A road sign points the way to nearby towns Clinton and Prosperity in Newberry, South Carolina, January 25, 2008.  Link
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Japanese firm offers “heartache leave” for staff
This is quite amazing considering how dominant the work culture is in Japan.
TOKYO (Reuters) – Lovelorn staff at a Japanese marketing company can take paid time off after a bad break-up with a partner, with more “heartache leave” on offer as they get older.Tokyo-based Hime & Company, which also gives staff paid time off to hit the shops during sales season, says heartache leave allows staff to cry themselves out and return to work refreshed. “Not everyone needs to take maternity leave but with heartbreak, everyone needs time off, just like when you get sick,” CEO Miki Hiradate, whose company of six women markets cosmetics and other goods targeted for women, told Reuters by telephone.
Staff aged 24 years or younger can take one day off per year, while those between 25 and 29 can take two days off and those older can take three days off, the company said.
81-year-old feels shorted on toilet paper
The way Leo Hill figures it, every roll of toilet paper he’s used since mid-2006 has shorted him at least one sitting. That’s a lot of tissue.
Acting on an idea from his wife, Doris, the 81-year-old former maintenance worker set out to settle a problem.
“She complained that a roll in the 12-pack would last just three days and the same size in the four-roll pack lasted four,” Hill explained. “I wanted to find out.”
Hill figured he had the time, since there wasn’t much else to do but read or stare at the shower curtain. So he counted every sheet of toilet paper as he used it.
It wasn’t for any other reason, he said, than to know if the number of sheets noted on the package matched what was on the roll.
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