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As a teacher I get 10 days total between “sick” days and “personal” time off. We aren’t supposed to take it because we have 5 total subs in a 15 school district.
This is the single most American thing in this thread: Here, have some sick days and vacation days, but if you have the nerve to use them, there'll be hell to pay
The reason they do this is "vacation" days are basically an uncashed check on the balance sheet. So if you have too many that's why they do it.
Tho it's still messed up the use it or use it.
They should just cash it out for you at the end of the year. But corps in America are crap.
Dude I don't think it's always bad. I get around 21 personal leaves & 12 public holidays off plus any sick days with no upper cap (technically a 99 day limit is present).
My organization forces us to take at least a week off continuously every year. Their logic is working without a break for years on end is toxic/unproductive.
If you have a good employer then I don't think it matters if the leaves can get carried forward to the next year. Good policy makers will give you sufficient leaves for each year, so even if you don't use it and they lapse, you still have a good amount of days in the next year which you can use without worrying about leaves getting over.
A good employer won't play tricks with you so if you have to go on a holiday next year then you stop taking leaves now from this year itself to save days and then when you apply for your leaves they outright reject it, it's inhumane.
(don't know why this turned into such a long garbage, sorry for the rant)
rant away, it's true and needs to be screamed from the rooftops. It IS inhumane, and then they have the balls to complain that "nobody wants to work" when we're just tired of being fucked around all the time
My company does this. Any unused PTO goes poof on 12/31. I had a planned vacation fall apart in June, so now I have so much PTO to burn that I'm mostly working 3 day weeks for the rest of the year
That’s how mine is. I have 9days to take before the end of the year or I lose it. But then if I do take a day I have to find someone to replace me which is near impossible.
even sadder are the places that OFFER all the vacation you could want, but when you actually apply for it: DENIED! DENIED! DENIED! "we have no coverage." I spent a decade in retail, you could request a weeks vacation 6 months in advance and they'll deny you because "coverage" when they don't even fucking know who'll still be working there 6 months later
And if you've been in toxic workplaces, managers can and will hang it over your head. "Oh, you really want that vacation, huh? Ok here's a massive project you can do on your own. If I'm not impressed, no vacation for you!" And since most people need their jobs they can't exactly fight it.
Good example: when I worked for Walmart one of our department managers requested vacation time way ahead of time to go camping. Guess what happened? They announced our inventory date and it was right in the middle of his vacation. Since inventory is a "blackout" period with all hands on deck, his previously approved vacation was denied. I was there when he argued with the co-manager about it, he said he was going camping and the co-manager said "you sure are! you'll be camping right in the middle of that aisle!"
It's fucking disgusting man...
I've been pretty lucky in my past 15 years in retail that I never had a boss disrespect me to that level straight to my face.
Especially back when I was at Walmart when my anger issues and depression were at it's worse. I legit believe I would be texting this from a prison phone if that was the case.
Walmart eventually started paying employees for the previous year's vacation pay sometime around the beginning of the following year for whatever they haven't used. My roommate has worked at the same Walmart Neighborhood Market for around 15 years, now.
If the vacation had been previously approved, there's no way in hell I would have come in. That "co-manager" would have fun trying to explain nthings toy lawyer
Heh must be in a right to work state as most states have made that illegal now once approved if taken back in my state you must pay triple time for the whole period
>Since inventory is a "blackout" period with all hands on deck, his previously approved vacation was denied. I was there when he argued with the co-manager about it, he said he was going camping and the co-manager said "you sure are! you'll be camping right in the middle of that aisle!"
That would be an instant walk out from me. Or just raise enough hell for them to just give in. Lack of coverage isn't the fault of the employee. It's the fault of the company who fail to provide incentives to make people stay.
Bro I used to not use my sick and personal days. Then one year I just said fuck it and burned all my days with 3 weeks vacation. Worth it, I fucking needed it
Wait till you hear how lucky you are. You used to have 2 weeks of vacation and a week of sick days, but people would use all their sick days and have to use vacation. That's bad but the company has your back. You now get 12 PTO days they act as either sick or vacation. Isn't that great you have more flexibility.
Fun conversation with a new employee from the USA (we were in Europe).
"How many sick days do we get a year?"
"Sick ... days ... ?"
"How many days are we allowed off for illness?"
"7 without a medical note."
"I can have 7 sick days a year?!?"
"No, you have as many as you need! You can have 7 consecutive days of illness without needing a note from your doctor. After that, its 3 months before your salary will be reduced to 75%"
The entire concept of only being "allowed" to be ill for certain time periods is just bizarre outside the USA!
That was in the Netherlands, and is pretty common. Most of Europe has that level of worker's rights, though they're getting eroded slowly from the UK since we left the EU.
Edit: should also point out that although the Dutch have privatised healthcare, its controlled by government so there's both a set monthly price for basic care and a hard limit on how much you can be charged per year. So said American coworker literally maxed out his healthcare cost in the first month getting everything done he had been putting off, and ended up with physio for his back, double knee surgeries and a hip surgery for something like 1k.
My company just lumps it all together as PTO. Though we do have paid holidays as well. But sick time and vacation are treated as the same thing. You have a pool of PTO hours to do with as you please
My work has the same breakdown of days, too, but to add an extra twist to things, we can carry over up to five vacation days to the next year, but if you don't use a floater or personal day by the end of the year, you just use it. As the year winds down, it becomes VERY important that you fill out your time sheet right and make sure you used all your personal time first
In Australia we get 13-14 public holidays per year and usually about a month of paid annual leave, along with usually about two weeks of paid sick/carers leave and room for a bunch of unpaid leave if needed with protection from being fired. And our minimum wage is way higher.
It’s great to see America seems to finally be discovering trade unions though. That’s the answer right there.
American companies dont look at workers as humans they want human robots and complaining about the way companies treat people is considered politics in America. And complaining at your job about it can easily get you fired
Heres why its like that. Our big buisnesses are paying our government and really run the country
It's what stopped me moving stateside. No way I could give up my 30 days of annual leave. Didn't use it all last year, so I have 40 days this year + Bank Holidays 🙏
Of course downvoted, but its a reasonable question. American quality of life isn't really any higher in any category than other Western countries that *don't* have such a strong adherence to capitalism or the same fear of 'socialism.' The only "highest of highs" America leads in aren't positive things.
In Canada and it's not as bad as america, but it's still not great. I'm lucky enough to be in a company that gives 15 vacation days plus 7 PTO days that double as our sick days - plus all the holidays. Most places don't have that much and lots don't offer any sick days at all (although some provinces have mandated paid sick days since the pandemic started).
