I like the ones in the little tart tins. Actually, down in the page, there's one made from a star cookie-cutter which is pretty cute. I'm collecting the tins from garage sales/flea market and have quite a few. I'll use pics of grandparents, etc.
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Post by kristalina on Jul 19, 2014 16:35:43 GMT
Businesses can pretty much do whatever they want. It's up to them to set their own policies. It sounds like your business does have a very clear policy, it's just not to your advantage in this case. The "business can do what they want" is what I was looking for. I'm not versed in HR law so I just kind of wondered.. thank you. I had to check the calendar though and am happy that this is the only holiday through the end of the year to fall on a Friday.
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Post by kristalina on Jul 19, 2014 16:24:46 GMT
Anniebygaslight - we don't have a contract. That's part of the problem. If it was all written out, there wouldn't be a question. They make decisions as they go along.
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Post by kristalina on Jul 19, 2014 16:22:05 GMT
In oregon what you described is completely legal, and what our small non profit used to do. Now they have a more convulsed way to do it, but everyone gets paid for the holiday if it falls on a workday. The stinky thing for us though, is that the years the 4th or other national holiday falls on a Saturday or Sunday our building is closed the Friday or Monday before or after the holiday so we cannot work, but since the holiday is on the weekend, we do not get paid. That irritates me to no end. Oh, yea, a forced unpaid day off is doubly-stinky!
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Post by kristalina on Jul 19, 2014 16:17:24 GMT
We're looking for a room for my daughter who'll be going to SFAI (San Francisco Art Institute) in August. She won't be living in the dorm, she's transferring as a Jr and didn't want the dorm. (it's looking better now though.) She's 22, non-smoker, quiet, clean, no-drama artist. Anyone with a son/daughter in the city or West Oakland need a roommate? or if you talk to them this weekend, can you ask if any of their friends need a new roommate? Or does anyone have any been-there-done-that suggestions? (She's posting/answering ads on the school housing board, Craig's list, looking on a couple other roommate sites,etc.) We're looking from Daly City to south Berkeley. She's interviewed at quite a few rooms, but they're getting 50-70 responses in the first day and she hasn't been chosen yet. We went up yesterday and rode the Bart from Oakland to SF, found the correct bus to her school and rode to her school. The whole trip is about an hour. Totally do-able. The school is on Chestnut, very close to the crooked part of Lombard, so Russian Hill/Nob Hill/ North Beach area but really the transit is so good that anywhere would be great. (except Tenderloin.) You never know. We're trying everything we can think of... I'll bump this thread throughout the weekend so I can catch my bay-area peas! Thanks in advance for any help/advice you can give. - we need it!
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Post by kristalina on Jul 19, 2014 15:56:51 GMT
I don't expect it at all. BUT since I almost never start a thread that when I do, I'm so excited when someone responds that I honestly do *like* it that they responded so I usually do like them. wow long sentance.
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Post by kristalina on Jul 19, 2014 15:53:11 GMT
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Post by kristalina on Jul 19, 2014 15:45:10 GMT
Ah got it. Then I think it was especially stinky of them to ASK you about if other people should be paid, but not pay you. Not illegal, but not nice. YES. exactly. The term in my mind was pretty much chicken-shit but it's pretty minor in the big picture. I do like them and I do like/appreciate my job.
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Post by kristalina on Jul 19, 2014 15:43:57 GMT
It sounds like you're more of a part time employee as far as hours go? Then I can understand not getting all the paid holidays. It was the fact that my day off was Friday, that I didn't get paid. We're all "part-time" now that we've been put on 4 day work weeks. The other 4-day employees got it because they normally work Friday. But one of the questions was IS there a set law/rule about who should get paid and who shouldn't and it's becoming clear that it's ok for each employer to make their own policy. That's fine. I don't plan on bringing this up w/them, as I like my job and was just curious if this is legal.
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Post by kristalina on Jul 19, 2014 15:43:47 GMT
It sounds like you're more of a part time employee as far as hours go? Then I can understand not getting all the paid holidays. It was the fact that my day off was Friday, that I didn't get paid. We're all "part-time" now that we've been put on 4 day work weeks. The other 4-day employees got it because they normally work Friday. But one of the questions was IS there a set law/rule about who should get paid and who shouldn't and it's becoming clear that it's ok for each employer to make their own policy. That's fine. I don't plan on bringing this up w/them, as I like my job and was just curious if this is legal.
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Post by kristalina on Jul 19, 2014 15:40:38 GMT
However, I would be furious as an employer to learn that you were discussing your pay with another employee. In our company, that's grounds for dismissal. I guess I wasn't clear about how I got the information. I share an office with the family member who does payroll and she asked me if I thought we should pay "Sam" who was a day-laborer who was hired on a temporary basis. He has been working 5 days, so she was undecided on if he should be paid for Friday. I would never have known that they were paying some and not me unless she had asked me what I thought about the temporary worker's status. I asked her if we were getting the 4th paid and she told me the employees who normally work that day are.
