A frolic in Cambodia

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
An amazing number of companies have "shut-down" in corporate offices during the holidays -- on top of the vacation. Nice work if you can get it, eh?

GGG is in-house? Can someone PM me the company, I need to dump some stock.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
On another forum, someone's relating last night's drunken events and the songs that she may have sung. Everyone else piled on with what they usually end up singing when drunk.

Poll question: When you're drunk (or otherwise in a position to spontaneously burst into song) what do you end up singing?

Me: Always Janis. Usually Mercedes Benz, though sometimes Me & Bobby McGee or Ball & Chain, and if I'm feeling very ambitious, Piece of My Heart.

I usually belt Mercedes Benz at the top of my lungs, usually walking home from some party or bar within walking distance. Always when I'm walking home alone (with the notable exception of my 22nd birthday).

Janis, but always, I mean ALWAYS, Me & Bobby McGee (Ok, piece of my heart now and then).

And, if I'm really blotto sad drunk, that Green Green Grass of Home song.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
GGG is in-house? Can someone PM me the company, I need to dump some stock.

Don't worry, Benny, it's a small company, and even if it went down completely it wouldn't affect that mutual fund in your 401(k).

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

I'm modeling myself after a guy who takes 3 months in the summer and one month in the winter, but works from little offices we've set up for him near his vacation homes. I will consider myself a true success when I can take four months as well.

I used to work for a partner who took a six week stint in France the summer I started there. He claimed to be working in those six weeks (and that was a pain in the butt for those of us who had to "work" with him, because if you happened to be at lunch or meeting with a client or otherwise occupied when he called, you'd catch hell on the next call because you weren't available). His billing was almost non-existent in those six weeks, and I understand that he later claimed he was developing clients in France. The other partners in the firm were irate and ended up leaving to work in more stable firms by the end of that year. The next summer, he did not go to France.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
And you can carry forward vacation, and/or buy extra vacation, under some vacation arrangements.

I try to block out all the nice corporate vacation benefits when I'm done reviewing benefits for transactions, or I start to cry.

I've put employment arrangements for physicians where literally they get three weeks on and then three weeks off. I cry at that and then I cry some more when I put their compensation arrangements together. I feel a little better when I remember that I got to see my late 20s, but not that much.

[Hank Chinaski]

I know the annual "is it sick to breast feed after 1 year?" thread is always divisive, and never resolved.
But I believe even Atticus would agree that this is wrong:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...aland_puppy_dc

Mom Breastfeeds Puppy to Protect Baby





WELLINGTON (Reuters) - A woman in New Zealand says she is breastfeeding her pet puppy because she wants it to protect her baby daughter as they both grow up.

Kura Tumanako told the NZPA news agency Wednesday that she had started breastfeeding the Staffordshire bull terrier pup after her baby stopped taking her milk.

"I didn't want to waste it so I gave it to Honey Boy," she said.

According to NZPA, Tumanako said she had fed the dog twice a day for the past week but would probably wean it off in about six weeks' time. Her baby, now 2 months old, is on bottled milk.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
GGG is in-house? Can someone PM me the company, I need to dump some stock.

I have no clue where he works -- it just doesn't sound law firm-y.

But I either know nothing, or have forgotten something I did know.

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
I've put employment arrangements for physicians where literally they get three weeks on and then three weeks off. I cry at that and then I cry some more when I put their compensation arrangements together. I feel a little better when I remember that I got to see my late 20s, but not that much.

Maybe you should change your practice area so that your work does not inspire such envy.

Or marry a doctor and stay home and have babies!

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan


Poll question: When you're drunk (or otherwise in a position to spontaneously burst into song) what do you end up singing?

Teenager in Love, by Dion and the Belmonts. But I always sing the harmony part of the chorus.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
I used to work for a partner who took a six week stint in France the summer I started there. He claimed to be working in those six weeks (and that was a pain in the butt for those of us who had to "work" with him, because if you happened to be at lunch or meeting with a client or otherwise occupied when he called, you'd catch hell on the next call because you weren't available). His billing was almost non-existent in those six weeks, and I understand that he later claimed he was developing clients in France. The other partners in the firm were irate and ended up leaving to work in more stable firms by the end of that year. The next summer, he did not go to France.

I ran into an old government co-worker this summer. He was now working at a DC IP boutique. His firm insists every partner take off 3 months every 7 years to recharge the ole batteries.

It keeps people from burning out, and also binds the clients more to the firm than just the 1 partner. I can't imagine some of these 7 day a week guys not having an office to go to for 3 months- I don't think they'd find it relaxing. But I was jealous.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Maybe you should change your practice area so that your work does not inspire such envy.

Or marry a doctor and stay home and have babies!

Or! Or I could just go back to med school.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by baltassoc
Your statement is a little ambiguous, and so either nice, really nice, or really, really, really cold.

So did they pick up the cost you would had to eat of an apartment you were planning to stay in, rent the apartment for you to stay in, or rent an apartment you were planning to stay in, thereby necessitating that you find other accomodations?

'Cause if the latter, absent some pretty amazing extenuating circumstances, I'd quit.

The former. I think they would have picked up the airfare, too, but I hadn't bought tickets yet.

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Or! Or I could just go back to med school.

Ooh. Then would you marry me? But not while you're in school. I don't want an I put you through med school and massage you through residency and you dump me for a trophy after getting into private practice scenario.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Ooh. Then would you marry me? But not while you're in school. I don't want an I put you through med school and massage you through residency and you dump me for a trophy after getting into private practice scenario.

Is that clothespin in your avatar intended to be phallic?

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
Is that clothespin in your avatar intended to be phallic?

You should talk, O Horny one.