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How to use PTO (lemmy.world)
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[–] 21 points 2 months ago (15 children)

Let me make something extremely fucking clear.

There are plenty of places to get a paycheck.

Time with my family is irreplaceable. We're only on the same team as long as you understand that you will never be as important as home life.

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  • [+] -29 points 2 months ago (14 children)

    Go ahead. That sounds like a threat and I wouldn't trust you. My boss wouldn't trust you either. Go find that other job. I'm not your mother.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 months ago (11 children)

    The sad part you don't seem to understand is that you and people like you are the problem. Those insisting on taking days of are fighting for worker rights most of the world already has, the reason the US doesn't is that there are to many people who betray their colleges like you do

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  • [+] -19 points 2 months ago (10 children)

    Yup. I'm totally holding up the whole infrastructure of work. It was my idea to work and not have a working system. Hit that nail on the head. Thanks for looking deeper into my soul and giving me insight.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    Buddy, the world isn't resting on your shoulders. You're just as replaceable as everybody else is. If you didn't show up, they'd recover faster than you'd think. In a week they'd forget you were ever there. It's a job, even if you were half as critical as you let yourself believe, your superiors certainly don't believe it, and will cut you loose as soon as the number under your name goes from black to red.

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  • [+] -14 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Are you under some illusion that I don't want days off? That I haven't had PTO denied? You speak of some fantasy where every day you want, you get. I am warning those reading this that aren't commenting. Those that think this attitude of "fuck it I'm going to do it anyways" is going to go well.

    I have never seen it pan out. It's a horrible attitude in any sort of relationship. I already know I'm replaceable.

    .I find it odd that Lemmy talks a big game of being kind and forth right but when someone does it about a subject they are dead set against the claws come out. I think there is an ethical way to fulfill both the business and the employees and be successful. It's a balancing act. And it takes compromise all the way around.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Every day I want, I do get. As long as I have the time available anyway. A few times even when I didn't.

    I can recall one time in the last 10 years where there was any question about that fact.

    Unionize my friend.

    It is your employers responsibility to ensure your role has adequate coverage for your available time off. Not yours.

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  • [+] -14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    That's literally my job. I ensure we have right amount of staffing. I gave said it several times. I just simply don't agree that everyone should take any day all time. Attendance is part of being dependable and thus valuable to a team. Holding attendance standards is just like any other performance factor.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    You need to know that you are wrong, your views on work life balance are abhorrent, and you're doing a bad job

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  • [–] -3 points 2 months ago

    Wrong about how showing up is part of work? Ok. Just show up whenever you feel like it and tell me if you have a job. I think you're full of shit if you get to do that. Or you are like a Kardashian.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    It's your bosses obligation to make sure there are enough people to cover the shifts not yours, if you except being exploited or even defend it than yes you are holding up everyone else.

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  • [+] -7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    No it's not. I'm in charge of 30 people in a place that has close to a hundred employees. It's my department. I am the one that makes those choices. However I do not make their union contract and I do not do anything other than adhere to what their CBA holds them to. I have only terminated one person for attendance in my time of 5 years. The rest of been neglence of safety on the employee.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Who gives an actual fuck what your boss thinks?

    You speak like someone who has been beaten down so much that lifting your head up seems like treachery to you.

    If your work is important to you, good for you, but your boss is not thinking about you when you aren’t around.

    Grow up and join the real world.

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  • [+] -13 points 2 months ago

    Wow. You sound really jaded. That cooperative work equates to some kind of negative. In fact you sound like a teenager that has not fully formed their emotions. I'm telling you how it comes off and what are the consequences from an upper management perspective. Since I sit in on meetings from a multi-billion company with them, maybe hear it out. Or don't. It's really up to you if you think I'm out to get you from telling you what happens in today's business world.

    Do I wish we could all take every single day we want and not work 50 hours a week and do what my boss says? Yes. But I am not more in control of those strings than anyone else here and just play the game just like everyone else.

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