Micro-retirement
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This has got to be fake, or engagement bait, right?
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I think that is called unemployment, just saying…
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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.
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.
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We have pumpkin seed oil in Austria, and apparently its enough to give us 5 weeks PTO per year, 2 weeks of paid nursing leave and up to 72 sick weeks for a single illness.
Have you considered giving all that profit to one bald man, though? Think of what you're missing out on!
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Yep that was my first thought too. Gotta be AI written because it makes zero sense.
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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We used to do that in my generation, but it was just called getting laid off.
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I work in educational support on a 10-month contract. I am paid for the built in holidays and I save a little and take the summer off. I think it is a good work/life balance.
This is like 4x10 hour days or 3x12 hour days to the extreme!!
I also work in education (university level) but the IT side of the house. I’d love to do this but honestly the slow summer is when we get most of our more extensive maintenance done since it’s slow.
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Yeah, well.... Not being founded by insane protochristofascists probably helps?
I dunno, what are we calling the Romans these days?
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It depends on how much you practice disconnecting. I found that working 4 day weeks allows me disconnect almost immediately every weekend.
Disconnection is not really a vacation issue per-se, it's a work-life balance issue that can't be solved if you spend the overwhelming amount of you waking time working.
Ugh, every time I've tried that, its gone from 4 ten hour days to 5 tens. Once it went from 4 tens to 3 tens and 2 twelves.
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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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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.
You mean truthiness?
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This is like 4x10 hour days or 3x12 hour days to the extreme!!
I also work in education (university level) but the IT side of the house. I’d love to do this but honestly the slow summer is when we get most of our more extensive maintenance done since it’s slow.
I can imagine! I cannot guess what it’s like to try to get big projects done when class is in. Just the oppressive amount of bodies. I remember the net going on once in my elementary school. That was chaos. Hearing “When will it be fixed” a thousand times. As someone who depends on IT (my laptop has become a frisbee more than once) thanks for your hard work.
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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.
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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Yes, that is the same thing as
doing your job/acting your wage
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".
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Wake up, Hustle, and Grind. Ain't no time for time off. You think Elon Musk became a billionaire while chasing tail or doing drugs or spending all his time playing video games?
Yeah because hard work will make you a billionaire.
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I dunno, what are we calling the Romans these days?
Well, thry were, at founding, not christofascist.
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Just 2 weeks? That is called a vacation!
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Well, thry were, at founding, not christofascist.
Nah, but certainly prototyping it by some point.
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Nah, but certainly prototyping it by some point.
They still admitted to appreciating wine and fucking.
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They still admitted to appreciating wine and fucking.
Who doesn't like saturnalia?
