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Cake day: December 4th, 2024

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  • You parsed it wrong.

    It’s “a new trend amongst gen Z” (regular old fashioned paid time off, and MUCH less of it than is the minimum in most other rich countries) that “career professionals” (older businesspeople, presumably bosses and sycophants without exception. Possibly just one person. Possibly that person is the author of the article) call it "micro-retirement to frame it as something new and scary.





  • Unionization doesn’t always prevent layoffs

    Fixed that for you.

    I’m sure you didn’t mean to imply that unionization NEVER prevents or at least helps to prevent spurious mass layoffs, since that would make you a total imbecile about how labor relations in general and collective bargaining in particular works or at best an otherwise rational victim of gaslighting disinformation campaigns carried out on behalf of the people doing the layoffs.




  • Because the first two are bullies and friends with the bully that bullies the last one?

    To put it nerdily, it’s kind of like pretending to be on the side of The Empire, Mordor, and The Fremen at the same time. While the Harkonnens AND Sauron supply the death stars and rebel base locations The Empire needs and Sauron is one of Harkonnen‘s top sycophants.