Path: news.ccsf.jp!tomockey.ddo.jp!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news-in-01.newsfeed.easynews.com!easynews.com!easynews!newsfeed.news2me.com!headwall.stanford.edu!news.stanford.edu!not-for-mail From: mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Holidays as public holidays Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 13:22:08 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Subtlties R'nt Us Lines: 17 Distribution: world Message-ID: References: <4a76e07f$0$3321$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> Reply-To: mtfester@netscape.net NNTP-Posting-Host: haven.eyrie.org X-Trace: news.stanford.edu 1249478528 8234 166.84.7.159 (5 Aug 2009 13:22:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@news.stanford.edu User-Agent: tin/1.9.3-20080506 ("Dalintober") (UNIX) (Linux/2.6.28-xen3-U (i686)) Xref: news.ccsf.jp fj.life.in-japan:168267 The 2-Belo wrote: > We have a report from the fj.life.in-japan Dynamics Officer that John W. has > exploded. Flight director confirms that: > [...] > >Way back when I knew of a guy that hadn't taken a day off in his 20 > >years with the company, and the company allowed him to roll that > >vacation over from year to year. His goal was to accumulate enough > >vacation so that he could retire 18 months early. I thought that > >sounded like a good plan. > And then three weeks before his retirement, he keels over from a heart attack... Hey, I saw that show... Mike