It makes you wonder if he actually has any employees at all. My guess is it
is another Lobster Boat.


"NOYB" wrote in message
...
If they're salaried, then how do they get "12 paid Holidays"!?!? They
have
a set salary...and they get 12 days off. That's very different from the
"paid holidays" an hourly employee receives...and the "20 paid sick days"
is
a farce as well.

The benefits you offer are decent...but anybody with a brain knows that
you
don't advertise "paid holidays" to salaried employees...'cause they'll see
right through it.









"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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NOYB wrote:

"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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NOYB wrote:

Are you providing full health insurance and retirement plan
benefits...or
are you emulating Wal-Mart?



"Harry Krause" wrote in message

I'm doing my part to ease unemployment. I'm hiring another
writer for
my
staff. Will be putting the ad on MONSTER.COM and in the Wash
Post.


We have first-class benefits, including a top-of-the-line health
insurance plan,

BC/BS PPO.


a non-contributory defined-benefit pension plan, a 401k,

Simple IRA

and a life insurance policy equal to annual salary.

Same

We contribute a
share of profits to the 401k on behalf of the employee.

That's compulsory to most plans.

Our employees
pay $4.50 for generic prescriptions and $8.00 for non-generics,

$10 and $15

but
that's going up next year to $10 and $15. New employees get two
weeks
vacation the first year

1 week

and that goes to three weeks the third year.

2 weeks year 2, 3 weeks year three

In
addition, we have 12 paid holidays and we shut down from noon on
Christmas eve to the day after New Year's Day.

5 paid holidays

We also provide 20 days
of paid sick leave a year.

Paid? Every year? I call "bull****". With 3 weeks vacation, 12 paid
holidays, and 20 paid sick days that's 47 *paid* days off every year.
Are
they hourly employees? For a "small business", that's the road to
bankruptcy.

Boy...and you had me going there for a minute.


The 20 paid sick days aren't part of the "paid" days off unless those
days are used. None of our people abuses sick leave. In fact, no one as
yet has even come close to using 20 sick days in one year. They're there
in case they're needed.

Our employees are salaried; no one gets paid by the hour.

I like the new Medicare bill. I'm glad my campaign contributions are being
used for something worthwhile.



Situational ethics.

Suppose the bribe was to influence a vote to liberalize homosexual marriage or
abortion? Would you still think it was OK?

"Gould 0738" wrote in message
...
I like the new Medicare bill. I'm glad my campaign contributions are
being
used for something worthwhile.



Situational ethics.

Suppose the bribe was to influence a vote to liberalize homosexual
marriage or
abortion? Would you still think it was OK?

Hell no. If my money is being used for bribes, I want to make damn sure the
"bribees" are voting my way.

NOYB wrote:
Is it an own-occ policy?


"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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NOYB wrote:

"Harry Krause" wrote in message
news:c3dhc2g=.7137d24bc0c32b167f6e9eb8977e34c2@107 0562212.cotse.net...
NOYB wrote:

Are you providing full health insurance and retirement plan
benefits...or
are you emulating Wal-Mart?



"Harry Krause" wrote in message

I'm doing my part to ease unemployment. I'm hiring another
writer for
my
staff. Will be putting the ad on MONSTER.COM and in the Wash Post.


We have first-class benefits, including a top-of-the-line health
insurance plan,

BC/BS PPO.


a non-contributory defined-benefit pension plan, a 401k,

Simple IRA

and a life insurance policy equal to annual salary.

Same

We contribute a
share of profits to the 401k on behalf of the employee.

That's compulsory to most plans.

Our employees
pay $4.50 for generic prescriptions and $8.00 for non-generics,

$10 and $15

but
that's going up next year to $10 and $15. New employees get two weeks
vacation the first year

1 week

and that goes to three weeks the third year.

2 weeks year 2, 3 weeks year three

In
addition, we have 12 paid holidays and we shut down from noon on
Christmas eve to the day after New Year's Day.

5 paid holidays

We also provide 20 days
of paid sick leave a year.