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Post by kristalina on Jul 19, 2014 15:25:27 GMT
That's weird to have it different for everyone. We owned a small business but it was kind of a different set up where people were just paid on the work they did (not hourly or salary - kind of sub contractors in a way) and they didn't work on holidays so there wasn't holiday pay. No matter how they handle holidays - paid or not - it should be consistent for all. That's what I think. It never bothered me not to get Easter off because really none but the one Sunday employee did, but since I was the ONLY employee that didn't get the 4th, it was weird. Just wondering if it's legal..
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Post by kristalina on Jul 19, 2014 15:22:54 GMT
I have worked for small companies and always gotten paid for the holiday if it fell on a regularly scheduled work day. I also worked for an employer who cut hous "temporarily" and totally understand how you feel. Can you chane your hours so you are working the same amount of hours, just over 5 days? That is what I did and it worked well. Well, if I am only going to work 32 hours, I guess I'd rather just work th 4 days. I would really like the 3 day weekends if it weren't for my short paycheck every week.
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Post by kristalina on Jul 19, 2014 15:13:37 GMT
oh, thank you, we need something new!
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Post by kristalina on Jul 19, 2014 15:10:18 GMT
I'm one of the only employees who isn't family. I've been at my job 24 years, and like my job and the family I work for. That's not the issue but just the history.
We're in Ca. and I have no knowledge of HR laws. They pay a few holidays, but ONLY if they fall on your normal work day. So the only one who ever gets paid for Easter is the girl who only works Sat and Sun.
Here's what happened on July 4th. My day off is Friday, my co-worker's day off is Wednesday. We both work 4 days, she got a paid day off for July 4th, I didn't. We both work the same number of hours, are equal in our positions. But one of us got a paid holiday, one didn't.
I work a 4 day week (used to be 5 but "everyone"'s hours were cut 2 years ago for economic reasons so 52 unpaid days per year), but that's not the issue. It is becoming it's own issue because we were told it was temporary but 1 out of 5 days is a full 20 percent of my income - gone. I'm just realizing it's really not temporary.
My question is - is it true that they aren't required to even pay any holidays? It's their choice to make their own holiday policy and pay who/when they want to?
My second question is - Does the small business you work for or own pay holidays? If so - for everyone regardless of what day of the week they fall?
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Post by kristalina on Jul 19, 2014 14:46:11 GMT
I just did a google image search for home made cupcakes and in almost every single picture they were just in the paper liners. 2 pictures were in foil, a few were in fancy paper liners (just had little flowers of polka-dots on them) but the majority was the paper liners.
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Post by kristalina on Jul 19, 2014 14:41:52 GMT
I make them in the foil and then put them in a paper liner. Aren't the papers different colors of pastel? like pink, yellow, light blue? Why would they be intended to be thrown away if they were decorative?
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Post by kristalina on Jul 19, 2014 4:58:42 GMT
Sounds very sweet, I'd love to see one when it's done!
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Post by kristalina on Jul 19, 2014 4:44:03 GMT
aaahhh. so sad. Hugs to all of you.
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Post by kristalina on Jul 19, 2014 4:13:38 GMT
why don't they do foot tattoos?
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Post by kristalina on Jul 19, 2014 4:12:04 GMT
Maybe over your heart, where your hand hits when you put your hand over your heart. Not really visable but you don't have to turn around and look in a mirror to see it.
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Post by kristalina on Jul 19, 2014 4:04:41 GMT
a month for mine, but I usually only get them in the summer.
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Post by kristalina on Jul 19, 2014 3:58:36 GMT
I got a cute small tattoo on my stomach when I was 24. Today at age 58, it's not so cute. It's pretty hilarious actually, very very stretched! I'll be waiting for you to answer freecharlie's question before I suggest any spots.
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Post by kristalina on Jul 19, 2014 3:29:24 GMT
Never did, never will. My feet aren't made for them.
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Post by kristalina on Jul 19, 2014 3:23:33 GMT
My dd and I were talking about the possible side effects listed on the package of the snack food called "WOW Chips" - rectal leakage. It contains some kind of artificial oil or something like that. The conversation went on and on and included many different seepage references.
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Post by kristalina on Jul 18, 2014 15:28:15 GMT
Hugs to everyone who knew you irl. wow, this hit me hard. rest in peace BethAnn
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Post by kristalina on Jul 18, 2014 3:22:30 GMT
Interview the orthodontist at the clinic and read the yelp and other online reviews. Research the clinic. If it has good reviews and I felt comfortable after interviewing there, I'd change in a heartbeat. I wouldn't be able to make the decision without really checking out the clinic.
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Post by kristalina on Jul 18, 2014 0:16:55 GMT
Mine was 3-4 years old when I joined 2Peas 12 years ago. So I was a young 42 years old. Yea, I need a new one!
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