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Thank you Ravi. I was thinking the reason why it's so high in Canada (1:1000) is that they have lots of cold weather and nothing else to do but inbreed. 
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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It's not that cold. It got all the way up to -40C the other day. 
/ravi
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Hope all goes well. At least you can fart in public and claim it is a medical condition. I know bad joke.
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djj55 wrote: fart in public
Been there; done that, as they say. Only last week I was at Sainsbury's doing the weekly shop. An old woman behind me dropped a corker. So smelly in fact the check-out lady cast a brief look in my direction and I noticed it. I said, "no, it wasn't me." We both laughed as I gave a slight, almost imperceptible nod to my left. My word, did that old duck, hum or what?
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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Oi, was this[^] you, then?
/ravi
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Mom is getting up there in age (86) so when I take her to the store or a restaurant I have been noticing that people will treat her differently. Example: they understand when it takes her longer to get around (walker).
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Well secured archery equipment for sure!
Hope things work out as best as they can, it sounds like some sort of holding treatment is possible to at least control the symptoms.
speramus in juniperus
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: Hope things work out as best as they can
Thank you, Nagy. Mrs. Wife is interested to know what the options are so she said she'll speak to one of the consultants that visit the hospice where she works. Right now, we have to wait to see if the gene is the explanation. On TV, they can solve murder investigations using DNA taken the day before. My little humble PAPBN1 is way down the pecking order and could take two months or more to get the result. They must get through a lot of teabags between now and then.
I had the blood test taken at the hospital. I pulled the ticket from the machine. I was number 525 and the display said 524. That fitted together as there was nobody else in the room waiting. Then others came into the room. I was next, a minute at most? No. The vampires who take the blood could be heard talking about cooking and decorating. They called me in about five minutes later, "Sorry to have kept you waiting" she said. I was tempted to ask if she'd decided on a colour for the bedroom but thought the better of it. She, after all, is in control of the long needle they stick in your arm.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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Question: At this job all worked out well, but at my last job, I gave my two weeks notice, and they told me to get out that day. This really screwed me up, because I wasn't starting my next job for two weeks. I was out that salary. How does one protect one's self yet also do the right thing with the notice?
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What's in your contract? If both sides have a fortnights get out clause then you should be okay - you can always sue for breach of contract if they terminate without honouring the commitment.
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These are full-time positions
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Full time positions can have contracts as much as contract positions, especially in the software development world.
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You should still have a contract of employment.
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Ok. Let me start over. This isn't about contracts. It's customary to give two weeks notice at your place of employment. Further, a company will deem you as 'rehirable' if you give two weeks. The reason this is important is future companies may call asking if I am 'rehirable', which can influence another company's hiring decision. I work in a state where companies may fire you for any reason (accept illegal reasons like race, etc.), and I may quit for any reason.
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I don't know how regulations work in US, but back here in Brazil, if something similiar happened (here it is 30 day notice) and they didn't want you to stay for the notice period, they would either have to fire you and pay all applicable fines of firing someone, including the 30 day notice payment or they would just ask you to stay home and pay you as you were working during that period.
To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson
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Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia
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The latter is the thing that non-stupid companies in the US will do as well. Unfortunately some people don't realize that burnt bridges obstruct traffic both ways. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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This  :
Dan Neely wrote: Unfortunately some people don't realize that burnt bridges obstruct traffic both ways.
To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson
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Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia
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I agree,especially because other employees at the company will observe what happens to people who give their two weeks notice. If they see people being screwed, they will remember that when it is their time to move on. So the company will burn themselves in the long run by not being able to maintain orderly handovers of responsibility.
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I've lived and worked in TX and FL (both work-at-will states), and every company I've heard of that will release an employee immediately after giving two weeks notice has gone ahead and paid them out for those two weeks. Since I've literally seen dozens of companies do this in both states, I think there has to be a legal reason (if not a requirement, then it at least makes things look better if you were to file suit or something like that). If you know someone that works in HR, I'd give him/her a call. Depending on your income level, it might be worth paying a lawyer a hundred bucks or so for a consultation.
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In another reply I mentioned that I gave my two weeks notice, finished my current project two days later, and the next day, was told to leave and only paid for the two days I worked during my notice period. This particular case was in Florida, so unless the law in Florida has changed since 2000, it would appear that there is no legal requirement to pay an employee for non-worked notice time.
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I live in Florida. The way it works, as I have been told, is that once the two week notice has been given the company can honor it or can move your last day to any day they want within that two week period. They are only required to pay for actual work done, not the entire two week period. So when you put in your two week notice, the company can say we accept your resignation but are making it effective immediately, so you are out two weeks of pay.
modified 15-Jan-14 10:50am.
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"I work in a state where companies may fire you for any reason"
you still have rights, and one of those is compensation in lieu of notice.
and you might want to ask your states employment/labour ministry/board/committee/code, as it seems you are being screwed and don't have an issue with that.
My employer can fire me anytime, anyone's can, but unless it's for stealing or screwing his wife I must be given notice or pay in lieu, and where I am from pay in lieu can work out to a good chunk, so after a couple of years the boss is better off just letting me do his wife, it will cost him less.
If i tell my boss I am quitting in two weeks and he says don't bother coming in, I am still going to get paid for at least two weeks.
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Unreal....
What is the company?
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You really can't protect yourself completely. It is the right thing to do to give at least a two week notice when leaving a company and if they decide to let you go earlier, that's their call and right as the employer (or at least it should be). You just have to deal with what happens.
Having some money stashed away (emergency fund as Dave Ramsey calls it) can make this a minor issue. It's not necessarily easy but it gives you some stability so your not living paycheck to paycheck.
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What a quaint notion - an employment contract? I've never seen such a thing in my life...
Will Rogers never met me.
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