OT: Danger! Time warp!

If you have to work 2 hours late, simply get overtime payments or come in late/leave early another day.

Never heard of that in the UK, mind you I've never applied for a pension yet. AFAIK you get a fixed amount whatever age you are. If you choose to work after the official retirement age, you get your pension AND your salary.

In the US it's a gamble based on the actuarial tables. File earlier and get a reduced amount for longer or wait and get a greater amount for what statistically will be a shorter period. The full benefit is paid at

You do get your pension and salary but the pension is taxable up to 85%. It turns into a real accountant's game plus rolling the dice on how long you personally will live versus the actuarial tables. If you're sickly, grab the money at 62 and run.

I'm an exempt employee so there's no overtime. otoh, that gives me flexibility to come and go as I please as long as I'm available as needed. Theoretically I can be reached by phone but for some reason I tend to lurk in areas with no cell phone coverage. Oh, well.

I suppose you know the clock has nothing to do with it. You get more daylight in the evening, by getting things done earlier.

True if you work your own schedule. Most of us have gone to school and jobs where the ours are dictated by someone else.

Personally, I'd like to see longer periods of daylight in the winter. The politicians in Washington should just change the orbit of the earth.

Presumably you're talking about state pension, which is f*ck all in the UK. Private pensions presumably have their own rules.

We should stop living in stupid places. Everyone should be around the equator.

hour into the future, as our clocks are out of step with reality.

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I am old enough to withdraw from my retirement savings without penalty, but I am not old enough to draw Social Security.

Cindy Hamilton

My brother made it to 92. Personally I'd go with the fiery motorcycle crash. Life was sort of closing in on him in his last years.

Was out on the bike yesterday but the end draws near... I keep the DR650 ready to go since that's the closest thing I've got to snow tires on a bike. The Harley is already hibernating since it really doesn't like cold mornings.

Not sure what you mean. What penalty? Surely you just get paid less for longer, or get nothing for 5 years?

We had a colossal screwup last Friday at about 4 pm. Our lone IT guy (who created the disaster, but to be fair I probably should have prevented him from doing it) went home to fix it by remote login. He figured if he was going to be working late, he could do it from the comfort of his home.

Cindy Hamilton

Some of us don't get overtime payments, and if we take off compensatory time, our regular work still isn't getting done so it's not worth it.

I swear, my co-workers wait until I take a vacation day to break things and give our customers wrong answers.

Cindy Hamilton

A small nuclear war might do the trick... Gonna spiral into the sun sooner or later. Might as well get it over with.

one hour into the future, as our clocks are out of step with reality.

ging the clocks, we can make it lighter in the morning or lighter in the ev ening (much preferred). During summer, we don't need to do either, so migh t aswell leave it the same as whatever we chose in the winter.

light. Very few people are earlybirds.

, our places of work open, etc.

longer, or get nothing for 5 years?

I don't have a defined-benefit pension through my employer. Like many Americans, I have my retirement savings in a government-regulated plan for which there is a penalty for withdrawing any money before you turn

The money in this plan is invested in a portfolio of mutual funds of one sort or another.

When I turn 62, I will be eligible for Social Security (the government pension), but the longer I wait to take that money, the more I will receive each month.

Cindy Hamilton

Prick.

That's not going to happen anymore, essentially because most knowledge is so readily accessible now and has been for millennia now. We havent seen any examples of what you are talking about in the last millennium.