As a non American this reads as satire, but from what I hear about the US work culture I really can’t be sure.
I don’t know if this is satire or rage bait but ironically it’s almost certainly a UK individual as he refers to them as “Bank holidays” and the 28 days is only about 8 above the statutory minimum of 20 + bank holidays.
20 is the legal minimum in the UK? Sheesh. In my current job, I had to negotiate for a 3rd week (15 days instead of 10, the regular two days off don’t count as vacation days that week).
We also have public holidays (We call them all Bank Holidays for historical reasons, but it’s things like Christmas, Easter and a couple of others), there’s usually 8 in a year and that’s on top of your 20 days.
Employers can make you work a bank holiday, you just get another day off instead. So really it’s 28 days holiday per year, with 8 of them being the public ones that you may or may not have to work.
My employer gives us 30 + the Bank Holidays, then we got took over by an American firm which ironically introduced unlimited PTO.
introduced unlimited PTO
How does this work in practice? What if someone just takes the whole year off? Or would they just get fired for their work not being done?
Managers still need to approve it and it’s their discretion to decide if someone is taking the piss or not.
I recently found out one of my managers was just arbitrarily not approving more than 30 days off in a year and he got a good bollocking for it.
So far nobody had actually taken the piss with it, if anything people end up taking less.
Thanks, yea, I guess the point is to pressure people into taking less than they would want to. I hate these mind games, feels so hostile while masquerading as benevolent.
That’s true. Plus do Americans have terms like staycation?
Yep. Around here we like to get a hotel room on the beach and stay there a few days. Maybe go a little ways down the coast to a different town.
Staycation is staying at home.
I have no idea, I assume so given it’s using the word “vacation” which is predominantly an American term that they do and that the very concept is just less popular since they typically get much fewer “vacation” days, they probably try to make the most of their time off.
I have no clue though, I’m just making shit up at this point.
You’re on the right track I think. I’ll just add that staycations are fairly popular here because we’re too fucking tired to go anywhere on the few days we have off.
Rookie mistake, dude didn’t use the unlimited PTO strategy which makes people second-guess how many days they can reasonably take off before it’s deemed abusive.
Yeah, such a system would make me so stressed. Like tell me how much without playing these guessing games.
Oh that’s peak family run business energy.
Our boss was finally straight with us and told us the Magic number is 4 weeks.
Which is what I had decided on. I had 3 weeks before the change to unlimited. (I had 4 weeks at an old job and just wanted to get back the week I lost changing jobs)
I’m too European for this
Could not tell you. Satire? Rage bait? Completely serious CEO mindset? No idea. All completely possible and just as likely. Coin flip.
The poster’s name is the screengrab is “The weirdest CEO of a recruit…” - so I’m voting for satire personally. I do see your point, I am just feeling like a pedant this morning.
Satire or obvious ragebait.
I’m giving all my belongings to charity. But I don’t expect them to actually take any of it. I’m so generous like that. Praise me for being so generous!
It’s like when I offer to help my friends move. They better fucking not call me up on that, the fuckers
