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"If you really enjoy accruing my capital as a wage slave, why would you want time away from it?"
The thing is, I actually do like my job, but I like doing other things too. If I didn't have to work, I would probably do something like what I do at work anyway, just not as much of it (probably like 2 hours/day?).
That said, I absolutely take all of my time off. Sometimes I do work-like things on my leave (personal projects), but I will take all of my time off.
Loved my job before last. Some mornings I'd pop out of bed with a new idea I wanted to try, couldn't wait to get to the office. Some nights I'd work on my home lab, testing ideas for work and learning for my own benefit.
But you damned straight I took my PTO. In fact, one of the two reasons I quit was being denied a single day of PTO. First time they had shot me down, unwise as I was the entire IT department.
Look Mr "Super CEO" you're loving your job because you had an idea, took the risk, and through a mixture of good execution and luck-based-timing and/or access to external financial help succeeded.
Congratulations, you're one of the lucky few who managed to earn good money from their obsession. Seriously well done.
Your employees are not that. They're there to collect a salary and paid time off in exchange for their labour under the veiled threat of financial (and possibly medical) ruin if they don't.
The paid time off is necessary so they don't go mad from sacrificing a third of their life doing unfulfilling tasks 80% of the time (if they're lucky).
"Well if they aren't as obsessed as I am about this job, why don't they leave and start their own thing?"
Because:
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Most people aren't passionate about things that could produce a livable wage if they did that full-time and therefore don't live to work, but work to live.
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Even if they could turn a passion into a start-up business or self-employment, there's a myriad of other factors, e.g. risk appetite, financial position, people depending on them, previous traumatic experiences with low or zero-income, that inhibit them from taking on a massive gamble like this.
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The current capitalism based economy would be unable to support everyone acting as basically an independent contractor offering goods and services. Organisations need to be formed to carry out more complex products and/or services. That's even without considering necessary public sector roles.
Get your head out of your reality-shielding arse and stop inhaling your own hot gasses.
Don't know why names are erased from public posts?
I view it kinda differently because that public post is still there (with the creators consent), and you can naturally run into it if you're a member or interacting with that group. However, this is a re-post and specifically a group targeting them as negative which can lead to brigading.
I definitely understand public is public, I think it's more of an ethics/moral choice where anyone wanting to harass the user would have to take extra steps since the information wasn't provided by this platform.
Leaders that don't take leave is a common warning side of fraud happening.
i once did my work properly and went over and beyond in my care to do my job right. It was meant as a benefit but now my boss sees my effort as a right.
I have a ton of days off I could technically take but I just save them for disasters and no one questions it when I can’t come in.
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The only one yes
This person sounds floridly out-of-touch.
^ This person sounds like their satire detector is busted.