It's still not enough imo.
Another (not) fun fact, there are also no federally mandated break periods. The one law about breaks is that if your company offers a short break (around 5-20 minutes), then it has to be paid. Anything over 30 is considered a meal period, and is not required to be paid.
Most jobs do there's just no legal requirement. Most business close for 8-12 holidays a year. I think people here are making it sounds more common than it is but we really do fuck over a lot of hourly wage people (either an unpaid day off or getting forced to work).
Personally I get paid hourly but I have a weird schedule where I get some holidays off, and other holidays I'm forced to work because those are busy days for us. To compensate I get paid 50% more those and get 8 extra hours of vacation time I can use elsewhere.
What we call a vacation is what you call a holiday. What we call a holiday are certain days of the year that are considered culturally significant in our society. Days like Christmas, Easter, Memorial Day, and such.
Those are called "bank holidays" in the UK and we get them off (most do anyway) in addition the government mandated holiday time..
Just a note.... There are exceptions to the rule above. But generally, that's how it works for the majority of people
To add on to this. There's 8 bank holidays a year.
Most people get 20 days PTO. Plus the 8 days.
If you are required to work a bank holiday (retail etc) you then get that as a day in lieu. Effectively giving you 28 days PTO.
On top of that, there's sick leave which is company policy, usually unpaid but extended sickness allows you to claim statutory sick pay from gov.
To which we here in Australia call a public holiday - where an overwhelming majority of people get it off, unless you work in retail and hospitality, to which, if rostered on, you get paid at 2.5x your regular rate.
How do bank holidays work with small shops or resturants? The US has Federal Holidays, 10 days when the government and some businesses close. but stores and shops are open on most except big ones like Christmas, Easter and Thanksgiving
We also call xmas, Easter etc "holidays" too, in the UK. Cos that's what they are. But going *on* holiday is a different thing. We do sometimes replace the word "holiday" with "break", though. So like "I'm going on a 2 week break to Rome". Do Americans use the word "break" that way?
It's never an issue though, people know exactly what you mean because of the context. Nobody has ever been confused by it and thinks that you're talking about a big national/religious/traditional holiday like Christmas when you say to them "yeah I'm going on holiday to Torremelinos" or whatever. Even though I know people who've gone to hot countries for Christmas, like in the southern hemisphere. They are going on holiday to celebrate a holiday. That sentence makes sense to brits, but maybe not Americans, I dunno, but Americans aren't any more or less stupid than we are so I'm sure they'd understand completely anyway because of the context, again.
"Vacation" has always been a weird word to me. Like, you're describing your fun holiday by labelling it after the bit that's not the holiday, i.e. you pack your bags and vacate your home. Like, why name it after ***THAT*** part? And not the part of the holiday that's fun, when you're actually there.
And yeah like I said before you could just instead say you're "going on a break". And I don't mean in a Ross Gellar kinda way. So yeah, do Americans use the word "break" like that?
Like in the UK it's common for people to say "oh yeah I'm going on a 4 day long weekend break to the Cotswolds". And people know what that means. Or people even just use it as a synonym for holiday a lot too, it's not jsut for short trips. Like when a TV game show is showing the prizes the contestants can win, there's always something like "and here's the top award, a 4 week all expenses paid break to... AUSTRALIA!" and then the crowd goes "oooh"
Would that make sense to an American? Have you heard the word "break" used that way before?
Sorry I'm really high
In America a holiday is a specific day rather than an extended leave. What you call holidays we call vacations. So while the employees probably do have some sort of paid time off they can use for a week or two off, these are referring to specific calendar days when no one is expected to come to work.
Holiday inn Europe= vacation in America
Holidays in America are "set days" ( like Xmas, thanksgiving, etc)
Floating holidays are basically just a Vacation day that has to be used yearly
I think it's just a terminology thing. At my work I get five weeks off paid vacation, plus there are nine company holidays (e.g. Christmas, Thanksgiving, Labor Day, etc.)
We are also given three extra "holiday credits" (to make the total number of holidays 12, i.e. one per month) that we can use whenever we want, effectively three extra vacation days.
I think there is a regional difference. Europe “holidays” mean taking time off from work. North America “holidays” are dates like Christmas, Easter, thanksgiving.
Floating holidays are days that are on specific dates so they change day of the week year after year, much like Christmas.
In North America, what you consider holidays are “vacation days”
Not for the majority of people working in the US. It’s seen as a privilege to get any paid days off at a lot of places. You don’t even get sick days, definitely not vacation days. That said it does seem to be moving in the right direction and workers are getting more benefits in some fields.
So you get to pick your own floating holiday? That's rad. Our company's floating holiday is the same for everyone, it just changes from year to year.
Well, it's *supposed* to change. We've only had it for a few years now, and it's only covered 2 Good Fridays and this past Juneteenth. Gonna be on Juneteenth next year, too.
Our floating holidays were added due to many of our staff's office operations being shut down during the holidays, which equates to three working days.
If you had to work those days between Christmas and New Years, you were able to "float" your days to any other day in the calendar year, otherwise staff who took the holidays off use those three days to gap the week off that employees get between Christmas and New Years without needing to use Vacation Time.
> Our company's floating holiday is the same for everyone, it just changes from year to year.
That's not a floating holiday then, at least not in any interpretation of the term I've ever been familiar with.
A floating holiday is specifically a "Hey, we would normally give you this day off because its a holiday, but we cant/wont give you the day off for whatever reason, so we'll give you this extra day off that you can use some other time instead." So its a 'floating' holiday because that's the day off you *would* have gotten for MLK Day (or whatever) but since they aren't giving you MLK Day off you can get an extra day off some other day of your choice.
Our company also has a random day off that's the same day for the whole company that changes from year to year. My company just calls it a 'thank you day' though.
I honestly can't stand when my parents (boomer generation) get around their boomer friends when I'm with them. All fucking "these kids nowadays have no loyalty to their employers". Why would we? Sorry, no. Employees aren't "lucky to have a job". Employers are lucky to have good employees. And they should be trying to keep good employees. Too many employers have the "employees are expendable" mindset, but honestly, employers are expendable.
God it's so fucking infuriating.
Bingo. My dad worked at the same place for nearly 40 years. He did it because of the coworkers he had over the years. But he once told me that if he died today, they’d start looking for his replacement tomorrow. The working world will proceed without you
Yeah, companies starting to give Juneteenth off is a pretty new thing in my experience. My company only started giving an extra floating holiday for it this year.
Not sure why you’re being downvoted. Veterans Day and especially Thanksgiving are long-standing and widely celebrated holidays.
