We offered the CEO $550 million as a benefit. A gesture. A show of vision only a Super Board can have.
Instead, they treat it like a right. Like pay is something they’re owed.
Some cash those checks. Some have it direct deposited. Different labels, same result, money leaves the company.
And that’s when it hit me. If you really enjoy your job, why would you ever want to be paid for it?
Or am I the only one who sees it this way?
I hate that we are in a timeline that I can’t be absolutely sure that this is satire anymore.
I legitimately could not tell
Sure is! The last photo is hilarious actually
i am never happy. not my thing.
me irl
It absolutely is. This was his next post
LMAO! Taking notes from Lyndon Johnson I see! (For those not in the know, the US President would call people into the Oval Office crapper and talk to them while taking a dump.)
I used to do that with a professor at the urinals. Somehow, with all of our conversations, it just made the flow better.
You used to shit in the urinal? That is a power move.
I love that there was a person who really did this, and of course they were also president of the United States.
Humanity is not yet lost 🙏
I’m reasonably sure it’s not?
I had a manager that said these things. These people are ghouls.
A show of vision only a Super CEO can have
That almost brings it over the line, but no, I think it’s serious. Only a heroic CEO could have the vision to give people time off. It’s nothing like what unions have been clamoring to do for over a century.
It definitely brings it over the line, and it’s absolutely satire.
What kind of psychopath enjoys working?
For own personal growth or the general benefit of my local society absolutely.
Don’t even need a salary as long as the means to live happy are otherwise provided.
For the profit of a corporation? No, yuck!
I enjoy working. I just hate being told what to work on
People who sit at a desk for 4 hours a week doing jack all and making 100x what their full Time employees make.
i kind of love my job, and kind of love working. it can be fun
Enjoy it! I was lucky to have 10+ years at a job I loved. Great coworkers, awesome boss, reasonable expectations.
Then the VP left. Within two years everything went to complete shit (except the coworkers although they either left or retreated into being bots at work)
Nothing last :/
you sure are right, a big part of why i enjoy it is a very good boss and coworkers
I’ve seen lots and lots of discussions on whether people like or not working, and it always sums up to people giving different meanings to the word “work”. When it comes to do things as a hobby, for a cause, or for fulfilling any objective we have, most people will say that they enjoy it, but when it comes to serving someone else on a schedule, just to afford to stay alive, I’ve never seen anyone say that they enjoy it.
Edit: some combination of words from my comment and the general theme made me somehow think about the music stayin’ alive, and I can’t get it out of my head anymore!
If I have to work Im going to find something that stimulates me in a way I find interesting. Or you could just say I like it.
I have such a hard time imagining this is actually a real person writing a real post.
It’s way easier if you assume that any LinkedIn post you see is satire.
definitely better for my image of humanity
I can no longer tell which ones are real and which are satire.
Poe’s law hits hard
If that’s linkedin he’s 100% serious. Otherwise, 50-50.
There is a comedian that posts pure gold to LI, but yeah, this one seems legit.
So fucking glad I straight up deleted my linkedin shit.
I think that’s more of a Succons razor situation
If something could be a Deez Nuts joke, then it probably is?
Damn ya caught me
I had my suspicions, after a Google search turned up nothing lol
If you really like running why would you ever stop running?
bad knees.
Guess you dont like running then
If you really enjoy your job, why would you ever want time away from it?
Good point, maybe you should think about that a little harder bro.
USA needs some worker rights laws(apart from free healthcare, free education and others), in normal countries you’ll be in trouble if you somehow didn’t take your 28 days(more in some) of vacation, or were spotted at work in those days.
in normal countries you’ll be in trouble if you somehow didn’t take your [leave]
I don’t know how it works where you are, in my workplace if you don’t take enough leave you need to make an agreement with your manager to take some leave soon; if you fail to make an agreement or the agreement is too far in the future you are put on leave.
I don’t count that as being in trouble, it’s about giving the worker the power to say “if you won’t approve my leave, the system will force leave and you’ll have no choice of when”
I don’t like that either. People shouldn’t be penalized for not taking vacation. That’s just a different form of taking away their choice.
This is not a good take. It opens for an implicit expectation from your employer that you should not use your vacation. If you get passed over for promotion because you took out vacation it is not really a choice, is it?
That’s quite a leap
It’s not. By requiring people to take leave you ensure leave is available.
My workplace enforces leave by having limits on how much leave you can accrue, if you exceed the limit you are put on leave.
You sound like someone with no workforce experience whatsoever.
You sound like a manager, looking to control how people handle their vacation time. “Workers get punished for taking vacation” and “workers get punished for not taking vacation” are two sides of the same coin. Personally I’m in favor of “workers can do whatever they want with their PTO without fear of repurcussion”.
It’s not about punishment. If time off is optional than it’s a near guarantee that workers will be punished in some way for taking it. At a minimum bosses should have to pay out for unused time off, even though that that will certainly lead to some bosses penalizing those workers.
That’s stupid. Are you mad that they don’t let you work when the office is closed too?
I take every minute of PTO time allocated to me. I am not so arrogant that I believe others should be punished for making different choices, though.
Well you could work on vacation but it’s usually paid 2-4 times per hour. So it depends on your employer willing to pay that much.
I have no desire to work on vacation. I have no desire to work at all, I only do it because i.enjoy having food and a place to live. But I don’t believe in punishing people for victimless crimes. They’re not hurting anyone but themselves by letting their PTO expire, leave them alone.
They don’t punish workers, they fine employers for not following laws.
Oh ok. That’s fine then.
“I offered my employees a salary, they then expected the full salary paid out. Miserable, ungrateful wretches.”
