It’s probably just my bigger city bias, but I would think a $200K job in Utah would be the one making the decision to take away other people’s PTO, and not having it taken away from them.

The idea you can’t take vacation time because the world will stop if you do, is so fucking American.

+1 bourbon, 1 scotch, and 1 beer

But that’s the thing, it was “nice”, but there was a more qualified race official literally right there. It was an act that was performative more than actually helpful.

Yep. People are so Stockholm Syndromed in this country that they think employers have their best interests at heart if they just show up, work hard as asked, and don’t rock the boat (HAHAHAHA!), and/or think 15 days off a year is “generous.” Good lord, I started out of college with 17, and currently have 25 at this…

That’s right. However, over the past 30 years, our response has NOT been to get angry at the employers for screwing us over. Rather, we should be angry at poor people because we pay more taxes than they do. Hell, we’ll even get angry at the person being screwed over because they don’t work hard enough or we have it…

Unlimited PTO is the biggest fucking scam. I can’t believe there are people out there who think it’s a good thing, although I was genuinely surprised when Trump won, too, so maybe I’m the biggest idiot of all.

when i drink alone, i prefer to be by myself.

Drinking alone is sooooo good. I can go out and be social at the bars with my single friends, but after a while I just start thinking about the “free” beer in my fridge and how I could be drinking it without having to wear pants or listen to people talk.

At my company we do mandatory vacation days. No rollover, if you don’t request specific time by summer, you get put on the calendar wherever is free.

“Until now we’ve had a pretty generous time off policy, around 15 days of PTO every year”

This has happened to a degree where I used to work, they had unlimited rollover, and changed it to 100 hours to roll over max. So everyone submitted the time off (some people’s last day of the year was the week before thanksgiving, some people did not work Fridays for the last 4 months of the year).. once all of that…

Unlimited PTO is just a way of eliminating employees asking to use their vacation days. More often than not Unlimited policies lead to a decrease in vacation day usage overall, and increase in working while on those days off for those that do take them.

Its just a big way for the employer to screw the employee while…

You don’t owe your company shit. Take your time off. If they can’t find someone to fill your role while you’re gone that’s entirely their problem. If they threaten to fire you for taking the time off then you shouldn’t want to work for them anyway as they apparently do not respect you or your personal life.

He died doing what he loved - killing people.

Hypothetically, if I murdered people for spilling a drink on me, maybe my daughter shouldn’t get anything until the families of my victims get theirs.

his sudden death has some Nepalese officials questioning whether there should be an age cap on people allowed to summit the mountain.

4:34 per mile for 26.2 miles.

Kipchoge’s effort was amazing, but I don’t like this. I don’t even like rabbits in major races. We’ve moved too far away from this sport being about the competition. Arguably the greatest American marathoner, Meb Keflizighi, was never the fastest in the field. But in unrabbited races (The Olympics, Boston, New York),…

In your article, you mentioned Nike 30 times and Kipchoge 23. You are contributing the same problem you just wrote about.