I know several (small) companies that give you 8 hours PTO on your birthday. You can use it immediately or save it for later.

If anyone wants to see this in video form watch 90 Day Fiance on TLC. The Ukrainian women seem to be the ultimate masters of it.

Think of other topics and questions than work, Americans care too much about work outside of work.

Switch your phone apps to celsius and start your brain switching ASAP.

Knowing what country or region you’re going to would help

I once worked in a division of ~3500 employees, every year the division produced two profit forecasts one called “pessimistic” and another called “optimistic”. My first year the division made $335 million MORE than the optimistic forecast so the division CEO approved every employee a $335 bonus.

The next year it happened again but only $285 million, so $285 bonuses that year.

Both times I scoffed and quietly pointed out to the delighted Boomers I trusted that it was less than one third of a percent of the total money.

The next year apparently the corporate office found out, fired said CEO and quashed the bonuses forever. Apparently the distribution of the crumbs was more than they could handle.

The Portuguese word for turkey 🦃 is Peru

My point is that ad had reach because our corporate overlords wanted it to. It wasn’t some organic grassroots movement, it was part of a billionaire agenda. Wage theft is something they don’t want to have reach and behold, it doesn’t.

In my state you can file a claim with the state labor commission. But they don’t have the resources to investigate “small” reports and their website encourages you to just hire your own lawyer.

It’s fascinating the imbalance, if you take $20 from your employer’s till that’s a crime, they can call 911 and within minutes police can respond and take the money back and possibly arrest you. You could have a criminal record that negatively effects your life for many years.

Your employer shorts your paycheck $2000 and it’s a ‘civil matter’, the police won’t even take your report. Instead you must file a claim with an understaffed beaucratic office that may not even open your email much less recover your money. If any recovery happens it will certainly take many, many months so hopefully you don’t have bills due this month! The employer is free to continue stealing from your paycheck and anyone else’s paychecks and is unlikely to face any meaningful consequences.

Fun fact, the “Crying Indian” ad and that entire campaign was created by Pepsi, Coke, and other companies to shift blame for plastic waste from producers (corporations) to customers.

Once single use plastics became common, littering exploded in America. Many cities and states started enacting laws to ban single use plastics because society largely blamed the companies that produced them.

Pepsi, Coke, and other companies preferred the more profitable single use plastics for their packaging, so they funded the Keep America Beautiful campaign to shift public accountability away from corporations and instead to individuals.

A similar thing happened when the first cars started killing pedestrians in cities, automakers successfully popularized the term “jaywalker” shifting blame for the murders from motorists to pedestrians.

But don’t take my word for it, go look it up!

The Reddit comments 🤦🏽‍♂️ people can’t seem to understand he is talking specifically about labor done for other people not all the labor a person does in their lives.

Yes people in all periods had lots of household chores too, and we still do. This video isn’t about the time spent doing household chores, it’s about the time relationship between workers and employers.