Submitted 3 weeks ago by Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to workreform@lemmy.world
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I hate paid time off. It’s one of the greatest crimes of modern life. I think I’ll campaign to have my union dismantled and my pay cut in half because the current model is clearly ripping off my employer.
Keep in mind that the guy complaining about PTO hasn’t worked a day in his life.
“Yeah, PTO is gay!” - Guy who works part-time at Dollar General.
FOR REAL THOUGH. Like every person I have ever heard that has complained about PTO, are people who are in positions that either don’t accrue it, or accrue it so slowly that it’s never usable.
I actually have coworkers who were complaining about a day off, and saying “everybody’s lazy, nobody wants to work anymore”. Take the day off, and shut up!
How old are they? I feel like old people have nothing other than their jobs. They never had many hobbies and they never had to raise their kids.
Tell those coworkers to pick up the slack and work on their day-off. Take the off time for you and others so the aggravted workers feel good and pat their backs.
Also we should bring back prima nocta for the holy job creators, and really just bring back slavery. I mean, people can’t afford their own homes and such anyway, imagine how much more EFFECIENT it would be if we could cut through the red tape and get similar results.
-Republicans, unironically^
Slavery never went away, it’s just slightly more regulated now.
What a fucking moron along with all his voters
They need that tax revenue to make up for all the tax cuts for the wealthy.
It’s likely he doesn’t actually believe it, but instead he’s starting a disinformation campaign so that he can let his lackeys start to start doing some illegal shit because it will benefit him.
Nah, he is just that stupid. Doesn’t prevent his lackeys from using the distraction, of course, but he’s just that dumb.
“the workers don’t want it”
The fuck we don’t
Imagine being this guy and trying to speak for the working class
And having legal adults stop and think, “Hmm, maybe this day off thing is kinda woke.”
All he has to do is to climb on a truck once and half of the country will believe he is a regular Joe. Critical thinking has left the building.
That’s one of the fundamental strategies from the trump playbook: just claim the people want something and if it’s repeated loud and often enough, people will start to believe it. Hopefully not for something as egregious as this, but it has worked in the past.
I’d love a few floating “celebrate your bullshit when you choose” days instead.
Cadlillac agrees with Trump. Slave labour is what makes America great and the slaves love it apparently.
I doubt he cares about holidays at all, but he very much cares about removing a holiday that is specifically relevant to not white people.
I was taking with a family member yesterday and said I’d be shocked if Juneteenth is still a holiday next year.
I doubt he notices a holiday TBH, it’s just the same as the previous day.
I’m sure the racist ghouls around him complain about the holiday.
As a Dane, I have always been fucking shocked at the slave-like working conditions Americans work under. They barely get any time off as it is. What do you mean too many holidays?
The worst part is… If you’ve ever had the pleasure of working with an American company you’ll notice just how unproductive they are.
Obviously the two are closely connected, but it’s always fascinating to me
Yeah there’s that myth that if you make people work more hours more work will be done. It all makes sense on the spreadsheet!
Reality is the workers are human, humans get tired and you aren’t getting more work out of anyone by making them work more hours. You’re just making someone be at a place longer because you can.
True efficiency can only be achieved when human labour is finite. Look at the small countries of norther europe.
The problem is that in Germany, our Chancellor is currently on the same trip saying that ‘the people don’t work enough’ even though most people (who have a full time job) already work about 40 hours and many woman would like to work more but can’t because there are not enough daycare centres and retirement homes.
My wife worked for Siemens-Gamesa for a long time, and German managers were always surprised how the Danes would just straight up decline meetings after 16 and leave early if they had to pick up kids.
They didn’t worry about that at all, of course, because their wives generally didn’t work full time.
That’s what they get when you don’t fight for your rights.
Look at it now, semi-fascist for half a year and they’re still basically singing Kumbaya.
They get what they deserve.
We have the least mandated PTO in the developed world and a good portion of the underdeveloped world.
Our federal holidays aren’t even days off for most people. Lol
My opinion of him can’t be lower but man I keep realizing how fucking stupid his supporters are with every one of his asinine comments.
Yeah I called Juneteenth getting axed over a month ago and one of my co-workers chimed in that Juneteenth was a Trump holiday. It isn’t, it was signed into law by Biden his first year in office. Trump lied about it while campaigning.
Yeah I’ll be shocked if it still exists next year. He’ll call it “woke DEI” and his bitches in congress will scramble to be on the wrong side of history yet again.
