I find its more often they need those hours to afford to live. Sometimes due to poor life choices like owning 5 dirtbikes that don't run and buying a 6th, but often its just due to how unfair the economy is to low income families.

They're over 30, but so am I! 😭

I'm a teacher, so any work they do doesn't help me, lol

I work nights from home, so I hardly ever need to take PTO. Kinda nice at the end of the year though when I typically take November and December off to burn the PTO I can’t carry over into the new year (limited to 40 hours).

Disclaimer: USA perspective here, I know its less bullshit in many other parts of the world.

People who don't like PTO don't like it because:

It is implemented in a bullshit way that is often literally illegal...

And it is implemented by idiot/cheap managers who don't have enough actual staff hours to cover anyone being sick or taking PTO.

The bog standard norm for every kind of min wage tier job is that the manager will just unapprove your vacation that you accrued and scheduled weeks or months ago, and then oops, that also makes it so you haven't been accumulating more PTO because you hit your max and didn't use it in time.

Or just any manager that says you can only have a sick day, vacation, or any kind of emergency if you find a replacement for your shift.

That one is particularly amazing because... that is literally the manager's job, to do that, not yours.

But they just gaslight you into doing their job for them, for no extrs pay, of course.

But this kind of (again, often literally illegal) bullshit is so totally common and normalized amongst these shit ass jobs, that most workers don't even know how bullshit it is, and will rabidly attack and malign their coworkers instead of blaming their petty tyrant boss.

These people are basically, generally correct in identifying PTO as basically bullshit in these situations, but they're too overworked and uninformed to put together that... it could be organized/executed in a not bullshit way, and it's their boss's (or corporate's) fault that it isn't.

Shitass retail managers routinely pull this bullshit and enforce a culture of blame being on all your fellow workers, and will go out of their way to intentionally stoke interpersonal drama amongst coworkers... it is very, very rare to find a low level franchise manager or small business owner who does not do this.

We still have traditional slavery in prisons.

I don't mean to imply he's not stupid. You gotta be really fucking dumb to say that at all. I just think he doesn't care what he says, because the content of what he says is not important. It's more of a method of controlling the conversation.

Fellas, is it woke to like holidays?

yea, which is the only real reason he posted about it. It's just a normal day for him, but he realized he can capitalize on it and make it a PR stunt like always

That's... I'm speechless. I tought it was idiotic when it "just" suggested that workers beg to work more. It had a brazen "abuse and ridicule working people" spin on it. But it not about economic slavery... It's about the acctuall slavery? That is... we need a word for idiotic and evil and the same time.

Thanks for the context.

Thought slavery is still legal in the US..