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Nah dawg.
We’re all going to work until we’re so old that when we retire we don’t get to enjoy what’s left of our lives. Instead we’ll get to experience non-stop health problems, hospital visits, surgeries, daily pill schedules you can’t skip or you die, and general exhaustion.
Literally happening to both my parents exactly like this.
And that’s if you even make it to retirement, which I’ve personally witnessed a few people not do.
It’s a scam y’all. Dipshits floating around on yachts while we die working. Wanna fix it all? Gotta get together, hold hands, and have a general strike until our demands are met. Totally possible, but not going to happen.
Gotta get together
This is it. This is literally the secret behind which Utopia is sealed. There are so, so many decent, empathetic humans that we could easily banish the narcissist, malevolent dipshits that make earth hell from our society.
Problem: even “good” humans have their flaws baked into their genes and brains, we are far too easily swept up into a a “us vs. them” dynamic. The only way of fixing this is to manually control your emotional behaviour and correct yourself constantly. Don‘t exhaust yourself with that, but try to remember what you really value before becoming a puppet for people with bad interests.
I don’t expect to retire.
I’ll probably be found at my desk on a Monday, not even first thing, but like, at 11:45, after dying there sometime Friday afternoon, and people just thought I was “working late” and left for the weekend, while I’m a literal corpse.
Whatever. I’m over it. I won’t have any fucks left to give when that happens because I won’t be alive to give any fucks.
The Economy* demands that you sacrifice yourself.
*Really the rich parasites demand it.
I worry that even if everything was right in my life it still wouldn’t be enough. Passion has become so rare.
This or 4 day work weeks. One or the other, or I’ll do nothing and just accept it.
4 day work weeks or 52 vacation days per year as a minimum. You can either take one day a week and only work 4 days each week, or save them up and take a 10 week vacation.
One thing I miss about working at Amazon was not only the 4 day work weeks, but the fact that they handed out PTO so generously that you could literally call off one day every single week (or sleep in and come in late every single day, which is what I did), and it was absolutely fine.
But unfortunately I had to leave cause I got tired of the thermostat being set to 83°F, and the management who wouldn’t lift a finger for anybody. Still, not the worst place in the world to work. You can just put on your headphones, load up a playlist of podcasts, and zone out for your entire shift. Not having to go through an interview process is nice too. Just show up, take a picture, spit on a sponge (they don’t drug test for weed), and you’re hired.
Norway is basically shut down for most of July 👌
Hey neighbor! Sweden too, need a few weeks to find that one sunny summer day
Summer is the nicest day in Norway 😄
I’m more for mandatory winter sleep.
Just implement both and let people choose between them.
There’s enough people and money in the world that everyone could take 6 months off and we’d still maintain 90s levels of productivity.
I’d be fine with that.
Corporate: not a chance in hell. You’re lucky you get annual leave at all, if it wasn’t mandated by law you’d never get that either.
Hot take: tons of office jobs are super reasonable. Small to mid sized companies that don’t do anything particularly exciting, where you can find a position where you play an important role in the company but someone else can take on the work you normally do when needed, or the work you do only needs to be done at certain times of the year. You can talk directly to the owner, or managers have leeway to handle employees schedules without a ton of oversight.
Talk to whoever you need to. Explain how time off is more important to you than pay, and how the company will still do well when you take extended time off. It goes 1 of 3 ways. They agree immediately - win. They want proof that your idea will work - so prove it will work, then win. Or they outright refuse or fire you, in which case you find somewhere else to work and try again until you win.
Yeah idk what jobs you’re talking about…every time I see posts from people complaining (rightfully) about the office environment it’s from big companies.
Small to mid: small company , small salary. And like…tiny progression opportunities lol. I genuinely don’t see how these would be better at all than corpos, bc a lot of small companies try to cram multiple jobs into one too bc they usually can’t afford to hire as many people as they’d like. Rare companies like what you described do exist though, just…v rare
Haha, nah, annual leave isn’t required by law in my country…
Maybe if there were some way to organize and make demands against the employer.
Yep, this is the great adjustment america needs.
If no one works summer how will Waffle House stay open
When people say “no one works” they always still want some people to work.