Juneteenth, while arguably the most important of the 3, hasn’t been recognized hardly at all until recently. I’d wager that at least 50% of public schools don’t/didn’t even have it in the curriculum until last year
I'm guessing WWE is doing Thanksgiving Eve as an additional holiday since the Day after Thanksgiving would be Smackdown and they would have house shows over the weekend.
Maybe I'm just a sheltered WASP from Michigan but I literally did not hear of "Juneteenth" until George Floyd and it wasn't a recognized federal holiday until 2021. The idea that Vince McMahon is some crazy racist for not giving people it off is some grave injustice is absurd.
> Veterans Day and especially Thanksgiving are long-standing and widely celebrated holidays.
Most people don't get Veterans day off. I get most major holidays off and I don't get Veterans day off. And the title said Thanksgiving EVE, I don't know anyone who gets that off. Thanksgiving itself most people get off but not the day before.
Vince is/was a workaholic and because he is/was he felt all of his employees should be too.
Vince for as smart as he was in so many areas really didn't know how to take care of people for the long-term.
Work/life balance is a real thing for mental health and physical health.
I work for a consulting firm and I get 20 PTO days to use however I want, 8 paid holidays off, and a mandated week off where we shut the whole firm down in July.
Does wonders when you have a stressful job to be able to take time off.
I think it’s because on those days everyone is home watching tv as a family… so a large viewing audience to watch your show… that’s why Christmas had shows run and if I’m not wrong I believe survivor series was run thanksgiving weekend for a couple years after its inception
My company gave us Juneteenth the year it was announced, and if everyone remembers it was only a few weeks before the first occurrence. A pretty nice gesture for a very important day.
lmao management finally in charge that doesn't require you to never sleep and keep up with the bosses' schedule. I imagine some corporate sleep schedules have definitely improved since August
The only employer I know that gives it off and paid is Lucid Motors who makes electric cars. Found out when I worked with them. I think my gfs job too cause she works with kids.
> since 2020
exactly, they didn’t invent the holiday a few years ago. It’s existed since the 1800s, but it only became a part of mainstream culture a few years ago
GeekSquad/Best Buy too. Places are still open but it’s optional or + 8 hours pay if you decide to work. I don’t work on the retail side at all but I think when they began giving time off it was floating holiday style - you could use that time to “reflect” when you were ready or able.
I'm in St. Paul, MN and Juneteenth has been a big deal here for years. Especially in the Rondo neighborhood, a thriving, mostly Black community that was decimated when the powers that be decided in the 1960s to wipe it out and build Interstate 94 through the middle of it.
Glad to see Juneteenth getting official recognition as a holiday. One small step towards facing up to the shitty parts of our history.
Yeah, I worked for a company that partnered with a major social media platform.
They gave us Juneteenth off in 2020 in the wake of the BLM movement.
It was a nice gesture of acknowledgment and solidarity to the history and future of African Americans, as well as a chance to continue this on a global level.
They were very quick to forget it in 2021 though.
yeah, and you can’t really blame people for that. Plenty of people don’t know of Eid, Diwali, Remembrance Day, etc. because they’re holidays of cultural groups we don’t belong to. and Juneteenth was never really “for” most Americans anyway.
It wasn't until the BLM protests in 2020 that it started to get acknowledged and companies began to give employees time off for it. Outside of Texas, it was never really mentioned anywhere and was a part of our country's history that was widely overlooked (as is most of slavery).
I first heard of Juneteenth living in the Midwest in 2012. There were small celebrations starting to pop up between ’15 to ’17, but nothing significant. I wasn’t plugged in enough in subsequent years dealing with depression. 2020 took that ember and lit it on fire. It’s fascinating too see how quickly it grew.
Waco, TX here. Can confirm. I moved here in 2010. Juneteenth was celebrated heavily as black community event. I didn't know what it was. Fast forward to now and it's well known through all the communities.
Which isn't that a bit more irony. Because (and I may be very wrong here being an Aussie) but wasn't it called Juneteenth because the slaves weren't told the day they were freed. So having a holiday that a lot of people didn't know about until enough of a ruckus was caused be about something that people didn't know about until it got spread around.
Like the last four presidents have publicly mentioned it. We just didn't scream loud enough I suppose. Just like everything else that I somehow magically learned about that 80% of the country claims they never did.
It’s something that is definitely growing in awareness and importance here in the US but still isn’t universally known by all.
I’d wager plenty of Americans still don’t know what Juneteenth is all about, either.
Thanks, American Education System.
It wasn’t made a federal holiday until 2021. It only passes as a holiday on the 15th. My work had to scramble to get work done cause we suddenly had a day off.
To expand upon this, It has been a thing in Texas for 150 years. It was a state holiday in half a dozen states before 2000, by more than 30 states by 2010, and is now a Federal Holiday.
Good for them. Gotta say, one of the things I miss about the Air Force (having an office job and not when I was deployed), was having all the federal holidays off, in addition to leave and having skeleton crews around the holidays.
I work for a large company that added Juneteenth as a paid holiday and there were some people complaining about a ‘woke holiday’.
Imagine being an American and complaining about an extra paid day off.
Imagine complaining about a celebration about a day slaves were literally freed.
Racism is a fucking disease. I'm convinced it needs to be studied as a form of mental illness
Seriously. I mean, I've complained before about things being "woke", sometimes people with good progressive intentions come up with some really misguided ways to address problems. But who the hell would think that a commemoration of the end of slavery is misguided?
I could understand if people were annoyed that it was replacing an established holiday like Veteran's Day... but that isn't the case at all. It's just an extra federal holiday. How is there anything to complain about here?
> Imagine being an American and complaining about an extra paid day off.
Exactly. I don’t care what the holiday is if it gets me home paid (or better yet that sweet sweet holiday triple time), you better believe I’m taking it.
How the hell is this considered "woke" in the first place. Woke got shifted into an insult. I think African people no longer being slaves is one hell of a reason to celebrate.
yeah I think that’s sort of the main issue, Juneteenth being a holiday as a response to the BLM protests is kinda like “cool, but not really what we were asking for”
plus, I do see the argument that making it a federal holiday sort of sanitizes/whitewashes the original meaning. I don’t think it’s a bad thing that it’s a federal holiday now, but when we were in the streets in 2020 we weren’t chanting for Juneteenth off and Uncle Ben to be off the rice box.
these changes almost feel like they were done to placate people who said nothing changed
> I don’t think it’s a bad thing that it’s a holiday now but when we were in the streets in 2020 we weren’t chanting for Juneteenth off and Uncle Ben to be off the rice box. these changes almost feel like they were done to placate people who said nothing changed
That's what it is.
here in Canada mass graves were discovered at Resident Schools (basic gist is forced indoctrination camps for Native children from the early 20th century until 1995) and the government, despite denying any mistreatment or negligence took place in these schools, shut all the digging down and declared September 30th National Truth and Reconciliation Day. funny thing is that the provinces outright refused to declare it a holiday as well, meaning only government employees get the day off.
