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[Zangi]

All my friends get angry at me for not watching the show. 

They've made me sit through several episodes, but I just don't like it.

You need new friends.  More tolerant ones.  (Ironic)

[Graknorke]

Fairly sure that requires either one or three more participants. Forget if the qualifying point is five or seven. Think five, but... anyway.

Still possible if there were old *friends involved, though.

Is there actually a standard minimum number of participants for an orgy?

[Frumple]

Last time I checked, yeah, though that was a few years back. Think there's still commentary on it on the forum, actually...

Like I said, it was either five or seven. Anything less that didn't have a specific name was just group activities. It's probably important for legalities or psych stuff, I guess. Something or other.

[scrdest]

Fairly sure that requires either one or three more participants. Forget if the qualifying point is five or seven. Think five, but... anyway.

Still possible if there were old *friends involved, though.

Is there actually a standard minimum number of participants for an orgy?

Yes, there's a room in BPIM HQ in Sèvres where they hold a couple of people locked in a perpetual orgy.

[Dutchling]

Just listened to a 9min meditation track.

It was somewhat weird. I'm also fairly sure I started listening at least 20min go >.>

[Ogdibus]

It must have had lots of commercials.

[Mephisto]

Found out what our Christmas bonus is for this year.

iPads for everyone^{*
*one iPad per child that you own}

Speaking as a childless tech professional in his mid-20s: fsck this.

One of my coworkers loved it. He's got five kids.

[miauw62]

You should hire Dutchling.

[Graknorke]

America gets different boxart on games to everywhere else.
Their cover for Heavy Rain is prettyugly, and puts tits front-and-centre.

[Lord Shonus]

Not familiar with the game, but looking at it, I don't see the problem with it. I can see why some people might prefer the other art (although, since I generally despise abstract bullshit, that art would make me NOT want to buy the game), but the US art is just a girl with three other people in the background. She's fairly sensibly dressed, and there's no "accentuation" on the breasts at all. Does she not appear in the game or something?

[Urist Imiknorris]

America gets different boxart on games to everywhere else.
Their cover for Heavy Rain is prettyugly, and puts tits front-and-centre.

American Kirby is hardcore.

[LeoLeonardoIII]

Found out what our Christmas bonus is for this year.

iPads for everyone^{*
*one iPad per child that you own}

Speaking as a childless tech professional in his mid-20s: fsck this.

One of my coworkers loved it. He's got five kids.

One per child suggests the employer felt it would be good to give them to the children. What if you, for whatever reason, don't want your kid to have one? Does the employer expect you to refuse it? Most children would basically ruin it immediately. Also what if one worker were pregnant - does that worker get an extra one? What if one worker had a child who died? What if the worker would get 3 units but had a child die last week, does the company hold one back?

HR knows how many kids each person has if there's health insurance, and that can be corroborated with general office gossip. So the company knew they were screwing people like you over and didn't care.

Further, this is just more Company-As-Parent-Figure bullshit. It's like making you get a doctor's note for sick days instead of just giving everyone PTO hours throughout the year. They shouldn't be all up in your business like that, and they shouldn't be picking the gifts your family gets.

Fucking repugnant.

I didn't get a Christmas bonus, but I didn't care as much as I felt bad about your story.

There was a Christmas party where there were randomized door prizes; 40% got a $25 gift card, 40% got a $50, and 20% got a $100.

My girlfriend, however, got an $800 bonus which is more than her usual. That was pretty cool. But she's a complete rockstar at her job and they don't give performance raises or bonuses, so she should have gotten more than that throughout the year. Also her boss made a deal with her and after she held up her end he's probably gonna renege on it.

LAME!

[Mephisto]

More junk about work, feel free to disregard. I just need to rant a bit at people who are not my fiancee.

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To be fair (no, not really), I think it was a thinly veiled gift for the older employees. A coworker mentioned that taxes aren't taken out of something like this. No one enforces that they're for the children. They say it is, but the majority of the time it's going to the parents who are then free to resell it or whatever. I'm sure complaints about ageism would result in laughter and a stern explanation that the gifts were for children, not parents.

I don't know if my coworkers got performance raises as well (and it's apparently rude to ask), but I got a pretty good one a few days before said gifts were given out. I guess I can't complain too loudly. I came out ahead in the matter as my "bonus" will recur annually.

There is a distinct difference in the feelings involved with receiving a bonus and receiving a raise, however. Raises are at least somewhat expected if you do good work. Bonuses are just that - something nice that you receive when momentary expenditures increase (such as, you know, a winter celebration of your choice).

[Ogdibus]

Who do doctors get notes from when they get sick?

[MonkeyHead]

Other doctors, one assumes.