If no one works summer how will Waffle House stay open
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I'm more for mandatory winter sleep.
This or 4 day work weeks. One or the other, or I'll do nothing and just accept it.
4 day work weeks or 52 vacation days per year as a minimum. You can either take one day a week and only work 4 days each week, or save them up and take a 10 week vacation.
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Nah dawg.
We're all going to work until we're so old that when we retire we don't get to enjoy what's left of our lives. Instead we'll get to experience non-stop health problems, hospital visits, surgeries, daily pill schedules you can't skip or you die, and general exhaustion.
Literally happening to both my parents exactly like this.
And that's if you even make it to retirement, which I've personally witnessed a few people not do.
It's a scam y'all. Dipshits floating around on yachts while we die working. Wanna fix it all? Gotta get together, hold hands, and have a general strike until our demands are met. Totally possible, but not going to happen.
I don't expect to retire.
I'll probably be found at my desk on a Monday, not even first thing, but like, at 11:45, after dying there sometime Friday afternoon, and people just thought I was "working late" and left for the weekend, while I'm a literal corpse.
Whatever. I'm over it. I won't have any fucks left to give when that happens because I won't be alive to give any fucks.
Gotta get together
This is it. This is literally the secret behind which Utopia is sealed. There are so, so many decent, empathetic humans that we could easily banish the narcissist, malevolent dipshits that make earth hell from our society.
Problem: even "good" humans have their flaws baked into their genes and brains, we are far too easily swept up into a a "us vs. them" dynamic. The only way of fixing this is to manually control your emotional behaviour and correct yourself constantly. Don‘t exhaust yourself with that, but try to remember what you really value before becoming a puppet for people with bad interests.
I worry that even if everything was right in my life it still wouldn't be enough. Passion has become so rare.
Maybe if there were some way to organize and make demands against the employer.
Universal basic income could help us achieve this. There are people working right now to make this a reality in America
There was a time back when this was possible.
Bikers back in the day would work construction or some other hard labor for half the year and then hit the road for 2-4 months.
The partial working income was enough to cover all thier bills, the bike/gear, motel stays and drinking.
the retirement goal is to be a year round camp host for the park system. I'd say national park, but my favorite is a state park and i don't expect the US national park system to exist in, uh, carry the two, 2065 when I am finally allowed to either die or retire.
I kind of do this. I high rig for concerts in the summer, then fuck off the rest of the year.
People still do this. I have a buddy who only works 3-4 months a year. Hes a pipeline welder so long hours and hard work, but then he travels around the rest of the time
It works for them because their work is high skill and always useful, general office work like mine (dev) is impossible to find a job if you were to immediately quit. It's quite different when you're competing against thousands of cheap IT graduates looking to flock to your country and work for pennies on the dollar.
BTW not saying I'm anti immigration, it's just the way the tech space is right now.
Not American but I've heard American companies hire foreigners because they can wage slave them with Visa entrapment, no Visa and you're deported. People that are trying to improve their life are just taken advantage of.
I haven't heard of anything like that happening to tradespeople
I think it's more because pipeline work is inherently unstable so they get paid a lot but it's for short contracts. Plus it means businesses are more used to transient workers.
Like my buddy can clear $80k in 3 months working 100hr weeks. There's no IT job in the world that would give you those kinds of hours.
And yeah, American companies sometimes use the visa trap to get workers. But don't pretend thats a uniquely American phenomenon haha
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Corporate: not a chance in hell. You’re lucky you get annual leave at all, if it wasn’t mandated by law you’d never get that either.
Hot take: tons of office jobs are super reasonable. Small to mid sized companies that don't do anything particularly exciting, where you can find a position where you play an important role in the company but someone else can take on the work you normally do when needed, or the work you do only needs to be done at certain times of the year. You can talk directly to the owner, or managers have leeway to handle employees schedules without a ton of oversight.
Talk to whoever you need to. Explain how time off is more important to you than pay, and how the company will still do well when you take extended time off. It goes 1 of 3 ways. They agree immediately - win. They want proof that your idea will work - so prove it will work, then win. Or they outright refuse or fire you, in which case you find somewhere else to work and try again until you win.
Yeah idk what jobs you’re talking about…every time I see posts from people complaining (rightfully) about the office environment it’s from big companies.
Small to mid: small company , small salary. And like…tiny progression opportunities lol. I genuinely don’t see how these would be better at all than corpos, bc a lot of small companies try to cram multiple jobs into one too bc they usually can’t afford to hire as many people as they’d like. Rare companies like what you described do exist though, just…v rare
Haha, nah, annual leave isn't required by law in my country...
Yep, this is the great adjustment america needs.
Norway is basically shut down for most of July 👌
So... become france
I'd be willing to work 14 hours a week voluntarily if i didn't have other responsibilities.
Tell me you’re not in Europe without saying you’re not in Europe
I mean continuous 3 month vacation is not a thing, even in Europe
If you work in education it sort of can be.
I get that it's fun to dunk on us Americans, but do you really have 3 months paid time off from work every year?
No. Minimum by law in Germany is 20 days paid vacation and depending on the employer you get additional days.
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Who should tell the farm workers?
Who should tell the farm workers?
Let the migrant labor let them know, they'll keep the farm going while they're out for an extra 10% for the month.
Wait, The CALLED ICE?
Farmwork goes in seasons
You don’t say?!! Is summer an important farming season?
Depends where you are and what you're farming. Planting(in the spring) and harvesting(in the fall) are usually the most intensive parts of the year for farm work so actually a lot of times summer is slower for farm work (relative to spring and fall)
I feel this so much. I just want to have a few consecutive months off in a row and then I’ll be good to go for the rest of the year
General strike lets gooo
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