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I know its a joke, but I had a coworker get into a car accident with an 18-wheeler on his lunch break. My bosses first words out of his mouth were, "can you make it back in today?" You could literally see the accident from our location.

I guess the trouble was that we didn't have any self-admitted proletarians. Everyone was a temporarily embarrassed capitalist. Maybe the Communists so closely questioned by the investigation committees were a danger to America, but the ones I knew—at least they claimed to be Communists—couldn't have disrupted a Sunday-school picnic. Besides they were too busy fighting among themselves.

--John Steinbeck, America and Americans

It's really gross how many people think everything in life is a zero sum game. The anti gay marriage folks are like that: if gay people can get married then somehow their own marriage is lesser. If people who aren't working get healthcare, then it somehow takes away from them. It's disgusting.

The percentage of people that would be just as happy with their neighbour having less as they would be with themselves having more is shocking and depressing. It's all about comparisons. Crabs in a bucket.

America is basically "I got mine, fuck you" and "others don't deserve a thing because reasons" all the way down.

It's like a snake eating it's own tail.

Absolutely, you have to be very guarded about what you say around colleagues cause some of them will snitch behind your back to higher ups, that's how I lost my job. I'll never make the mistake of speaking my mind with anyone ever again. They will get a fake work persona I'll construct from now on. Can't believe how eager some people are to fuck themselves over just so long as they are doing better than those others they have been conditioned to hate

dont forget the rich family!

Take the bet

Make a lot of money

Move

Where do I move to once I'm ready to settle down, I don't see a future in which I raise kids in this country

Some people actively vote for it too

I'm a school bus driver who used to be a programmer. My school district has a rule where if you don't show up the work day before or the work day after a paid holiday (like Labor Day, for one ironic example), you don't get paid for that holiday. I've never encountered a rule like this anywhere I've ever worked before, but my fellow drivers are all like "yeah, that's totally normal". Apparently they don't want people turning 3-day weekends into 4- or 5-day weekends, but it's still all kinds of fucked up abuse of workers.

Meanwhile half my co-workers didn't show up the day after Philly won the Super Bowl, forcing us to cancel a bunch of bus runs.

Well depending on the size of the organisation and the nature of the work. You either hire a temp or balance the team/workload for the vacation time. As an example; in Sweden, it is mandated by law that workers have the right to take 4 consecutive weeks between June 1 and august 31. So as long as the team is no smaller than 3 you should only have to balance or extend time frames for work during this period. Even if the work is qualified.

There is something referred to as a industry vacation here as well. Its when a factory just shuts all production for 4 weeks and everybody goes on vacation at the same time.

Do note, that you don't have to take 4 of your 5-6 weeks of payed vacation during this time. But you have the right to.

Every year the employer has until first of April to schedule, plan and approve all vacation for the summer.

Hope that helps. If you have more questions I'll gladly answer them. I'm a union man and have negotiated quite a few vacation plans.

Either that, or more realistically, the output of the company tanks during the summer. It's ok because everyone expects most people to be on vacation during the summer time and everyone will just work around it.

Not in Europe but similar situation. You either have enough staff in the team, or staff that with similar skills in other teams, that someone can cover them for that period, or you hire a contractor. Also depends how long they're gone and how urgent things are.

But usually you hire slightly more staff than you need. I mean what if someone gets really sick? What if you suddenly get multiple urgent things? In the down time there's extra things you can do that aren't "make new shit" so it's not like you're paying people to do nothing.

Many companies are closed during 3-4 weeks in summer.

Balance the workload. Usually a lot of people go on a holiday so there is less work for us (IT). Alot of my colleagues like the airconditioning in the office so they stay in.