Happy Boxing Day! It’s not a thing here in the US. And apparently, it’s become nothing more than a bank holiday even where it is. But in my humble opinion, anyone who worked on Christmas Day deserves a break. Including me. And I intend to lay on the sofa all day, reading, napping, and eating cookies. What are your plans, Deadsplinters?
Clean (I have guests coming tomorrow… I hope.)
Be Lazy, watch Netflix and/or Paramount + (I might get off my ass and sign up)
???
Profit.
I’ll clean tomorrow. Have fun with your guests.
Is it any wonder that Susan Hayward was cast as the Ethel Merman character in Valley of the Dolls?
That too 🙃
Boxing day is for everyone to go out shopping for boxing day sales. Or, if you’re me, for day drinking and watching the world juniors. Go Canada!
I’ll be drinking too, and watching trash tv.
making bubble & squeak from the leftovers in a bit…theres even a little bit of roast pork left for me so yum…and then doing the dishes before getting myself a beer and bumming about on the interwebs
sooo….basically nothing much… being a little annoyed at all the shops being open on christmas and boxing day…i mean…not so annoyed i wont use them…coz…well…its conveniant… still somehow feels less christmassy having stuff open tho
I feel sorry for the people who have to work on Christmas and today. You just know people are going to be awful to them.
yep….and as added insult to injury that 200% pay for working the holidays looks real good on paper till you realize how much of it will go to our wonderful tax office
at the 150% i get for overtime i actually earn slightly less per hour than i normally do after tax…at 200% you at least earn a little more than you normally would….but its not much
the amount pre tax looks real nice tho
There’s always a catch. 🤬
As a policy, disincentivizing overtime could be used as a way to ensure businesses are properly staffed and paying decent wages to begin with.
that is the reason given here yes
in practice tho…well…properly staffed doesnt really happen…and proper wages dont really happen till you are over 21
which is why supermarkets are mostly staffed by teenagers… minimum wage for a 15yo is like…$3 hour
tho..at least over here employers can only mandate i think 8 hours of overtime a month…so whilst it doesnt pay..at least its mostly voluntary
Where I work, the reason we get OT is because scheduling/management seems to not have much of a clue (and some folks are really lazy.)
Last year I worked out how much I get in overtime in an average year as a % of my base salary.
It worked out to under 50% (45% actually.)
No place I worked at tolerated that amount of OT. Not even 20%. And we’re fully staffed, but have a very large number of people on Short Term Disability (again not tolerated in any place I worked besides this one.) Even my sister (HR Catbert person) who whines about how much OT her folks make (and it’s around 20% of base) can’t believe the amount of OT I get.
Part of me can’t complain as that amount of money helped me survive losing my engineering job and getting financially drained by the Cokehead Narcissist. Other part of me wonders how long it can last.
When the new (American) owners arrive, I wonder what’s going to happen. I’m guessing they’ll probably axe most of our OT and fire a number of the malingerers. Probably a lot of changes and not for the better.
where i work we get OT coz sales keeps selling more than we can actually produce……good business i guess
but.. because OT hardly nets you a financial benefit other than a couple hours pay….anyone that doesnt actually need the extra cash doesnt do the overtime…
soo…really its a small group of people taking all the overtime coz we need the money….and the rest fucks of home
sooo… the intent of disincentivizing overtime really just disincentivizes the ones not really needing the cash….and the ones that do pick up the slack but dont earn as much as they could have coz of the disincentivizing and as such need to take even more overtime
its a good money maker for the gubment tho…even tho it doesnt work as advertised
good luck with your new bosses
…I have a friend who used to work for deutsche bank…& they don’t offer OT but do have a starting salary that sounds like a lot to someone fresh out of uni…but when they had to go talk to students for the recruitment drive they were very tempted to point out that if you broke it down to an hourly rate your time was valued less than it would have been at mcdonalds
…same seemed to be true of corporate law
…in both cases the attrition rate was steep…to the point that the salaries of the upper tiers weren’t so much based on how valuable those people’s time was as it was to make the people in the next rung down put up with the hours expected of them in hopes of making the cut when the next round of promoted-or-fired kicked in
…seemed about as counter-intuitive as that OT set up, to me…which is probably one of the many reasons I’m not in corporate management?
i mean dont ask me mate
i will never understand why someone who is paid to take meetings and write emails and generally sit around all fucking day is paid more than me
and not by a little either
its not like he could do my job
(but it is fun watching them try)
Goofing off. That’s it. My wife keeps bemusedly muttering “We don’t have any obligations today.” It’s a feature, not a bug, dear.
This is the right way to observe Boxing Day – no obligations indeed!
