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The trick is to use your PTO all at once and be out for a week or so - everything falls over and it reminds your boss how you're the only thing keeping it all together.
The key to a good career in IT is to not have everything run too smoothly. If your systems have 100% uptime, it's easy for people to forget that you exist and are needed. The occasional bug reminds them that their lives would collapse without you.
I should go unplug the router for a bit.
But if they forget you doesn’t that mean you get paid to sit at a desk all day with no work?
Until it's time for layoffs
oh no
If I used my PTO all at once I would be out for like two months and a bit LOL
Tell me you're not American without saying you're not American.
What I wouldn't give for real amounts of PTO.
This might be the most American sentence I have read this week.