If it wasn't for the fact I'm just weary from all the mountains of shit these so-called journalists pour out of their mouths I'd be screaming like Matt Christman right now
I had a PTO request for this week approved months ago. Then about 3 weeks ago my manager told me that they need me to not take that PTO and it’s been un-approved. I told her that’s ridiculous because my plans are already set, and I’m going to be going on my vacation. They told me it’s officially unapproved, the PTO has been readded to my PTO pool, and that if I go on vacation I’ll receive disciplinary action.
So in about an hour when we all leave the office, I’m going to be leaving my printed out PTO approval on my desk, and go on my vacation worry free. Go ahead and try to fire me you clowns. If you fail, I got my vacation and apparently I also got my PTO back. If you do fire me, good luck beating my unemployment claim lol
i mean, you wanna see some deeply unproductive time? try the days between Xmas and NYE. lmao. if it's not logistics/transport, people are fuckin' phoning it in big time.
the phenomenon of people quietly blowing off holiday weeks when their employer only grants them the specific day is not new. bosses "work from home" and that filters down: among those forced to be in the office, long lunches are taken. bare minimums are met. there is a general discouraging of scheduling meetings among colleagues, usually by making the assumption that someone critical will be out for the week anyway, so "let's table this until after the holiday/short week." sounds like the most reasonable and professional way to say, "that week isn't real so who cares"
just because this country is a shithole without worker protections doesn't mean those of us recognizing the adversarial nature of the workplace don't resist at each moment we can.
the biggest obstacles are rise-and-grind morons who run around at a frenetic pace trying to demonstrate how committed they are. or axe-grinders who look for opportunities to expose others slacking off, believing it will elevate their career. and sometimes it does, but many times it only makes silent, patient enemies by the truckload.
Back when I worked in a university I never took off the days between xmas and nye even though they would have approved it
Everyone else was on holiday, so I "worked" from home (mostly just monitoring my email in case students needed help with coursework)
Tbh I did it mostly because I worked part time during the semesters and full time during the summer, so taking my holidays in the summer was better value
In my industry its not weird for bigger companies to basically close down for 2 weeks in December for Christmas and New Years
After I left the service industry, I noticed that basically nothing happens anywhere in the US in December, except in the service industry. At best, every company is just kind of coasting until the first full week after the new year, and even then it takes a week or two to get back on track.
At my job, new hires have to wait an entire year before they give them any vacation time.
I worked at a place that sourced and handled touristy souvenirs and other garbage for those stores you see in cities and airports like "Boston Memories". Essentially I was folding cheap t-shirts and putting a price tag on them all day. I was told that I couldn't get vacation or insurance until a 6 month probationary period was over. Then after 6 months they dropped my hours to part time so I got no benefits at all.
Same at my place with insurance. They cut it to three months temporarily due to the labor shortages during the pandemic. I'm fortunate in that I was able to get a full time position right away.
We used to have that here as well, although you could transfer paid vacation from one job to the next you still had to work for a full year to get paid time off so if you were entering the workforce you were fucked.
Luckily they changed the law a few years ago so you now start earning paid time off full the moment you begin working.
The workers at my job couldn't organize a birthday party, let alone a union.
My current employer has this dastardly move where if you call in sick a day before a paid holiday you have to provide a doctor's note or else both your fto request and paid holiday are denied.
I'm guessing they also have a reputation for not approving vacation requests that bookend paid holidays? One of my previous employers utilized this big brain strategy as well.
Yep, there are policies in place to restrict vacation requests near bookend holidays because "it's last minute and it messed with the payroll!! :("
Mine will take away your holiday pay regardless of whether or not you have a sick note.
Just hand them a piece of paper of blacked out redacted lines (because confidentiality) and an illegible signature.
I had a district manager once demand I bring in a note after calling in sick. I just told them "No, you don't pay me enough to go to the doctor and I wouldn't share any of my medical information with you anyway, you can't make me." I never heard anything more about it.
Lots of employers have "rules" on the books that are realistically unenforceable or out right illegal.
jesus fucking christ this person got PAID to write this? why in the fuck did I choose STEM oh my god
I hate think-piece invented phrases like “quiet quitting” and now “quiet vacationing” with the fury of a thousand suns
They're basically just examples of the owning class being mad that some workers are doing their jobs and making use of their benefits instead of doing a bunch of extra unpaid hours of work and leaving their benefits unused.
Laundering the opinion that nobody wants to work anymore as they've done for a century
Exactly, and focusing it as anti-remote working propaganda.
Literally sitting in the park listening to a babbling brook while on the clock right now
Watching clouds drift by and grass blades wave at me while getting my hourly rn
Shout out to the kings and queens who didn't have PTO for friday. Your workplace is gonna be a ghost town.
me when i take a 3 hour nap after clocking in instead of doing any actual work
Actually jokerfying
Media heads have come up with a derogatory term for “knowledge workers” who do dare do their bs work that can be done anywhere with internet
“Remote work” doesn’t actually mean remote work. It means work where you live. Finish up early while not at home and do literally anything else? Fuck you, you’re quiet vacationing
Honestly, when do we [redact] these people parroting this nonsense
Vacation Paratus, soldier.
