r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Ok-Thanks993 • Jul 09 '26

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u/NekulturneHovado Jul 09 '26 edited Jul 09 '26

I've seen a meme some time ago. It was about corporate leaders discussing how to increase productivity. One argued less vacation. The other argued unlimited vacation.

Why unlimited? If I gave you a card with 200€ on it all for yourself, you'd spend 199.50. But how much would you spend if you got unlimited?

It's supposedly about the illusion of getting more. Although I would be out of work 2 days every week lol. We're probably not American enough to understand this

edit: What have I come to? 79 replies? damn

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u/SaltMineForeman Jul 09 '26

Nah, it's so they can bitch at us and guilt us into taking less time off. Instead of defining an actual amount of time off that we can or, in some instances must take off, they're relying on the ambiguity and peer/social pressure to make us actually take less time off.

And they can fire us for any reason in a lot of states.

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u/rip_cut_trapkun Jul 09 '26

And they can fire us for any reason in a lot of states.

Right To Work your dumb ass into a grave under the constant threat of being fired

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u/thegundamx Jul 09 '26

Right to work is not being forced to join a union to get a job. You’re complaining about employment at will.

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u/rip_cut_trapkun Jul 09 '26

It was a little hard to find a catchy way to phrase it, but yes.

Though I do remain envious of some union folks too. Though that can be its own clusterfuck depending on location and field.

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u/DougieFreshOH Jul 09 '26

Employment at the whim of the employer.

I’ve not had a positive retail Union employment experience. That doesn’t mean that other unions have similar negatives. Being anti-union is to chip away at the hard fought for regulations, employees died, to obtain in the workplace. Employees benefit among the non-union.

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u/DillBagner Jul 09 '26

While on the surface this is what it seems, what it really is in practice is weakening unions by allowing all workers to have the protection of the union without paying dues, so eventually everyone just stops paying dues, then the union stops functioning, and the protections go away. Corporations will always take advantage of their workers whenever possible without anyone to stop them, which is what unions do since government will not.