• vivavideri@lemmy.world
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    Maybe someday I’ll work somewhere with good PTO. currently 6 holidays, 2 pto weeks and 1 sick week.

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      Honestly, as someone who doesn’t like in America I feel like this wouldn’t surprise me if it was real from there.

      Where I live you have minimum 4 weeks annual leave a year…

    • Banana@sh.itjust.works
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      Everytime I read something that makes me frustrated or that sounds ridiculous I assume it’s rage bait because it almost aways is.

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    Hi, Norwegian here, we have 5 weeks vacation per year, mandated by law. Oh, and the government takes 10% of your paycheck every month and pays it all out in July, so you have the money to go on vacation. Strong labor unions is the recipe.

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      American here. I work for a company that gives 5 weeks per year. It’s great. I can take a 1-2 week vacation in the summer and various days and weeks off throughout the year. It doesn’t hurt that my boss is great and almost never says no to time off. “Hey, this project is draining. I could really use a week off for mental recovery. It looks like nobody is off next week.” “Go for it.”

      It’s possible, fellow Americans. Unions are the way.

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        5 weeks seems like a good minimum to shoot for, yeah. Even with technically “unlimited” vacation, I tended to take 1 week a quarter, 2 in the summer, and then whatever Christmas to New Year’s is. I wish I could take more in the Summer of course, but it is what it is.

    • Droggelbecher@lemmy.world
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      I’m probably going to move out of Austria in a few months and the one thing that’ll take a while to get used to is that in most other European countries you ‘only’ get 13 wages a year instead of the 14 I’m used to.

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      My vacation money usually goes to taxes each year as a Dutch citizen.

      It’s a sick joke imo. “Here’s the money we took from your wage for vacation, but also here are the tax bills that are equal to that amount”.

      Thanks i hate it.

      I’m saving up my own wage for retirement and investing it myself because i have zero trust in these systems. I watched my dad get screwed out of a large part of his retirement money.

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    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.

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      Yep that was my first thought too. Gotta be AI written because it makes zero sense.

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        The part that gets me is that syntactically and lexically it makes perfect sense, so you actually have to think about it before realizing it’s totally worthless. The old signals of quality and care in communication are meaningless.

        People with poor critical thinking skills are going to be fucking lost at sea this coming decade. They have no tools to tell what’s worth believing anymore.

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        How did we get to the point where this is published as something serious?

        Can I go live naked in the forest and forage for mushrooms instead? I want to macro-retire.

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          Well you have fun.

          Meanwhile I’m gonna MEGA RETIRE.

          Which basically just involves croaking and not working for the rest of time

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            What if I train AI on your life’s data and force the AI you to work 9-5 until the Big Crunch?

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    I think it’s probably a typo caused by AI and a lack of editing. As i understood it, a micro retirement is taking between several months and a year long sabbatical after 1-2 years of working, which is a bit more interesting than 1-2 weeks. So basically, it’s working 1 year and taking a break from work for 1 year (whatever that entails, personal project, travel, possibly doing nothing at all).

  • m3t00🌎@lemmy.world
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    did similar for years with sick time which was use or lose 10 days a year. boss complained my calling in sick Fridays and Mondays had become a pattern. well yeah. worked at a community college in illinois. not a slave.

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    We used to do that in my generation, but it was just called getting laid off. 😂

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    What the fuck is this gaslighting propaganda bullshit? People in the US have been taking vacations for decades; it’s not exclusive to GenZ, nor is it a “new trend”. I call bullshit.

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      Quiet quitting is just doing your job/acting your wage.

      People on the internet love to make dramatic sounding names for normal stuff.

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        To be fair, “quiet quitting” is a labour action that goes back decades if not centuries. A more common name is “work(ing) to rule”.

        I remember that term from when my teachers were preparing to strike a long while ago. The fact is, most workers, teachers especially, go beyond the bare minimums that their jobs require. It made a big difference when teachers who used to supervise after-school activities just went home instead. In jobs that are associated with “vocational awe”, it’s very common for people to do much more than the minimum requirements for their jobs, so when they engage in a “work to rule” campaign, there’s a really big difference.

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            Except “doing your job” doesn’t capture that it’s a deliberate change in how you perform at your job, and “acting your wage” is a newfangled way of saying the long established term, with its on Wikipedia page, “Work to Rule”.

        • huppakee@feddit.nl
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          ‘This New Trend Called …’ is to Gen Z what ‘Breaking News: …’ is to Boomers: it won’t really impact your life straight away but still you feel you should listen to that FOMO calling.

      • 🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.world
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        it’s just a new term for something that exists.

        no idea why it was every a big deal.

        now everything is a culture war for engagement.

        was there any drama when we started calling “beouf” “beef”?

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          Not only was there drama people couldn’t talk about the beouf they’d gotten into without starting it up again

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      Speak for yourself. I’m all in on this trend and have even begun taking nano-retirements for about 16h each day.

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      Yeah I mean, you wouldn’t have any tourism aside from rich folks otherwise

    • jaupsinluggies@feddit.uk
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      You were young and stupid once. You know perfectly well that back then whenever you did something for the first time it was also the first time anyone in the entire history of the universe had done that thing.

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        In my home country a legal minimum is 4 weeks a year, so 1-2 weeks is half or a quarter of a holiday if you take it at once :3

        Or if you split it into 2 parts you get 2 weeks off every 6 months instead of 12-18

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          In my US state state employees get:

          • about 10 or 11 holidays, can’t remember
          • two weeks of sick leave that accumulates if you don’t use it
          • a week (?) vacation that increases over time to max out at 3 weeks vac at 15 years (does max out, is use or lose it and using is encouraged)

          Private employers have NO legal requirement to offer any time off.

          The disconnect between public and private benefits requirements are ridiculous.

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            I think we have 15 holidays we get a day off for, a month of paid vacation time from the start, aaaand infinite sick leave :3… and maternity and paternity leave, plus unpaid time off if you want that for some reason :p

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            Federal is a little better, 10-11 holidays, and 30 days vacation, plus 2 weeks of pure sick leave. But you are not encouraged to take holidays.

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        Ultra short holiday. I get seven weeks paid, usually take four off in a row nowadays and spread the rest around Christmas or whenever I feel I need to rest up from work.

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      12-18 months??? I read it as weeks and was still considering it normal vacation.

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      Can confirm: I get 6 weeks paid vacation per year, and time spent on vacation is paid slightly more than actual work time.

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    Thats “the Onion”, right?

    I mean, this cannot be written by a human who means this seriously. right??

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      Shit like this is published only to set the bar even lower than it is today. It has no other purpose as they know most intelligent people will not read anything but the headline. They just inject this dogshit into the collective consciousness so that they can normalize a type of work that is a little better than indentured servitude.