Hot take, company executives should get as little flexibility as the employee at the company that’s awarded the least flexibility.
this post was submitted on 30 Mar 2026
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And non-smokers should be given as many breaks as the smokers!
Should be "as many minutes" rather than "as many breaks". If a smoker get five 10-minutes smoke breaks a day, I'd rather take two 25-minutes breaks and use them for long(ish) walks around the area to breath some fresh(ish) air.
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what i have observed is that they don't ask or simply don't take as many breaks. but yeah, stepping outside for five minutes and taking deep breaths is a good idea for most, regardless of nicotine!
I once started sitting outside with the smokers whenever they took their collective break. I was told I had to stop doing that because I wasn't a smoker...
I was like... "Do I need to start smoking? Cause I can start smoking..."
The boss didn't like that...
Hot take: as a non-smoker, I regularly took "smoke breaks" anyway. Often, i was hanging out on the loading dock with the smokers.
Same. I used to tell people I second hand smoked.
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I'm fine with people with dependents getting higher priority. If you have one pill, one sick person, and one healthy person, you don't give each of them half a pill for equality sake. https://welleatyouupweloveyouso.com/2023/08/14/what-does-equity-and-equality-have-to-do-with-being-spoiled/
But, also, society in general and employers in specific should strive to provide a level of flexibility to all employees where all of them find joy in their lives.
Once you make the workplace adjustments and accommodations for parents, there's no good reason not to do the same for everyone. It's like cutting curbs or making wide doors for wheelchair access. Once you've convinced the company to do it for new premeses, why would they ever decide to make some without that access? Shits and giggles?
If you're talking about mat/pat leave then that's a separate thing (which everyone should definitely get)
Poverty is caused by greed and wealth hoarding, we should have good enough working conditions it wouldn't matter if you're a parent or not; 16 hour work weeks, universal housing, universal access to clean water and food, etc. without the constant distractions and division by a wealth class of leeches.
I am one of 2 people in my department and we service the entire continent. He has been on paternity leave THREE TIMES in the years i've been here and each time he gets 5 weeks off.
I swear every time he takes off, it's a busy part of the year and i'm absolutely slammed doing everything by myself and customers don't understand.
Then he also gets like 4 weeks of vacation, so it feels really unfair for me with my dog and no kids. But then again, i hate kids and want nothing to do with them, so i guess he needs those 5 weeks.
Maybe they should hire another person. Your problem shouldn't be with this dude who's doing this thing that literally creates a new generation.
And you should get a legit amount of vacation, but paternity leave also isn't vacation.
But he also needs to stop having his kids during busy season, come on guy.
I guarantee that during those 5 weeks paternity he was jealous of your office work and well defined sleep schedules.
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I swear every time he takes off, it’s a busy part of the year and i’m absolutely slammed doing everything by myself and customers don’t understand.
Yeah because he should be timing what months he has sex with his wife to accommodate your employers' schedule /s
This is the fault of your employer for understaffing your department.
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Four day weekends for everyone, and three months of vacation time too.
Yes. Flexibility for everyone. Unironically, this is not a bad idea.
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Yes, fight among each other and leave us millionaire bosses alone 🤑
This thread is so fucking sad to read. All of you are workers squabbling over the basic dignity to have paid leave from work. You all sound like slaves, justifying your lashes. What if, and I know this is radical, we enabled all workers to have as much flexibility as possible over how they are productive with their labour?
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A society should always prioritize its weaker members. Children are among these. The flexibility given to the parents is not a gift to the parents, but to the children.
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