America produces way more than enough to allow everyone to live comfortably. But all that extra productivity is hoarded by a tiny portion of the population while workers are being increasingly stretched and strained to extract as much value from then as possible while paying them as least as possible.
One detail of the country with the least amount of paid vacation in thw world. And that’s the hill he decides to climb on. He excels at making himself look increasingly moronic.
The only reason they don’t have a lower amount of mandatory paid vacation is because it is impossible to go below 0.
Don’t give them ideas.
And the fact he posted this on Juneteenth is just coincidence, right?
“The workers don’t want it!”
Some people said basically the exact same thing about slaves. That they liked being slaves.
He says on the holiday dedicated to the freeing of the slaves. It’s no coincidence this the one he complains about.
The fucker is actively cratering the once biggest economy in the world
and his constituents cheer.
I hope every one of you ‘genocide joe’ objecters who stayed home feel crushing guilt as you watch the country collapse due to your misplaced ideologies
Look, on the one hand, I understand your sentiment. On the other hand, these are the voters you have, blaming them won’t get them to the polls, “teaching them a lesson” won’t get them to the polls. As hard as it may be to primary the Dems who are voting for Trump’s picks, who are voting for genocide, who are even trying to pull Trump towards war right now, it is still easier than getting new voters if you’re not into domestic genocide like Trump.
I understand you’re frustrated with voters, but it’s something that you can’t change. Some people will not vote if the options are “one genocide or two genocides”. You can change the politicians, try to get more people like AOC and Bernie and less people like Schumer though.
Then those people are just as culpable for fascism’s rise and I will treat them as such.
rusty shitbox is ALWAYS better than radioactive rusty shitbox that is also on fire
I’d like it if Joe and Kamala felt some of that crushing guilt for giving missiles to the “blowing up Palestinian children with missiles brigade”. Why is your gripe with the people who wouldn’t vote for someone committing genocide and not, you know, the people committing genocide?
Just saying the democratic party could’ve not done that. Could’ve changed course on that at any time. And yet every chance you get you angrily point the finger at people who wouldn’t vote for someone committing genocide, and not the people who wouldn’t stop committing genocide. Make it make sense 😅 the election is over, its done, why is your ire still directed towards people protesting against genocide and not the perpetrators of genocide who literally could’ve stopped at any point, any point whatsoever before the election, and yet never did, never once even came close to doing that. The demand for someone to stop committing acts of mass ethnic cleansing is probably the most foundational kind of civil rights advocacy imaginable.
Imagine if Joe had stopped committing genocide, had joined the rest of the world in a united front of condemnation of zionism instead of trying to condemn Trump of bigotry while handing bomb after bomb after bomb right to the IDF. Imagine if he’d done that.
No, you’re right, the democratic party cause is built entirely on token gestures of progressivism not on actually advocating human rights. The american proletariat has never wanted the democratic party to actually fucking doing something, its actually the people asking them to do something who are truly evil!
Here’s why everyone is angry. Seemingly at people like you, I’m assuming, who decided not to vote. Democrats weren’t the ones committing the genocide!! They were absolutely enabling it. Supporting it. Israel was committing the genocide and we weren’t voting for their government. And then, on top of that, it was absolutely evident that Trump would make the genocide worse and not voting against him was effectively voting for him. And that’s on you. You did that. There was a slim chance that Kamala could improve the situation and Palestinian lives. Instead, your lack of vote ensured that wouldn’t happen, ensured that more Ukrainians would die, ensured that Africans would die, ensured that American women would die, ensured that millions of Americans will die if there’s a pandemic. And now instead of just fixing the Democratic party for the future, we’re also fighting fascism. So fucking congrats. Your short-sighted high horse didn’t take a harm reduction strategy and many human lives are now gone. You need to fucking own that.
Good thing that at least the genocide stopped immediately, Palestinians now have their own country, the Ukraine war was negotiated on day one, eggs are a buck a dozen and everybody has Healthcare now.
They both have the same sponsors and work for them, not the public.
LOL still seething about the well deserved loss.
As a European nothing gives me more pleasure than watching your country collapse.
I’m always amazed at the sheer ignorance displayed by citizens of the dead empires. You should have learned what a dying empire does from your own history.
They should have the day they voted for. Nothing more, nothing less.
Remember back in the middle ages, when everyone was sporting an axe and knew where the boss’s house was?
