Many many moons ago I was receiving unemployment benefit ( the “dole”) for me, my wife and two children ( Great Britain) of about £200 a fortnight.
When my wife and I split I went to the dole office and told them immediately. The next cheque that came through was the same so I went to the dole office and asked them to check. After about 20 minutes I was assured that it was correct. I took the name of the checker , wrote it down with a brief explanation and asked if they would sign it .
The refused.
I did the same for the next three cheques the only difference was the last time I went in I told them it would be the last time I came in and the checker signed my note.
Jump forward a year or so and I get a letter saying that I owed the dole office £X amount.
I went in and presented my notes and it was dropped.
I made every effort so not my fault.
Haha! I worked for a Fortune 500 that was bought out by a Fortune 100. I then took a job at a different company. About 5 years later I ran into one of my old co-workers. He said after the merger he kept going to work, but had no supervisor and did not "belong" to any division. He just went to work everyday to his same desk and received a paycheck for about 2 years and then got scared and retired.
We had a restructure at the hospital I work at. There was a staff member who got basically forgotten. Kept getting paid as a low level manager but had no duties. So he found some tasks to do and so did them. And gave himself a new title. Next restructure a couple years later when management were counting people or/and job titles he emailed someone and told them they have missed his job and he got added back on with anew title.
Former coworker kept getting paid for almost 3 years after the quit. He got a lawyer involved, notarized letters, etc. After almost 3 years the checks just stopped coming. He put the money in a high yield savings account and I think it's now all his.
>He put the money in a high yield savings account and I think it's now all his.
People think this means that if the employer comes back at them for the money they get to at least keep the interest. That is 100% false. If the employer were to have recognized the error in payments and taken the (ex)employee to court, they would have been granted all the payments plus any ill gotten gains (ie interest) from said payments. They likely would also owe interest on the payments they knew they shouldn't have received. But I'm glad it worked out for them. I don't agree with the law because it's almost always in the big guy's favor instead of us little guys.
Not if you can prove you TRIED to get them to quit paying you but they insisted upon paying you anyway. If you have a lawyer advising you, you were sending notices with a paper trail, keeping the money segregated, and they're STILL giving you money? None of that is ill-gotten. Most judges with a brain in their heads are going to recognize that the ex-employee went above and beyond what's reasonable and STILL did the right thing by holding on to the money. Fuck that company.
Though of course:
1. Most companies won't chase the interest (not worth the hassle/bad press etc)
2. Keeping the money separate has legal advantages (evidence against theft arguments - you intended to return it) and administrative advantages (you can't accidentally spend it).
So you may as well put it in the highest interest quick/immediate access account you can get.
What if I did the opposite? if I used all accidental payments for my bills, and what not and then put MY money in a high yield savings account.
I’d still obviously have to pay back the owed money but would they still count the gains as ill gotten?
Where are these magical high yield savings accounts? People always talk about getting one, but I've even looked into accounts for rich people (I am not rich) and they're offering pennies.
Seriously? Is your google broken or something?
https://www.marcus.com/us/en/savings
https://www.americanexpress.com/en-us/banking/online-savings/high-yield-savings/
https://www.sofi.com/banking-2-dr/
More than a government I bond, which at least keeps up with inflation.
Look at the speard between savings accounts and credit card rates and tell me banks aren't ripping us off.
Banks are corpaorations, these rates seem competitive. They use that money to invest in stuff with higher risk, you can easily do that yourself as well. But if you want convenience and no risk, 5% is what you get.
They are investing that money in credit cards. That's the risk they are taking on with your savings.
And keep in mind that in addition to the interest they collect from the card holders, they also collect fees from the merchants. So the effective credit card interest rate is somewhat higher.
>More than a government I bond, which at least keeps up with inflation.
Please tell me which government bond brought you 10% last year. And then tell me how that would be a save investment.
US inflation rate isn't 10%.
If I'm reading the website correctly, I Bonds were paying 4.28%. So two of the three banks were at least beating that. But I have no clue where the hell you got 10%.
Show up, go in office and keep a pile of paper on the desk, and look busy, either reading books, or having a browser open reading them, and clicking on a spreadsheet every so often when somebody came in, and then locking the screen because of "confidential report" on it.
Doesn’t take a government or large company to make a salary/hourly/benefits mistake. I worked for a small company (8 employees total) and they never deducted my share of the benefits package for the 14 months I worked.
