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[–] Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de 71 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That is American horrors. Fucking land of the free 🦅🦅🦅

[–] elvith@feddit.org 32 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Land of the free, home of the (wage) ~~br~~slaves

[–] Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

If no one else does it, im gonna make a meme out of this like 13 hours from now

[–] Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No pressure but where meme 👀

[–] SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Shit i forgot... Aight gimme 2 hours, then im on the train, with my laptop. Imma make it then. Gonna set a reminder too

[–] Dumbkid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

Just posted🗿

[–] Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Now I feel guilty. Love to you my friend

[–] SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

Nah if anyone has to feel guilty it's the dude who said he was gonna do something but tgen didn't do it

[–] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)
[–] SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Don't get your hopes up that it's gonna be good tho

[–] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

Posted it already

[–] Transtronaut@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 month ago

Land of the free labor.

[–] venusaur@lemmy.world 55 points 1 month ago (2 children)

That’s the sentiment for “unlimited PTO”. They give it to you, but you know they don’t really mean it.

[–] SGG@lemmy.world 46 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yep, companies give "unlimited PTO" because it's a way to actually reduce the amount of PTO employees take.

Give them 20 days PTO/year? They'll take around 20 a year.

Give them unlimited PTO? They need to justify every bit of PTO, so probably only get to take 4 or 5 for important days.

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

They also don’t have to pay out your unused PTO when they lay you off

[–] ReakDuck@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago

Damn this sucks

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

just put through 365 days of unlimited PTO and watch them change the system

They'll just deny it

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Yep, I laughed on the call when company offered it as a good thing then turned down their offer

[–] obinice@lemmy.world 53 points 1 month ago

Don't forget that your employer doesn't give you your legally mandated annual leave, it's one of your basic rights, like sick pay (applies to the UK, and hopefully a lot of other places).

<3

[–] innermeerkat@jlai.lu 36 points 1 month ago

In France 5 weeks PTO is the minimum. But depending on where you and with who you work, taking a leave can be seen very differently.

You can also have more than 5 weeks but it hides overtime work behind that needs to be accounted else the company can be sued for it. So they sell you a nice job with lots of PTO but in fact they don’t appreciate that you may enjoy what they owe you.

[–] superkret@feddit.org 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This seems completely foreign to me.
My boss summons me for a one-on-one if it's getting late in the year and I haven't taken all my PTO yet.
If I collect too much of it, or too much overtime, without using it, I can get written up.
Sometimes it's not easy either, with 42 days of PTO a year (plus unlimited sick days).

[–] Piemanding@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I guess it all depends on the incentive structure.

[–] superkret@feddit.org 8 points 1 month ago

Yes, if it comes out that lots of employees didn't take their PTO, the company gets in legal trouble.
Which means the bosses get in trouble.

[–] w3dd1e@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

I just posted this in a different thread but I had a similar problem, except that my company doesn’t give a shit. Use it or lose it, I don’t get paid for it.

Anyway, had too much so I started taking every Wednesday off. No long time off means I don’t feel like my work stacks up while I’m out, and I get a ton of shit done during the week when everyone else is at work.

[–] jeffw@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

That sucks. I’ve managed at a couple places and the only time I’ve ever had scrutiny on employee PTO is when someone calls out “sick” right before/after a holiday (we know you’re hungover). And that was back in the day when I did retail.

To the contrary, working at a small non-profit, they wanted us to pressure people to take their PTO so that they’d stay happy.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

in a lot of places where I live it your boss can make PTO mandatory to use because it you don't use it they will legally owe you overtime, and obviously there usually don't want to.