What the chuff is a 'cloud ceiling'? and what's with the 'neo-employee' thing?

I get two weeks paid, husband gets two weeks paid.

I got 4% of my gross pay accrued for holiday pay which works out about 2 weeks per year for the first 6 years and has now gone up to 6% equal to 3 weeks a year, this is in Alberta & I'm a truck driver.

Bats,

Also being from Glasgow (as the OP is) I think 'cloud ceiling' refers to the almost perennial grey, cloudy skies we have here! It can be quite oppressive! I certainly know how he feels!

yes, that's what I was talking about


Not that I see how cloud-ceiling could be interpreted in any other way...

I too wondered about those, I must look them up so that I can attempt to slip them into conversation.....

I do think that it very much depends on the size of the company too. I only started here at the beginning of March, but they gave me two weeks, but next year I'll get four, but it's a very small Company (13) employees.

Cloud ceiling is the height of the base of the cloud above the deck, the coverage is given in oktas, 8 being fully covered.

What about the artist/painter who does a mural in a bedroom and paints clouds on the ceiling could that be called a cloud ceiling?

seeing as we've got IT peeps on here , could be something web related.
Cloud storage an all that stuff!

I thought it must be a neologism from a personel department, some sort of glass ceiling for a country of stoners.

thank you guys, that's very helpful and reassuring.
Holiday entitlement doesn't seem bad at all.


And what about the freedom of actually using those holidays?
I once met a American girl from Oregon who told me that despite she was entitled to 3 weeks/year, there was no way she could have taken 3 weeks off work all at once.
And it was not because of the nature of her job that didn't allow her to be abway for long period of time; she kind of put it down to the fact she was not expected by her workmates to be away for more than a week at a time (she's a librarian), and that they would have given her a hard time if she did (her words)


P.S. I promise I will try to stick to basic English from now on, no neologism anymore
(given Englis is not my first language I probably shouldn't take the liberty to make up words, should I?)

I've been in Canada since 1981. I've never worked in a place where someone took three weeks off all at once. I have heard of people taking two weeks off together but it's not at all common.

and why do you think is that?



I mean, now that I think about it, I don't see why I would want to use the whole of my entitlement at once, actually...
but I guess that having more than 4 weeks a year like some of you have, it would be nice every once and a while to take a longer period off work

Obviously your employer doesnt subscribe to Leave with Income Averaging then commonly known in Govt circles as LIA.

Leave with income averaging (congé avec étalement du revenue)
Is an authorized working arrangement whereby eligible persons are able to reduce the number of weeks worked in a specific 12-month period by taking leave without pay for a period of between 5 weeks and 3 months. Although pay is reduced and averaged out over the 12-month period, pension and benefits coverage (as well as the applicable premiums and contributions) continue at the pre-arrangement levels.
http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/pol/doc-eng...tion=text#appD

very interesting. thanks

I'm a contractor. I get paid $n/hr and that's that; no holidays, no pension, no benefits of any kind.