Each Boxing Day I challenge my Canadian friend to a fight & he tells me that is not what Boxing Day is about. So, I will just see how much leftover turkey I can eat until I get sick. Woke up to blasting winds knocking things into the house, news just said 50mph gusts. I made friends with a crow yesterday but don’t think he will be around until the winds calm down.
Boo for heavy winds, yay for crow friends!
A power outage derailed my plans to stay warm and cozy while holding BabyHZ and binging The Witcher Blood Origin series starring everyone’s favorite Auntie Michelle Yeoh and shipping my kids and husband off to a neighbor’s house for a playdate.
…ooh…had not clocked that blood origins included michelle yeoh
…my family are weirdly averse to TV over christmas…which is inconvenient…but that one is now several spots higher in my things-I’d-maybe-rather-be-watching list…& I’m (hopefully) about at the end of my chores for today
…well…until the next tech support requirement hoves into view, anyway?
Well that sucks. My daughter just left to drive home in the snow so I can’t really start relaxing until I know shes home safe.
How is BabyHZ settling in?
BabyHZ is very chill compared to my first two. It’s a treat to finally have a baby who can lie flat on their back without discomfort (the other two had reflux).
Nice 🙂
Is it a long drive for your daughter?
About an hour, she said the roads were fine.
If you want something to do, we watched Glass Onion last night. I loved it but I also loved Knives Out. After it was over (and I could barely move, mind you, sated as I was by the pre-movie carb-heavy meal we had consumed) I went on iMDB to check something and saw that it had a cast of 37. That’s far too many, I thought. Digging further, I learned that many of those were cameos by VFPs (Very Famous People) that completely flew over my head. As a little challenge to yourself, watch Green Onion and see how many you can spot. Give yourself bonus points if you can find the two who died before the movie was released, making their Glass Onion cameos their final performances.
Unpopular opinion – I was not a fan of Knives Out, I didn’t think it was nearly as clever as it thought it was. I know im in the minority on this though as everyone else seems to love it. 🤷🏻♀️
…I think I maybe split the difference…I also thought it wasn’t all it was made out to be…but I did like it & thought it was good?
I thought it was good enough but not amazing. Like if I had paid $12 at a movie theater to see it, I would have been like wow I did not get my money’s worth.
Also the Foghorn Leghorn accent on Daniel Craig is annoying as fuck.
That being said I’m watching Glass Onion now and it’s better. But also the accent is still annoying, but the other character introduced about an hour in cracks me up because that Alabama accent is plausible, unlike Colonel Sanders Chicken from Futurama.
The biggest issue I can’t suspend disbelief on is that we’re supposed to believe Janelle Monae and Edward Norton characters were an item. He’s a completely bland looking 53 yr old man and she’s a goddess who is 37.
I agree that Knives Out was not as clever as it thought it was. I also cannot stand Daniel Craig’s accent. Even if it is phonologically accurate (I can’t tell), it’s annoying AF. That being said, I’m still looking forward to watching Glass Onion.
Bad Southern accents are annoying as fuck to those of us familiar with them. I think the biggest problem is actors doing what they *think* a Southern accent is, without bothering to determine a) what a Southern accent entails and b) what specific region the character is supposed to be from.
I imagine our British friends go through the same thing, except I tend to think actors will put more effort into a British accent. With Southern accents they frequently decide “oh, I just need to sound stupid.”
Right and that accent doesn’t track to anywhere that I can think of. I don’t presume to have heard all the regional accents in the south, but I know southern Missouri and I lived in Alabama for 5 years. I can’t tell you where his dumb accent is supposed to be from, but it doesn’t match for anything I’ve heard from Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Virginia, Tennessee, eastern Texas, etc.
The closest thing I can think of is I had a friend who grew up in Montgomery and said that there were some fancy schmancy upper class white neighborhoods that basically used accents like you’d hear in Gone with the Wind, despite those also not being accurate, but that it was intentional to be like OMG the glorious old south!
I am not saying Daniel Craig sounds like he’s trying to be in Gone with the Wind, but that it’s reminiscent of someone who thinks it’s important to sound like an upperclass white southerner but doesn’t quite know what that sounds like.
Craig is apparently doing a Kentucky accent:
https://sports.yahoo.com/daniel-craig-couldn-t-quite-234803635.html
but I thought his character, Benoit Blanc, was supposed to be from New Orleans? I mean just the name alone.
My freshman year of college my roommate was from New Orleans, 12th generation or something, and his accent was not so intense, but his father was a successful New Orleans attorney and his accent could stop a truck. He sounded a lot like Craig. After a raucous dinner when his parents were in town and took us out I asked my roommate what was up with the accent. He said that his father was used to presenting before New Orleans juries so some of it was theater.
So, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I submit to you that Daniel Craig might have been doing a plausible accent, just not the one he thought he was doing.