They also had more days off back then, more time to sharpen that axe.
More holidays, but when you’re a subsistence farmer, those aren’t really days off, just days you don’t have to work for the rent.
A lot less workers too to be fair (the plague did it’s work), so it was a workers market
And worked a lot less than 40 hours a week
well, worked less than 40hrs a week for an employer. They had a ton of shit to do at home, and if they weren’t married, doubly so.
My grandma used to tell me stories of how long it would take to forage for food before refridgerators
Kind of telling to be complaining about this on a day which celebrates the end of slavery.
“The workers don’t want it”. He had about as much sense of this as he does of a concept of health care plan.
Workers. Hate. Paid. Holidays.
We’ve been saying it for years, but nobody listens. The liberal nanny state keeps forcing me to stay home, spend time with my family, or even go on vacation, when all I really want to do is stare at spreadsheets for another eight hours.
Enough is enough!
Before resting I go to work tired tomorrow. After rest and go to work angry tomorrow. Without tasting freedom for a day or two I would not be angry about losing it. Defund weekends, they are some DEI bullshit!
/sarcasm
I know right? ALL I want is to make money and not for me but for some idiot who has control of the market and that means that if my labor is worth $200 an hours all I want is to work work work and especially for a fraction of that.
The workers don’t want it. What workers actually want is an end to holidays, weekends, and time off in general. I mean, what good is being a “worker” if you’re not working every waking minute of your life? /s
I know several, they’re type that base their whole identity around their job, and the type to die very quickly after retirement. They also vote conservative.
bring back the 168 hour workweek
In all fairness, Trump is just a moldy, hollowed-out Golem. Every Juneteenth, Stephen Miller shmooshes his shiny dome straight into Trump’s rear end and starts flicking and vibrating his tongue across Donnie’s prostate like it’s a musical instrument carved from rotting cheese, inducing a flurry of nerve impulses that spread through Trump’s spine and into his abnormally short, sticky sausage fingers, where they smear out the latest batch of vile racist garbage.
This is the worst thing to read first thing in the morning 🤮
Like everything he says/does there is a slight truth buried deep in there.
Some ‘workers’ really don’t want it. They are called corporate middle management. They don’t want the wage slaves to disrupt profit or crowd the spaces that they will be using because management will still take the day off.
Nah, the people who don’t want it are hourly workers who are living paycheck to paycheck, which is tens of millions of workers.
The sad truth is he’s right, but the reason is that for these people, missing out on $80 could be the difference between paying the water bill or not this month.
It’s not that people love to work so much that they hate missing a day, it’s that they can’t afford to not work a day.
I don’t you are seeing the issue clearly. If you don’t want a day off it’s because your wages are not high enough.
You are wrong. There is zero truth in this post.
What a piece of shit post.
What do you mean?
Nah F that, most Americans barley get any paid time off if any. If anything we need MORE.
Yeah, it’s hilarious to hear “workers want less” when what they really mean is less forced unpaid time off, obviously if they want money they’d want to work. I’m sure those people would prefer paid time off to having to work.
They mostly don’t get any of those “holidays” paid anyway which is why they don’t like them. You’re lucky if you get Christmas and Thanksgiving paid on top of your two weeks of PTO. The rest are days the banks close and some other places give their people unpaid days off.
Said the guy who spends 1/3 of his time golfing
It would be fun to make Trump work a job for 90 days. Nothing major. Maybe answering phones for a help line.
9 to 5 desk job.
Monday through Friday.
If he misses a day he has to “find a new job” and start over.
The dude would fucking CRACK like he was being waterboarded!
Translation: we shouldn’t give black people in america a federal holiday because i am a racist and demented old man who is increasingly irrelevant in society.
This guy LITERALLY raped a 13 year old back in the day, and only golfs.
King Cuck says no more holidays while golfing his presidency away.
Ah yes. The obligatory racist whinging on Juneteenth. Fat lazy bastard who doesn’t get to work before 11 am because he requires “executive time” (tv time).
Come for the racism, stay for the contempt of working people in general.
my life is not created for an economy
Get off the golf course yourself then you orange turd
I think any European politician who said anything remotely close to this would see their careers instantly over. How is it possible that saying something like this doesn’t cost them votes in the US?
maybe there are too many non-working presidents right now?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
And then he went golfing. True story.
CatDogL0ver@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
And he flew using US government plane. He has spent millions on just plane rides.
Who is wasting tax payer’s money.