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To: DManA

Amen....

When my daughters were born in 65 & 68 I wasn’t really allowed to be anywhere near, I worked and stayed at work, visiting in the evening.

I also advised my ‘young laborers’ later on that when they wanted ‘extra time off’ because their lady was pregnant, my advice was ‘Son, now is the time you want to start chalking up the overtime, not missing work and the pay that goes with it’.

We actually have a ‘LAW’ that mandates 2 weeks for the male?

Guess I am among the ‘uninformed’ but why would someone that works seasonal work (say Baseball announcers) be given ‘vacation or leave or whatever they call it anymore’ in the middle of July?

When I was in the Paving business, NO ONE even dreamed of taking time off in the Summer...and that was in Virginia, where we shut down from mid Nov to Mid March except for ‘emergencies’.

We had ‘paid holidays and paid vacations’. Show up for work on the 4th of July and you will have a paid holiday.
Designate ANY 2, 3 or 4 weeks in the summer as your vacation, and as long as you are at work, you will have your paid vacation.


14 posted on 04/04/2014 7:49:49 AM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98 --"I would agree with you BUT that would make both of us wrong".))
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To: xrmusn

Exactly. Back when abortion was illegal, if the wife had a baby a man would dig in and work twice as hard. Because he was now responsible for another mouth to feed.


23 posted on 04/04/2014 8:04:42 AM PDT by DManA
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To: xrmusn

That sounds much too logical and responsible for the present “nanny” climate.


41 posted on 04/04/2014 9:20:39 AM PDT by Churchillspirit (9/11/2001 and 9/11/2012: NEVER FORGET.)
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