I brought it to their attention after my last cheque, and they just said, “Oh well, you win”
It was worth over $1,500 to me after I had already claimed my prescription and dental.
They went bankrupt 8 years later. I think their bookkeeper was shit.
A lot of municipal payments are filled with "shall" and that means that if the municipality screwed up, they are boned. I knew a guy who worked for a small city library, they skipped his 6 months hiring performance review and kept him at introductory rate for 2 years. State auditor came through two years after he quit and cut him a check for his 1.5 years at full rate and fined the city for fucking around.
Know of several cases where they laid of a probationary person after the probationary period ended. Got returned to job with back pay because they missed the deadline and not enough to fire.
So June’s story makes sense to me because about ten years ago a new state government was voted in and they did an audit of its 400 000 public servants and found like a couple thousand workers either doing nothing or on long term worker’s compensation who all get sacked and paid out.
It’s amazing. I worked in
Public health getting flogged everyday as we are short staffed and you hear these crazy stories about people being paid to do nothing. Good for June though.
Look at what is termed ghost employees, where you have hundreds of people on a large payroll who do not actually exist, but they all have a payslip, and the money goes into an account somewhere, with somebody collecting it every month.
No as she hasn’t done anything wrong. There was an audit about ten or more years ago of the states 400,000 public servants and found a couple thousand either doing nothing or on long term worker’s compensation. All them sacked and paid out.
Having been in a similar situation I received occasional letters noting the money hadn't been returned and asking me to return it. No threats of legal action. Eventually I did.
If she wasn't working and wasn't suspended on full pay then it's fraud. She's not doing the tasks she was paid to do. Employers tend to be lenient as it's their error, especially government ones, but having been in a similar situation she wasn't entitled to that money.
If you see June? Tell her a maybe her but maybe similar case happened to kid me. I remember the changes and applied the lessons of pushing until the needed change happens. That teacher also helped me with so many things by caring. Until her and a later teacher I didn't know I mattered. I work hard to make sure I make good change because of someone like her.
It is beautiful that you are trying to reach out to thank her. I am very glad she, and another teacher later on, helped you find value in yourself.
If it's this June or another one, they are probably both heroes.
I had a boss and a HR person openly challenged the court's authority while I was actively on jury duty (early covid). They had furloughed me and gave me a choice between extra PTO (2 months) or unemployment benefits. I ended up getting both benefits, plus an injunction order. The HR person messed up my PTO which the Accounting department wasn't happy about. The EDD wasn't happy about the furlough during jury duty move. The CEO wasn't happy about the injunction so the HR person got fired. Later my boss broke the injunction, a law enforcement agency found out and he got arrested, put on trial, and got 10 years. Lesson learned don't openly question the court's authority, be-careful who you furlough, and don't break an injunction.
I had a former boss( I had moved on) who refuses to do what an industrial court judge told him to do. The follow up hearing the judge looks straight at him after hearing he failed the court orders and says “ I hope you brought a toothbrush as you staying the night”.
"As the employer, **you must allow an employee time off to serve on a jury**. The California Labor Code, section 230 outlaws any employer from firing or harassing an employee who is summoned to court for jury service."
I hear ya, no argument at all that there is a punishment necessary. Just that 10 years is excessive, even 3 would have been excessive. Anyways, what's done is done.
I wasn't there so I don't know the exact details. I heard the story from a court officer that recognized me at a farmer's market near the courthouse. When you are on a jury for months at a time you make friends with other jurors and the two officers assigned to the court.
So we just went ahead and fixed the glitch
so umm, Milton has been let go?
Well, just a second there professor, we uhh, we fixed the glitch so he won't be receiving a paycheck anymore, so it will just work itself out naturally.
We always like to avoid confrontation whenever possible, problem is solved from your end
Im glad June got paid out in the end and overall you could say that she won the war here, but This sort of thing is the reason why casual employment is the worst thing to happen to the Australian job market... yeah, the pay is a little better, but you are unprotected, have no sick leave so god forbid you need to take a week off work, and employers can so easily abuse this system...
I see! What country was this in, where dogs go on or off 'lead' (not 'leash') and people talk in terms of 'fortnights' (not 'biweekly' or 'every 2 weeks), yet the school has a 'principal' (not a 'headmaster') and there is a 'dept of education' and a 'state' government?
In the U.K., people say 'fortnight' because it means two weeks and everyone knows that. I’ve rarely heard anyone say ‘fortnightly' but the word exists.
