Plus most people are just on social media all day at work.

Many companies now will roll sick time and vacation together (PTO) - and you get like 3 weeks to start. Just don't get sick and it's a good deal.

By the time I left my company after 6 years I had 5 weeks of PTO time. Didn't matter anyway because I worked at home full time and had nothing to do. I went on a two week vacation last year to see the eclipse, didn't tell my boss. When I got back no one noticed I left, so I never used the vacation days.

**** like that happens all the time.

Yeah my job even combines holidays into PTO now which is obviously bull**** but doesn’t matter that much for me because the hospital is open no matter what and I still get time and a half on holidays, so being able to use those hours elsewhere is actually nice (we were able to do that anyway before the current system but all told this is not a disaster to someone who doesn’t work 9-5 M-F and a slap in the face to everyone else). Vacation time in the US is garbage and the population is entirely conditioned to believe that its normal or even optimal. Remember almost no where offers paid parental leave either, they’re just not legally able to fire you if you take your guaranteed unpaid 12 weeks.

Clicked a surprising headline to read about the Village Voice shutting down, only to learn that it actually stopped publishing a physical newspaper a year ago.

Real or Onion

My current firm gives 10+ holidays (the + being random things like black Friday, or when they gave us the whole week of Christmas last year and this year) and 25 days of PTO.

The catch is that employees are measured by utilization (requirements differ by level), so you can only take all that time off if you work 50 hour weeks the rest of the year, otherwise you get dinged at eval time, so it isn't all roses.

They also recently announced something like 6 months maternity/paternity leave and options for multi-month sabbaticals.

All this to say that things in the US seem to be trending in the right direction, and hopefully the "work 50 hour weeks every other week" side of things follows.

Is there $$ involved in the guessing of who leaves or gets fired haha? I’ve never voted.

Maybe wrong thread but Tiny Desk Concert rocks!

Anderson paak is one of my favs:

Dude used to be a drummer for a church.

https://youtu.be/ferZnZ0_rSM

Just LOL at the bolded; I could never get away with that in any job I've had. That sounds ideal.

just vote now, we’ll figure out who owes who how much later

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...nyone-noticing

A court this week fined Garcia €27,000 (£21,000), the equivalent after tax of one year of his annual salary, having earlier found that the engineer did not appear to have occupied his office for “at least six years” and had done “absolutely no work” between 2007 and 2010, the year before he retired.

life goals

Still came out way ahead.

To be fair I literally did the same thing I would have done if I was working from home the whole time - nothing. I may have called in to a meeting or two I can't remember.

i owe money to the money to the money i owe

Apart from a few of the people the only things I like about my current job are the 35 hour week and the ability to buy extra days holiday, to a max of 38 p.a., which I do without fail.

A long-termer agreed those are the best things about the place. I pointed out to him that means the best thing about working there is that we don't have to be there very much.

This smartstoby guy seems to have a bright future here. Paging any sleepless mods

Cliffs: half a dozen threads on the front page proclaiming white racial superiority

So people looked at Forbes 30 under 30 award. It's Forbes way of picking the hot up and comers in various fields like law, medicine, etc. In education though only 1 person ever chosen actually had their main degree in education. Most had computer science, math, etc degrees from icy league universities. These researchers then looked at what networks the award winners where in and it turns out that almost all them belong in the same elitist, education reform charter school networks as the judges.

In other words the award is really just picking hot and upcoming chapter school advocates

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.49b534d7cd99

Reminds me of the episode of the Ezra Klein Show with Anand Giridharadas where they talk about elites picking ways to change the world that line with with specific ideologies and/or ways to self reinforce their elite status while ignoring common sense basic things.

As I was listening to that ep. with Giridharadas, I was constantly reminded of the Pharma practice of patting themselves on the back for providing "patient assistance programs" after blowing up drug prices to the point where insurers were balking at covering them, let alone people ever being able to afford direct payment. I imagine every major industry has their own version of that "win-win" approach to covering up their exploitation of the public.

Sorry, I meant to say higher in UK and Germany than France.

I’m not sure about the GDP point. The measurement (except for government purchases) is based on the value of goods and services that people buy, so Suzzer’s bs job shouldn’t be reflected.

France is almost exactly the same as UK. A little higher on the first list on Wikipedia. But anyway, the question is whether a change in working hours had an effect and France's GDP seems to have fluctuated much in track with the most similar countries lately.


So an in-house BS job, some kind of management analyst maybe, adds little or nothing to GDP, but the same work done by a contractor/consultant adds their entire compensation?

Where I work the 10 days initial vacation doesn't include holidays, so I think the list of holidays we get off is

New Years Day
Good Friday
Memorial Day
Independence Day
Labor Day
Thanksgiving
Day After Thanksgiving
Christmas Eve
Christmas Day
Day After Christmas (I think)
your birthday

So it's like 11 holidays then 10 days vacation. Which still kind of sucks, I'm looking forward to getting that bumped up to 15 days, which happens in your fifth year of service. You can also buy an extra week of vacation but your base pay decreases by 51/52

You get your birthday off? Can you tell them you're an adult and substitute another day? At least make it Friday or Monday?

Uh... of course it doesn't include holidays. That's... obvious, right?

In South Australia there are 13 public holidays this year (although one of them is Easter Saturday, so most people wouldn't be working anyway). Standard is to get 20 days of leave in addition to that. Often you only get 10 days in your first year of service.

It's great to be self-employed so you can take as many days off as you want, whenever you want.

yeah you can substitute any day for that, it's basically a bonus vacation day.

I get around 30 days off annually, give or take a few. Does not feel like enough time off by any stretch of the imagination. Been trying to figure out ways to increase that by around 150%. Wish me luck.