Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Ryujin]

So, we've had a few layoffs over the years /knock on wood. I managed to survive them. I asked a friend in HR once how they decide. He looked over my numbers and said my severance would be like 14 months with all my years and vacay. Im too expensive to lay off I guess. /knocks on wood again.

Back in the mid-late '90s, there was a government austerity programme in Ontario. This was just before I started working there. Budgets were cut to the bone. Management, in their infinite wisdom, decided that the best way to handle it was a round of buy-outs would be used to incentivize staff to leave. From what I've heard the average was around 2.5 years of salary. Most of the best people left, because they knew that they could get a job in a week. The ones who knew they would never do as well again stayed.

A couple of years later, when the economy had bounced back, I was one of the people they hired to replace the ones who left. It was a no-brainer for me; union, significantly better pay even considering the freeze they'd had, better benefits... Then 4 years after I was hired, when they hit a rut and couldn't get more candidates that they really wanted, a market assessment of wages was done and I got another salary bump.

 

[Ryujin]

In America, IME, there are three types of vacation time-

1. "Gig economy" / part time jobs. What is vacation time?

2. Wage slave / hourly. You get limited vacation time, tightly controlled, and it is never enough.

3. "Professional." Unlimited vacation time! Take as much as you want, when you need it! And by that, we mean that peer pressure and American work-a-holism will ensure that you will never take advantage of all that "unlimited" vacation time and will feel guilty every single time you do. And if you happen to start taking a lot of that unlimited vacation time ... well, you're just not a team player, are ya?


Personal note- Professionals are given unlimited vacation time at my office. I often have to specifically and repeatedly tell the younger professionals to take a friggin' vacation already because burnout is real.

"They turned me in a workaholic!"

"I got better."

 

[overgeeked]

cough union cough

Always the right answer.

 

[trappedslider]

Thanksgiving at Camp David in 1977. "Jimmy doesn't especially like green peas" has got to be one of the most Southern sentences ever committed to paper.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

That Thanksgiving menu isn't nearly Southern enough. Jimmy deserved a lot better.

 

[MoonSong]

Has your windows received the self-destruct command yet?

 

[Ryujin]

Has your windows received the self-destruct command yet?

Three computers updated to 25H2. Seems it's just an OK for later updates and not an update, in and of itself.

 

[MoonSong]

Three computers updated to 25H2. Seems it's just an OK for later updates and not an update, in and of itself.

Mine died Saturday night. It just collapsed and became unable to boot again without a new disk.

Why did I have a new disk at hand? Because I was preparing to upgrade to a new OS. In fact, it died in the middle of creating the boot usb.

 

[Thomas Shey]

Since I moved to working from home 80-90% of the time, i definitely struggle to use my vacation time. I also been with my company 23 years now and so I get a lot of it.

She's similar in both ways, though she only works from home two days a week.

 

[Thomas Shey]

Never cap out your vacation time, folks! That's literally money the company owes you.

Yeah, I have to remind her of that.