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UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 months agoAssuming it’s a true story.
The vacation expiration rules haven’t always been around. They started showing up back in the 90s/00s, as accounting firms started counting these days as liabilities and businesses started trying to minimize how many days were outstanding on their books.
I did know a few public school teachers who did exactly this. They’d save up vacation for five years and then take a paid semester off.
Can’t do it anymore, but it wasn’t always this way.
PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Yup, it was a shift because unlimited vacation was from the boomer era where employers actually treated employees fairly well. Companies started realizing that all of the boomers who had been with the company for two or three decades all had like two years of vacation time saved up. And when that gets counted as a liability (because the employee can just fuck off and disappear for an extended period, while you keep paying them,) it was a big incentive for companies to begin limiting vacation.
Lots of the boomers were grandfathered in so they got to keep their vacation banked, mostly to avoid the “half of our entire staff just walked out of the all-hands meeting and put in for 2 years of vacation time each, because we announced we’d be clawing back any unused time at the end of the month” dilemma. But new hires get fucked with vacation time caps, and big limits on how much they can get paid out if they quit.
booly@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Lol what are you talking about
PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I’m talking about the time period where one person (with only a high school diploma) working 40 hours a week could reasonably support a family of three or four, with a modest house and two vehicles. Because pay wasn’t absolute shit compared to the cost of living.
bitchkat@lemmy.world 3 months ago
And not once in that paragraph about everything except vacation did you explain your reasoning why you think boomers had unlimited vacation.