He’s not wrong, IF companies were worker controlled by law. Like a cooperative. Workers would enjoy their work more and would want to work more if they had agency. We are supposed to be a democracy, so why don’t get workers the right to vote on who their managers are, what to do with the profits (after paying back loans) and how many working hours there should be?
Imagine if you’d mandate that even shitshows like fox news were suddenly worker controlled instead of by incorporated demons of greed. Workers generally want to create a good product and make customers happy, and in the case of news agencies they’d want to inform their readers well.
Meh, there’s no world where people are going to actually enjoy doing tedious, repetitive tasks even if they fully own their surplus labor. This was always my beef with the antiwork subreddit. “Socialism is when nobody digs ditches.”
There will always be shitty jobs until we fully automate society. The guy doing hard labor in the hot sun is always going to resent the guy working in AC even if they both own their surplus labor. This is why socialism is still just harm reduction on the path to achieving a post scarcity, post labor society.
I had a boss like this once! Fucker pushed for overtime every night, argued against taking vacation, and would bitch people out for taking sick days, calling anyone who took time off lazy.
Turned out he fucking despised his wife, but didn’t want to go through the “shame of divorce”(his words, after she kicked off the divorce).
Hope that dude stubs his toes every morning.
I’ve definitely noticed a correlation of people “married to the job” because they don’t like the person they’re legally married to at home. It seemed to lead to a spike in divorces when the lockdowns hit during COVID.
Or they dislike someone else in the home. I definitely had people who loved their spouse, but hated actually having to take care of their kids, so they took tons of OT in order to minimize interacting with them at all.
This is so sad.
I’m unemployed and my wife works from home 3 days a week. Seems like most weeks she makes an excuse to her boss to work at home the remaining days. I need my alone time, and I made that clear very early in our courtship. Just got in a blowout fight last week over it. My fault as I held my resentment in and blew, but I can’t broach the issue without her feeling rejected. I know because I’ve tried in the past.
I was in a similar situation at my first job, except my boss didn’t have a wife and instead lived right across the street from the office. He would say things like “We don’t have a clock-in and clock-out attitude here”. Or one time he kicked off a project where he divided up groups of people and wanted them to start brainstorming ideas for an app we could implement with our product. Except he specifically said we couldn’t work on it during work hours. So guess what, nobody worked on it and Mr boss man was very disappointed in all of us. I’m so glad I don’t work there anymore.
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“I’m an insufferable rich cunt who doesn’t do much at work, I have enough money to pay other people to do everything for me in the rest of my life, so I spend my free time persuing any hobby or interest I want, I’m also very empty inside so spend most of my time working.”
spend most of my time pretending to work
FIFY. Those meetings aren’t gonna conduct themselves, you know!
The places to watch out for are the ones who have “unlimited” vacation time. That actually means “ooh, now’s really not a good time…”
I think there was a company (might have been Virgin?) that did unlimited holiday, but the issue was that people ended up feeling ashamed for taking holiday and so basically ended up taking less than if they were given 25 days holiday.
We have unlimited time off and they have started adding more company vacation days because they’re worried we aren’t taking enough time off.
Yep, exactly
My last contract had that and the first year I barely used 2 weeks. My regional manager started giving us heads up during contract negotiation time that we might not get it. Ended up taking 3 weeks that he approved and felt so good to actually use the benefits that were promised. He was going to retire soon anyways, so he was approving left and right.
Ended up get hired back at the same place under a different company, and now our PTO and vacation is horseshit
How is it “unlimited” if a manager has to approve? They might as well change the description from “unlimited vacation” to “anything from 0 to 365 days a year, whatever your boss (we) says flies.”
It’s an excuse to limit how much vacation you can take and they don’t have to pay it out if you leave.
This is why my previous employer moved to “unlimited” vacation.
They originally had a PTO-with-rollover plan until one day the CTO went to the president and said, “I have enough vacation days banked to take off October 1 to December 31.”
They removed the rollover first, but then everyone wanted the last two weeks of the year off. There was never “a good time” to use one’s PTO in other parts of the year and nobody wanted to lose their vacation days. And of course management look like jerks if they “steal” everyone’s time off.
Now, it’s “unlimited” (pending management approval), so nobody is “losing” anything when management says no to those two weeks as well. You might get a couple of days here and there, but it’s difficult to get a whole week and nearly impossible to get two consecutive weeks.
Just one of the many reasons why I no longer work there.
Three week vacations are not uncommon since we have set vacations days and people actually use them. The company actually thinks it’s a liability to have too much vacation banked and were offered a 2 for 3 deal during Covid.
I really hope you mean ‘spend 2 days banked and get 3 off’ and not the other way around…
Yes that’s what I meant. It might have been 3 for 4.
Its not and I learned that fast. At least I got to have some fun at the end
I generally agree with you but my last two jobs transitioned to unlimited while I was there and the amount of time I took off was not impacted at either. Both of these jobs were client focused billable time types of jobs so I do think that has something to do with it, as long as I’m hitting my billable targets and contribution goals they don’t care how much time I have off really. I once took December off at the end of a super busy year.
If you set a minimum vacation time, it’s not bad. But most places don’t do that, because they know you’ll take less time if they say unlimited.
My company is pretty lax, where I live you’re entitled to 20 days paid leave by law but a contractor in my team had unlimited leave and made good use of it, she would travel pretty frequently, but she would still meet all her deadlines so management were fine with it
Sounds like a real stupid guy.
I mean, he already said he was a CEO…
True, true.
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After being America pilled I moved to China and had a British roommate. My mind was blown when he told me his mom took paid vacation days to tidy the house. I would NEVER dream of using the 14 days of vacation I had in the USA to clean the fucking house. Just IMAGINE having so much time off that you’d even consider using some to clean the house. It seemed awesome to me.
As a Brit that’s crazy, that’s what WFH is for ;)
