It is satire

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/alex-dick-19844012_i-thought-i-was-being-generous-i-gave-staff-activity-7378685544299532288-i-dr

It absolutely is. This was his next post

I’m reasonably sure it’s not?

Poe's law hits hard

I’ve definitely noticed a correlation of people “married to the job” because they don’t like the person they’re legally married to at home. It seemed to lead to a spike in divorces when the lockdowns hit during COVID.

I was in a similar situation at my first job, except my boss didn't have a wife and instead lived right across the street from the office. He would say things like "We don't have a clock-in and clock-out attitude here". Or one time he kicked off a project where he divided up groups of people and wanted them to start brainstorming ideas for an app we could implement with our product. Except he specifically said we couldn't work on it during work hours. So guess what, nobody worked on it and Mr boss man was very disappointed in all of us. I'm so glad I don't work there anymore.

I think there was a company (might have been Virgin?) that did unlimited holiday, but the issue was that people ended up feeling ashamed for taking holiday and so basically ended up taking less than if they were given 25 days holiday.

My last contract had that and the first year I barely used 2 weeks. My regional manager started giving us heads up during contract negotiation time that we might not get it. Ended up taking 3 weeks that he approved and felt so good to actually use the benefits that were promised. He was going to retire soon anyways, so he was approving left and right.

Ended up get hired back at the same place under a different company, and now our PTO and vacation is horseshit

I generally agree with you but my last two jobs transitioned to unlimited while I was there and the amount of time I took off was not impacted at either. Both of these jobs were client focused billable time types of jobs so I do think that has something to do with it, as long as I'm hitting my billable targets and contribution goals they don't care how much time I have off really. I once took December off at the end of a super busy year.

If you set a minimum vacation time, it's not bad. But most places don't do that, because they know you'll take less time if they say unlimited.

My company is pretty lax, where I live you're entitled to 20 days paid leave by law but a contractor in my team had unlimited leave and made good use of it, she would travel pretty frequently, but she would still meet all her deadlines so management were fine with it

I like my job. If I wasn't getting paid, I'd still be doing it. Just not for them.

spend most of my time pretending to work

FIFY. Those meetings aren't gonna conduct themselves, you know!

I mean, he already said he was a CEO…

A shareholder cries every time you make a withdrawal.

Really? If I withdraw my paycheck cent by cent, can I mummify one by proxy?

You can't be financially successful if destroying everything else left you with mental health issues that prevent you from working. A work addict can keep on for a while but they'll crash.

we live in an age where almost all satire has happened at least 10 times

I'm sure they are, but I have had bosses who think this way.

It’s way easier if you assume that any LinkedIn post you see is satire.

"Rocket surgery"... I like it, I'm changing to this too!

As a Brit that's crazy, that's what WFH is for ;)

Not plus unfortunately as they can include the bank holidays in your statutory 28 days

Bank holidays

Bank or public holidays do not have to be given as paid leave.

An employer can choose to include bank holidays as part of a worker’s statutory annual leave.

American here.

We get less than that. And we got a LOT of small business owners who are pissed that they have to honor that. And like the meme, showcase it like it was a PRIVILEGE for working there.

American here. Starting January 1st i will be getting 2 weeks paid vacation each year plus major holidays. That's more paid vacation time than i have ever had in 10 years of working.

so much envy. here in california, you get three sick days. that's it. no vacation, no holidays. i don't think i've ever had a job willingly give me more, though i know such jobs do exist.

in normal countries you'll be in trouble if you somehow didn't take your [leave]

I don't know how it works where you are, in my workplace if you don't take enough leave you need to make an agreement with your manager to take some leave soon; if you fail to make an agreement or the agreement is too far in the future you are put on leave.

I don't count that as being in trouble, it's about giving the worker the power to say "if you won't approve my leave, the system will force leave and you'll have no choice of when"

I don't like that either. People shouldn't be penalized for not taking vacation. That's just a different form of taking away their choice.

Amateurs! Good employees immediately deposit 2/3rds of their monthly income into their landlord's account and try to hold on to the final 3rd for dear life for a full month, only to fail two weeks in.