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[–] SlyFox@toast.ooo 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This was my father in-law. He developed sepsis from the foot they had to keep doing surgery on. On his hospital bed where he is hooked up to just about every machine possible, this man was on his laptop doing work and on a cell phone talking to this engineer and that engineer. After his foot was amputated, even on disability he was being called 24/7. He was the most important person in the region, he memorized every fiber optic line and location. His boss was treating him like shit to get him to quit, he didn't like dad for some reason, so he pushed dad constantly and shamefully. Once dad died, they had the nerve to call us asking if he had any documents that could help them with a project, he was doing the job of 4-5 college graduates and they were barely managing. He only had his high school degree but the man knew his shit. He had an interview lined up at a new higher paying job, he was one week away, and he spent the last few months of his life crying from stress, hating his job, and just in near constant despair, the only thing that he was looking forward to was mine and my wife's wedding. Corporate America is a vampire and not the sexy kind, the nosferatu kind.

[–] Shard@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I'm sorry for your loss.

[–] BigNote@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Man, a lot of you Americans need to unionize. None of this happens at my work and it's precisely because we're unionized and have a contract that specifically says that our employer is bound by strict rules. Granted, we don't get a month paid vacation, but we can't be denied time off, can't be compelled to be on call, can't be forced to work overtime and we have PTO accounts, healthcare and a pension that get paid into on a weekly basis.

[–] BobbyBandwidth@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] TooMuchDog@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago

I worked 82 out of the last 93 days. I'm exhausted.

[–] aquinteros@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

it's not just europe, I live in Latin America we have 3+ weeks of payed time off, the us job market is the weirdo

[–] Tb0n3@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The meme seems to imply that Europeans all get 3+ MONTHS off a year. How do businesses operate if they're always missing a quarter of their staff?

[–] beto@lemmy.studio 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Tb0n3@sh.itjust.works -1 points 2 years ago

Sounds like one of those bullshit jobs. The further you get from actually making something the less valuable skilled workers are to production.

[–] atomicfox@lemm.ee -1 points 2 years ago

America bad! Europe good! I was really hoping we left this tired joke on Reddit.