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[โ€“] MetalMachine@feddit.nl 23 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Nah F that, most Americans barley get any paid time off if any. If anything we need MORE.

[โ€“] JackbyDev@programming.dev 11 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 1 points 54 minutes ago

Afaik, what he does is called manufacturing consent.

[โ€“] trumpetmouth@lemmy.world 21 points 4 hours ago

maybe there are too many non-working presidents right now?

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[โ€“] Kalysta@lemm.ee 22 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Translation: we shouldnโ€™t give black people in america a federal holiday because i am a racist and demented old man who is increasingly irrelevant in society.

[โ€“] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 6 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

demented old man who is increasingly irrelevant in society.

Trump: And I will make sure I go out with a bang and take everybody with me!

[โ€“] limelight79@lemmy.world 1 points 12 minutes ago* (last edited 12 minutes ago)

If he takes all of his cronies with him, that'd be great.

[โ€“] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 17 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Technically, there is no law requiring a company to provide PTO or close on Holidays. Its up to the company, not this stupid bastard.

[โ€“] Zenith@lemm.ee 1 points 22 minutes ago

The government is however required to give most employees several days off throughout the year which might be what heโ€™s bitching about

[โ€“] EighteenthNerd@lemmy.world 14 points 5 hours ago

Biggest problem with non-working "holidays" is that they only apply to certain more privileged people who also get paid to not work. Everyone else either sits at home unpaid for the day, or has to work (most often without any additional compensation) to support those who do get the paid day off.

[โ€“] Buske@lemmy.world 27 points 6 hours ago

This guy LITERALLY raped a 13 year old back in the day, and only golfs.

[โ€“] Madison420@lemmy.world 7 points 5 hours ago

Didn't he just create like two new holidays?

[โ€“] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 8 points 6 hours ago

And here we see this buffoon once again viciously attacking his political enemies...(Flips papers)...

..."Anyone with half a brain who works for a living."

[โ€“] rarbg@lemmy.zip 5 points 6 hours ago

And here I thought I would get away without seeing trump bitch about juneteenth..

[โ€“] bieren@lemmy.zip 40 points 9 hours ago (4 children)

โ€œThe workers donโ€™t want itโ€. He had about as much sense of this as he does of a concept of health care plan.

[โ€“] freddydunningkruger@lemmy.world 8 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] paperazzi@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

This is the worst thing to read first thing in the morning ๐Ÿคฎ

[โ€“] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 44 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

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!

[โ€“] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 8 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

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

[โ€“] F_OFF_Reddit@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

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.

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.

[โ€“] AniZaeger@lemmy.world 19 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

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

[โ€“] Omgpwnies@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago

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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[โ€“] Lucelu2@lemmy.zip 27 points 9 hours ago

Ah yes. The obligatory racist whinging on Juneteenth. Fat lazy bastard who doesn't get to work before 11 am because he requires "executive time" (tv time).

[โ€“] 96VXb9ktTjFnRi@feddit.nl 35 points 10 hours ago

Meanwhile the US have the fewest paid leave days of any country on the planet (source).

I do hate holidays as a working stiff:

They exist only as a foil to working days- once working days are eliminated, so too will holidays be.

[โ€“] Nangijala@feddit.dk 85 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

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?

[โ€“] ECB@feddit.org 44 points 11 hours ago (4 children)

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

[โ€“] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 23 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] Localhorst86@feddit.org 23 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Its basic math. A woman needs 9 months for a pregnancy, surely two women would only need 4.5 months.

[โ€“] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 14 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

The spreadsheet confirms what you just said. Adding it to the corporate policy manual now.

[โ€“] Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf 2 points 4 hours ago

Also note that a pregnant woman has two brains, so they can work twice as fast!

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