Y’all fall for the dumbest bait.
Obviously a troll
This can be read two ways. One is to expect the workers to love their job. The other is that the CEO should thrive to make the work experience so good that people don’t want to be parted from their job.
So it can be read as an admission that he has failed so far to make the work environment as good as it can be.
At a truly great job the boss is happy you’re going to go spend a week off for your friend’s wedding or that you’re finally getting to see a country you’ve always wanted to. They know that you’ll come back rested and be better of a worker for having had time off
And a truly terrible boss is mad you’re using the benefits provided instead of donating those benefits to “the company”. And also knows when you come back from that week off, you’ll be regretting having to work for them and considering finding someone else to slave for.
One is to expect the workers to love their job.
Honestly, loving one’s job doesn’t mean never needing a break. Working Class jobs pay because they are hard work that you need to pay someone to do. Whether or not you enjoy the work doesn’t change the fact that it is hard work.
I am extremely privileged with my job. I don’t get paid as well as my counterparts elsewhere but the personality and leadership style of my superiors has kept me here. I don’t expect I’d be able to do what I do how I do it anywhere else. Considering all this, I wouldn’t say I love my job. There are parts that are tedious and unpleasant. However, I do like my job. Even the parts I like are challenging and can be exhausting. I still need a break occasionally.
The way I read it is a “task failed successfully” situation. He did suceeded in making a work place with good PTO policies and people do actually use them (meaning staffing levels are confortable for the workload). However, his mindset is stuck in linked-in poster / grind mode and can not fathom that his employees dont want to be at work as much as he does.
i bet he enjoys his job
Maybe they’re not enjoying their fucking job buddy.
If you really enjoy lasagna, why would you ever want to not eat it?
I don’t like seeing authors’ names scrubbed from an image. The context is vital to understanding what was said.
The blond guy in the pic shared a post by someone named Patel who had shared a post by a CEO on X or LInkedin. There’s so much missing from the above that context is impossible. I wouldn’t have shared this meme because it’s meaningless without that context.
You’re not generous if you expect something “given” to not be used.
I’m too European for this
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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.
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.
I get Christmas and Thanksgiving day off, and having to listen to the boss bitch about those days almost makes it not worth it.
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?
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.
Yes that’s a thing here in the US
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
You are correct. Source
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.
I’m giving all my belongings to charity. But I don’t expect them to actually take any of it. I’m so generous like that. Praise me for being so generous!
It’s like when I offer to help my friends move. They better fucking not call me up on that, the fuckers
Good metaphor.
is this ragebait?
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
Or at least pay out the unused days as additional wage and they really don’t like that.
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!
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.
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’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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