OT: back to the salt mines

[crandc]

6 1/2 weeks off work. Went to Santa Barbara to hang with my favorite cousin & his husband, to Sonoma for two wine tours (got squiffy), visited my father for his 92nd birthday, 4 A's games, 3 ballets, Oakland Zoo, Oakland Museum, Monterey Bay Aquarium, San Francisco Ferry Building, California Academy of Sciences, bought two sacks of books, finished knitting a sweater and almost finished a second, totally stopped cooking aside from 2 dinner parties, tried at least 25 restaurants - don't ask what my Amex bill looks like! My cat Orlando and I both got our teeth cleaned. Got my car detailed. Also followed NBA playoffs. Celebrated Orlando's 9th birthday. Came back to work to find 450 emails (not exaggerating).

Six more years I get to do it again,

 

[GriLtCheeZ]

Sounds like an all around groovy time. Why six more years though?

 

[mobes23]

Sabbatical time, Baracude. I'm about a year and a month from hitting mine...but it's only an additional 3 weeks of vacation time. That said, I'm banking up regular vacation.

 

[The_Lillard_King]

Got mine in 15 days and counting.

(Oh shit I better get to work)

 

[tlongII]

I've been eligible for my sabbatical for almost a year. Unfortunately due to the project I'm working on I can't take it until next summer.

 

[The_Lillard_King]

I've been eligible for my sabbatical for almost a year. Unfortunately due to the project I'm working on I can't take it until next summer.

Hey you still get it . . . and that much shorter until your next one.

I pushed mine out a year . . . tried two years, but couldn't swing it.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

Mine was last Fall. Sigh. Damn kids meant I didn't get to go anywhere.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

Sounds like a fun itinerary, crandc! Best of those 25 restaurants?

Piece of advice: steer clear of the Britney Griner thread.

 

[3RA1N1AC]

i take off in the winter every year usually to florida, got a little place near orlando, 6 weeks off in a row is crazy though, i dont think id want to come back

 

[Wheels]

wtf how do all you people get these sabbaticals??? and are you hiring?

 

[Rastapopoulos]

wtf how do all you people get these sabbaticals??? and are you hiring?

With me it's in academia. And no, we're not. We're all shitting ourselves because of MOOCs.

 

[crandc]

I don't follow any thread started here on anything to do with women.

Best restaurant: The Slanted Door in the San Francisco Ferry Building. All these years, I've never taken the ferry Oakland to SF (although I did Occupy the Port of Oakland). Everything was excellent, appetizer, entree, dessert, even special tea. I hear they have good cocktails but it was lunch & I had a lot to do that afternoon, so I stuck with tea. Amazing how many restaurants, and I'm talking high end places like The Girl and the Fig in Sonoma, Jane in Santa Barbara, Bay Wolf in Oakland, fall down on desserts. They should hire me! Other places either the dessert is so tiny you get two bites (Zuni Cafe, Absinthe, both in SF), or so enormous you waddle out of there (French Door, Santa Barbara).

Get sabbaticals by working at Genentech. A 6 week sabbatical after every 6 years, which is why I said in 6 years I get to do it again.

 

[The_Lillard_King]

wtf how do all you people get these sabbaticals??? and are you hiring?

Intel employees a lot of people on the westside. 8 week sabbatical every 7 years.

Not all good though, I have heard people refer to their jobs at intel as "golden handcuffs"

 

[MARIS61]

I take time off whenever I feel like it, because I am a free man.

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[MARIS61]

Get sabbaticals by working at Genentech. A 6 week sabbatical after every 6 years, which is why I said in 6 years I get to do it again.

Well, maybe only 5 weeks the way things are going...

Fortune Magazine named Genentech number one on its 2006 list of the "100 Best Companies To Work For." This was the first number one ranking for the company, which has now been on the list for 15 consecutive years. In 2007, it dropped to second place, behind Google. The company ranked 5th in 2008, 7th in 2009, 19th in 2010, 35th in 2011, 68th in 2012, and back up to 36th in 2013.

 

[BlayZa]

jesus.... id love to go away for 6.5 weeks an only get 450 emails..

 

[crandc]

The reason for the drop was the merger, or rather takeover. Also rise of Google.

When discussing meals, how could I leave out the lizard and half a bird Orlando brought me?