I’d be willing to work 14 hours a week voluntarily if i didn’t have other responsibilities.
General strike lets gooo
Who should tell the farm workers?
Who should tell the farm workers?
Let the migrant labor let them know, they’ll keep the farm going while they’re out for an extra 10% for the month.
Wait, The CALLED ICE?
Farmwork goes in seasons
You don’t say?!! Is summer an important farming season?
Depends where you are and what you’re farming. Planting(in the spring) and harvesting(in the fall) are usually the most intensive parts of the year for farm work so actually a lot of times summer is slower for farm work (relative to spring and fall)
I feel this so much. I just want to have a few consecutive months off in a row and then I’ll be good to go for the rest of the year
Our European counterparts are laughing at us, who don’t take a month off every year. And for some reason, this is how I see them doing so.
Eh. In practice, we’re fairly abused as well. I may have more holidays than my US counterparts, but in reality I can only take vacation when the schedule of the company allows it, which is never more than a week at a time at best and like three days in a row realistically.
Depends on a country of course yeah, my home country has a law that forces us to use continuous, uninterrupted, 3 week vacation in a year.
Same here, buts it’s 2 weeks
Same, I hate it. But I am glad it exists.
YEAH THAT SOUNDS FUCKING HORRIBLE, TORTURE REALLY.
I however am the rare american who is enjoying my third uninterrupted week of total freedom. This is because I was fired from my job three weeks ago. Corporate restructuring my ass.
The time is nice and I did get some severance, but there is zero enjoyment knowing that if I don’t land a job soon, I will be hard fucked. Sorry kids, we are canceling music lessons, and any other recreations until your loser unemployed parent can get work again. Wheee!
I hate it because I’m forced to take it, even if I’d want to take 2+2+1 week instead.
Many times if be much better off being able to not take three consecutive weeks off and use that time at other parts of the year. The 3 weeks also HAVE to be taken in June, July, or May. I hate summer and prefer staying indoors and working in AC.
Let me take those 3 consecutive weeks at any time of the year and it’d be great. I’d love to go snowboarding for 3 weeks.
BUT I am glad the law exists at all, forcing employers to give people proper vacations.
That seems to be highly dependent on location…we also have to coordinate with the needs of the company where i live, however we are still entitled to minimum 3 weeks vacation during summer (june-august) and at least two of them back to back regardless of the needs of the company.
If I were to put in two weeks back to back, there’s nothing they could legally do to stop me, true. But since we don’t even have a union at my job, retaliation is guaranteed. Considering it took me the better part of five years to get the job in the first place, the result is that you unfortunately don’t bite the hand that feeds you.
the result is that you unfortunately don’t bite the hand that feeds you.
*the hand that steals 99.9% of the value you create and leaves you with a few crumbs.
Sounds like a crazy toxic workplace TBH, I have never worked somewhere where 3 weeks coherent summer vacation wasn’t the norm in the entire company, with the remaining 3 weeks at your disposal for the rest of the year. We’re generally not unionised in my profession where i live either, at least not in the private sector.
Also very dependent on the type of work you’re doing. If a certain amount of people need to be on site and you need to coordinate that, things get more difficult.
In my country you get almost 1 month of vacation time with extra days depending on work (I work Saturdays too so I get extra 4 days because of it) of which it’s actually mandatory that you take 2 weeks in one go so you really unplug yourself from work. The rest is as you please.
I’m not really a Marxist but I do believe in “Workers of the world, unite!” and that includes Yankees. Laughing at your misfortune because I’m getting fucked with slightly more lube would be kinda short sighted.
Laughing at your misfortune because I’m getting fucked with slightly more lube
i should not have laughed so hard at that.
I am indeed laughing exactly like that
Tell me you’re not in Europe without saying you’re not in Europe
I mean continuous 3 month vacation is not a thing, even in Europe
If you work in education it sort of can be.
Was going to comment the same thing 😅
I’m in Europe and I feel the same way as op.
I get that it’s fun to dunk on us Americans, but do you really have 3 months paid time off from work every year?
No. Minimum by law in Germany is 20 days paid vacation and depending on the employer you get additional days.