What I haven’t heard or seen outside old texts is 'sennight' meaning seven nights - a week.
Imagine trying to explain British English to a British person.
The entire point was that “fortnight” can be used anywhere by someone looking to avoid the ambiguity of “biweekly” - which has two definitions no matter which dictionary you look at, regardless of which English-speaking country that dictionary comes from. It *always* has the dual-meaning of twice a week, and once every two weeks; with context not necessarily being able to discern which is being used.
Search “biweekly” in literally any English dictionary. The dictionary - doesn’t even matter which one you choose - disagrees that “biweekly” is every two weeks and “semi-weekly” is twice a week. They all agree that “biweekly” is ambiguous.
Ambiguous doesn't contradict a definition, it means there are multiple meanings. One of which, is as previously stated. The other is as the ignorant use it, to mean twice a week.
[Semi-weekly](https://www.google.com/search?q=semi-weekly) _always_ means twice a week. That you're arguing that one, and not answering which dictionary disagrees indicates it's worth muting you. Ta.
When a writer is choosing a word, he is a fool to choose the one that is unclear.
I would never use "fortnight," as I am American, but I would also never use biweekly or semiweekly, as it's against the stylebook of most publications.
Just because you can do a thing doesn't mean you should do a thing.
If you pay twice a week, that's how often you pay, and your payroll department surely hates you. Perhaps you pay weekly, every two weeks, twice a month, or once a month.
Do you want your applicants looking up semimonthly? Semiweekly? Why? Just speak clearly. The goal of speech is to put your thoughts into other people's brains quickly and accurately. So do that.
Go check a dictionary. In fact, let me do it for you, you probably wouldn’t know how:
> biweekly 1 of 2 adjective bi·week·ly (ˌ)bī-ˈwē-klē
> 1: occurring every two weeks : FORTNIGHTLY
> 2: occurring twice a week https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/biweekly
Biweekly can mean twice a week or once every two weeks, but most people use it to refer to the latter. There are times, however, when a biweekly meeting on your work schedule may occur twice a week.
That’s from grammarly
Thank you for today's language lesson! I googled "casual job" because it's not a job classification I've ever heard in the US. From what I can tell, it's similar to our PRN or per diem.
Basically casual work is paid for whatever hour you work. You still work to an industrial award etc but get paid for just hours worked. In Australia there are some rules like if the worker has worked for so long you must offer them a permanent job.
My friend says, "i mean, i dont think the schools are doing any research on why they're doing it, i think it's just because the students arent paying attention, which means theres not much to be gained by doing anything else"
Many many moons ago I was receiving unemployment benefit ( the “dole”) for me, my wife and two children ( Great Britain) of about £200 a fortnight. When my wife and I split I went to the dole office and told them immediately. The next cheque that came through was the same so I went to the dole office and asked them to check. After about 20 minutes I was assured that it was correct. I took the name of the checker , wrote it down with a brief explanation and asked if they would sign it . The refused. I did the same for the next three cheques the only difference was the last time I went in I told them it would be the last time I came in and the checker signed my note. Jump forward a year or so and I get a letter saying that I owed the dole office £X amount. I went in and presented my notes and it was dropped. I made every effort so not my fault.
Haha! I worked for a Fortune 500 that was bought out by a Fortune 100. I then took a job at a different company. About 5 years later I ran into one of my old co-workers. He said after the merger he kept going to work, but had no supervisor and did not "belong" to any division. He just went to work everyday to his same desk and received a paycheck for about 2 years and then got scared and retired.
We had a restructure at the hospital I work at. There was a staff member who got basically forgotten. Kept getting paid as a low level manager but had no duties. So he found some tasks to do and so did them. And gave himself a new title. Next restructure a couple years later when management were counting people or/and job titles he emailed someone and told them they have missed his job and he got added back on with anew title.
Former coworker kept getting paid for almost 3 years after the quit. He got a lawyer involved, notarized letters, etc. After almost 3 years the checks just stopped coming. He put the money in a high yield savings account and I think it's now all his.
>He put the money in a high yield savings account and I think it's now all his. People think this means that if the employer comes back at them for the money they get to at least keep the interest. That is 100% false. If the employer were to have recognized the error in payments and taken the (ex)employee to court, they would have been granted all the payments plus any ill gotten gains (ie interest) from said payments. They likely would also owe interest on the payments they knew they shouldn't have received. But I'm glad it worked out for them. I don't agree with the law because it's almost always in the big guy's favor instead of us little guys.
