Comment on Paid Leave Olympics

TheDoozer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Doxatek@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It’d be cool except the non zero chance of catching a bullet just because I wanted to have benefits other people have for free… and I know that I could be shot in civilian life too. But like, doesn’t that just make it worse

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  • TheDoozer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I suppose. I’m far more likely to die in a helicopter crash. Never been shot at, nor have just about anybody I’ve worked with. The only people who have gone to a war zone in the past couple decades were people who specifically requested it.

    Though I have worked with a few who survived helicopter crashes (five, between two crashes), so definitely not without its dangers. That’s the specific job I chose, though. Plenty of jobs in the Coast Guard with paper cuts or oven-related burns as the most danger they’ll experience.

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    • Got_Bent@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Good high school friend of mine was career Coast guard. He was a flight commander for one of those big helicopters and retired with some high falutin’ upper level officer rank.

      He told me that there were a lot of details he couldn’t tell me but that he’d lost several of his colleagues in crashes.

      He also implied that there were some bullets flying out of fast boats coming from the south.

      Poor guy took up regional jet piloting right after he retired and almost immediately got the Parkinson’s. To conclude and show his character, he self reported himself out of a job long before the symptoms were externally visible.

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    • Doxatek@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      That’s true! There can definitely be really good opportunities there. I just like to be contrarian

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  • aidan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It’d be cool except the non zero chance of catching a bullet

    In the coast guard? I think you’d have a higher risk just walking in many cities.

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    • Doxatek@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Well more just the military in general. It’s mostly just free college roulette. My uncle got free college but also he was almost blown up in a rocket attack. His friends from the same rocket attack didn’t make it to college…

      I mostly hear military people from where I am say “there is free education! You pansies just have to earn it” idk just seems problematic to me haha

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      • aidan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Well there’s a lot of roles you can join for with basically no risk of being shot…

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• ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Edit: to be clear, US Coast Guard.

  Was about to say, the Lesotho coast guard doesn’t have anything that good.

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  • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Lesotho doesn’t have a coast.

    Then again, Switzerland is also landlocked, but they do have a navy.

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    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Lesotho doesn’t have a coast.

      Uh, that might have been the joke.

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      • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I know. I just wanted to bring up one of my favorite weird facts, the existence of the Swiss navy.

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• PugJesus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  When one’s employer has lower regard for their employee’s welfare than the US military, something is well and truly borked.

  t. many military friends and family with infinite horror stories about health damage outside of combat zones and lots of “Not Service Related” responses

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• SendMePhotos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  So… A big blue retail company is on par… When I worked there I got 16 weeks of paternity leave paid (well, between a mixture of paid leave and PTO), 31 days of PTO, and… Any sick days came out of the PTO.

  Was a salaried manager.

  Can’t believe I’m saying it, but nobody has ever been able to come close to their benefits that I know of, at least in the US.

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  • Obi@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Costco?

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• pythonoob@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  USAF too

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