I think adults need summer vacation. Like let’s just close down all our jobs for three months and play outside. Please. I’m so tired.
I worked for the US side of a company where the main financial decision makers were headquartered in Spain for a while.
And in August? Basically everyone in Spain goes on vacation the entire month.
And since the financial decision makers were all gone, and my job was to ask for financial decisions, I had a much reduced workload every August.
I still had to show up to the office, which sucked.
Anyway, this is a long post to say that other countries get this. We should demand it here.
And more.
When a job says “unlimited time off” ask what their average usage is. Ensure you match it.Minimum.
When a job says “you get X days off” use them. Keep a sharp eye on roll over limits year-to-year, leave no hour behind.
These are not health or mana potions to save for a boss fight.
Do not answer your phone on vacation. Do not check your email. Do not feel the need to explain.
I took last week off because I hadn’t played Super Mario Bros. 2 in a long time and I said, “This is a good week to play Super Mario Bros. 2.”
I regularly take off at least 1 day to have my hair done. Hair! I could have it done on a Saturday, I don’t, because Saturday’s are my time. Hair time is hair time.
Sometimes I take a day off because the weather is frightfully good or frightfully bad.
Do you remember how cheap movies are during the day, during the week, around lunch time? At least once a month I take a day off to go to the movies and eat snacks and cavort slowly and casually.
To hustle is to make your boss richer.
To lazily sashay down a boulevard with a fizzy water and no plans and less thought? Divine.
Time off is not a reward.
Time off is part of your compensation.
The fancy business term for this is “Employee Value Proposition.” It is the sum of the question, “why do you want to work here” – money + benefits + etc.
If you are in an interview and someone says “why do you want to work here” and they are a suit person, say something to the effect of, “Your employee value proposition is significantly higher than your competitors. I value X, Y, Z of your compensation package, firm’s reputation, product’s reputation, and the current course of your management team.”
If you do not have time off, or enough time off, I wish for you an expedited and profitable exit to a situation where you do.
i have this disease called i will open your message and get distracted and forget to reply and then the notification will be gone so i will not have replied for ages and you will think i am ignoring you but. i am not. it’s incurable
i feel like not enough people talk about how all the fancasts for the marauders ended up being in marvel universe. and that andrew and dane were in a movie together. and that dane and daniel radcliffe were in a movie together. and that ben and andrew have met. and ben knows he’s sirius. do you think the others know? idk it seems coincidental enough to be taken note of.
I lived and worked in a lighthouse at a previous job. There was a thick line painted in a circle around the shack where the fog signal was kept. The line represented how close you could get to the fog signal without experiencing physical harm in the form of eardrums shattering or worse.
Even in the house it was LOUD. Probably the loudest thing I have ever experienced but at a normal, predictable interval. You would begin to time your sentences with little pauses with the rest of the lighthouse crew so you would talk like this while making your………..HORN…………. tea and then carry on talking because you knew when it would go off. It rattled the walls and the dishes in our cabinet.
At least one girl had died there. They kept photos of her everywhere “in honor of her sacrifice” because she had decided to take the winter watch alone and died in a storm where bounders the size of mini vans had been lifted out of the ocean and left scattered across the island, to say nothing of the ice chunks. People weren’t allowed to be alone on the watch after that.
One day a dead moose washed up on shore and it took my entire crew all day but we managed to rig up a line to hang it up to dry because we thought having a moose skeleton in the house would really spice the living room up a bit. It did. Weird shit happens when six of you are left alone, like ALONE ALONE, no cell reception, no wifi, just a radio to contact the real world and not a lot of reason to do that. People don’t go on lighthouse jobs if they want to stay connected, I’ve found.
That said Id do it all again, I really do treasure those days
