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(DIR) Post #Am2vmaV2mKl39mfxse by BrodieOnLinux@mstdn.social
2024-09-16T02:00:29Z
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In today's edition of discovering the USA is weird, I learnt your minimum PTO/annual leave is 0 days and it's considered a benefit when a company provides it
(DIR) Post #Am2w2A7ic251zBBydc by zak@infosec.exchange
2024-09-16T02:03:17Z
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@BrodieOnLinux I feel like this is less weird than healthcare being a benefit of employment. But yes, it's weird here.
(DIR) Post #Am2w8ZPrUJU2APjZXE by natejung@mstdn.games
2024-09-16T02:04:25Z
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@BrodieOnLinux Yup, most jobs give you nothing for at least the first year. It's "normal" here.
(DIR) Post #Am2w9p6kdEXj7jOPZo by BrodieOnLinux@mstdn.social
2024-09-16T02:04:42Z
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@zak The stack reasons why the USA is a weird country has plenty of room left on it
(DIR) Post #Am2wyGUz4Ew4YPmPz6 by keyboardg@mastodon.social
2024-09-16T02:13:46Z
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@BrodieOnLinux The only legal guaranteed pto is if you get selected for jury duty or parental leave. Special cases, no regular PTO is guaranteed. It is provided to keep employees.
(DIR) Post #Am2x8UwYDXhMFVYNyS by BrodieOnLinux@mstdn.social
2024-09-16T02:15:39Z
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@keyboardg Oh I didn't know jury duty was covered
(DIR) Post #Am2xSH1Zg4BUs7Ki12 by eliteamdgamer@mastodon.social
2024-09-16T02:17:30Z
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@keyboardg @BrodieOnLinux but is jury duty really time off. lol honestly it is worse than work some of the times. 
(DIR) Post #Am2xSHoUkBJfJqDmGe by BrodieOnLinux@mstdn.social
2024-09-16T02:19:13Z
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@eliteamdgamer @keyboardg From what I hear it's more like being paid to do a different job lol
(DIR) Post #Am306oA85fHd8gn56W by mike@libertynode.net
2024-09-16T02:04:44Z
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@BrodieOnLinux there isn’t any law requiring paid time off, but I’ve never met anyone with a full time job that didn’t get at least two weeks of paid time off each year.
(DIR) Post #Am306ogO9j5UkjsqO0 by 10leej@fosstodon.org
2024-09-16T02:48:58Z
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@mike @BrodieOnLinux you met one of those guy who works at a place that doesn't offer any vacation time for the first year here then I only get 1 week of vacation or PTO time for the next 3 years.
(DIR) Post #Am30Efd1helUzL3XG4 by 10leej@fosstodon.org
2024-09-16T02:50:24Z
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@BrodieOnLinux @eliteamdgamer @keyboardg fun fact that the numbers most states use for cover jury duty pay base their numbers off when that law was first passed. I was paid $22 for two weeks of jury time when I served jury duty.
(DIR) Post #Am30S8x5zPxdhNrqy0 by keyboardg@mastodon.social
2024-09-16T02:52:49Z
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@BrodieOnLinux @eliteamdgamer in NJ you get paid $5 per day. You have to get your self there which will cost more in just gas.
(DIR) Post #Am31Y6gpPipkNEfMf2 by BrodieOnLinux@mstdn.social
2024-09-16T03:05:06Z
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@keyboardg @eliteamdgamer That's insane
(DIR) Post #Am38VEOyz13b6RtXto by zeioth@fosstodon.org
2024-09-16T04:23:00Z
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@BrodieOnLinux USA is like the vatican of corporate lobbying.
(DIR) Post #Am3AFMvNjENAoIc59E by dutch_connection_uk@mastodo.neoliber.al
2024-09-16T04:42:32Z
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@BrodieOnLinux Not just that but even at companies that provide it there is often a cultural expectation that you don't use it. It makes the USA's yellow peril very confusing to me, since the justification for protection is often "we can't work like they do in Japan/Korea/China!" But are we really that different?
(DIR) Post #Am3CcnPtb5bpXjBVey by nicemicro@fosstodon.org
2024-09-16T05:09:11Z
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@BrodieOnLinux that GDP/capita is not coming from nothing though. They also don't have to worry about burnout because they just import new people.
(DIR) Post #Am3YDE6dwSFtmVON4y by richdevine@mstdn.social
2024-09-16T09:11:05Z
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@BrodieOnLinux Crazy isn't it. Fortunately for the Americans at our company, the same vacation policy has been applied that the UK staff get. Unlimited (subject to fair use). What they don't get though is the same workers rights for things like redundancy and what not. America is like the wild west it seems.
(DIR) Post #Am3xC2GmxfL7dUfNdw by eliteamdgamer@mastodon.social
2024-09-16T13:50:58Z
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@BrodieOnLinux @keyboardg my favourite way of looking at it as you’re a successful plastic surgeon. You make about 1-2 million or so a year. Then you have to go serve jury duty with commoners lol.  it’s a bizarre reality check. 
(DIR) Post #Am4KxX0EoPpbVcXdsO by gamey@chaos.social
2024-09-16T18:17:17Z
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@BrodieOnLinux Every time I am disappointed in my country because it's full of Nazis and systematically dismantels the social system and worker rights for over 20 years I think of the richest country in the world and feel a tiny bit better!