• witness_me@lemmy.ml
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    More context, he said this on June 19th, the day Juneteenth is celebrated across America.
    It’s a holiday to commemorate the end of slavery in America.
    He obviously doesn’t want any holidays related to black people to be celebrated.

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    As a Dane, I have always been fucking shocked at the slave-like working conditions Americans work under. They barely get any time off as it is. What do you mean too many holidays?

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      The worst part is… If you’ve ever had the pleasure of working with an American company you’ll notice just how unproductive they are.

      Obviously the two are closely connected, but it’s always fascinating to me

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        Yeah there’s that myth that if you make people work more hours more work will be done. It all makes sense on the spreadsheet!

        Reality is the workers are human, humans get tired and you aren’t getting more work out of anyone by making them work more hours. You’re just making someone be at a place longer because you can.

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        So true. True efficiency can only be achieved when human labour is finite. Look at the small countries of norther europe. /my first comment on lemmee :D

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      The problem is that in Germany, our Chancellor is currently on the same trip saying that ‘the people don’t work enough’ even though most people (who have a full time job) already work about 40 hours and many woman would like to work more but can’t because there are not enough daycare centres and retirement homes.

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        My wife worked for Siemens-Gamesa for a long time, and German managers were always surprised how the Danes would just straight up decline meetings after 16 and leave early if they had to pick up kids.

        They didn’t worry about that at all, of course, because their wives generally didn’t work full time.

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      That’s what they get when you don’t fight for your rights.
      Look at it now, semi-fascist for half a year and they’re still basically singing Kumbaya.
      They get what they deserve.

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      And he flew using US government plane. He has spent millions on just plane rides.

      Who is wasting tax payer’s money.

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      Yeah, it’s hilarious to hear “workers want less” when what they really mean is less forced unpaid time off, obviously if they want money they’d want to work. I’m sure those people would prefer paid time off to having to work.

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      They mostly don’t get any of those “holidays” paid anyway which is why they don’t like them. You’re lucky if you get Christmas and Thanksgiving paid on top of your two weeks of PTO. The rest are days the banks close and some other places give their people unpaid days off.

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    Thinly veiled attempt to get rid of juneteenth. So just the usual rightwing racism.

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    Happens in Germany too right now. People really need to find back to Unions and take more Power over their rights, before they just Cut it off

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      Same in Denmark. This is our first year without “Store Bededag” (single day holiday), which our useless fucking government decided to remove, as part of their war-consent-manufacturing.

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      Happening all over the globe. The capitalist hegemony is getting scared because their system is collapsing in on itself and, through the imperial boomerang, are beginning to employ practices only performed abroad on the interior in order to maintain their power. The US is just far ahead of the curve due to its lack of a functioning political leftwing keeping things in check.

      Now is most certainly the time for people to unionize and start relearning why unions formed in the first place: so workers can band together to exert their political will and take ownership over their workplace from a parasitic class that has only ever existed to exploit our labor.

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    Translation: we shouldn’t give black people in america a federal holiday because i am a racist and demented old man who is increasingly irrelevant in society.

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    “The workers don’t want it”. He had about as much sense of this as he does of a concept of health care plan.

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      Workers. Hate. Paid. Holidays.

      We’ve been saying it for years, but nobody listens. The liberal nanny state keeps forcing me to stay home, spend time with my family, or even go on vacation, when all I really want to do is stare at spreadsheets for another eight hours.

      Enough is enough!

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        Before resting, I go to work tired tomorrow. After resting, I go to work angry tomorrow.

        Without tasting freedom for a day or two I would not be angry about losing it.

        Defund weekends, they are some DEI bullshit!

        /sarcasm

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          “Do not, my friends, become addicted to water. It will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence.” — Immortan Joe

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        I know right? ALL I want is to make money and not for me but for some idiot who has control of the market and that means that if my labor is worth $200 an hours all I want is to work work work and especially for a fraction of that.

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      The workers don’t want it. What workers actually want is an end to holidays, weekends, and time off in general. I mean, what good is being a “worker” if you’re not working every waking minute of your life? /s

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        I know several, they’re type that base their whole identity around their job, and the type to die very quickly after retirement. They also vote conservative.

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      In all fairness, Trump is just a moldy, hollowed-out Golem. Every Juneteenth, Stephen Miller shmooshes his shiny dome straight into Trump’s rear end and starts flicking and vibrating his tongue across Donnie’s prostate like it’s a musical instrument carved from rotting cheese, inducing a flurry of nerve impulses that spread through Trump’s spine and into his abnormally short, sticky sausage fingers, where they smear out the latest batch of vile racist garbage.

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      Like everything he says/does there is a slight truth buried deep in there.

      Some ‘workers’ really don’t want it. They are called corporate middle management. They don’t want the wage slaves to disrupt profit or crowd the spaces that they will be using because management will still take the day off.

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        Nah, the people who don’t want it are hourly workers who are living paycheck to paycheck, which is tens of millions of workers.

        The sad truth is he’s right, but the reason is that for these people, missing out on $80 could be the difference between paying the water bill or not this month.

        It’s not that people love to work so much that they hate missing a day, it’s that they can’t afford to not work a day.

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          There’s a big difference between “want” and “have to”… No-one "wants’ to work more, but many people “have to”.

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            Yes people don’t want to work more, they need more money. This does not translate to they want less time off…

            It’s a completely backwards way of seeing the problem.

            And it is completely invalid.

