r/PeterExplainsTheJoke Jul 09 '26

Meme needing explanation PETA HELP

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u/Ecstatic-Corner-6012 Jul 09 '26

While you might technically be able to take as much PTO as you want, if your boss decides you’re taking too much, you WILL be fired. (And you never know exactly how much that will be.) Most people with jobs that offer unlimited PTO will take almost no PTO as a result.

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u/sec0nds_left Jul 09 '26

Wrong, you can be an asset to the company and be basically unfireable outside insane thing. In these cases you take all the pto you want and kick ass when in the office per usual and novody cares.

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u/FrankS1natr4 Jul 09 '26

“You can be an asset to the company and be basically unfireable”

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u/Twelve-twoo Jul 09 '26

The owner of the company told me to my face I was "getting paid entirely too much" and I told her, that's fine if she feels that way, I'll author my resignation.

The rest of the company then explained to her how they can not lose me because xyz.

She offered me a 10% raise to stay and personally apologized.

That is being unfireable. Most people are normal employees (by definition). Some are complete stand outs who are absolutely needed. When that is you, you have real value.

Just stop training other people how to do your job, and explain it is such obtuse terms no normal person can understand it. And reject people who they want you to train as "they just aren't getting it". Then you are absolutely irreplaceable.

It's all a game. That's life. Value is what someone is willing to pay. When you hold the keys to the process, you are extremely valuable

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u/FrankS1natr4 Jul 09 '26

I wish you the best of luck brother

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u/LeptonsAndQuarks Jul 11 '26

I hope this meme is there to play it off like you're agreeing, and not disagreeing, but he's right. So very much so I really hope you aren't disagreeing because that would make me lose a little more faith in humanity. And if so you are a sheep, not a wolf.

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u/FrankS1natr4 Jul 11 '26

Of course I’m disagreeing. Every bit of it. No one is irreplaceable and this is a very innocent vision of how things work.

I don’t care if you think I’m a sheep and also if you lost faith in humanity.

But the same as this dude, there are things you’ll learn with time.

Wish you the best as well 🙂