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Post by Roquefort Raider on Sept 9, 2018 8:29:39 GMT -5
One of the shops in my area (Bookery Fantasy) just posted a pic of the new collection they got in... several high grade copies of Weird Tales form the 30s...now if only I had the budget to pick some of these up for the original Conan stories...sigh. -M Weird Tales is an amazing example that popularity and sales do not necessarily translate into influence. If you look at the history of pulps Weird Tales was not a high selling book. It was looked down on as one of the "shivers" and its pay rate was on the lower end. But clearly its influence far transcended its sales and reputation when it was being published. Very true. I wonder how well Unknown sold... Probably not very well either, but it was astonishingly good.
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Post by beccabear67 on Sept 9, 2018 15:49:24 GMT -5
I wonder how well Unknown sold... Probably not very well either, but it was astonishingly good. Have to correct you there... Astoundingly good (Astounding was published by the same people as Unknown). I never had any Unknowns, but I did have a couple of nice late '40s Weird Tales pulps, plus four or five of the early '50s digests right before it went under for a long long time. I still have various collections of stories from the magazine in paperbacks and that one big hardcover. Also have a couple paperbacks of Unknown stories. I think as older pulp collections have surfaced the interest and price of them has gone down from what it once was... I remember 15 years or so ago seeing a lot of never going to see or afford one of those pulps begin crossing my path... I could have had a high grade Planet Stories #1 for fifty dollars one time and it had been there for awhile. I'd sold mine all off a few years earlier though so was 'out of' buying any of them. I would love to believe there is renewed interest in the old pulps... as there has been in silent movies! My experience though is having to explain what they were to people, even people who were around at the tail end of them... "newsprint magazines the size of National Geographics with fiction? I don't remember anything like that... there must not have been many of them."
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Post by beccabear67 on Sept 9, 2018 15:52:28 GMT -5
It would be nice if someone invented this ... LOL I've had those kinds of vehicles in dreams... no idea why. I will take out and unfold something that turns into a car or bicycle when needed, or fold one up and put it in my pocket when there is nowhere to park something. Another common thing is for a boat to start sinking but it's okay as it's turned into a submarine! Fun stuff.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Sept 9, 2018 16:28:26 GMT -5
Having 100 plus hours of sick pay accumulated at work isn’t an accomplishment when the reason for it is you always get si k on weekends and recover in time for Monday.
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Post by Icctrombone on Sept 9, 2018 18:14:01 GMT -5
In my job we don't lose the Sick time that we earn, it just gets accumulated year after year. I like to take a mental sick day every 4 month or so.
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Post by Prince Hal on Sept 9, 2018 18:20:48 GMT -5
In my job we don't lose the Sick time that we earn, it just gets accumulated year after year. I like to take a mental sick day every 4 month or so. Is there a limit to how many days you can accumulate? And do they buy them back?
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Post by Icctrombone on Sept 9, 2018 18:31:00 GMT -5
There's no limit , but when you retire , they don't give you the total value. I think they give about half the hour value.
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Post by The Captain on Sept 9, 2018 19:03:46 GMT -5
In my job we don't lose the Sick time that we earn, it just gets accumulated year after year. I like to take a mental sick day every 4 month or so. Must be nice to get "sick time". Many companies, including both the ones my wife and I work for, give you a PTO Pool, so if you need to take a sick day, it is one less vacation day you have for later in the year. Of course, one way around that is to work remotely when I'm sick, so that I get my daily work done but over a longer period of time, like 12 hours, instead of an 8 or 9 hour day.
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Post by Icctrombone on Sept 9, 2018 19:05:58 GMT -5
Wow. I get 5 weeks of annual leave and the sick time is yours to use but if you call out more than twice in a 3 month period you face a write up.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Sept 9, 2018 19:11:02 GMT -5
One of the few benefits of working a government job (it sure ain’t the pay) is that between vacation, sick time and PTO I couldn’t possibly use all the time off available to me and still get my work done.
It all accumulates and about every 18 months to two years I get a pay-out of it at 50 cents on the dollar. The latest one paid for my last vacation.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Sept 9, 2018 21:05:29 GMT -5
In working 25 years I have ever only worked for one company that paid unused vacation and sick time annually at whatever your hourly wage was.
This company I work for now you can w cumulate sick pay but you’re never paid for it. And vacation time is lost if never used. Unless you quit or are fired then they pay unused vacation time.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2018 21:22:31 GMT -5
There's no limit , but when you retire , they don't give you the total value. I think they give about half the hour value. Same here ...
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Post by brutalis on Sept 10, 2018 8:05:49 GMT -5
Here at the hospital the basis for PTO/Sick accrual starts at 8.5 hours every 2 weeks (36-40 worked hours) for new hires. For those of us old timer's who have been here awhile it actually was higher so I collect 10.5 hrs for every 40 hours (2 weeks) worked. I currently have 255 hours of PTO/Sick time (approximately 6+ wks) available and have taken 720 hours as of lat week. We do have it roll over each year but the maximum you can bank is 800 hours for any given year.
With this in mind I take 1 day (8 hours) PTO day every 3rd week I work. And usually will take 1 week (40 hours) in the spring, 1 week in summer and 1 week in the fall. Perks of the job being such a mental and physical and emotional job so the hospital wants to compensate/balance the employee work/life for the sake of productivity and maintaining proper health.
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Post by Icctrombone on Sept 10, 2018 14:48:00 GMT -5
I don't know what I did...
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Post by brutalis on Sept 10, 2018 16:08:46 GMT -5
I don't know what I did... At least that means you can play dumb and don't have to lie unlike politicians!!!
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