Paid? Every year? I call "bull****". With 3 weeks vacation, 12 paid
holidays, and 20 paid sick days that's 47 *paid* days off every year.
Are
they hourly employees? For a "small business", that's the road to
bankruptcy.

Boy...and you had me going there for a minute.


Oh, I forgot. We also provide everyone with LTD.

The company provides an insurance plan that pays 50% of an employe's
salary for Long Term Disability. Employes have the option of purchasing
an additional 16.66%, bringing their total to 66.66%. The basic benefit
maximum is $4,000 per month. With the buy up, the limit is increased to
$10,000 per month.



It is indeed, and is underwritten by Berkshire Life. If, for example,
you're a writer or a graphics artist and something happens to your eyes
or hands or whatever, and you can't write or "draw," but can work at
something else, you still draw the full disability, up to 50% or 66.66%.



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NOYB wrote:

If they're salaried, then how do they get "12 paid Holidays"!?!? They have
a set salary...and they get 12 days off. That's very different from the
"paid holidays" an hourly employee receives...and the "20 paid sick days" is
a farce as well.

The benefits you offer are decent...but anybody with a brain knows that you
don't advertise "paid holidays" to salaried employees...'cause they'll see
right through it.


You have some strange ideas. If one of our employees decides to take an
additional week of vacation off, over and above what is allowed, I can,
if I so choose, deduct a week's pay off the next paycheck. I have
decided Columbus Day is a good day to have off, so I have made it a paid
holiday. If it wasn't a paid holiday, I could deduct a day's pay from
the check of any employee who took that day off (without claiming it as
a sick day or a vacation day).

When the feds close down because of heavy snow, we close, too. I don't
deduct a day's pay for that, either.


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jps wrote:

In article lFPzb.229414$Dw6.807521@attbi_s02,
says...
Wow, she has really hit a nerve, that is the most this loser has replied to
a post in weeks. It must be sad to work so hard to impress everyone and no
one, even those who endorse his political beliefs, believes a word he
writes.

In weeks? But you only showed up last week, "Jack." What a lucky guy
you are to be in a circle jerk with your girlfriend Karen.

What of hers are you jerking on "Jack?"

Jackoff is simply another handle of a regular poster here. Right-wing
trash, just like Dave Hall, this newbie Jon Ball (Dave Hall's cousin, no
doubt), and a few other Konservative lemmings. Not worth a read, and
really down in the dumps since he sold off his little boat. And like
most of the righties, goes after me. Another yawner. If you ignore him,
he'll fade away again.

Karen Smith, though, is a piece of work. If I lived in Australia, I'd
already be in touch with the police, for fear she'd stalk me and take a
shot at me or a family member. She's so far over the edge, she could be
a co-star in a Road Runner cartoon. As close to an absolute nutcase as
you're likely to find in usenet.



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Karen, if you're going to sit on the other side of the world and pretend to
take passionate positions about US politcal issues- please do so only after
reading a post with some tiny degree of accuracy, please.

Let's suppose for a nano second that this story is true, coming from
the left it's probably another lie.

The story originates with the Republican congressman who refused the bribe. I
have no idea how far "left" he is, but most people would probably assume that
as a Republican he is either moderately conservative or very conservative.

So you found some crooked repubs,
who then refused a bribe???

No. READ MY POST. I commended the Republican who refused the bribe for his
honesty. Where do you get this "crooked Republican" crap? I even said I'd be
proud to vote for a guy like that, and I would.

gee the Clintons were into real estate
scams & it wasn't just the budget that got blown under Clinton's command:-)

So, what do you think wil have the greatest long tern consequences on a nation?
A blown wad or a blown budget?

Can you imagine the state of the world, the world Chuck not just US, if
that Al had been elected??

Likely no 9-11.

If there had been a 9-11, Gore would have hunted down the people responsible
for the crime and punished them. We're still waiting for OBL to be brought to
the net.
(I'm cynical enough to believe that event may be on "hold" until needed to
boost ratings in 2004).

The world owes the people of Florida a huge
debt of gratitude, well done to you all!!!

What do you suppose they did, Karen, that was so "well done"? (loaded question)


I do note though that you're happy to try & besmirch ALL repubs because
of the behaviour of some??