Not if you can prove you TRIED to get them to quit paying you but they insisted upon paying you anyway. If you have a lawyer advising you, you were sending notices with a paper trail, keeping the money segregated, and they're STILL giving you money? None of that is ill-gotten. Most judges with a brain in their heads are going to recognize that the ex-employee went above and beyond what's reasonable and STILL did the right thing by holding on to the money. Fuck that company.
Though of course: 1. Most companies won't chase the interest (not worth the hassle/bad press etc) 2. Keeping the money separate has legal advantages (evidence against theft arguments - you intended to return it) and administrative advantages (you can't accidentally spend it). So you may as well put it in the highest interest quick/immediate access account you can get.
What if I did the opposite? if I used all accidental payments for my bills, and what not and then put MY money in a high yield savings account. I’d still obviously have to pay back the owed money but would they still count the gains as ill gotten?
Here (Austria), something called reasonable consumption exists - if you can tell 'i was not aware and spent it all' it's ok
Depends on where it is. Here it's just simple interest of 2%
Where are these magical high yield savings accounts? People always talk about getting one, but I've even looked into accounts for rich people (I am not rich) and they're offering pennies.
Seriously? Is your google broken or something? https://www.marcus.com/us/en/savings https://www.americanexpress.com/en-us/banking/online-savings/high-yield-savings/ https://www.sofi.com/banking-2-dr/
I don't consider 5% high. Normal savings is over 4 now. I'll take 8. Tho I'm dreaming lol.
You consider 5% to be high yield? That's barely over inflation.
Yes, that is considered high yield for a zero risk investment.
Look at other savings accounts and you'll see yields like 0.01%. 5% is high compared to other savings accounts
the fuck you want from no risk investments?
More than a government I bond, which at least keeps up with inflation. Look at the speard between savings accounts and credit card rates and tell me banks aren't ripping us off.
Banks are corpaorations, these rates seem competitive. They use that money to invest in stuff with higher risk, you can easily do that yourself as well. But if you want convenience and no risk, 5% is what you get.
They are investing that money in credit cards. That's the risk they are taking on with your savings. And keep in mind that in addition to the interest they collect from the card holders, they also collect fees from the merchants. So the effective credit card interest rate is somewhat higher.
Not all banks with HYSA offer creditcards though
>More than a government I bond, which at least keeps up with inflation. Please tell me which government bond brought you 10% last year. And then tell me how that would be a save investment.
US inflation rate isn't 10%. If I'm reading the website correctly, I Bonds were paying 4.28%. So two of the three banks were at least beating that. But I have no clue where the hell you got 10%.
Viobank 5% APY
What did he do for those two years? Did he have any assignments? Or just show up and pretend to work?
Show up, go in office and keep a pile of paper on the desk, and look busy, either reading books, or having a browser open reading them, and clicking on a spreadsheet every so often when somebody came in, and then locking the screen because of "confidential report" on it.
I think a couple of versions of that story are on here, as well.
Doesn’t take a government or large company to make a salary/hourly/benefits mistake. I worked for a small company (8 employees total) and they never deducted my share of the benefits package for the 14 months I worked. I brought it to their attention after my last cheque, and they just said, “Oh well, you win” It was worth over $1,500 to me after I had already claimed my prescription and dental. They went bankrupt 8 years later. I think their bookkeeper was shit.
And she didn’t have to pay the money back?
Why would she? If they never fired her or told her she was off leave and to report to work then there’s nothing for her to repay.
A lot of municipal payments are filled with "shall" and that means that if the municipality screwed up, they are boned. I knew a guy who worked for a small city library, they skipped his 6 months hiring performance review and kept him at introductory rate for 2 years. State auditor came through two years after he quit and cut him a check for his 1.5 years at full rate and fined the city for fucking around.
Know of several cases where they laid of a probationary person after the probationary period ended. Got returned to job with back pay because they missed the deadline and not enough to fire.
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So June’s story makes sense to me because about ten years ago a new state government was voted in and they did an audit of its 400 000 public servants and found like a couple thousand workers either doing nothing or on long term worker’s compensation who all get sacked and paid out.
Oooh that makes sense! So basically government bureaucracy at it’s finest 🤣
It’s amazing. I worked in Public health getting flogged everyday as we are short staffed and you hear these crazy stories about people being paid to do nothing. Good for June though.