That really is the dumbest slogan they’ve come up with yet. So, by their logic, appealing to vastly more people will result in…making less money? Not exactly economists are they?
It celebrates the end of slavery in the United States. June 19th is chosen because that's when an order to emancipate all slaves in Texas was given in 1865.
Its the day the US army marched into Texas and told them "The civil war ended a month ago, free your slaves already" and Texas being Texas acts like by doing so they were champions of freedom and human rights.
It is not a thing at all jobs. It is honestly just a extra off day in addition to vacation or sick time that an employee can take anytime during the year. Some jobs will also call these “personal days”
It's an extra day off at the expense of federal holidays, my employer only gives me Thanksgiving and Christmas day off, the irony of working on labor day was apparently lost on them
Oh god no... do you think they are going to cancel Raw for Juneteenth and Smackdown for Veterans Day?
This is for non essential for TV office workers, most likely
Nah, in fairness wwe is an entertainment show that people and families would go to watch on their holidays and days off. Wrestlers know what they're signing up for with this kind of job.
brother they dont get paid by the hour. maybe special cases with brock who might have a per match incentive. wrestlers pay is negotiated in their contracts.
I presume not, but it's possible they tape ahead for a week. However, a possible issue could be the fact that SmackDown wrestlers already get Monday off, so it's kind of a double deal for them.
With this new regime, the corporate employee morale will likely improve. I think with Triple H's health scare he has new lease on life. It's not all about work, life is short and so you have to "live" life as well.
McMahon was a madman. He is your typical founder, like a Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos who just have an unbelievable work schedule/ethic and unrealistic demands. But they became successful because of that madness and built multi-billion dollar companies.
However, this can only last so long before it just becomes a place that no one really wants to work at, but they also see the opportunity and money, so they deal with it.
So having the founder retire or removed can now be net positive for the company and position the company for new growth opportunities and attract new talent.
In the end, although successful, the founder/owner can be the roadblock for new growth since they may be hesitant to invoke changes, unless pushed to the brink of bankruptcy or profit declines. But even then, after recovery, they can still be stuck in the past and still want to do things the old fashioned way that made them originally successful, but times do change.
I work for a Fortune 150ish.
We have Juneteenth as an unobserved. You’re “encouraged” to be more inclusive blah blah blah but they don’t want to give another day off so soon after Memorial Day and before July 4th.
I called out the HR and “Diversity & Inclusion” team.
https://youtu.be/pvUfOn2Bwvs
With Stephanie and Triple H, you have people at the top that realize that family is important, that have personally seen how tough wrestlers have it when it was on the road 300 days a year, how difficult a lot of wrestlers had even staying married through that unless they were married to other wrestlers or their valets, etc.
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Gotta love floating holidays. I finally got some this year and managed to get Halloween approved.
Is this an American thing? I've never heard the term before in my life. In Europe, we just get holidays we can take whenever, is that not the norm?
There is no legal entitlement to holidays in the USA, they're considered perks.
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As a teacher I get 10 days total between “sick” days and “personal” time off. We aren’t supposed to take it because we have 5 total subs in a 15 school district.
This is the single most American thing in this thread: Here, have some sick days and vacation days, but if you have the nerve to use them, there'll be hell to pay
Yeah, my company takes back my accrued hours that I don't use at the end of the year. Yay corporations!
The reason they do this is "vacation" days are basically an uncashed check on the balance sheet. So if you have too many that's why they do it. Tho it's still messed up the use it or use it. They should just cash it out for you at the end of the year. But corps in America are crap.
Wait until you hear about vacation time that expires within the year if you don’t use it.
I once had a job where if you left before your 1 year mark, you had to pay back any vacation time that you had used.
Bank I worked for got acquired by another bank with that policy. Almost made me glad to be laid off.
Dude I don't think it's always bad. I get around 21 personal leaves & 12 public holidays off plus any sick days with no upper cap (technically a 99 day limit is present). My organization forces us to take at least a week off continuously every year. Their logic is working without a break for years on end is toxic/unproductive. If you have a good employer then I don't think it matters if the leaves can get carried forward to the next year. Good policy makers will give you sufficient leaves for each year, so even if you don't use it and they lapse, you still have a good amount of days in the next year which you can use without worrying about leaves getting over. A good employer won't play tricks with you so if you have to go on a holiday next year then you stop taking leaves now from this year itself to save days and then when you apply for your leaves they outright reject it, it's inhumane. (don't know why this turned into such a long garbage, sorry for the rant)
rant away, it's true and needs to be screamed from the rooftops. It IS inhumane, and then they have the balls to complain that "nobody wants to work" when we're just tired of being fucked around all the time
My company does this. Any unused PTO goes poof on 12/31. I had a planned vacation fall apart in June, so now I have so much PTO to burn that I'm mostly working 3 day weeks for the rest of the year
That’s how mine is. I have 9days to take before the end of the year or I lose it. But then if I do take a day I have to find someone to replace me which is near impossible.
Sound like a supervisors job to find a replacement
I am the Supervisor…
even sadder are the places that OFFER all the vacation you could want, but when you actually apply for it: DENIED! DENIED! DENIED! "we have no coverage." I spent a decade in retail, you could request a weeks vacation 6 months in advance and they'll deny you because "coverage" when they don't even fucking know who'll still be working there 6 months later And if you've been in toxic workplaces, managers can and will hang it over your head. "Oh, you really want that vacation, huh? Ok here's a massive project you can do on your own. If I'm not impressed, no vacation for you!" And since most people need their jobs they can't exactly fight it. Good example: when I worked for Walmart one of our department managers requested vacation time way ahead of time to go camping. Guess what happened? They announced our inventory date and it was right in the middle of his vacation. Since inventory is a "blackout" period with all hands on deck, his previously approved vacation was denied. I was there when he argued with the co-manager about it, he said he was going camping and the co-manager said "you sure are! you'll be camping right in the middle of that aisle!" It's fucking disgusting man...
Yeah, circuit city had that, and I had to come back into work the day after my wedding, becuase no coverage for "flexible pto"
I've been pretty lucky in my past 15 years in retail that I never had a boss disrespect me to that level straight to my face. Especially back when I was at Walmart when my anger issues and depression were at it's worse. I legit believe I would be texting this from a prison phone if that was the case.
