• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      12 days ago

      Wake up, Hustle, and Grind. Ain’t no time for time off. You think Elon Musk became a billionaire while chasing tail or doing drugs or spending all his time playing video games?

    • Taleya@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      12 days ago

      I do that, but i’ve been wfh since 2015 so every day i have mini holidays in between workflow

  • kerrigan778@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    12 days ago

    Any “journal” that misuses commas like that should be ignored as an example of anything real people are saying. It’s a tabloid.

  • ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    12 days ago

    Charles currently takes work breaks every six months for two weeks at a time, and said he heard about micro-retirements from a friend. “I reward myself by traveling to different countries. Whether it’s Europe during the summer or other destinations, and so that’s a way that I incentivize myself to reach certain KPIs,” says Charles.

    FML Charles has discovered holidays

  • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    11 days ago

    Crazy people. We get 4 weeks at the start and then 1 extra per year for five years. So total 5 weeks paid holiday. Only work 33 hours a week too. Some companies treat people well, just have to get lucky and find a small one.

    Also, yeah I’m not micro retiring.

  • flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    12 days ago

    Is the original satire? I know Americans are obsessed with presentism on the job, but even they understand the concept of a vacation?

    • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
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      12 days ago

      It’s hard to tell. I’ve worked at places that would definitely fire me for using a week of vacation, and legally in my state vacation isn’t a tangible guaranteed thing; it’s completely legal to just fire the employee instead if they try to use it without compensation. Practically some jobs don’t have time off. You just get fired.

      • Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
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        12 days ago

        At my last workplace one of my colleagues took a couple of days off per week for 3 weeks to participate in some robotics competitions. He was teased and generally made aware how much of an inconvenience his planned absence was.

        This same workplace made up a reason to fire me just because they didn’t like me. I can make a million and one guesses as to why I was actually fired, but the most telling part is they didn’t even stick to the reasons they provided for firing me when I applied for unemployment and the unemployment office called to verify details with them. They dropped all of the pretense they built up and basically just said I wasn’t a good fit for the team. I may or may not qualify for unemployment, I should find out soon.

        Fortunately I’ve been doing some contact work for my previous employer on the side so I’ve been able to make that my main gig to try to keep the bills paid. I’m not sure what I’d be doing right now if I didn’t have that, given this job market is so terrible right now. I’ve been applying for 5-10 jobs a week for the last 6 weeks and I’ve had a single interview

    • my_hat_stinks@programming.devEnglish
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      12 days ago

      My work offered a compressed work week for a few years where employees could work the same number of hours over 9 days every fortnight, meaning they could take every second Friday off still working the same number of hours. Employees based in NA didn’t get that benefit, instead of trying to get that implemented over there NA employees were practically celebrating when the company recently scrapped it everywhere else instead.

      My experience of American work culture is very much toxic crab-in-a-bucket mentality, pull everyone else down instead of trying to make work life the littlest bit more bearable, ironically directly contradicting the company’s slogan. The amount of brown-nosing sycophants on all-teams calls is pretty insane too.

      So yes, I very much believe this is something American media would say.

      • ViatorOmnium@piefed.socialEnglish
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        12 days ago

        It depends on how much you practice disconnecting. I found that working 4 day weeks allows me disconnect almost immediately every weekend.

        Disconnection is not really a vacation issue per-se, it’s a work-life balance issue that can’t be solved if you spend the overwhelming amount of you waking time working.

        • Valmond@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          12 days ago

          4 day work week is fantastic you have time for the dentist, library books and everything else so easily 😍 and you’re right, for me at least, the holidays started like on day one!

          • relativestranger@feddit.nlEnglish
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            12 days ago

            four-day work weeks are great. guaranteed one day off M-F to get to appointments and other stuff that has to be done ‘during the day, during the week’… but the biggest bonus, perhaps, is one less day commuting each week; that’s 20% less time and expense traveling to-and-from work.

  • Camelbeard@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    12 days ago

    These genZ people are a bunch of suckers, why would you just go for 2 weeks? Take some time off a month not at the office is good for you!

  • RejZoR@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    12 days ago

    Micro retirement? It’s called holidays in Europe and we get around 1 month of it in total. Americans are so used to their corporate slavery they call it “micro retirement” now. Fucking hell.

  • ScreamingFirehawk@feddit.ukEnglish
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    12 days ago

    When I’ve heard about “micro retirements” before, it’s been in the context of taking months long sabbaticals, not a regular amount of paid time off to take in a single block

  • iAvicenna@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    12 days ago

    how dare you! cracks whip your glorious CEO deserves that bonus and you should be grateful for being a minute part of this occasion.