Look at what is termed ghost employees, where you have hundreds of people on a large payroll who do not actually exist, but they all have a payslip, and the money goes into an account somewhere, with somebody collecting it every month.
No as she hasn’t done anything wrong. There was an audit about ten or more years ago of the states 400,000 public servants and found a couple thousand either doing nothing or on long term worker’s compensation. All them sacked and paid out.
I didn’t say she did anything wrong I’m just surprised they didn’t try to claw back the money 🤷 well good for her!
"member of parliament" It sounds like this wasn't in the US. If it had been, you bet they would have initiated a claw back.
It's most likely Australia, which is a country with very strong unions. A claw back attempt could have resulted in a state wide strike.
Having been in a similar situation I received occasional letters noting the money hadn't been returned and asking me to return it. No threats of legal action. Eventually I did.
If she wasn't working and wasn't suspended on full pay then it's fraud. She's not doing the tasks she was paid to do. Employers tend to be lenient as it's their error, especially government ones, but having been in a similar situation she wasn't entitled to that money.
It worker’s compensation which for us in Australia needs her employer to cease and yes Farscape did rock
Ah I presumed UK because of MP, my apologies.
If you see June? Tell her a maybe her but maybe similar case happened to kid me. I remember the changes and applied the lessons of pushing until the needed change happens. That teacher also helped me with so many things by caring. Until her and a later teacher I didn't know I mattered. I work hard to make sure I make good change because of someone like her.
It is beautiful that you are trying to reach out to thank her. I am very glad she, and another teacher later on, helped you find value in yourself. If it's this June or another one, they are probably both heroes.
I had a boss and a HR person openly challenged the court's authority while I was actively on jury duty (early covid). They had furloughed me and gave me a choice between extra PTO (2 months) or unemployment benefits. I ended up getting both benefits, plus an injunction order. The HR person messed up my PTO which the Accounting department wasn't happy about. The EDD wasn't happy about the furlough during jury duty move. The CEO wasn't happy about the injunction so the HR person got fired. Later my boss broke the injunction, a law enforcement agency found out and he got arrested, put on trial, and got 10 years. Lesson learned don't openly question the court's authority, be-careful who you furlough, and don't break an injunction.
I had a former boss( I had moved on) who refuses to do what an industrial court judge told him to do. The follow up hearing the judge looks straight at him after hearing he failed the court orders and says “ I hope you brought a toothbrush as you staying the night”.
Dude got 10 years for violating an injunction? We got pedophiles doing less time. JFC
"As the employer, **you must allow an employee time off to serve on a jury**. The California Labor Code, section 230 outlaws any employer from firing or harassing an employee who is summoned to court for jury service."
I hear ya, no argument at all that there is a punishment necessary. Just that 10 years is excessive, even 3 would have been excessive. Anyways, what's done is done.
I wasn't there so I don't know the exact details. I heard the story from a court officer that recognized me at a farmer's market near the courthouse. When you are on a jury for months at a time you make friends with other jurors and the two officers assigned to the court.
#goals. To be forgotten by my stingy ass work
This was Australia, wasn’t it‽ I vaguely recall something about a very similar case in the news at the time. Small world.
That title needs more punctuation... # “Complain to everyone about your work, if you must, but you're done working here," equals ten years’ wages!
This story makes me wonder if June had a favorite Red Stapler too?
So we just went ahead and fixed the glitch so umm, Milton has been let go? Well, just a second there professor, we uhh, we fixed the glitch so he won't be receiving a paycheck anymore, so it will just work itself out naturally. We always like to avoid confrontation whenever possible, problem is solved from your end
Man I had a tough day and this made me laugh. Thank you! I needed that delightful lady's story today.
This is a great read!
Brilliant!
Im glad June got paid out in the end and overall you could say that she won the war here, but This sort of thing is the reason why casual employment is the worst thing to happen to the Australian job market... yeah, the pay is a little better, but you are unprotected, have no sick leave so god forbid you need to take a week off work, and employers can so easily abuse this system...
I see! What country was this in, where dogs go on or off 'lead' (not 'leash') and people talk in terms of 'fortnights' (not 'biweekly' or 'every 2 weeks), yet the school has a 'principal' (not a 'headmaster') and there is a 'dept of education' and a 'state' government?
Sounds like Australia.
Has to be Australian.
Possibly Australia, we use those terms too.
Sure is.
Came here to check if it was Aus! I got slightly thrown by 'state school', because in NSW we call them public schools
I mean, people say “fortnight” because “biweekly” is ambiguous; both “twice a week” and “once every two weeks” are “biweekly”.
