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View Poll Results: Are you going to the Beartooth "Unofficial" Rally in 2016?
Yes, I am going !! 18 64.29%
Need to think about it 6 21.43%
I am not cool enough to attend 4 14.29%
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Old 08-29-2016, 06:52 PM   #751
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Either way I just hope you are healed up well enough to make it...!!


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Thanks Kris, me too. I have 10 months to get it together.
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Old 08-29-2016, 09:55 PM   #752
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top reasons why i may trailer to the Dalles next year for the first time in my life.

1. 1100 miles of slab riding to get there.
2. i will be 70.
3. since Kathy can not ride pillion that far she has always followed a day later in
the car.this doubles the cost of food,logeing and fuel.
4. did i mention that i'm old.
There sometimes a point of not how you get there but that you are there. Plus we could always use a chase vehicle.
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For me, going to/from The Dalles it's ~1400 miles each way, and probably 90% will be slab in order to make time.

They are changing our vacation policy the first of the year. We are going from earned vacation (I currently have 4 weeks) to flexible time off. As far as I know, I should be able to get the time to go to Oregon, but have no idea how this new policy is going to work out.
Flexible? Sounds more like a gym plan. Hope you get healed up no matter what.
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Old 08-30-2016, 02:13 AM   #754
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I may trailer again Bob. The Dalles is 86 miles (one way!) from my place. 😎😁

Good breakfast at a place called Cousins.

Anyone coming from the south needs to swing by Crater Lake.

Kris and I will map out some great rides in the area.

Lots of options:


Ocean
Mountains
Lakes
Waterfalls
Volcanoes
Rivers
Forest
Desert
Canyons
Food !
Music



Great backroad to Timberline Lodge where the Shining was filmed.

Just a short ride to Antelope where the
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh hung out in his compound.

So many cool roads, routes and destinations.

We'll give you some options based on weather too. East is dry and warm and South is cooler mountains, West is scenic routes leading to the city of Portland and the Pacific.

North to Mt St Helens via mountain backroads.

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Flexible? Sounds more like a gym plan. Hope you get healed up no matter what.
Supposedly, we (salaried professionals) will have "unlimited" vacation, but taking time off is at our manager's discretion. I intend to get my 4 weeks, though.

I actually think the only reason the company did this was to get the accrued vacation time (liability) off the books and now if they lay off or fire someone, they don't have to cash out their unused vacation.
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Supposedly, we (salaried professionals) will have "unlimited" vacation, but taking time off is at our manager's discretion. I intend to get my 4 weeks, though.

I actually think the only reason the company did this was to get the accrued vacation time (liability) off the books and now if they lay off or fire someone, they don't have to cash out their unused vacation.
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I actually think the only reason the company did this was to get the accrued vacation time (liability) off the books and now if they lay off or fire someone, they don't have to cash out their unused vacation.
My employer hasn't done this yet and hopefully won't. They did change their policy when you retire or quit. Used to be they paid your entire unused leave. We get 24 days a year and we can carryover 48 days into the new year. If you did it right you could have something around 60 days at the time of leaving. Now, when you announce your leaving, they bust your vacation down to 24 days.
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I have over 10 months of accrued "leave credits" Never to be lost and can be rolled over at the end of my career as addition service time.
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My employer hasn't done this yet and hopefully won't. They did change their policy when you retire or quit. Used to be they paid your entire unused leave. We get 24 days a year and we can carryover 48 days into the new year. If you did it right you could have something around 60 days at the time of leaving. Now, when you announce your leaving, they bust your vacation down to 24 days.
Some places delay the disbursement too, over a two year period in some cases. At some point you have to say F it. It ain't worth working wherever that is.
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Some places delay the disbursement too, over a two year period in some cases. At some point you have to say F it. It ain't worth working wherever that is.
Ours are paid at the end of the month you leave since we are paid monthly.
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I have over 10 months of accrued "leave credits" Never to be lost and can be rolled over at the end of my career as addition service time.
And you wonder why California is in financial trouble.
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Ours are paid at the end of the month you leave since we are paid monthly.
I have to look at mine. I know there is a limit to the amount of vacation days that one can retire with and they might not pay them out all at once. I know my brother who is a building inspector on LI has a similar deal, but he has an obscene amount of days. My day was even worse. My dad had 79 vacation days and 115 (he had 150, but they cut off at 115)sick days when he retired and they paid him for it. He took off a day a week the last year too. As time goes on, every company and org cuts back. If I started 9 months before I did, I would have gotten the full vacation accrual rate. Now it's tiered and I finally go to halfway in between the low and high. With my job in Iowa, I was given 2 weeks when I started and accrued too. I had over a month when I left and they had to pay me for it. Sometimes I wish I stayed just for the benefits. I had no deductible PPO BCBS fully paid for and lots of sick and vacation. I had like 360 hours of sick before I had neck surgery. Stuff like that is unheard of anymore.
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And you wonder why California is in financial trouble.
As part of the switch from earned vacation to FTO, at the end of the year, the company is going to cash out our unused vacation at 50 cents on the dollar, BUT California employees get cashed out at 100%.
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As part of the switch from earned vacation to FTO, at the end of the year, the company is going to cash out our unused vacation at 50 cents on the dollar, BUT California employees get cashed out at 100%.
Isn't that wonderful and aren't you happy for me?
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Ours are paid at the end of the month you leave since we are paid monthly.
Paid vacation? what's that ?
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