Rookie mistake, dude didn’t use the unlimited PTO strategy which makes people second-guess how many days they can reasonably take off before it’s deemed abusive.
Our boss was finally straight with us and told us the Magic number is 4 weeks.
Which is what I had decided on. I had 3 weeks before the change to unlimited. (I had 4 weeks at an old job and just wanted to get back the week I lost changing jobs)
I have unlimited pto and I took of like 6 weeks this year and nobody has said a word about it
Oh that’s peak family run business energy.
As a non American this reads as satire, but from what I hear about the US work culture I really can’t be sure.
I don’t know if this is satire or rage bait but ironically it’s almost certainly a UK individual as he refers to them as “Bank holidays” and the 28 days is only about 8 above the statutory minimum of 20 + bank holidays.
The employer must offer a minimum of 28 days for full time workers but bank holidays and other company shutdowns can count towards that. It’s a bit more flexible that way, it means it doesn’t matter which public holidays (if any) your company observes everyone gets the same minimum time off. It also allows situations like my company where our only UK office is in Scotland but UK employees still follow English holidays instead.
20 is the legal minimum in the UK? Sheesh. In my current job, I had to negotiate for a 3rd week (15 days instead of 10, the regular two days off don’t count as vacation days that week).
It’s actually not great compared to a lot of other countries in Europe.
We also have public holidays (We call them all Bank Holidays for historical reasons, but it’s things like Christmas, Easter and a couple of others), there’s usually 8 in a year and that’s on top of your 20 days.
Employers can make you work a bank holiday, you just get another day off instead. So really it’s 28 days holiday per year, with 8 of them being the public ones that you may or may not have to work.
My employer gives us 30 + the Bank Holidays, then we got took over by an American firm which ironically introduced unlimited PTO.
That’s true. Plus do Americans have terms like staycation?
I have no idea, I assume so given it’s using the word “vacation” which is predominantly an American term that they do and that the very concept is just less popular since they typically get much fewer “vacation” days, they probably try to make the most of their time off.
I have no clue though, I’m just making shit up at this point.
100% satire. Look at the guy’s name.
Satire or obvious ragebait.
I’m too European for this
Likely troll but here’s my response.
I love Mary Brown’s Chicken but if I’m eating it five days a week, every week, that’s not gonna go well for me.
Personally I agree with David Mitchell.
As long as you’re doing the job I think it’s utterly unreasonable that they also have in the contract that I I’m not allowed to be miserable. Unless the job is a super interesting government job that gets me access to area 51, pays fabulously well, and includes a company Lamborghini then I’m sorry, but I’m not prepared to really care about it.
Fortunately I work for a French company who’s managers understand that me not actively burning the business down, is about as much of respect as they’re ever going to get.
“it’s the sign either of a liar or a moron”
I’m giving all my belongings to charity. But I don’t expect them to actually take any of it. I’m so generous like that. Praise me for being so generous!
Could not tell you. Satire? Rage bait? Completely serious CEO mindset? No idea. All completely possible and just as likely. Coin flip.
is this ragebait?