In the U.K., people say 'fortnight' because it means two weeks and everyone knows that. I’ve rarely heard anyone say ‘fortnightly' but the word exists. What I haven’t heard or seen outside old texts is 'sennight' meaning seven nights - a week.
Imagine trying to explain British English to a British person. The entire point was that “fortnight” can be used anywhere by someone looking to avoid the ambiguity of “biweekly” - which has two definitions no matter which dictionary you look at, regardless of which English-speaking country that dictionary comes from. It *always* has the dual-meaning of twice a week, and once every two weeks; with context not necessarily being able to discern which is being used.
twice a week is semi-weekly.
or hemi-weekly. Or demi-weekly. And yes you can stack them. hemi-demi-weekly means every four weeks.
Dictionary disagrees.
Which dictionary says that _semi-weekly_ is not "twice a week"? e: Checked their comment history. troll.
Search “biweekly” in literally any English dictionary. The dictionary - doesn’t even matter which one you choose - disagrees that “biweekly” is every two weeks and “semi-weekly” is twice a week. They all agree that “biweekly” is ambiguous.
Ambiguous doesn't contradict a definition, it means there are multiple meanings. One of which, is as previously stated. The other is as the ignorant use it, to mean twice a week. [Semi-weekly](https://www.google.com/search?q=semi-weekly) _always_ means twice a week. That you're arguing that one, and not answering which dictionary disagrees indicates it's worth muting you. Ta.
When a writer is choosing a word, he is a fool to choose the one that is unclear. I would never use "fortnight," as I am American, but I would also never use biweekly or semiweekly, as it's against the stylebook of most publications. Just because you can do a thing doesn't mean you should do a thing. If you pay twice a week, that's how often you pay, and your payroll department surely hates you. Perhaps you pay weekly, every two weeks, twice a month, or once a month. Do you want your applicants looking up semimonthly? Semiweekly? Why? Just speak clearly. The goal of speech is to put your thoughts into other people's brains quickly and accurately. So do that.
No. Biweekly is every two weeks. Semi-weekly would be twice a week. But no one says that.
Had this argument at work a few weeks ago. Biweekly means both twice a week AND every other week. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/biweekly
Every other week - not ambiguous and not locale specific
Go check a dictionary. In fact, let me do it for you, you probably wouldn’t know how: > biweekly 1 of 2 adjective bi·week·ly (ˌ)bī-ˈwē-klē > 1: occurring every two weeks : FORTNIGHTLY > 2: occurring twice a week https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/biweekly
Biweekly can mean twice a week or once every two weeks, but most people use it to refer to the latter. There are times, however, when a biweekly meeting on your work schedule may occur twice a week. That’s from grammarly
That's the way it should be, but unfortunately people use it both ways.
This is a very American comment.
Australia?
Yep
Queensland?
I’m thinking nsw and satellite classes with the description.
America is vast my friend. There are places even here where all of these things are said together 
However, [no state in the USofA has a parliament](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_legislature_(United_States))
Oh yes? Such as where?
Yeah I'm just as confused. Like she worked in some UK/US hybrid lol
Welcome to Australia where we rapidly Americanizing our English colonial past. We can use jail or gaol as a word for prison.
I thought Australia as soon you used member of parliament and state together - from a Canadian (we have Mp's and provinces)
And over here in the US we have the youngest generation addicted to *Bluey* and picking up the accent.
It looks like the rubber band is on the other claw
Thank you, Dr. Zoidberg
Thank you for today's language lesson! I googled "casual job" because it's not a job classification I've ever heard in the US. From what I can tell, it's similar to our PRN or per diem.
Basically casual work is paid for whatever hour you work. You still work to an industrial award etc but get paid for just hours worked. In Australia there are some rules like if the worker has worked for so long you must offer them a permanent job.
Casual is kinda the same as American "at will" employment, but casuals get paid 20% more as compensation for not getting sick leave and paid holidays.
Ah, I was wondering if it might be Australia
My friend says, "i mean, i dont think the schools are doing any research on why they're doing it, i think it's just because the students arent paying attention, which means theres not much to be gained by doing anything else"
You're.
Tbf judge may have said “you” xD in that sassy way
Where was the malice and/or compliance?
I think because she was told that she could go and complain to everyone, and so she did just that, and it cost them a heap of trouble.
In the story that you didn't read.