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.
A few years ago I saw a piece on local TV news about time off, vacations, etc. They interviewed the CEO of some startup that understood how important it is to take a break from work. He had a policy that when an employee took a two week vacation they had to completely disconnect from work. No checking emails, voicemails, chats, etc. If you were able to stay completely away from work for those two weeks then you would get something like a $1000 bonus to help pay for the vacation.
That’s the kind of CEO I would want to work for.
I often dont read emails when I am in the office.
How hard is it to disconnect from work that you need a $1,000 incentive?
I’m going to go on LinkedIn and change my title to CEO of some dipshit made up thing so I can post unhinged “We heard you liked work, so we put work on your work so you can work while you work!” Xhibit meme BS like this and drown in the likes from other ragebait farmers.
I wonder how they spend all that ragebait 🤔
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I hear they thresh the rage, comb it to make the fibers more pliable, then spin it into a golden flax-colored thread, finer than all the gold in the land. They take those in bundles of 27 magic golden strings, and braid 3 strings together into cords, then braid 3 cords together into a magical golden rage rope. Then they throw that over a rafter, tie the rope around their neck, and stand on a chair and edge themselves for an hour or so until they either fall and end their pointless existence, or whimper out yet another unsatisfying autoerotic asphyxiation orgasm as they hide the shame of their lives for a brief moment under a momentary wash of endorphins.
But sometimes they take the golden rope and weave in flowers make it into a lovely bridle for a magical steed that will take them to meet the fair princess in yonder castle!
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Maybe they’re not enjoying their fucking job buddy.
Obviously a troll
is this ragebait?
I think it’s fake, but if you made a ton of money as a high-paid CEO, you probably wouldn’t mind working long hours. Cuz you know that you won’t be there for the next 40 years or 50 years. Milk it while you can, right?
I assume it’s satire
It’s got to be because that’s way too many days off in the US and in other countries that have this many days off have legal requirements to use up your allotted time off.
Not necessarily force you legally to use all, but force the employer to allow you to use them all
If I don’t take it all by November, my manager starts getting on me about it because it’s looks like he’s working me too hard. Coming from the usa, we’re I had 10 days annually, I’m finding it tricky to use all 30 here. This isn’t a complaint! Many of my colleagues take it all at once, in July, because that’s the German rules (Spain if flying, Croatia if driving). I take 6 week trips thought the year. It’s fantastic!
Or at least pay out the unused days as additional wage and they really don’t like that.
That is the $64 question. It might be, but on the other hand, CEOs are as disconnected from reality, they might actually believe that.
Bank holiday suggests it’s UK, and we have legal requirement for 28 days holiday pro-rated per year. If staff don’t book it, the employer has to allocate it. So it is satire.
If it was from a USian, I wouldn’t be able to tell.
Likely troll but here’s my response.
I love Mary Brown’s Chicken but if I’m eating it five days a week, every week, that’s not gonna go well for me.
Personally I agree with David Mitchell.
As long as you’re doing the job I think it’s utterly unreasonable that they also have in the contract that I I’m not allowed to be miserable. Unless the job is a super interesting government job that gets me access to area 51, pays fabulously well, and includes a company Lamborghini then I’m sorry, but I’m not prepared to really care about it.
Fortunately I work for a French company who’s managers understand that me not actively burning the business down, is about as much of respect as they’re ever going to get.
“it’s the sign either of a liar or a moron”
If I enjoyed myself at work you’d charge admission instead of paying me.
Don’t give them ideas…
You’re not generous if you expect something “given” to not be used.
If you really enjoy lasagna, why would you ever want to not eat it?
i bet he enjoys his job
As a non American this reads as satire, but from what I hear about the US work culture I really can’t be sure.
100% satire. Look at the guy’s name.
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.
You are correct. Source
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.
I get Christmas and Thanksgiving day off, and having to listen to the boss bitch about those days almost makes it not worth it.
It’s actually not great compared to a lot of other countries in Europe.
The employer must offer a minimum of 28 days for full time workers but bank holidays and other company shutdowns can count towards that. It’s a bit more flexible that way, it means it doesn’t matter which public holidays (if any) your company observes everyone gets the same minimum time off. It also allows situations like my company where our only UK office is in Scotland but UK employees still follow English holidays instead.
Yup and with there usually being 8 bank holidays in a year, that’s where the extra 8 comes from.
That’s true. Plus do Americans have terms like staycation?
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.
or simply don’t have money to go anywhere
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.
Yes that’s a thing here in the US
I’m too European for this
Between annual leave and public holidays, I get 31 days a year off. Four weeks leave, so 20 days, then 11 public holidays.