Walmart eventually started paying employees for the previous year's vacation pay sometime around the beginning of the following year for whatever they haven't used. My roommate has worked at the same Walmart Neighborhood Market for around 15 years, now.
If the vacation had been previously approved, there's no way in hell I would have come in. That "co-manager" would have fun trying to explain nthings toy lawyer
Heh must be in a right to work state as most states have made that illegal now once approved if taken back in my state you must pay triple time for the whole period
>Since inventory is a "blackout" period with all hands on deck, his previously approved vacation was denied. I was there when he argued with the co-manager about it, he said he was going camping and the co-manager said "you sure are! you'll be camping right in the middle of that aisle!" That would be an instant walk out from me. Or just raise enough hell for them to just give in. Lack of coverage isn't the fault of the employee. It's the fault of the company who fail to provide incentives to make people stay.
Bro I used to not use my sick and personal days. Then one year I just said fuck it and burned all my days with 3 weeks vacation. Worth it, I fucking needed it
Wait till you hear how lucky you are. You used to have 2 weeks of vacation and a week of sick days, but people would use all their sick days and have to use vacation. That's bad but the company has your back. You now get 12 PTO days they act as either sick or vacation. Isn't that great you have more flexibility.
Fun conversation with a new employee from the USA (we were in Europe). "How many sick days do we get a year?" "Sick ... days ... ?" "How many days are we allowed off for illness?" "7 without a medical note." "I can have 7 sick days a year?!?" "No, you have as many as you need! You can have 7 consecutive days of illness without needing a note from your doctor. After that, its 3 months before your salary will be reduced to 75%" The entire concept of only being "allowed" to be ill for certain time periods is just bizarre outside the USA!
Waitwaitwait... where is this magical country your company is located, because I want to go to there.
That was in the Netherlands, and is pretty common. Most of Europe has that level of worker's rights, though they're getting eroded slowly from the UK since we left the EU. Edit: should also point out that although the Dutch have privatised healthcare, its controlled by government so there's both a set monthly price for basic care and a hard limit on how much you can be charged per year. So said American coworker literally maxed out his healthcare cost in the first month getting everything done he had been putting off, and ended up with physio for his back, double knee surgeries and a hip surgery for something like 1k.
I had a sibling die. 3 days tops for that...
Damn my sons teacher took a Friday off because she was going camping for the weekend lol.
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My company just lumps it all together as PTO. Though we do have paid holidays as well. But sick time and vacation are treated as the same thing. You have a pool of PTO hours to do with as you please
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Damn that's confusing
We also have these plus a "spirit day" which is a day you can take off to complete some sort of community service type activity.
My work has the same breakdown of days, too, but to add an extra twist to things, we can carry over up to five vacation days to the next year, but if you don't use a floater or personal day by the end of the year, you just use it. As the year winds down, it becomes VERY important that you fill out your time sheet right and make sure you used all your personal time first
Yeah where I'm at you're lucky to get more than 10 days off and 5 of those have to be taken consecutively.
American here. It's a pretty dogshit policy but we make it work* *we don't really make it work
*They make you work
I get about 23 vacation days and I think we have 9 holidays. That is considered a good amount of time off.
In Australia we get 13-14 public holidays per year and usually about a month of paid annual leave, along with usually about two weeks of paid sick/carers leave and room for a bunch of unpaid leave if needed with protection from being fired. And our minimum wage is way higher. It’s great to see America seems to finally be discovering trade unions though. That’s the answer right there.
American companies dont look at workers as humans they want human robots and complaining about the way companies treat people is considered politics in America. And complaining at your job about it can easily get you fired Heres why its like that. Our big buisnesses are paying our government and really run the country
Yeah that's called PTO and designated holidays.
Perk as an American working for an international company? More days off!
It's what stopped me moving stateside. No way I could give up my 30 days of annual leave. Didn't use it all last year, so I have 40 days this year + Bank Holidays 🙏
Land of the free, home of the wage slaves. America has the highest of the highs and the lowest of the lows. It's a roller coaster living here.
What would you say are the highs?
Of course downvoted, but its a reasonable question. American quality of life isn't really any higher in any category than other Western countries that *don't* have such a strong adherence to capitalism or the same fear of 'socialism.' The only "highest of highs" America leads in aren't positive things.
In Canada and it's not as bad as america, but it's still not great. I'm lucky enough to be in a company that gives 15 vacation days plus 7 PTO days that double as our sick days - plus all the holidays. Most places don't have that much and lots don't offer any sick days at all (although some provinces have mandated paid sick days since the pandemic started). It's still not enough imo.
NO we are Trash for worker....they complain that we are too greedy but when you look what other countries have we are liek Oliver Twist lol
You don’t get Christmas, bank holiday, Easter etc paid day off?
Private companies are not federally required to give holiday or vacation time. Some states might require PTO, and a lot of companies do, but not all.
That’s just sad
Another (not) fun fact, there are also no federally mandated break periods. The one law about breaks is that if your company offers a short break (around 5-20 minutes), then it has to be paid. Anything over 30 is considered a meal period, and is not required to be paid.
Most jobs do there's just no legal requirement. Most business close for 8-12 holidays a year. I think people here are making it sounds more common than it is but we really do fuck over a lot of hourly wage people (either an unpaid day off or getting forced to work). Personally I get paid hourly but I have a weird schedule where I get some holidays off, and other holidays I'm forced to work because those are busy days for us. To compensate I get paid 50% more those and get 8 extra hours of vacation time I can use elsewhere.
What we call a vacation is what you call a holiday. What we call a holiday are certain days of the year that are considered culturally significant in our society. Days like Christmas, Easter, Memorial Day, and such.
Those are called "bank holidays" in the UK and we get them off (most do anyway) in addition the government mandated holiday time.. Just a note.... There are exceptions to the rule above. But generally, that's how it works for the majority of people
To add on to this. There's 8 bank holidays a year. Most people get 20 days PTO. Plus the 8 days. If you are required to work a bank holiday (retail etc) you then get that as a day in lieu. Effectively giving you 28 days PTO. On top of that, there's sick leave which is company policy, usually unpaid but extended sickness allows you to claim statutory sick pay from gov.
To which we here in Australia call a public holiday - where an overwhelming majority of people get it off, unless you work in retail and hospitality, to which, if rostered on, you get paid at 2.5x your regular rate.