Again, try to read a post before going into hyperdrive with your canned
reactions.
How did I besmirch the fellow I described as courageous, of high integrity, and
expressed a regret that I'm unable to vote for?

The left; a boat broker so racked with guilt he now tries to palm
himself off as a caring socialist, all the while picking up a few bob
writing deceptive spruik pieces for low grade magazines (which we need

You're in high style tonight, lady.
You have no ability to discuss issues, so you resort to personal attacks on
those you disagree with. Statements like that
say much more about you than they do about me. You couldn't cram more lies into
a single run-on sentence if your life depended on it.

The left; a boat broker so racked with guilt

Nope. Not at all. I made scores of friends and no enemies in the brokerage biz.
Only stupid and pathetic people have to tell lies to try to be convincing. You
should know that, you are an expert on lies. If you avoid lying, there is
nothing to be guilty about.

Challenge: Name one person or transaction you are aware of where I should feel
guilty: ________________



he now tries to palm
himself off as a caring socialist,

Your second lie. I have never claimed to be a socialist. I don't live a
socialist lifestyle- rather far from it. The majority of my income is generated
by ownership of real or intellectual property. Not socialistic at all.

Challenge: Point out where I ever claimed to a "caring
socialist"_______________


all the while picking up a few bob
writing deceptive spruik pieces for low grade magazines

Challenge: Name the magazine(s) I write for- or any of them, and tell me where
you've seen a copy to arrive at your evaluaton that they are "low
grade."_____________________


which we need
to constantly correct when he spam the NG with them)

You think. Are you still conviced my engine hydrolocked due to a worn fuel
injector?

See
a pattern of deceptive or lying lowlife here?? I certainly do.

I see a lot of inaccurate claims and personal attacks from a bitter old woman
in Australia. It would be extreme to characterize your delusional rantings as
"lying low life", so I'll just say "no", in spite of your pattern.

Gould 0738 wrote:



I see a lot of inaccurate claims and personal attacks from a bitter old woman
in Australia. It would be extreme to characterize your delusional rantings as
"lying low life", so I'll just say "no", in spite of your pattern.


Bitter old woman, indeed. And delusional. And a lousy writer...her worst
sin.


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Wow, she has really hit a nerve, that is the most this loser has replied to
a post in weeks. It must be sad to work so hard to impress everyone and no
one, even those who endorse his political beliefs, believes a word he
writes.

I think sad is relative. How about the people (and there are several on this
NG) who just ooze hateful, spiteful, crap *every* time they post? Whatcha
think, Jack? Suppose those people might be pretty sad as well? If that's the
way their minds really work, that's way sad indeed.

Harry Krause wrote:

NOYB wrote:

If they're salaried, then how do they get "12 paid Holidays"!?!? They have
a set salary...and they get 12 days off. That's very different from the
"paid holidays" an hourly employee receives...and the "20 paid sick days" is
a farce as well.

The benefits you offer are decent...but anybody with a brain knows that you
don't advertise "paid holidays" to salaried employees...'cause they'll see
right through it.


You have some strange ideas. If one of our employees decides to take an
additional week of vacation off, over and above what is allowed, I can,
if I so choose, deduct a week's pay off the next paycheck. I have
decided Columbus Day is a good day to have off, so I have made it a paid
holiday. If it wasn't a paid holiday, I could deduct a day's pay from
the check of any employee who took that day off (without claiming it as
a sick day or a vacation day).

When the feds close down because of heavy snow, we close, too. I don't
deduct a day's pay for that, either.



Here's our holiday schedule for 2004:

HOLIDAY DATE OF OBSERVANCE

New Year’s Day Thursday, January 1
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Monday, January 19
Presidents' Day Monday, February 16
Good Friday Friday, April 9
Memorial Day Monday, May 31
Independence Day Monday, July 5
Labor Day Monday, September 6
Columbus Day Monday, October 11
Veterans' Day Thursday, November 11
Thanksgiving Day Thursday, November 25
Day after Thanksgiving Friday, November 26
Christmas Day Friday, December 24

Plus, we shut down for the week between Christmas and and New Year's Day.






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