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2 hours ago, KY Deb said:
Was another port substituted for the Magdelan Islands when the weather was too poor to stop or did you have another sea day?
It's another day at sea, so the two large "service dogs" will have to just take their walks onboard.
Yes...former show dogs, that now have little collar tags saying "Service Dog". Cutely avoiding the "no pets" policy.
I pity the next guests in that cabin.
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Be glad you have just A dog onboard.
Today on the Silver Shadow, two men (I won't use gentlemen) walked into La Terrazza for lunch, each with a large poodle on a long leash.
Sometimes I think the ADA was the worst law ever passed by Congress, right behind the income tax. Well intentioned, but fatally flawed.
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2 hours ago, mahasamatman said:
If the termination is not "for cause" (basically criminal behaviour or egregious malfeasance), the employee is legally entitled to termination benefits,
Try again.
There is no legal requirement for "termination benefits" as a matter of US Federal employment law, with the exception of COBRA for health insurance coverage. There may be specific state laws that come into play, but anything else is a matter of company policy, not federal law. Also, employees may have pension or 401K or IRA issues that are outside of any "benefits", and whether or not the employee is covered by any kind of labor/employment contract.
Federal law is primarily aimed at wrongful terminations, such as for retaliation on a whistleblower or regarding union activity. Also, it concerns discriminatory firings, such as for race, religion and other "protected classes".
I do know that Canadian employment law is significantly different than US, which may be what you are thinking of.
And if you want to see laws that truly "protect" the worker, look to France.
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28 minutes ago, PaulMCO said:
It was buying a pig of a shipyard MV Werften still mired in the days of the Soviet Union. A shipyard that had never built a large Cruise ship.
I always thought....if vertically integrating ship building with ship and cruise operating was such a great idea, Micky Arison and Carnival would have done it years ago.
But they didn't.
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55 minutes ago, BWIVince said:
which would put us at around 2027/2028 for the first ocean ship.
Not worried at all about what any new ship will be like. Just hoping that I'll be around in 2028 to have the problem of whether or not I like the "New New Crystal".
(Cue the joke about buying green bananas)
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Just making the point, don't assume anything. And be happy when good happens.
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Why do you say LATAM and Copa are your main options? Also, South America is a big continent, so asking about "West Coast to South America" really doesn't help much. Flights to Bogota would be quite different than to Buenos Aires.
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And remember that "free air" may very well NOT include deviations, either on dates and/or airports. Or they may be at a significant up-charge in addition to deviation/AirPlus fees.
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4 hours ago, Huib said:
Since Air Canada and Oceania could not be reached we contacted our TA.
Are you saying that no one answered the phone at AC? I find that extremely difficult to believe, since their phone centers operate 24/7.
And why were you even bothering with going through your TA? AC and UA were the people who would fix things.
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7 hours ago, island lady said:
Definitely. And the renewal is super fast and painless. 🙂
Please stop the generalizations. Just as the initial approval process can vary from short to over a year, so with renewals. Many people wait months for their renewals, and to tell folks that it is "super fast" is a disservice. Further more, it isn't necessarily "painless". You need to list all the countries you have visited in the last five years, with details. In my case, that was over 50 countries, so not a "painless" process.
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16 minutes ago, island lady said:
Though in a much shorter line. 😉
Nope. GE gets you the same pre-check. It does have a shorter line at IMMIGRATION, but the comment was about TSA, which does not do immigration procedures.
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1 hour ago, Deb922 said:
Rude TSA agents. Husband got pulled aside for more screening. Which I hear can still happen with TSA Precheck.
And which can still happen with Global Entry.
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30 minutes ago, CruiserBruce said:
Curious why someone would book this set of flights through Iberia?
Likely the fare arbitrage with the code-shares.
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It's almost seven and a half hours from SEA to KEF. It's three more into Stockholm.
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A bit behind. Menus and Reflections. Comments to follow.
Feb28dinner.pdf Feb28Reflect.pdf Feb29Lunch.pdf Feb29dinner.pdf Feb29Reflect.pdf
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I'd wager that Fernando made her an offer she couldn't refuse.
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Data point: Formal night on the Spirit. Gentleman in Atlantide sitting with jacket off, but with his Australian cowboy hat on.
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4 hours ago, basor said:
So you are saying that a silent auction was announced and there were sign up sheets for your bids on the art work in the loft......I thought you indicated that the artist had put a price on the pieces in case someone was interested in purchasing.
Yes. There were prices, but apparently they weren't selling. So the CD announced - multiple times - that there would now be a silent auction for the art on the wall in the loft.
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1 hour ago, LHT28 said:
First cruise on Oceania??
Nope. Just never had seen prices on the art, and most assuredly never had an auction for them. With minimum bids.
1 hour ago, mauibabes said:You are NOT on Princess! NO AUCTIONS.
You missed the part where I noted that there was a silent auction for the "art".
Dogs On the Shadow
in Silversea
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Currently on Shadow.
Sitting in Atrium, in walked what I assume are the two dogs from the prior sailing. With two owners. Surreptitious photo, with owner's face cropped out. To protect the guilty.