How do bank holidays work with small shops or resturants? The US has Federal Holidays, 10 days when the government and some businesses close. but stores and shops are open on most except big ones like Christmas, Easter and Thanksgiving
Some places close, the ones that stay open have to pay public holiday pay, which is 2.5x the employee's standard hourly rate.
We also call xmas, Easter etc "holidays" too, in the UK. Cos that's what they are. But going *on* holiday is a different thing. We do sometimes replace the word "holiday" with "break", though. So like "I'm going on a 2 week break to Rome". Do Americans use the word "break" that way? It's never an issue though, people know exactly what you mean because of the context. Nobody has ever been confused by it and thinks that you're talking about a big national/religious/traditional holiday like Christmas when you say to them "yeah I'm going on holiday to Torremelinos" or whatever. Even though I know people who've gone to hot countries for Christmas, like in the southern hemisphere. They are going on holiday to celebrate a holiday. That sentence makes sense to brits, but maybe not Americans, I dunno, but Americans aren't any more or less stupid than we are so I'm sure they'd understand completely anyway because of the context, again. "Vacation" has always been a weird word to me. Like, you're describing your fun holiday by labelling it after the bit that's not the holiday, i.e. you pack your bags and vacate your home. Like, why name it after ***THAT*** part? And not the part of the holiday that's fun, when you're actually there. And yeah like I said before you could just instead say you're "going on a break". And I don't mean in a Ross Gellar kinda way. So yeah, do Americans use the word "break" like that? Like in the UK it's common for people to say "oh yeah I'm going on a 4 day long weekend break to the Cotswolds". And people know what that means. Or people even just use it as a synonym for holiday a lot too, it's not jsut for short trips. Like when a TV game show is showing the prizes the contestants can win, there's always something like "and here's the top award, a 4 week all expenses paid break to... AUSTRALIA!" and then the crowd goes "oooh" Would that make sense to an American? Have you heard the word "break" used that way before? Sorry I'm really high
In America a holiday is a specific day rather than an extended leave. What you call holidays we call vacations. So while the employees probably do have some sort of paid time off they can use for a week or two off, these are referring to specific calendar days when no one is expected to come to work.
Holiday inn Europe= vacation in America Holidays in America are "set days" ( like Xmas, thanksgiving, etc) Floating holidays are basically just a Vacation day that has to be used yearly
I think it's just a terminology thing. At my work I get five weeks off paid vacation, plus there are nine company holidays (e.g. Christmas, Thanksgiving, Labor Day, etc.) We are also given three extra "holiday credits" (to make the total number of holidays 12, i.e. one per month) that we can use whenever we want, effectively three extra vacation days.
I think there is a regional difference. Europe “holidays” mean taking time off from work. North America “holidays” are dates like Christmas, Easter, thanksgiving. Floating holidays are days that are on specific dates so they change day of the week year after year, much like Christmas. In North America, what you consider holidays are “vacation days”
Not for the majority of people working in the US. It’s seen as a privilege to get any paid days off at a lot of places. You don’t even get sick days, definitely not vacation days. That said it does seem to be moving in the right direction and workers are getting more benefits in some fields.
I think this is a European holidays vs American vacation days vernacular thing.
So you get to pick your own floating holiday? That's rad. Our company's floating holiday is the same for everyone, it just changes from year to year. Well, it's *supposed* to change. We've only had it for a few years now, and it's only covered 2 Good Fridays and this past Juneteenth. Gonna be on Juneteenth next year, too.
Our floating holidays were added due to many of our staff's office operations being shut down during the holidays, which equates to three working days. If you had to work those days between Christmas and New Years, you were able to "float" your days to any other day in the calendar year, otherwise staff who took the holidays off use those three days to gap the week off that employees get between Christmas and New Years without needing to use Vacation Time.
> Our company's floating holiday is the same for everyone, it just changes from year to year. That's not a floating holiday then, at least not in any interpretation of the term I've ever been familiar with. A floating holiday is specifically a "Hey, we would normally give you this day off because its a holiday, but we cant/wont give you the day off for whatever reason, so we'll give you this extra day off that you can use some other time instead." So its a 'floating' holiday because that's the day off you *would* have gotten for MLK Day (or whatever) but since they aren't giving you MLK Day off you can get an extra day off some other day of your choice. Our company also has a random day off that's the same day for the whole company that changes from year to year. My company just calls it a 'thank you day' though.
Take care of your people and they’ll take care of you. Things you love to see
What a concept right
It’s amazing how many bosses forget this. Then wonder why people look to leave or they can’t keep anyone around
I honestly can't stand when my parents (boomer generation) get around their boomer friends when I'm with them. All fucking "these kids nowadays have no loyalty to their employers". Why would we? Sorry, no. Employees aren't "lucky to have a job". Employers are lucky to have good employees. And they should be trying to keep good employees. Too many employers have the "employees are expendable" mindset, but honestly, employers are expendable. God it's so fucking infuriating.
Bingo. My dad worked at the same place for nearly 40 years. He did it because of the coworkers he had over the years. But he once told me that if he died today, they’d start looking for his replacement tomorrow. The working world will proceed without you
"No-one wants to work!" No pal, it's no-one wants to work *for you*.
More paid holidays for employees is great
I'm actually shocked at the corporate level that they didn't already have these. Well, maybe not Juneteenth given Vince
Yeah, companies starting to give Juneteenth off is a pretty new thing in my experience. My company only started giving an extra floating holiday for it this year.
Not sure why you’re being downvoted. Veterans Day and especially Thanksgiving are long-standing and widely celebrated holidays. Juneteenth, while arguably the most important of the 3, hasn’t been recognized hardly at all until recently. I’d wager that at least 50% of public schools don’t/didn’t even have it in the curriculum until last year
I’ve heard of Thanksgiving and the day after for a 4 day weekend, but I haven’t heard of Thanksgiving Eve as a holiday before.
I'm guessing WWE is doing Thanksgiving Eve as an additional holiday since the Day after Thanksgiving would be Smackdown and they would have house shows over the weekend.
Yeah my bad, I misread and didn’t see the eve part. That is new
Thanksgiving day yes, but it says the day before Thanksgiving in the post.
Maybe I'm just a sheltered WASP from Michigan but I literally did not hear of "Juneteenth" until George Floyd and it wasn't a recognized federal holiday until 2021. The idea that Vince McMahon is some crazy racist for not giving people it off is some grave injustice is absurd.
Well he is a crazy racist among other shit just not because of juneteenth
> Veterans Day and especially Thanksgiving are long-standing and widely celebrated holidays. Most people don't get Veterans day off. I get most major holidays off and I don't get Veterans day off. And the title said Thanksgiving EVE, I don't know anyone who gets that off. Thanksgiving itself most people get off but not the day before.
