So 4 ½ days, right? Right?
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These 36 hours occurred during the weekend.
2 weeks? That's like a once a decade vacation.
Once a few months 🙃
I had to schedule my vacation days because by law I couldn't push further. We are in the middle of a super complicated project that I'm leading. Oh well
I had my architect leave for 3 months after he started the transition from AWS to google with full rewrite on the app and re-design of the system.
he did not care at all.
this is Sweden
National hero 💪
The American dream is working every day of your life. Literally every day. No sick days. No vacations. Nothing. From the time you are 15 until you are 75. You can even brag about it like it’s some badge of honor. It’s amazing.
Reading this thread you can spot the Americans. Some upset they can't work MORE. Victims, all.
It used to pay well. People used to buy big houses and earn pensions, and get a new car every 5 years or less.
Man oh fucking man, have times changed. No new cars, no houses at all... We're lucky to get a decent rental that doesn't go up more than $100 a year.
Goods are skyrocketing in price, LLM's are taking jobs away, Healthcare costs are skyrocketing, wages are way, way, WAY below what they should be... I could keep going, but this is enough depressing things in one paragraph.
You don't need a house anyway, they don't want you to work from home any more.
The American dream is that someday you'll have other people work their lives away so you can have a comfy life of luxury.
It was always bullshit.
You might be the only person in here that gets this. There's a very deep selfishness to the "American dream". Like crabs in a bucket, you gotta grind to get on top of as many people as possible so that there's less shit raining down from above. If you're lucky you'll have enough society below you that the work you do looks luxurious by comparison.
Boomers love playing the work martyr. They've wrapped their entire sense of identity in working, their role at work, and some strange dogged determination that such a way of life has greater value than time spent with their family, children, friends, or pursuing any non-work interests.
And now huge swathes of them have nothing but their grinding mentality, as their family has splintered, their children have gone no-contact, and they have nothing of their Self to fall back on. It's why they still perch on the upper rungs of our political and corporate ladders, punching down at anything they don't understand.
Yup, boomers took the easy way out and drowned themselves in work rather than organize to change the system.
I know this is a hot take but boomers who don't even know how to live without working after they have been on this planet for decades are pathetic, second in blame only to the cruel system that diminished them to shadows of their past selves.
Speaking to boomers here - shut up, turn your TV set to fox news off and take up birding or something else actually real, your work identity is a flimsy illusion of self, you need to actively explore who you are not contract it out to your job you old hateful, childish vampires of humanities' future.
...and yes before the inveitable "not all Boomers!", I know.
My grandpa didn't understand fiction. He grew up in a company town and was working in the mines after he completed sixth grade (12 years old). It was and is truly sad. He'd say things like why would you bother with that nonsense when someone mentioned watching a movie or reading a book.
After he was forced to retire due to dementia, he drove to the places he worked to talk to the workers about work. He did this every weekday. Dementia progressed, as it does. After far too many fender benders and running out of gas a few times in the middle of nowhere, his wife and daughter had to take the keys. After that he watched TV. He watched mostly the news, fox news and NBC nightly news. Occasionally the history channel. It was "real" so it was all that mattered.
We hardly had anything to talk about. We were politically and religiously opposite. I will say he was a union man and lifelong Democrat, so at least he wouldn't have been down with any of the shit going on these days. I had dropped out of college and didn't get a good paying job until after he died, so I was just a failure.
But. We finally connected when I got him to watch the show Survivorman with Les Stroud. He loved that shit. It was real.
And all that caused by Russia. It truly is malign. America's problems are totally not caused internally.
I used to work in the financial industry where it was mandated for compliance reasons that we take 2 (TWO) solid weeks of vacation. Reason being that if you were doing anything funny like cooking the systems, either people would catch it when they took over your duties or your absence would cause a discrepancy when you were unable to keep up your shenanigans.
I only had 2 (TWO) weeks of vacation. So in an act of mercy the company decided to bend compliance so that I only needed to take one solid week off and the other week was mine to take at another time or split up as needed. You know, rather than give me any more vacation time.
As a european, I simply do not understand how America even acts as if it functions. Shit cost of living, Shit work hours/week, shit vacation time, "benefits" that we see as the bare fucking minimum for us to even show up to an interview, shit healthcare system, shit unemployment system.
Y'all are slaves, but most of you don't even realise it.
Literally everything is a farce, almost every product, every deal and agreement is an inherent ripoff, and there's a catch to everything short of taking a walk in a park.
shit, they towed my car
There is zero reason to give out such little holiday time in the US. Its literally just mean
3 DAY WEEKEND WOOOO WE'RE DRINKIN 14 BEERS AT CHILIS TONIGHT 🎆 🎆 🎆 
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