Boomers used to get drunk at work btw
Christ, fucking imagine what boomer work was like. A world without internet, without cell phones, without GPS-tracked semi trucks.
Truck broke down halfway across the country so our shipment of raw materials for the next production run is delayed? Shit, guess we’ll find out in a month from now. Another week of sitting around and smoking cigarettes it is, then!
Our contractor metrics are shitting the bed and customers are furious? Lmao I guess we’ll find out in a month when the letters arrive in the physical mail and resolve the problem in another year when we find out who to call.
Fuck it, did my hour of work today, time to get drunk. And earn enough to single handedly support a family of 4 with multiple homes, vacation cabins, multiple vehicles, and yearly international destination vacations lmfao.
Oh what’s that, it’s time to retire at 50 with my company funded pension, social security funded to the gills, flush retirement accounts, and rental property income.
…just-in-time supply chains weren’t a thing back then; robust businesses stocked and planned sufficient lead time not to risk lean operations on stochastic hiccups…
Of course, keeping inventory was much more important in those times. However, it’s disingenuous to act like robust American manufacturing had their shit together in any way back then.
I am quite versed in it as an Industrial Engineer, there is a cultural reason Deming was laughed out of American boardrooms and welcomed in Japanese ones from small podunk auto manufacturers nobody had heard of such as Toyota, where the system they developed would go on to form the basis of all modern manufacturing (which took American manufacturers so long to understand that they all went out of business). Even to this day, American auto manufacturing is a joke.
When pull manufacturing is considered a revolutionary concept, robust business does not exist.
I get stoned at work, some things did improve I suppose
if I wanted to do that, I’d just go into advertising
Everyone involved in publishing this should be worked to death in a labor camp.
We should call it a labor-themed wellness retreat.
I wish violence upon the creator of these words, holy shit
Nano-retirements involve taking a one to two day break from work every week.
Pico-retirements involve taking a sixteen hour break from work every day.
Femto-retirements involve taking a thirty to sixty minute break for lunch every day.
Atto-retirements involve taking a five minute break from work to use the restroom every few hours.
I need to take a 2.5 hour break from work tomorrow to get some chores sorted out, what is the most appropriate scientific term for this level of retirement?
Hey beambrain I’m going to the gas station for my femto you want anything?
What does a weekend class as?
That’s the nano-retirement!
the new crop of adults are doing a perfectly normal thing that we will now frame as bizarrely as possible
the standby of journalism for longer than i’ve been alive
So, a vacation?
Half a vacation, actually
I like two weeks of vacation. Just enough to lose track of time, and just small enough so you can do multiple per year. With 25 holidays / year I get two smaller vacations and a few days off here and there.
Tell us you aren’t American without saying “I’m not American”
Ahahahahahahahahaha, I get 11 days a year
I can do that too!
…If and only if I quit my job every year.
I don’t think so, a vacation would be longer than just one to two weeks.
are you european because this sounds so european to say
We have 20 days a year here at my non european country
That’s the EU minimum. Which is two 2 week vacations per 12 months or one 4 week vacation.
UK gives 28 days which translates to 5.6 weeks paid leave per year.
I get 35 days. And unlimited paid sick days.
And unlimited paid sick days.
That’s really fucking good
I never got limiting sick days. I don’t choose to be ill.
I kinda lucked out with my career choice and the time I started. I work for an unspecified airline and bid for a monthly schedule. Average 15-20 days off a month (not consecutively). Not out of the goodness of their corporate hearts of course. Legally I can only work 1000 hours in a year, and 100 hours in a month. The FAA has determined that exceeding those hours is detrimental to one’s mental wellbeing.
Unpaid vacation is fairly simple, just drop/trade shifts till you something that works. Can’t get too into detail about how paid vacation works for opsec reasons since the union bargaining agreements are easily searchable, but I can get about 20 paid days a year. So I get a month off a year with most of it paid.
And after 28 days you are chased down by rabid cannibal gammons.
Me and my mom split the cost of a weekend at the beach every summer, and this year we had to put it on hold because of money being tight lol. 0 paid days off for anything here. If I don’t work i don’t get paid. And even the unpaid days off are limited. Feels great to be living in the richest country in the history of the world.
lmao not in shithole America
When I had literally months of leave owing I still usually took it around 2 weeks at a time, nothing wrong with that.
I guess I’ve never been on a vacation. Most I’ve ever had off work in a row is ~1 week and that was both tough to arrange and wiped out my PTO days.
writing an article in which i pretend to never have heard of a vacation and then looking at myself in the mirror and saying “yeah i’m a valuable part of society” because i’m a journalist, ie, one of the stupidest people on the planet
SHUT THE FUCK UP SHUT UP SHUT THE FUCK UP LET PEOPLE LIVE OUTSIDE OF WORKCapitalists be like:
Im thinking i don’t wanna let them live at all tbf
i choose to interpret this as “working conditions suck so much that gen z didn’t know vacations already had a name”
also the author needs to be mulched
What is uhhh a vacation?
microvacation is when you visit restroom, but don’t clock out
That’s for people with money. Not for peasants.
just take 2 weeks off and stay home ez
In the U.K. it’s called “holiday”, does that help?
It’s been happening for decades, several times a year when I was a child.
Capitalist ideologues trying to erase the very concept of vacation
Reading this gave me a micro-stroke, going to have to lie down and self-induce a nano-coma before I commit a pico-omnicide on this guy specifically
I’m doing macro retirement (being unemployed for several months straight)
Beat me to it.
I have been involuntarily retired for so long.
Get laid off and no one wants to hire you despite the low wages so your employment gap grows long enough that porky decides you are not fit to work following which porky makes posts of accusing you of being lazy and going on a vacation you can’t afford while they are on a paid vacation that never ends.
Microdosing my retirement everynight for 8h so that I make it through the work day