He isn’t doing it well, lol. The Kentucky accents in Justified were much more authentic.
One of my other friends from freshman year was from Louisville and she had quite an accent (just the way she pronounced “Louisville”…) but it was not nearly the same accent as my roommate’s or his Dad’s. Better Half’s paternal side of the family comes from North Carolina and they…I could go on and on.
The natives say lull vole .
Joke from my Kentucky roommate from my freshman year:
How do you pronounce the capital of Kentucky, Looeyville or Lewisville?
Frankfort.
Lull-vole is accurate, though.
They say lull vole around a mouthful of MARBLES, @Hannibal!😉😆😂🤣💖
My college Dorm’s Resident Advisor was from Louisville, and *yes* she still had a mild southern accent, after years of living in Northern states…
but the first time I heard her say “Louisville”?!?!???
It took me so long to understand where she’d said she was from!😆😂🤣💖
It literally broke my brain for a bit, trying to understand what word she’d said–and I grew up *perfectly* understanding my cousin, who apparently had *massive* speech-articulation (“artic”) difficulties as a child!😂😂😂
I still understand the “artic” kiddos i work with easier & faster than the vast majority of my peers–even some of our Speech Pathologists– thanks to growing up with that cousin…
but I still cannot manage to make the muscles in my mouth & throat move in the manner that our Resident Advisor did, to pronounce “Lull vole” in quite that amazingly-marble-filled (sounding!) manner!😉💖
Educated Southerners have largely moved away from any accent. I think TV is a big part of that. I have a flat Midwestern accent, and grew up in rural Florida. People ask me about it.
“Where are you from? You don’t have any accent.”
“Florida.”
“No, I mean originally.”
“Florida.”
“No, I mean where were you born?”
“Gainesville fucking Florida.”
Most of the professionals I know that grew up here talk exactly like me — you wouldn’t know they were from Florida at all. The Panhandle breeds a lot of weird accents, but if you are from Florida and went to college, you talk like me. What will give you away is grammatical constructions. “Might could” is a big one. “I might could do that for you.” A co-worker once pointed that one out to me. “I wouldn’t think you were Southern, but that ‘might could’ thing gave you away.”
Agreed 100% on that “non-panhandle” FL accent, @Bryanlsplinter!
Our college Senate President when I went back to school was born & raised in Miami, and he sounded entirely “Generic Midwestern” accent-wise.
I haven’t known many Floridians, but the few I have met over the years sound like they were born in any of the Midwestern plains states!
…I think sometimes they put a lot of effort into british accents…but surprisingly often they can jump in & out of different locales multiple times in the course of a single sentence…which can be more distracting than a bad-but-consistent accent?
…that was certainly on my list…along with the animated disney movie (strange world, I think it’s called) but none of the above have a shot at being classed as acceptable viewing en famille, as it were…so I either have to slope off somewhere to watch on my own or wait to get back to mine
…oddly…when they want to watch something I have no interest in it’s apparently rude for me not to keep them company
…but house rules & all that…so in the avoid-tears-before-bedtime spirit of the season…there’s “specially-recorded” episodes of something or other I’ll most likely have to sit in front of instead
…one is a show called “the repair shop” that’s sometimes quite interesting but very much depends on the things being restored…strictly come dancing, call the midwife & sundry other things that make the cut I confess I’m pretty much entirely uninterested in but may not be able to avoid…& staring at phones is also sort-of-not-okay when I do it but apparently fine for anyone & everyone else…so I have to remember where I put my tablet so at least I can read something else?
when they want to watch something I have no interest in it’s apparently rude for me not to keep them company
Families everywhere are alike apparently, lol.
We’re thinking about getting Apple TV. Is it worth the hype of Ted Lasso, etc? Has anyone watched Bad Sisters?
…I don’t know about that one…but severance was good…so if you’re not sure maybe hold off until the second season of that comes out & you’d at least get value out of a trial period before cancelling?
When Ted Lasso clicked I liked it a lot, but I felt there were a lot of times when it didn’t click. I don’t think it was particularly well thought through. Sudeikis does a good job of carrying his piece of it though.
Next question. Anyone watching Three Pines (Amazon)? Or has anyone read the Chief Inspector Gamache series by Louise Penny that it’s based on? I think I will start reading it.
I am and I have read some of the books. Three Pines is Cabot Cove’s Canadian sister city, lol. But I like it. They’ve toned down the spiritual elements for the show. And Alfred Molina is always good.
Cool! I’m going to start the book now and see how many I can get through before the fun of it being situated in Montreal/Quebec loses out to the books blending together. Turns out that my husband has read a bunch of them already (he devours books in a blink).
Getting some house chores done today, but at a slow pace with lots of quick breaks for coffee, cocoa, and snack mix.
If its back to work tomorrow I suppose you must.