Can the Adults Please Smoke? Chapter 35: Look Who's Here,We're Still Here!!- Page 71

[Bluemoon]

Posted: 2/29/12 at 1:35pm

I know....

As you know, *ahem* they were a HUGE part of my childhood.

Mickey still lives.

[bdwaygirl]

Posted: 2/29/12 at 1:46pm

I saw them once at the Meadowlands(Brendan Byrne Arena) with Herman's Hermits, Gary Puckett and I forget who else was there. Then sometime in the 90's, my friend and I had front row at the Arts Center. He touched my hand.

[Bluemoon]

Posted: 2/29/12 at 1:47pm

Gasp! You and Corinne has close encounters!

[bdwaygirl]

Posted: 2/29/12 at 2:02pm

It was July 12, 2001. To be exact.

[Bluemoon]

Posted: 2/29/12 at 2:07pm

My daughter just sent me a message of condolence. It's so nice when they remember. *sniff*

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 2/29/12 at 3:51pm

Interesting....

It's Leap Day! You may be working for free

If you're working for free today, might as well put your feet up.

By Eve Tahmincioglu

If youre a salaried employee and youre slaving away at work today, you may be working for free.

Leap years present an odd compensation dilemma for employees who dont get paid on an hourly basis. Such workers receive a set salary for a typical year, which is usually 365 days. But there's an extra day this year.

Alas, for most employers, it doesnt matter if leap years have 366 days; they still end up paying salaried workers the same amount.

Does this mean youre actually an indentured servant on February 29? Employment experts are divided on this question.

Daniel Schwartz, an employment attorney for Pullman & Comley in Hartford, Conn., believes employers are getting a free day of work out of their overtime-exempt employees.

The annual salary is just that, and the paychecks just reflect the portion of the year. Many employers thus get a 'free' day of work from exempt workers because they are not paying anything more than in non-leap years, he wrote on the law firm's blog this week.

Others dont see it that way.

Its all baked in, said Brue Elliott, the manager of compensation and benefits for the Society of Human Resource Management.

If youre making $100,000 a year, he continued, you get paid that over the course of the year, either weekly, bi-weekly, etc., whether you work 365 or 366 days. Most employers dont pay exempt employees on a per diem basis, he added. Typical offer letters to salaried workers dont specify youll be working a certain amount of days per year, he pointed out. They typically say, youre paid on an annualized basis.

For some salaried workers, the leap year may mean you make more money during this 12-month period.

According to Michael OToole, director of publications, education and government relations for American Payroll Association, 2012 has 53 Mondays. So that means, if an employees gets paid every Monday theyll get 53 paychecks this year, compared to 52 paychecks in 2011.

When there are more weeks in a year, some employers reduce a workers weekly pay to make it all come out even at the end of the year, he explained. But, he added, thats not great human resources relations.

Hourly workers dont have to worry too much about this debate. In the end, they could end up getting an extra days pay for an extra days work if they work throughout the year and the leap day falls on a weekday, as it does this year.

[bdwaygirl]

Posted: 2/29/12 at 3:54pm

!!!!


I don't get the Corine connection to Davy. What am I forgetting??

[Bluemoon]

Posted: 2/29/12 at 4:15pm

A few years ago she did an interview with him. It was up to her usual standards. Unfortuantely. There was a thread about it at the time, but I can't find it now. She ressurrected the interview on her website. Unfortunately.

[shameless]

Posted: 2/29/12 at 4:45pm

A day late, but

TINKERBELL!!!!!!



And, hello, BB and Addy! Mwah!

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 2/29/12 at 4:47pm

We used to sing the Monkees - even in Kansas! I think Mrs. Brd was in England during the heyday!

[MotorTink]

Posted: 2/29/12 at 4:47pm

i was going to make an age related joke but will refrain

[D2]

Posted: 2/29/12 at 4:53pm

I loved THE MONKEES when I was a (little) child. Especially Davey Jones. (Why was anyone in my family surprised when I came out?)

Unless I'm missing it, I haven't read one report that mentions he was The Artful Dodger in the original Broadway production of OLIVER!

And of course his classic appearance on THE BRADY BUNCH as Marcia's date to the dance.

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 2/29/12 at 5:23pm

So you watched Brady Bunch in college?

[D2]

Posted: 2/29/12 at 5:28pm

No, dear Brd. I watched it when I was a child -- I'm older than Bobby and Cindy, but younger than Peter and Jan.

:P

[SonofMammaMiaSam]

Posted: 3/1/12 at 7:27am

Welcome to Thursday kids.

Old, fat people yoga kicked my ample ass. Ouch, ouch, ouch.

[MotorTink]

Posted: 3/1/12 at 7:56am

I skipped training last week, so Tuesday night's session kicked my ass. I'm feeling it today. Drink lotsa water, Somms!

So funny, typical Tink story for you this morning. Last night, I enjoyed a few martinis at home while watching a movie. Well my cousin calls me around 9:30 to come over. What she didn't tell me was her upstairs neighbor was over and this was a fix up. So I come in, quite tipsy, carrying a full martini (and reserves in another cup announcing while walking in door "Have martinis, will travel"), while wearing eyeore pajama bottoms, a tank top without proper undergarments, no make up, and hair quite sloppily placed on top of head.

My life is never dull. Somehow, I don't think I should be waiting for a phone call, lol.

[Bluemoon]

Posted: 3/1/12 at 8:03am

Well, see, if you had stayed home and watched Revenge, that wouldn't have happened! And boo-hiss to your cousin for no hints or heads-up.

'Morning!

[D2]

Posted: 3/1/12 at 8:14am

What are all wearing to the wedding?

Mornin'

[MotorTink]

Posted: 3/1/12 at 8:19am

hahaha, luckily I was not interested in him either, so no big loss.

Moony - that was the plan. The movie would have ended right in time for Revenge. Oh well.

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 3/1/12 at 8:30am

Morning peeps! I can't believe we have to wait a month for the next episode of Revenge!

[SonofMammaMiaSam]

Posted: 3/1/12 at 8:45am

I have to rewatch it tonight. It seems that, as a result of FOPY, I feel asleep between 10:35 and 10:55.

[Bluemoon]

Posted: 3/1/12 at 9:04am

There was a lot of that going around, SOMMS. Hubby fell asleep 10 minutes into the episode and woke up as the credits were rolling. He said he was going to watch the last 10 minutes to see what happened on the beach, but he was alseep again before he even reached for the remote. I have a feeling I'll be able to watch it again tonight.

[YouWantitWhen????]

Posted: 3/1/12 at 9:05am

Morning Adults. YWIW is in mortgage broker hell. On no you don't send me three different good faith estimates and expect me to sign the most expensive one without explanation.

I smell shenanigans (or just laziness).

I loved the Monkees as well. It is one of those shows, along with the Partridge Family, the Brady Bunch, and Happy Days that I see random snippets in my head from when I was a wee YWIW.

[D2]

Posted: 3/1/12 at 9:11am

9:12 and only 5 out of 25 students in the room.

Hmmmm...

My new attendance app calculates all the latenesses and send them out as alerts to individual students. This is going to be fun.

[Bluemoon]

Posted: 3/1/12 at 9:16am

Maybe they're observing a day of mourning for Davy Jones.