After being America pilled I moved to China and had a British roommate. My mind was blown when he told me his mom took paid vacation days to tidy the house. I would NEVER dream of using the 14 days of vacation I had in the USA to clean the fucking house. Just IMAGINE having so much time off that you’d even consider using some to clean the house. It seemed awesome to me.
As a Brit that’s crazy, that’s what WFH is for ;)
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“I offered my employees a salary, they then expected the full salary paid out. Miserable, ungrateful wretches.”
“I’m an insufferable rich cunt who doesn’t do much at work, I have enough money to pay other people to do everything for me in the rest of my life, so I spend my free time persuing any hobby or interest I want, I’m also very empty inside so spend most of my time working.”
spend most of my time pretending to work
FIFY. Those meetings aren’t gonna conduct themselves, you know!
Sounds like a real stupid guy.
I mean, he already said he was a CEO…
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Even if you love doing something, you’ll eventually want a break. What this guy is describing is addiction. Work addiction is one of many types of addiction that isn’t even seen as such because while it can destroy everything else in your life, it likely won’t stop you from being financially successful and that’s the only measure of success anyone actually gives a fuck about, it seems.
I love my field, I hate the majority of jobs in my field because while tech can do many cool and wonderful things and could be solving many more issue, most companies are busy doing what one percenters want and pushing for the least effort solutions and everything is always a cram. No breathing space, no time to enjoy the product and reflect on what to do next. Just cram, enshittify, add tracking, automate away your peers, do more with less people so we can fire more people.
I’m so sick of the efficiency rat race that capitalist investors demand.
I can no longer tell which ones are real and which are satire.
Poe’s law hits hard
If that’s linkedin he’s 100% serious. Otherwise, 50-50.
So fucking glad I straight up deleted my linkedin shit.
I think that’s more of a Succons razor situation
If something could be a Deez Nuts joke, then it probably is?
Damn ya caught me
I love my job. I really do. I also love other things more. It’s not rocket surgery.
“Rocket surgery”… I like it, I’m changing to this too!
This is precisely why “unlimited” PTO is a fucking scam. When it’s a set amount in writing as part of your compensation package, they’re literally committing a crime if they never let you take it. If it’s more nebulously worded, it’s easier to blame the demands of the job, as though those aren’t defined by the same people jerking you around on benefits. And they have proven time and time again that they will take everything from you if given the chance.
While you are correct, the actual reason this started is much simpler.
CA has a law that all unused vacation must be paid out at separation. All the silicon valley CEOs loophole this law by claiming unlimited PTO, therefore no payout because nothing is accrued.
Even though I live what I do, getting paid is literally the only reason I go to work. If they did not pay me, I would not go.
I like my job. If I wasn’t getting paid, I’d still be doing it. Just not for them.
Exactly this. I have several hobby projects that use the same skill set as my job, because I enjoy doing it.
I would quit my job on the spot and spend much more time on my other projects if I didn’t need the money.
Same here.
But I always get told that people need the threat of starvation and homelessness to do anything at all.
The same kind of thinking that gets you to people needing the threat of burning in a pit for eternity to behave ethically.
I hate that we are in a timeline that I can’t be absolutely sure that this is satire anymore.
It absolutely is. This was his next post
Humanity is not yet lost 🙏
LMAO! Taking notes from Lyndon Johnson I see! (For those not in the know, the US President would call people into the Oval Office crapper and talk to them while taking a dump.)
I love that there was a person who really did this, and of course they were also president of the United States.
I used to do that with a professor at the urinals. Somehow, with all of our conversations, it just made the flow better.
Sure is! The last photo is hilarious actually
i am never happy. not my thing.
me irl
I’m reasonably sure it’s not?
I had a manager that said these things. These people are ghouls.
A show of vision only a Super CEO can have
That almost brings it over the line, but no, I think it’s serious. Only a heroic CEO could have the vision to give people time off. It’s nothing like what unions have been clamoring to do for over a century.
It definitely brings it over the line, and it’s absolutely satire.
I’m pretty sure this person is joking.
we live in an age where almost all satire has happened at least 10 times
I’m sure they are, but I have had bosses who think this way.
The places to watch out for are the ones who have “unlimited” vacation time. That actually means “ooh, now’s really not a good time…”
I think there was a company (might have been Virgin?) that did unlimited holiday, but the issue was that people ended up feeling ashamed for taking holiday and so basically ended up taking less than if they were given 25 days holiday.
We have unlimited time off and they have started adding more company vacation days because they’re worried we aren’t taking enough time off.
Yep, exactly
My last contract had that and the first year I barely used 2 weeks. My regional manager started giving us heads up during contract negotiation time that we might not get it. Ended up taking 3 weeks that he approved and felt so good to actually use the benefits that were promised. He was going to retire soon anyways, so he was approving left and right.
Ended up get hired back at the same place under a different company, and now our PTO and vacation is horseshit
How is it “unlimited” if a manager has to approve? They might as well change the description from “unlimited vacation” to “anything from 0 to 365 days a year, whatever your boss (we) says flies.”
It’s an excuse to limit how much vacation you can take and they don’t have to pay it out if you leave.
This is why my previous employer moved to “unlimited” vacation.
They originally had a PTO-with-rollover plan until one day the CTO went to the president and said, “I have enough vacation days banked to take off October 1 to December 31.”
They removed the rollover first, but then everyone wanted the last two weeks of the year off. There was never “a good time” to use one’s PTO in other parts of the year and nobody wanted to lose their vacation days. And of course management look like jerks if they “steal” everyone’s time off.
Now, it’s “unlimited” (pending management approval), so nobody is “losing” anything when management says no to those two weeks as well. You might get a couple of days here and there, but it’s difficult to get a whole week and nearly impossible to get two consecutive weeks.
Just one of the many reasons why I no longer work there.
Three week vacations are not uncommon since we have set vacations days and people actually use them. The company actually thinks it’s a liability to have too much vacation banked and were offered a 2 for 3 deal during Covid.
I really hope you mean ‘spend 2 days banked and get 3 off’ and not the other way around…
Yes that’s what I meant. It might have been 3 for 4.
Its not and I learned that fast. At least I got to have some fun at the end
I generally agree with you but my last two jobs transitioned to unlimited while I was there and the amount of time I took off was not impacted at either. Both of these jobs were client focused billable time types of jobs so I do think that has something to do with it, as long as I’m hitting my billable targets and contribution goals they don’t care how much time I have off really. I once took December off at the end of a super busy year.
If you set a minimum vacation time, it’s not bad. But most places don’t do that, because they know you’ll take less time if they say unlimited.
There are people who can work without any time off. Met some in academia: total freaks who only need a lab and like-minded individuals.
