As someone in the US with pretty good paid sick leave (there are many of us, but certainly not most people working lower-wage jobs), I think the joke here is that they are requesting 30 days up front and fashioning it as a threat

I refuse to believe people would just make shit up.

But also like, the subject is Paid Leave Request. So what is "Dear HR" and "to HR" On standard gmail that would mean his name in his email client is literally "Dear HR"

Someone wanted to make something they thought was funny and did the best they could with the tools available to them

depending on tbe repliers email client and settings the older email can also be on the top

We who still reply below messages are still in the fight. We may be losing but the fight continues!

Not in gmail, which is infuriating

Irony is a cheap way to turn bullshit into passable comedy

I work in corporate America. I will never side with HR

Fuck HR. They could all be working from home.

Offices are mostly a relic of the past, taking up livable space so that management can micromanage employees and justify their phoney-baloney jobs.

HR at the horrible mega Corp I work for has been described as "day care". They all seem to move at a glacial speed, which when you're dealing with time sensitive tasks I'd say is incompetence.

The few I've talked to are nice, in a polite small talk way, but it just shouldn't take a whole month to go from application to phone screen. Certainly not for internal candidates.