And, on the same scale, do you think the sanction -- the loss of, say, three days' vacation, or two days' pay -- was adequate?
I asked Ward whether he felt that it was fair that the minimum pay for IKEA workers in Danville is eight dollars an hour, and that they receive twelve days' vacation (eight of them selected by Swedwood), while their counterparts in Sweden make at least nineteen dollars an hour and get five weeks off.
"Look, you can come here, get a face lift and spend five days vacationing on the beach, and it's still going to cost you 30 or 40percentt less than it would if you had the same procedure in L.A. or New York.
For a seven day vacation, an example is: Epcot, Magic Kingdom, Rest with shopping at the three places, Hollywood Studios, Magic Kingdom, Animal Kingdom, and then on the last day, do whatever YOU want.
Jérôme Kerviel, the Société Générale trader, took only four days of vacation last year.
After just four days of vacation, President Barack Obama will leave Hawaii on Wednesday evening to return to Washington in a last-ditch effort to reach a deal to avoid the "fiscal cliff".
They would also have lost nine sick days, vacation days and holidays.
"Three extra vacation days" turned into "five days of vacation time," which he then calculated to be... "five-sevenths of a week!" Somewhere, over a few takes, Carell trivialized his speech to the final comic degree by adding, "And... so... that's the dealio!" He and Feig laughed heartily.
I skipped the last two days of vacation, leaving Adriana and the kids (and our car) to finish up vacation and make it back to Palo Alto without me.