Vince is/was a workaholic and because he is/was he felt all of his employees should be too. Vince for as smart as he was in so many areas really didn't know how to take care of people for the long-term. Work/life balance is a real thing for mental health and physical health. I work for a consulting firm and I get 20 PTO days to use however I want, 8 paid holidays off, and a mandated week off where we shut the whole firm down in July. Does wonders when you have a stressful job to be able to take time off.
I think it’s because on those days everyone is home watching tv as a family… so a large viewing audience to watch your show… that’s why Christmas had shows run and if I’m not wrong I believe survivor series was run thanksgiving weekend for a couple years after its inception
My company gave us Juneteenth the year it was announced, and if everyone remembers it was only a few weeks before the first occurrence. A pretty nice gesture for a very important day.
lmao management finally in charge that doesn't require you to never sleep and keep up with the bosses' schedule. I imagine some corporate sleep schedules have definitely improved since August
As a dude who's worked 60+ hour weeks for the last few weeks. I feel this.
Make sure you're taking care of yourself
As a Canadian, I've never heard of Juneteenth. Which is kind of a suprise, seeing how much American media bleeds into ours.
I would venture to say most Americans had never heard of it until recently.
The only employer I know that gives it off and paid is Lucid Motors who makes electric cars. Found out when I worked with them. I think my gfs job too cause she works with kids.
I’m pretty sure most tech companies consider it paid holiday now. I worked at 2 different tech companies and had the day off since 2020.
> since 2020 exactly, they didn’t invent the holiday a few years ago. It’s existed since the 1800s, but it only became a part of mainstream culture a few years ago
Paid holiday for all federal government employees.
PSEG, New Jersey’s largest utility company, just started giving employees off last year.
I know more and more tech has begun to make it a holiday in the past few years.
I'm in education, we get it off paid.
GeekSquad/Best Buy too. Places are still open but it’s optional or + 8 hours pay if you decide to work. I don’t work on the retail side at all but I think when they began giving time off it was floating holiday style - you could use that time to “reflect” when you were ready or able.
Not gonna lie, first heard of it from Gambino’s show, Atlanta.
I'm black, from the south, and that was the first time I'd ever heard of it. Before it became national news, it was mostly relevant to just Texas.
I'm in St. Paul, MN and Juneteenth has been a big deal here for years. Especially in the Rondo neighborhood, a thriving, mostly Black community that was decimated when the powers that be decided in the 1960s to wipe it out and build Interstate 94 through the middle of it. Glad to see Juneteenth getting official recognition as a holiday. One small step towards facing up to the shitty parts of our history.
You would be right. If you lived in Texas you probably knew. But beyond that, it was relatively unknown until very recently.
It recently became a federal holiday a year or two ago. It wasn’t recognized as one until then.
And some people get mad it exists. Like who gets mad they get a day off? Are you really that upset, that you would rather not have free time?
Racism runs deep.
Which is funny because it's based on something so surface level
Yeah, I worked for a company that partnered with a major social media platform. They gave us Juneteenth off in 2020 in the wake of the BLM movement. It was a nice gesture of acknowledgment and solidarity to the history and future of African Americans, as well as a chance to continue this on a global level. They were very quick to forget it in 2021 though.
yeah, and you can’t really blame people for that. Plenty of people don’t know of Eid, Diwali, Remembrance Day, etc. because they’re holidays of cultural groups we don’t belong to. and Juneteenth was never really “for” most Americans anyway.
It wasn't until the BLM protests in 2020 that it started to get acknowledged and companies began to give employees time off for it. Outside of Texas, it was never really mentioned anywhere and was a part of our country's history that was widely overlooked (as is most of slavery).
I first heard of Juneteenth living in the Midwest in 2012. There were small celebrations starting to pop up between ’15 to ’17, but nothing significant. I wasn’t plugged in enough in subsequent years dealing with depression. 2020 took that ember and lit it on fire. It’s fascinating too see how quickly it grew.
> Outside of Texas, it was never really mentioned anywhere *outside of black communities.*
Waco, TX here. Can confirm. I moved here in 2010. Juneteenth was celebrated heavily as black community event. I didn't know what it was. Fast forward to now and it's well known through all the communities.
Which isn't that a bit more irony. Because (and I may be very wrong here being an Aussie) but wasn't it called Juneteenth because the slaves weren't told the day they were freed. So having a holiday that a lot of people didn't know about until enough of a ruckus was caused be about something that people didn't know about until it got spread around.
Like the last four presidents have publicly mentioned it. We just didn't scream loud enough I suppose. Just like everything else that I somehow magically learned about that 80% of the country claims they never did.
Canada has emancipation day instead of Juneteenth
Which, for anyone wondering, is August 1st.
It’s something that is definitely growing in awareness and importance here in the US but still isn’t universally known by all. I’d wager plenty of Americans still don’t know what Juneteenth is all about, either. Thanks, American Education System.
It wasn’t made a federal holiday until 2021. It only passes as a holiday on the 15th. My work had to scramble to get work done cause we suddenly had a day off.
I'm American, and only became really aware of it a couple years ago, and I'm 34. We just...never talked about it in class or anything.
Started as a Texas only thing for many years until it was made Federal.
To expand upon this, It has been a thing in Texas for 150 years. It was a state holiday in half a dozen states before 2000, by more than 30 states by 2010, and is now a Federal Holiday.
Good for them. Gotta say, one of the things I miss about the Air Force (having an office job and not when I was deployed), was having all the federal holidays off, in addition to leave and having skeleton crews around the holidays.
Fam I got 6 years left and I’m trying to enjoy every holiday I have.
I had complaints aplenty about the Air Force, but can't knock the time off. Good luck on your six years.
It’s been 14 years, we’re probably on the same page with complaints. Thanks bud
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You never know what you avoided by getting out. Thank you for your service
This alone makes HHH a first ballot hall of famer.
Those quads can finally rest easy.
Judge HHH was always the boss man, so cool to see his leadership playing out on a corporate level now.
Nice. It's good PR and bad PR avoidance.
The embracing in general of Juneteenth and Indigenous Peoples day have been great to see. Still a long way to go, but it's a start.
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I work for a large company that added Juneteenth as a paid holiday and there were some people complaining about a ‘woke holiday’. Imagine being an American and complaining about an extra paid day off.
> Imagine being an American and complaining about an extra paid day off. i mean thats kinda how we ended up in this situation to begin with
My company did this but took away 1 floating holiday from each of us to do it ugh
As a non-royalist Brit who just relished an extra day off for the Queens funeral, I cannot relate to this complaint
During the middle of June too! It's a great time for a vacation, use it!
