https://www.ueunion.org/org_steps.html
After the UAW strikes they fought for and negotiated a 25% wage increase over four and a half years, reinstated cost-of-living adjustments, and the elimination of the two-tier wage system. Additionally, the contracts improved retirement benefits and provided stronger protections against plant closures, marking significant gains for the workers involved.
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_United_Auto_Workers_strike
They also coordinated contract expirations for May 1st 2028, and the more labor unions who coordinated those dates the more collective bargaining can effect even with anti labor laws like Taft-Hartley.
My parents lived on a single income in the 90’s. Owned 2000+ sq ft house. Had an RV and we used to road trip most summers across the US. I’ve never had the opportunity to repeat their level of travel.
I use mine for side work.
Good docile slaves
Yeah we’re taking a break from work. Some of us don’t want to go out and have to keep waking up early.
Everything is to fucking expensive
At some point during an awefull corporate talk by a microsoft advisor the term “staycation” was coined as variant of vacation and i swear if i hadn’t been working from home sitting behind my own pc i’d have vommited on the spot.
What about ‘workation’. That’s where you take a pto day to get caught up on your actual work and not have to be interrupted by meetings or other coworkers.
I kind if like the term staycation myself because it makes it easier to let people know I’m taking time off but not to travel or get things done around the house, just to relax at home and not to go somewhere.
That is generally what I do for the week of my birthday.
That’s my week between Christmas and New Year’s.
I hate travel anyway and everything I want is at home. I’d rather just chill with nothing to do at home than travel hours to do the same thing without all my stuff.
Not gonna lie, that’s such a boring, corporate term.
Germans use the much more creative expression of travelling to Balconia.
Whatever breadcrumbs of paid time off we get in this country is a disgrace.
Watching from Europe, it’s astonishing.
We have adopted many parts of US business culture, luckily not this one.
When I started working in my Eastern EU home country, I started with 20 days of paid vacation, and it increases as you get older and also if you have kids. Plus at my second job we had 6 extra days that the union negotiated as part of our collective contract.
Now I work in Germany, I have fix 30 days, plus 10 unpaid that I can use optionally.
Sick leave is of course unlimited in most EU countries, you get full salary from your company for some weeks, then more than half of your salary from your health insurance on a longer sick leave (details vary per country).
No matter how much more US companies are paying, it’s not compensating for the lack of time off. “You can always earn an extra dollar/euro, but you cannot earn an extra minute”
I honestly wonder, how people can live like this - I’m of course talking about higher paid white collar workers, not those on poverty wages who wouldn’t have a choice in any country
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We’re also wondering how we can live like this. Not well, I can tell you that.
What else should we do? Sleep is cheap and accessible.
Oh yeah, that’s me.
There are lots of times where I was up with the kids all night because they were sick.
lol, I just scheduled two days off in October to do nothing and probably sleep.
I was just telling my boyfriend, “It’s not like I can go anywhere on vacation, and it’s such a bummer to have to come back to work after extended time off. However, having a random day or two off per month always makes me happier. It’s like a little (paid) holiday and I can celebrate it how I want, and that may mean sleeping.”
Perhaps the habit of “pre-planning mental health days” just makes too much sense to deny. Work can plan around my absence, and I get the day off I need. Everybody wins!
I just did this for the first time. Legit stayed home, slept a shit ton, and played video games. Felt amazing afterwards (as in, not so tired). Highly recommend, and I’m probably going to set up another one soon.
Soon the headline would be “Americans using PTO to do grocery shopping and cleaning their house”… followed by “New Labour reform have Americans using PTO to use the bathroom during office hours”
“Americans using PTO to do grocery shopping and cleaning their house”
That’s EXACTLY what a staycation is. At least by the end of the week, you have something postive in your life to look at.
I’m using PTO to get work done without meetings
You should charge for that.
Who the hell can even afford a vacation?
Waking up early for the fucking 8:30 AM meeting is the worst part of my life. I hate it.
ours is 8.37 every day, and management struggles to think of things to do at it.
Maybe it’s time to start thinking about another job?
We need money to live, but there is no amount of money worth losing your happiness over. Sometimes it’s better to sell the house, buy a good used Toyota, and take a pay cut to get a significantly less stressful job. Also make sure you are practicing self care. Eating well, taking time to yourself to enjoy the things you want to do, even if it’s just sleeping.
And on that note, I highly recommend a Prius! They are amazing companions.
I legitimately chuckled at first but I can’t tell if you’re serious.
House? Toyota? I make well over median wage, save everything, and those things might as well be private jets to me.
My savings interest rate is some of the best countrywide and it’s literally less than house price increase averages alone.
I have 5 yrs exp and an MSc in STEM and I haven’t heard back from a single job application I’ve sent out even while I’m still employed after sending out at least 10 of highly personalized applications of CV + cover letter.
Everyone else I know - people who are frankly - way smarter than me live with parents and are unemployed with the exception of one person who lives with their parents and has no money, but is an accomplished academic researcher (maths I think) who gives talks at international events.
What are you smoking? What world do you live in? How do I get there?
sounds like easy money if you’re paid that half hour to do nothing, basically
if you’re salary, that’s dumb af tho
The fuck part of 830 is early? Enjoy your breakfast and shitting a home I punch in at 630. At least I do get paid for my morning dump and shit post session
I get up at 9:30 for my 9-5 WFH gig and it doesn’t actually feel any better. You can get used to good things too and it doesn’t render capitalism any less soulsucking.
This kind of “must be nice” reaction is exactly what the owner class wants: workers pissy at each other over how big their crumbs are, instead of at the perpetrators who feast on the bad situation they created.
Ok, but think of it in terms of normal start times vs needing to go in early, instead of the actual hour. If you usually start at 6:30 but had to go in for 6:00 for no reason other than a meeting that could have been an email, it sucks.
I used to have a 6:30 start time when I was younger, had an hour commute, and still had time for breakfast at home in the morning. It absolutely sucked and I hated it. Getting up for 8:30 start times still sucks if you’re used to 9:00 start times.
That’s a perfectly fair point, well taken.
Let’s just say getting out of bed and leaving the house on somebody else’s schedule to make somebody else money sucks in general.
