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writing an article in which i pretend to never have heard of a vacation and then looking at myself in the mirror and saying "yeah i'm a valuable part of society" because i'm a journalist, ie, one of the stupidest people on the planet

[–] ChaosMaterialist@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago

Boomers finally learned the Zoomers are in their 20s and Millennials are in their 40s yells-at-cloud

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 29 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

LOL is this boomers unable to detect irony? Calling a 2 week vacation a "micro retirement" reads like pure irony or satire...

[–] stink@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)

My coworker does this, spends a week taking a bunch of shrooms then another week to adjust back to reality

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago

Doesn't that defeat the purpose of the mushrooms?

[–] LoveWitch@hexbear.net 86 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Boomers used to get drunk at work btw

[–] AF_R@hexbear.net 51 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Christ, fucking imagine what boomer work was like. A world without internet, without cell phones, without GPS-tracked semi trucks.

Truck broke down halfway across the country so our shipment of raw materials for the next production run is delayed? Shit, guess we’ll find out in a month from now. Another week of sitting around and smoking cigarettes it is, then!

Our contractor metrics are shitting the bed and customers are furious? Lmao I guess we’ll find out in a month when the letters arrive in the physical mail and resolve the problem in another year when we find out who to call.

Fuck it, did my hour of work today, time to get drunk. And earn enough to single handedly support a family of 4 with multiple homes, vacation cabins, multiple vehicles, and yearly international destination vacations lmfao.

Oh what’s that, it’s time to retire at 50 with my company funded pension, social security funded to the gills, flush retirement accounts, and rental property income.

[–] myrrh@ttrpg.network 34 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

...just-in-time supply chains weren't a thing back then; robust businesses stocked and planned sufficient lead time not to risk lean operations on stochastic hiccups...

[–] AF_R@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Of course, keeping inventory was much more important in those times. However, it’s disingenuous to act like robust American manufacturing had their shit together in any way back then.

I am quite versed in it as an Industrial Engineer, there is a cultural reason Deming was laughed out of American boardrooms and welcomed in Japanese ones from small podunk auto manufacturers nobody had heard of such as Toyota, where the system they developed would go on to form the basis of all modern manufacturing (which took American manufacturers so long to understand that they all went out of business). Even to this day, American auto manufacturing is a joke.

When pull manufacturing is considered a revolutionary concept, robust business does not exist.

[–] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 25 points 1 day ago

I get stoned at work, some things did improve I suppose

[–] Wheaties@hexbear.net 21 points 1 day ago

if I wanted to do that, I'd just go into advertising

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 66 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Nano-retirements involve taking a one to two day break from work every week.

Pico-retirements involve taking a sixteen hour break from work every day.

Femto-retirements involve taking a thirty to sixty minute break for lunch every day.

Atto-retirements involve taking a five minute break from work to use the restroom every few hours.

[–] GuerrillaRat@hexbear.net 25 points 1 day ago

I need to take a 2.5 hour break from work tomorrow to get some chores sorted out, what is the most appropriate scientific term for this level of retirement?

[–] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 25 points 1 day ago

Hey beambrain I'm going to the gas station for my femto you want anything?

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[–] robotElder2@hexbear.net 74 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Everyone involved in publishing this should be worked to death in a labor camp.

[–] EnsignRedshirt@hexbear.net 14 points 1 day ago

We should call it a labor-themed wellness retreat.

[–] vegeta1@hexbear.net 34 points 1 day ago

The writer of this and all the grindset merchants should be forced to work in a Japanese black company.

[–] segfault11@hexbear.net 38 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I’m doing macro retirement (being unemployed for several months straight)

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[–] roux@hexbear.net 26 points 1 day ago

I do this but it's because I get fired once every 12 to 18 months.

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 67 points 1 day ago (17 children)
[–] Goun@lemmy.ml 41 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] SirQuack@feddit.nl 26 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I like two weeks of vacation. Just enough to lose track of time, and just small enough so you can do multiple per year. With 25 holidays / year I get two smaller vacations and a few days off here and there.

[–] TheBroodian@hexbear.net 32 points 1 day ago

Tell us you aren't American without saying "I'm not American"

[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 2 points 23 hours ago

I can do that too!

...If and only if I quit my job every year.

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[–] SpicyLizards@reddthat.com 38 points 1 day ago

Can't even have a break without a new derogatory capitalist name being coined.

[–] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 77 points 1 day ago

I wish violence upon the creator of these words, holy shit

[–] Horse@lemmygrad.ml 75 points 1 day ago

the new crop of adults are doing a perfectly normal thing that we will now frame as bizarrely as possible

the standby of journalism for longer than i've been alive

[–] inTheShadowOf@hexbear.net 23 points 1 day ago

Are we not supposed to use PTO...?

[–] Meltyheartlove@hexbear.net 43 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Get laid off and no one wants to hire you despite the low wages so your employment gap grows long enough that porky decides you are not fit to work following which porky makes posts of accusing you of being lazy and going on a vacation you can't afford while they are on a paid vacation that never ends. agony-deep

[–] tombruzzo@hexbear.net 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Is the distinction you take the time off but don't go anywhere because you can't afford it? So you don't have the holi, just the day?

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[–] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 45 points 1 day ago

Capitalist ideologues trying to erase the very concept of vacation

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 60 points 1 day ago

i choose to interpret this as "working conditions suck so much that gen z didn't know vacations already had a name"

also the author needs to be mulched

[–] Dort_Owl@hexbear.net 62 points 1 day ago (2 children)

matt-jokerfied SHUT THE FUCK UP SHUT UP SHUT THE FUCK UP LET PEOPLE LIVE OUTSIDE OF WORK

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[–] hotcouchguy@hexbear.net 47 points 1 day ago

Reading this gave me a micro-stroke, going to have to lie down and self-induce a nano-coma before I commit a pico-omnicide on this guy specifically

[–] take_five_moments@hexbear.net 59 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] plinky@hexbear.net 62 points 1 day ago

microvacation is when you visit restroom, but don't clock out

[–] sorter_plainview@lemmy.today 40 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's for people with money. Not for peasants.

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[–] 9to5@hexbear.net 45 points 1 day ago

Microdosing my retirement everynight for 8h so that I make it through the work day

[–] Guamer@hexbear.net 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

So an average of a week and a half every 15 months, roughly 2.4%

My cup runneth over!

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 43 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The only reason I have Twitter is because every once in a while I see something written that’s so stupid that I have to find the person on Twitter that wrote it so I can verbally abuse them for being so fucking stupid. This is one of those times.

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[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 45 points 1 day ago

barbara-pit Into the Room for Serious Journalists you go.

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 36 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I want to punch whoever wrote this so often and so hard that I will need to order gauntlets or something to keep my hands safe. And I want to do it on a paid 'micro retirement'.

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