From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Sep 13 11:55:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com (bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com [171.70.84.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 824B237B423; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 11:55:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bmah@localhost) by bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e8DItrM56191; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 11:55:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bmah) Message-Id: <200009131855.e8DItrM56191@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 To: marko@freebsd.org, chat@freebsd.org Cc: "Bruce A. Mah" Subject: Re: Question about voting In-Reply-To: <20000913194054.E264@parish> References: <20000913074150.V11227@radon.gryphonsoft.com> <62550.968809979@winston.osd.bsdi.com> <200009130541.e8D5fHG91697@netplex.com.au> <20000913074150.V11227@radon.gryphonsoft.com> <200009131641.KAA88617@harmony.village.org> <20000913191538.B264@parish> <200009131822.e8DIM6e28777@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com> <20000913194054.E264@parish> Comments: In-reply-to Mark Ovens message dated "Wed, 13 Sep 2000 19:40:54 +0100." From: "Bruce A. Mah" Reply-To: bmah@freebsd.org X-Face: g~c`.{#4q0"(V*b#g[i~rXgm*w;:nMfz%_RZLma)UgGN&=j`5vXoU^@n5v4:OO)c["!w)nD/!!~e4Sj7LiT'6*wZ83454H""lb{CC%T37O!!'S$S&D}sem7I[A 2V%N&+ X-Image-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/Images/bmah-cisco-small.gif X-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_-1694213988P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 11:55:53 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --==_Exmh_-1694213988P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit If memory serves me right, Mark Ovens wrote: > [moved to -chat] Yeah. Thought it was already moved. > On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 11:22:06AM -0700, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > > If memory serves me right, Mark Ovens wrote: > > > On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 10:41:03AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > > > > The reason that I changed it from 1 week to 4 weeks was at the request > > > > of many Europeans. They are lucky enough to get 3-4 week vacations > > > > which they tend to take off all at once. > > > > > > So how many weeks do you get in the States? > > > > Some 'Merikan companies lump vacation and sick leave time together. > > Here at Cisco it's called "Paid Time Off" (PTO). We get four weeks of > > PTO total...if you're healthy, you can treat it all like vacation time. > > Jeez, you're joking. The company I work for has what is regarded as > low holiday entitlements but I still get 22 days + 8 statutory > (Easter, Xmas, New Year and Bank Holidays) and 6 weeks paid sick > leave. If you are in a company pension scheme that (sick leave) > usually rises to 6 months on full pay followed by 6 months on half > pay. I neglected to mention paid holidays, I forget how many of them there are. > No wonder that when we set up a subsidiary in the US the people who > moved out there wanted UK style employment terms (holiday/sick pay and > company cars). Company cars?!? Bruce. --==_Exmh_-1694213988P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use MessageID: i/QgnlY3OPwfkts2HEKgaHUorehwxH2T iQA/AwUBOb/NudjKMXFboFLDEQISBgCdHuElI+oP++ZpqTQcWSHIIre1QcsAn1FL FvBuR2N+1RPT/7z8t4GoArh+ =XnA3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_-1694213988P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message