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[–] [email protected] 214 points 3 months ago (5 children)

The US is wild.

You call yourselves the land of the free, but have to beg your boss to let you have time off that’s owed.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 months ago (1 children)

*Terms and conditions may apply

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

*Offer valid only between Saturday 11:59:59.999999pm and Sunday 12:00:00am.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Too many of us are still awake then. It’s the millionth of a second before 3am.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 months ago

Freedom is when nazis can freely beat you on the street and cops do nothing. FREEDOM, BABY! 🦅🇺🇸

(Fun fact, I got arrested when I defended myself against a bully in school, ACAB)

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago

It's a marketing ploy. Not an actual policy.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (4 children)

To be fair, having the government mandate how much time you get off for working 40 hours a week is kind of just codifying the indentured servitude you're under.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Wow. I've seen some shit takes around here, but that one is just outta pocket, you're gonna have to explain that one

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

To be fair, I'm not defending having to beg your boss for time off.

In our world we have a simple choice: work for whoever will hire you, or starve and die on the streets. Barring random and uncontrollable acts of charity or the extremely fortunate situation in which you work for yourself.

Now we could go back and forth on where on the spectrum of "you would be working all day miserably farming if it weren't for your job" and "you should feel blessed to die of black lung in the coal mines cause at least you got to work" we both lie. But, in a society where the majority of work involves "work or die", our promises to our bosses are very short periods of indentured servitude in a very hyperbolic sense.

Sure, you can quit at any time only to find another job or be taken to jail (we could go into the criminalization of homelessness), but for most people, you're working for life.

So to say that the government (or employment contract) mandating that you're owed days of vacation is an expression of freedom is a far cry from my definition of freedom and to me seems only to entrench our status quo by throwing breadcrumbs to us to stop us from getting too agitated.

I was certainly being glib and hyperbolic tho

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

On the same take, we used to get 15min breaks every 2 or 3 hours. Then the government wrote laws that said we had to get at least 10min breaks every 4 hours. So now we get less because you will only ever get the minimum.

We get less breaks and they have to be shorter than what the average was before.

I'm not against labor laws, but I've been working nearly four decades now and I'm still getting bent over every opportunity.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 months ago

Watch out guys, we have a Temporarily Embarrased Billionare(tm) in the comment section.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago

What are you talking about? If the government didn't require paid leave, you might get ... none of it! So the mandate actually makes you ... checks notes ... less controlled.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

That's only the minimum of paid time off though, and how many hours of a week you work is determined between you and your employer in the form of a contract. If you think that this is indentured servitude, to the state which provides you with taxes and services, then I really don't know on which planet and or reality you live in.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Some people do but as I said in another comment, I'm informing them not asking.