Rookie mistake, dude didn’t use the unlimited PTO strategy which makes people second-guess how many days they can reasonably take off before it’s deemed abusive.
I have unlimited pto and I took of like 6 weeks this year and nobody has said a word about it
Oh that’s peak family run business energy.
Satire or obvious ragebait.
This person is trolling, or totally unhinged.
Likely troll but here’s my response.
I love Mary Brown’s Chicken but if I’m eating it five days a week, every week, that’s not gonna go well for me.
Personally I agree with David Mitchell.
As long as you’re doing the job I think it’s utterly unreasonable that they also have in the contract that I I’m not allowed to be miserable. Unless the job is a super interesting government job that gets me access to area 51, pays fabulously well, and includes a company Lamborghini then I’m sorry, but I’m not prepared to really care about it.
Fortunately I work for a French company who’s managers understand that me not actively burning the business down, is about as much of respect as they’re ever going to get.
“it’s the sign either of a liar or a moron”
Obviously a troll
Y’all fall for the dumbest bait.
As a non American this reads as satire, but from what I hear about the US work culture I really can’t be sure.
I don’t know if this is satire or rage bait but ironically it’s almost certainly a UK individual as he refers to them as “Bank holidays” and the 28 days is only about 8 above the statutory minimum of 20 + bank holidays.
The employer must offer a minimum of 28 days for full time workers but bank holidays and other company shutdowns can count towards that. It’s a bit more flexible that way, it means it doesn’t matter which public holidays (if any) your company observes everyone gets the same minimum time off. It also allows situations like my company where our only UK office is in Scotland but UK employees still follow English holidays instead.
Yup and with there usually being 8 bank holidays in a year, that’s where the extra 8 comes from.
20 is the legal minimum in the UK? Sheesh. In my current job, I had to negotiate for a 3rd week (15 days instead of 10, the regular two days off don’t count as vacation days that week).
It’s actually not great compared to a lot of other countries in Europe.
We also have public holidays (We call them all Bank Holidays for historical reasons, but it’s things like Christmas, Easter and a couple of others), there’s usually 8 in a year and that’s on top of your 20 days.
Employers can make you work a bank holiday, you just get another day off instead. So really it’s 28 days holiday per year, with 8 of them being the public ones that you may or may not have to work.
My employer gives us 30 + the Bank Holidays, then we got took over by an American firm which ironically introduced unlimited PTO.
I get Christmas and Thanksgiving day off, and having to listen to the boss bitch about those days almost makes it not worth it.
That’s true. Plus do Americans have terms like staycation?
Yes that’s a thing here in the US
Yep. Around here we like to get a hotel room on the beach and stay there a few days. Maybe go a little ways down the coast to a different town.
Staycation is staying at home.
I have no idea, I assume so given it’s using the word “vacation” which is predominantly an American term that they do and that the very concept is just less popular since they typically get much fewer “vacation” days, they probably try to make the most of their time off.
I have no clue though, I’m just making shit up at this point.
You’re on the right track I think. I’ll just add that staycations are fairly popular here because we’re too fucking tired to go anywhere on the few days we have off.
or simply don’t have money to go anywhere
You are correct. Source
100% satire. Look at the guy’s name.
I’m too European for this
Could not tell you. Satire? Rage bait? Completely serious CEO mindset? No idea. All completely possible and just as likely. Coin flip.
The poster’s name is the screengrab is “The weirdest CEO of a recruit…” - so I’m voting for satire personally. I do see your point, I am just feeling like a pedant this morning.
I’m giving all my belongings to charity. But I don’t expect them to actually take any of it. I’m so generous like that. Praise me for being so generous!
It’s like when I offer to help my friends move. They better fucking not call me up on that, the fuckers
Good metaphor.
If you really enjoy lasagna, why would you ever want to not eat it?
This can be read two ways. One is to expect the workers to love their job. The other is that the CEO should thrive to make the work experience so good that people don’t want to be parted from their job.
So it can be read as an admission that he has failed so far to make the work environment as good as it can be.
At a truly great job the boss is happy you’re going to go spend a week off for your friend’s wedding or that you’re finally getting to see a country you’ve always wanted to. They know that you’ll come back rested and be better of a worker for having had time off
And a truly terrible boss is mad you’re using the benefits provided instead of donating those benefits to “the company”. And also knows when you come back from that week off, you’ll be regretting having to work for them and considering finding someone else to slave for.
One is to expect the workers to love their job.
Honestly, loving one’s job doesn’t mean never needing a break. Working Class jobs pay because they are hard work that you need to pay someone to do. Whether or not you enjoy the work doesn’t change the fact that it is hard work.
I am extremely privileged with my job. I don’t get paid as well as my counterparts elsewhere but the personality and leadership style of my superiors has kept me here. I don’t expect I’d be able to do what I do how I do it anywhere else. Considering all this, I wouldn’t say I love my job. There are parts that are tedious and unpleasant. However, I do like my job. Even the parts I like are challenging and can be exhausting. I still need a break occasionally.
The way I read it is a “task failed successfully” situation. He did suceeded in making a work place with good PTO policies and people do actually use them (meaning staffing levels are confortable for the workload). However, his mindset is stuck in linked-in poster / grind mode and can not fathom that his employees dont want to be at work as much as he does.
Between annual leave and public holidays, I get 31 days a year off. Four weeks leave, so 20 days, then 11 public holidays.
is this ragebait?
I assume it’s satire
It’s got to be because that’s way too many days off in the US and in other countries that have this many days off have legal requirements to use up your allotted time off.
Not necessarily force you legally to use all, but force the employer to allow you to use them all
Or at least pay out the unused days as additional wage and they really don’t like that.
If I don’t take it all by November, my manager starts getting on me about it because it’s looks like he’s working me too hard. Coming from the usa, we’re I had 10 days annually, I’m finding it tricky to use all 30 here. This isn’t a complaint! Many of my colleagues take it all at once, in July, because that’s the German rules (Spain if flying, Croatia if driving). I take 6 week trips thought the year. It’s fantastic!
That is the $64 question. It might be, but on the other hand, CEOs are as disconnected from reality, they might actually believe that.
Bank holiday suggests it’s UK, and we have legal requirement for 28 days holiday pro-rated per year. If staff don’t book it, the employer has to allocate it. So it is satire.
If it was from a USian, I wouldn’t be able to tell.
I think it’s fake, but if you made a ton of money as a high-paid CEO, you probably wouldn’t mind working long hours. Cuz you know that you won’t be there for the next 40 years or 50 years. Milk it while you can, right?
Maybe they’re not enjoying their fucking job buddy.