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        I don’t think you are seeing the issue clearly. If you don’t want a day off it’s because your wages are not high enough.

        You are wrong. There is zero truth in this post.

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    I hate paid time off. It’s one of the greatest crimes of modern life. I think I’ll campaign to have my union dismantled and my pay cut in half because the current model is clearly ripping off my employer.

    Keep in mind that the guy complaining about PTO hasn’t worked a day in his life.

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        FOR REAL THOUGH. Like every person I have ever heard that has complained about PTO, are people who are in positions that either don’t accrue it, or accrue it so slowly that it’s never usable, or make enough that they don’t need to ever worry about being paid vs unpaid when they take holiday.

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          Disclaimer: USA perspective here, I know its less bullshit in many other parts of the world.

          People who don’t like PTO don’t like it because:

          It is implemented in a bullshit way that is often literally illegal…

          And it is implemented by idiot/cheap managers who don’t have enough actual staff hours to cover anyone being sick or taking PTO.

          The bog standard norm for every kind of min wage tier job is that the manager will just unapprove your vacation that you accrued and scheduled weeks or months ago, and then oops, that also makes it so you haven’t been accumulating more PTO because you hit your max and didn’t use it in time.

          Or just any manager that says you can only have a sick day, vacation, or any kind of emergency if you find a replacement for your shift.

          That one is particularly amazing because… that is literally the manager’s job, to do that, not yours.

          But they just gaslight you into doing their job for them, for no extrs pay, of course.

          But this kind of (again, often literally illegal) bullshit is so totally common and normalized amongst these shit ass jobs, that most workers don’t even know how bullshit it is, and will rabidly attack and malign their coworkers instead of blaming their petty tyrant boss.

          These people are basically, generally correct in identifying PTO as basically bullshit in these situations, but they’re too overworked and uninformed to put together that… it could be organized/executed in a not bullshit way, and it’s their boss’s (or corporate’s) fault that it isn’t.

          Shitass retail managers routinely pull this bullshit and enforce a culture of blame being on all your fellow workers, and will go out of their way to intentionally stoke interpersonal drama amongst coworkers… it is very, very rare to find a low level franchise manager or small business owner who does not do this.

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            Yeah, and unfortunately, like you said, that entire practice is fully illegal in the states. However, most employees are unwilling to report it and then file the evidence of why it was done. Because while there is no mandatory vacation time in the US, if you are provided It as a benefit, it must be something that you can use. And if they are regularly denying your PTO because they don’t have the people to be able to cover it, then they are denying you a benefit which they are legally obligated to provide since they offered it as part of your benefits.

            The amount of times that people just decide, oh well it’s only PTO. It’s no biggie. I don’t want to rock the boat. It’s insane. Like my mom lost over 600 hours of PTO because the business closed up and she didn’t fight that they needed to pay it. She doesn’t put two and two together that she’s overall getting paid less because she has the benefit of having that PTO. So if they were to not offer the PTO, they are just paying less.

            Your PTO, if offered, is part of your benefits package, meaning that it’s part of your hourly wage calculation. So if you are given PTO and then not being allowed to use it, you are voluntarily being given a demotion.

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              … and this is why non corrupt unions need to exist.

              A single person likely can’t afford the legal costs or even just simply the time and headache of pursuing justice, and there is just a massive ass backward culture in the US of it being rude to discuss money and finances with basically anyone…

              Get the masses fighting with each other, distrustful of each other, so they don’t rally against the real, common enemy.

              Oldest tactic in the book, divide and conquer, but you’d have to undo over a century of brainwashing that has now just become a cultural norm amongst morons who think one day they’ll be able to be the asshole boss.

              Or, even just that if they acquiesce to every absurd demand and insult, they’ll be seen as a reliable employee. The reality is that none of that matters, we are all just homogenous human capital to them, especially so at such unspecialized, entry level retail jobs.

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          I work nights from home, so I hardly ever need to take PTO. Kinda nice at the end of the year though when I typically take November and December off to burn the PTO I can’t carry over into the new year (limited to 40 hours).

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            We used to do this at work. But it would turn out the company basically shut down after thanksgiving because so few people actually took vacation thru out the year.

            Now we are on “permissive time off” which means there is no set amount you can take or really… have to take. So in general, people just work more and are pissed off about it

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      I actually have coworkers who were complaining about a day off, and saying “everybody’s lazy, nobody wants to work anymore”. Take the day off, and shut up!

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        How old are they? I feel like old people have nothing other than their jobs. They never had many hobbies and they never had to raise their kids.

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          I find its more often they need those hours to afford to live. Sometimes due to poor life choices like owning 5 dirtbikes that don’t run and buying a 6th, but often its just due to how unfair the economy is to low income families.

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              Thats very job dependent. Does the salesman in the UK make money if they dont make a sale? Does the construction worker make money if they didn’t build anything? The salaried folks sure get paid in the holidays.

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              Sometimes they get paid more if they do come in, typically time and a half, so they feel like they are missing out if they don’t. Sometimes is based on if they are full time or not. The same rhetoric is true for just regular weekends, my boss considers anyone who works less than 6 days a week unmotivated and lazy.

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        Tell those coworkers to pick up the slack and work on their day-off. Take the off time for you and others so the aggravted workers feel good and pat their backs.

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      Also we should bring back prima nocta for the holy job creators, and really just bring back slavery. I mean, people can’t afford their own homes and such anyway, imagine how much more EFFECIENT it would be if we could cut through the red tape and get similar results.

      -Republicans, unironically^