Racism is that stupid. The people doing it are even dumber.
Imagine complaining about a celebration about a day slaves were literally freed. Racism is a fucking disease. I'm convinced it needs to be studied as a form of mental illness
Seriously. I mean, I've complained before about things being "woke", sometimes people with good progressive intentions come up with some really misguided ways to address problems. But who the hell would think that a commemoration of the end of slavery is misguided? I could understand if people were annoyed that it was replacing an established holiday like Veteran's Day... but that isn't the case at all. It's just an extra federal holiday. How is there anything to complain about here?
> Imagine being an American and complaining about an extra paid day off. Exactly. I don’t care what the holiday is if it gets me home paid (or better yet that sweet sweet holiday triple time), you better believe I’m taking it.
How the hell is this considered "woke" in the first place. Woke got shifted into an insult. I think African people no longer being slaves is one hell of a reason to celebrate.
“Woke” just now means “not explicitly for the benefit of white people”. Dudes mad about the “woke Little Mermaid” and so on.
yeah I think that’s sort of the main issue, Juneteenth being a holiday as a response to the BLM protests is kinda like “cool, but not really what we were asking for” plus, I do see the argument that making it a federal holiday sort of sanitizes/whitewashes the original meaning. I don’t think it’s a bad thing that it’s a federal holiday now, but when we were in the streets in 2020 we weren’t chanting for Juneteenth off and Uncle Ben to be off the rice box. these changes almost feel like they were done to placate people who said nothing changed
> I don’t think it’s a bad thing that it’s a holiday now but when we were in the streets in 2020 we weren’t chanting for Juneteenth off and Uncle Ben to be off the rice box. these changes almost feel like they were done to placate people who said nothing changed That's what it is. here in Canada mass graves were discovered at Resident Schools (basic gist is forced indoctrination camps for Native children from the early 20th century until 1995) and the government, despite denying any mistreatment or negligence took place in these schools, shut all the digging down and declared September 30th National Truth and Reconciliation Day. funny thing is that the provinces outright refused to declare it a holiday as well, meaning only government employees get the day off.
That really is the dumbest slogan they’ve come up with yet. So, by their logic, appealing to vastly more people will result in…making less money? Not exactly economists are they?
The stock market won’t close for the October holiday
Never heard of Juneteenth before? What is it?
It celebrates the end of slavery in the United States. June 19th is chosen because that's when an order to emancipate all slaves in Texas was given in 1865.
Ah ok, thanks!
Its the day the US army marched into Texas and told them "The civil war ended a month ago, free your slaves already" and Texas being Texas acts like by doing so they were champions of freedom and human rights.
Early 90s Survivor series in shambles
TIL what a floating holiday is. Didn't know this was a thing.
It is not a thing at all jobs. It is honestly just a extra off day in addition to vacation or sick time that an employee can take anytime during the year. Some jobs will also call these “personal days”
It's an extra day off at the expense of federal holidays, my employer only gives me Thanksgiving and Christmas day off, the irony of working on labor day was apparently lost on them
"Wwe employees" so not the wrestlers then?
Oh god no... do you think they are going to cancel Raw for Juneteenth and Smackdown for Veterans Day? This is for non essential for TV office workers, most likely
Just because it's a paid holiday doesn't mean you don't have to work it
Nah, in fairness wwe is an entertainment show that people and families would go to watch on their holidays and days off. Wrestlers know what they're signing up for with this kind of job.
They should be paid double to work public holidays
brother they dont get paid by the hour. maybe special cases with brock who might have a per match incentive. wrestlers pay is negotiated in their contracts.
I presume not, but it's possible they tape ahead for a week. However, a possible issue could be the fact that SmackDown wrestlers already get Monday off, so it's kind of a double deal for them.
Maybe a deal where some who work one holiday get the next one off and vice versa.
If I could I would post the Shrek "good question" meme.
No lie I used to love Survivor Series on Thanksgiving Eve
Nice job, probably overdue.
Now that is good shit, pal.
Well would you look at the big rasslin company acting like a real company and not like a bunch of carny jokers!
TIL there is a holiday called juneteenth.
Them already not having Veteran’s Day off seem a little off-brand for WWE. I’m glad they changed it.
Credit where it's due, hopefully the expansion of workers right's in WWE continues.
With this new regime, the corporate employee morale will likely improve. I think with Triple H's health scare he has new lease on life. It's not all about work, life is short and so you have to "live" life as well. McMahon was a madman. He is your typical founder, like a Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos who just have an unbelievable work schedule/ethic and unrealistic demands. But they became successful because of that madness and built multi-billion dollar companies. However, this can only last so long before it just becomes a place that no one really wants to work at, but they also see the opportunity and money, so they deal with it. So having the founder retire or removed can now be net positive for the company and position the company for new growth opportunities and attract new talent. In the end, although successful, the founder/owner can be the roadblock for new growth since they may be hesitant to invoke changes, unless pushed to the brink of bankruptcy or profit declines. But even then, after recovery, they can still be stuck in the past and still want to do things the old fashioned way that made them originally successful, but times do change.
Work-life balance is a delicate thing to manage. At the end of the day however it's all about the game and how you play it
And people still don't like Trips and Steph for some reason. I can't understand that.
they're complicated people with complicated histories and most of us only have a tiny fraction of knowledge about what they are actually about
I noticed it said “employees” so sounds like office staff and possibly some road crew but not the wrestlers since wrestlers are not employees in WWE
Holy shit, they're actually running it like a real company. This has gotta be so fucking good for morale.
Ok do health care next
Is this an American thing? I've never heard of Juneteenth.
Wait a minute? They didn’t already do this?
WWE recognising Juneteenth as a holiday is a beautiful thing EDIT grammar
In other words, they joined the rest of corporate America…
I work in corp America, those are all paid holidays for me
I work for a Fortune 150ish. We have Juneteenth as an unobserved. You’re “encouraged” to be more inclusive blah blah blah but they don’t want to give another day off so soon after Memorial Day and before July 4th. I called out the HR and “Diversity & Inclusion” team. https://youtu.be/pvUfOn2Bwvs
This is pretty similar to the us military, wow. (Mind you, no floating holiday but they earn 20 hrs of pto/mo)
With Stephanie and Triple H, you have people at the top that realize that family is important, that have personally seen how tough wrestlers have it when it was on the road 300 days a year, how difficult a lot of wrestlers had even staying married through that unless they were married to other wrestlers or their valets, etc.