Microblog Memes

Hi, Norwegian here, we have 5 weeks vacation per year, mandated by law. Oh, and the government takes 10% of your paycheck every month and pays it all out in July, so you have the money to go on vacation. Strong labor unions is the recipe.

1-2 weeks every 12-18 months is seen as a lot? No one tell them about europe 😶

What the fuck is this gaslighting propaganda bullshit? People in the US have been taking vacations for decades; it’s not exclusive to GenZ, nor is it a “new trend”. I call bullshit.

Typical AI sludge, complete alien nonsense spouted confidently.

Is the original satire? I know Americans are obsessed with presentism on the job, but even they understand the concept of a vacation?

Not satire: https://www.fastcompany.com/91357784/what-is-a-micro-retirement-inside-the-latest-gen-z-trend

But they specify that unlike PTO, this is an unpaid time off, which can be a break inbetween jobs or a unpaid vacation.

Still fucking ridiculous to call it "micro-retirement"

Soon we will hear how gen z is having nano-retirements every 5 days of work that can include 2 days of no work and often destructive behaviour such as parties and binge watching tv.

This has got to be fake, or engagement bait, right?

Yes, it's a real article, and it's worse than you are imagining.

I was working in a European branch of a SF based private company. It's a company that tries really hard to have good optics everywhere, from being listed as PBC down to "support and inclusion" talks.

US employees officially had "unlimited" vacation days, European had 25. Plus the company has a practice of giving an extra Friday off once a month, plus few days for Christmas break plus one year there was a week of summer break.

That year with a summer break employees in Europe got over 40 days of vacation. 35..37 without it. Plus bank holidays and sick leaves.

I was freaking out after learning that US employees with the unlimited time off were getting under 20. Whenever an employee was using more than 15 vacation days a year, they were presented with an inquiring interview from their manager trying to figure out why they need so much rest.

US has no work culture, it's exploitation.

Charles currently takes work breaks every six months for two weeks at a time, and said he heard about micro-retirements from a friend. “I reward myself by traveling to different countries. Whether it’s Europe during the summer or other destinations, and so that’s a way that I incentivize myself to reach certain KPIs,” says Charles.

FML Charles has discovered holidays

Please tell me this is fake.

searches the site

Nope.

Thats "the Onion", right?

I mean, this cannot be written by a human who means this seriously. right??

When I've heard about "micro retirements" before, it's been in the context of taking months long sabbaticals, not a regular amount of paid time off to take in a single block

I think it's probably a typo caused by AI and a lack of editing. As i understood it, a micro retirement is taking between several months and a year long sabbatical after 1-2 years of working, which is a bit more interesting than 1-2 weeks. So basically, it's working 1 year and taking a break from work for 1 year (whatever that entails, personal project, travel, possibly doing nothing at all).

This has to be a shitpost. I can’t believe this would be a real article.

Skipping lunch is now "intermittent fasting".

Oh you mean a fucking short ass vacation?

If I don't take at least one 2 week period off per year, that's literally illegal. I'm also entitled to 28 days off per year that if I give enough notice and book in at least one week periods, an employer can't deny me without good reason.

1-2 weeks every 12 to 18 months? what is this, time off in Auschwitz?

I wonder what this kind of people think about >20days of vacation in Europe.

Micro retirement? It's called holidays in Europe and we get around 1 month of it in total. Americans are so used to their corporate slavery they call it "micro retirement" now. Fucking hell.