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I'm glad I only have 140 or so employees to deal with....the whole "name game" must be a nightmare for larger organizations! I agree, I don't understand giving a kid a name they will never use. I know a number of people named that way. If you don't like the name enough to use it, don't give it...

We've run into a few nickname problems here from time to time. A few of them are simple: name is John James Smith, everybody calls him Jim. Maybe officially we know him as J. James Smith. No problem, I can deal with that. The difficult ones are when John Smith grows up being called, say...

That was my thought as well. Heck, I get excited if I come home and find out my DH has loaded the dishwasher or put on a load of laundry!

Wow, me too. Five feet of snow & more expected...argh! :o

My husband is a truck driver by trade and has driven pretty much everything in the last 35 years. He would be hard-pressed to come up with how many actual miles he's driven for each category. That's crazy!

Ours has been cold and sunny for the past week. I like clear & cold weather, but I was in Las Vegas at a convention for most of last week so I missed most of it! Now that I'm home, it's warming up and clouding over and rain is back in the forecast. No snow yet, at least!

I agree with the others that you cannot withhold any pay she has coming from before the two days she didn't show up, although you don't have to pay her for those days. In a case like this, we would fire immediately, effective with the last day she actually worked, pay her out for any time owed...

Probably. Although we interfere with nature all the time, building dams and creating man-made lakes and cutting down trees, so I don't know that water pipelines seem too far away from that sort of thing. We get 160+ inches of rain per year, usually spread out over time, but every once in a...

We've been having rain in abundance lately, and I would be more than happy to send you some of ours. Think we can figure out a way to rig up a pipeline from Alaska to California? (We have an oil pipeline, why not water?!)

I guess I shouldn't be, but I'm always surprised by the people who go into these things without an attorney but then claim to have some sort of inside track into the knowledge and interpretation of the laws/rules. I've heard a judge scold someone (more than once) in the courtroom when they tried...

Ask your attorney if she can figure out a way to get the judge to interpret exactly what was meant in the order. I would assume that "breaks" meant school as well, but I think it probably could stand some clarification since the child is not currently old enough to attend school. I have seen...

Usually the time frame for remitting the payment is contained somewhere in the withholding order. Most of the ones I've dealt with have specified that it should be sent within 7 working days of the pay date, but I imagine it can vary from agency to agency.

I'm amazed at the kind of weather the kids will go out in for free candy. We took my 7-year-old granddaughter out and she was so funny...she was a girl on a mission! She didn't dawdle or want to wander around, it was all about go to the door, get the candy, and move on. We took her sister last...

I'm just praying that the rain will hold off here tonight...we're taking my 7-year-old granddaughter trick-or-treating. My two youngest grands have always liked to alternate between us and their parents for Halloween; one will go with us one year and the other the next. Not sure how this...

As the aunt of one police officer and the grandmother of a girl who fervently hopes to become one, thank you for that. Too often we find it easy to look at the mistakes & errors in judgment made by a few individuals and use that to vilify and criticize the whole field without remembering those...

I had to laugh at that comment about the license. I was in this girl's position way back in the dark ages (1972). I did not have a driver's license then nor have I ever had one. My boyfriend at the time didn't have one either. We walked everywhere we went. Yet somehow we managed to find a way...

I'm not a screamer, either. I am a very strong person and it isn't easy to push me around, but I pride myself on being very "user-friendly" at work, and that includes not raising my voice. I remember one time when I had been on vacation and while I was gone, something was changed on my...

Glad you're back, txls, we missed you! I'm also glad to hear that your DH got another job after some of the things you mentioned about his old job. We just went through our open enrollment period and it was very uneventful. Our increase was just a bit under 5%, about what I would have...

This isn't coming from a legal perspective, but rather a common-sense perspective. If I were the rescue I would assume that if a person posted an ad trying to sell the animal, that they intended to sell it, whether or not it has actually been sold yet. I don't know how you would expect them to...

I don't know much about the law but if you do an internet search for something like "using Disney character's name/likeness for profit" you will find lots of questions and answers about this. The answer I found that seemed to sum it up best was this: "Any commercial use of Disney owned or...