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Fun fact: October Revolution haappened in Europe

I told a manager that, if you work 60h a week, you don't know how to do you job. I slipped in that hourly payment isn't terrible either if you do so.

He never bothered to try to make me work "for free" ever again.

I've worked at plenty of places which have made it fairly clear that the only way you can progress up in the company is to work out of hours. Extremely illegal business practice but they did it anyway.

One of the places was a law firm, because lawyers always think that they know how to break the law.

The biggest reason is because it's not work time. End of.

They what? Why didn't any of my fellow Germans tell me?

Most jobs, at least the better paying ones, include 6 weeks of vacation. However, you can use them all at once.

I never take august because of this. EVERYONE and their mothers take august so everything is crowded and extremely overpriced.

I prefer getting some time in september and then spread the rest of my days the rest of the year.

It feels unreal for me to know that some countries have not even 3 weeks of holidays. How can you relax and stop thinking about your job? People aren't exhausted?

Germans and French vacations are a lot more spread out than this.

In Italy instead it's pretty much mandatory to take vacations in August, as whole industry sectors close down for 2-3 weeks. Factories go on a hiatus beginning from the second week of August to the start of the fourth week, or the end of the month.

Sometimes it's surreal when you stay home in August and the whole city is deserted, no one to be seen, no traffic, no noise, just scorching heat. At least in the North, in the south it's the exact opposite, with everyone going to the sea and the population doubling overnight at the start of August.

June and July instead are pretty much taken by the Germans, especially around the lakes of the North.

European cell phone adoption was about on par with the US. I don't think the technology is completely to blame here.

I was on call 24/7 for years. It's been a long time since I had to deal with that (with a slide into a related career rather than changing careers) but I will never forget how terrible it was. I wasted what should have been my best years on that shit.

Now there's only one person at work who has my number. He doesn't call except for the one time I forgot to put my day off on the calendar. My work apps are paused at 5pm and all weekend. I only get alerts on my computer. However, I still twitch sometimes when my phone goes off after hours because it was a learned and deeply reinforced response for so many years.

Yup, worked enterprise IT for a global call center, and I was expected to answer my phone at a moments notice. Even if I was in bed with my wife, I was expected to stop and answer. All while being paid 50% below market. Since the overseas IT teams were worthless, getting called at 2am was common.

You can't tell, but that's her living room...

Sell their houses to whom, Ben? Fucking Aquamen?

I hope he was paying

Did you tell him that directly? I think you should.

It's not that simple when most people actively choose the cruelty.

Remember to plug it in, you don't want to have to go scrambling for a charger in the middle of the meeting.