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re: Why millennials suck: taking a "mental health day"
Posted on 7/12/17 at 1:44 pm to Uncle Stu
Posted on 7/12/17 at 1:44 pm to Uncle Stu
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taking a "mental health day"
I just equate it to, "I have a hangover."
I see no problem with it. It's a sick day. If you aren't going to be product or efficient, take the day.
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Posted on 7/12/17 at 1:46 pm to PrivatePublic
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If it really is for a health issue, it will be easy for her to present a doctor's note. Mental or physical.
Requiring a doctor's note for every time you take a sick day (I'm not talking 3-4 days in a row, just the occasional sick day) is such a shite arse policy.
If you have a guy who is abusing those days, then his work is likely suffering and management should handle that. Requiring everyone to walk into a doctor's office for something as simple as a stomach bug or cold that will resolve itself without medication is ridiculous. And part of the reason people who actually need to see a general practitioner in a timely manner has trouble getting in.
Plus, make it PTO. If they earned those days by their time with the company than they should be able to use it as they choose.
Posted on 7/12/17 at 1:46 pm to Uncle Stu
I have never heard of this. Is this really something that is becoming common?
Seriously, when I was a kid, I remember thinking that once you get older you have to go to college and then work to make money and if you wanted to be rich you had to work a lot. Of course it isn't that simple, but my point is.. I always thought that it wasn't "manly" to take a day off unless it was for something really serious. Like a serious injury or a family member died.
The reason I thought that is because that's what I saw. I remember one time my dad woke up sick. As in, he looked sick and you could tell he wasn't feeling well and the thought to stay home didn't even cross his mind. I remember my mom saying "maybe you should call in today" and he told her something like "the weekend is only two days away I will take care of it then if I don't feel better".
What are kids today seeing from their parents that makes them think the way they do? Make them think they need a "mental health day" and all the other crazy shite they believe?
Seriously, when I was a kid, I remember thinking that once you get older you have to go to college and then work to make money and if you wanted to be rich you had to work a lot. Of course it isn't that simple, but my point is.. I always thought that it wasn't "manly" to take a day off unless it was for something really serious. Like a serious injury or a family member died.
The reason I thought that is because that's what I saw. I remember one time my dad woke up sick. As in, he looked sick and you could tell he wasn't feeling well and the thought to stay home didn't even cross his mind. I remember my mom saying "maybe you should call in today" and he told her something like "the weekend is only two days away I will take care of it then if I don't feel better".
What are kids today seeing from their parents that makes them think the way they do? Make them think they need a "mental health day" and all the other crazy shite they believe?
Posted on 7/12/17 at 1:46 pm to Uncle Stu
I'm not a millennial, I'm a middle aged man. I've been taking mental health days for 25 years... I just never called them that. Never ever give your employer any more info than absolutely necessary.
Posted on 7/12/17 at 1:48 pm to OweO
just bc that's the way it was when you were a kid doesn't make it the "right" way
our PTO is use it or lose it, and you better believe I'm going to use use it.
our PTO is use it or lose it, and you better believe I'm going to use use it.
Posted on 7/12/17 at 1:50 pm to Uncle Stu
if you got the days use em
Posted on 7/12/17 at 1:51 pm to Uncle Stu
Millennials work harder, faster, and more efficiently than precious generations.
It doesn't take us a week and a half to triple copy a proposal. You can do the whole thing on a computer in 3 hours and instantaneously send it to everyone who needs it. You can also edit it with an entire workgroup at anytime from anywhere.
So we should get time off when we finish our work.
Eat a dick, grandpa, I'm sorry you still use ink pens and fax machines. That's not how this works anymore. We do double your work in half the time and we need a break afterwards. Go ahead and try to shame us into being miserable workaholics. You'll be dead or retiring soon and we'll bring that righteous retribution for your dumb unadaptable bullshite down on you.
It doesn't take us a week and a half to triple copy a proposal. You can do the whole thing on a computer in 3 hours and instantaneously send it to everyone who needs it. You can also edit it with an entire workgroup at anytime from anywhere.
So we should get time off when we finish our work.
Eat a dick, grandpa, I'm sorry you still use ink pens and fax machines. That's not how this works anymore. We do double your work in half the time and we need a break afterwards. Go ahead and try to shame us into being miserable workaholics. You'll be dead or retiring soon and we'll bring that righteous retribution for your dumb unadaptable bullshite down on you.
This post was edited on 7/12/17 at 2:04 pm
Posted on 7/12/17 at 1:56 pm to Breesus
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Millennials work harder, faster, and more efficiently than precious generations.
nice troll
millenials remind me of europeansPosted on 7/12/17 at 1:56 pm to OweO
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What are kids today seeing from their parents that makes them think the way they do? Make them think they need a "mental health day" and all the other crazy shite they believe?
They're probably seeing their parents regretting working themselves to death over not near as much money as they thought they'd have in retirement.
My Dad worked 40+ years for the railroad and while the retirement is good retirement compared to other companies, physically he suffered for just taking the minimal week vacation in most years. He'll be the first to tell you that he regrets not taking more time off to spend with us when my brother was still alive. He missed a lot of time with us growing up because he worked so hard to provide.
Posted on 7/12/17 at 1:57 pm to OweO
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if you wanted to be rich you had to work a lot.
Have you ever met a rich person? They work hard but they don't work 24/7. When they're working they bust arse but they take plenty of vacations and time off.
Posted on 7/12/17 at 1:59 pm to OweO
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What are kids today seeing from their parents that makes them think the way they do?
Watching your parents miserably work themselves to death and miss family time to make damn sure that stupid thing at work that could've waited anyway got done in the hopes of looking good but never really advancing in life.
People have this insane misconception that a couple days off every once in a while will bring a company crashing to the floor or somehow diminish your work product. It's asinine. We have advanced the capabilities of production and productivity light-years ahead of where it was 30/50 years ago and we have not adjusted our work schedule.
Old people are just pissed because they wish they could reap the benefits of the increased ability to be productive and take time off.
This post was edited on 7/12/17 at 2:02 pm
Posted on 7/12/17 at 1:59 pm to Breesus
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Millennials work harder, faster, and more efficiently than precious generations.
It doesn't take us a week and a half to triple copy a proposal. You can do the whole thing on a computer in 3 hours and instantaneously send it to everyone who needs it. You can also edit it with an entire workgroup at anytime from anywhere.
So we should get time off when we finish our work.
Eat a dick, grandpa, I'm sorry you still use ink pens and fax machines. That's not how this works anymore. We do double your work in half the time and we need a break afterwards. Go ahead and try to shame us into being miserable workaholics. You'll be dead or retiring soon and we'll bring that righteous retribution for your dumb unadaptable bullshite down on you.
Posted on 7/12/17 at 1:59 pm to Uncle Stu
Sounds like you need a mental health day op
Posted on 7/12/17 at 2:00 pm to OweO
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Make them think they need a "mental health day"
Of everyone on this site, you should be supporting any kind of improvement in mental healthcare.
Posted on 7/12/17 at 2:03 pm to tke857
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that person you didnt give a mental health day maybe that guy who comes and shoots up the office
If someone needs a "mental health day" to not shoot up an office than they should be institutionalized to begin with.
Posted on 7/12/17 at 2:04 pm to stelly1025
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If someone needs a "mental health day" to not shoot up an office than they should be institutionalized to begin with
I will never go to an institution.
Posted on 7/12/17 at 2:07 pm to stelly1025
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If someone needs a "mental health day" to not shoot up an office than they should be institutionalized to begin with.
what's worse is when they don't! I have a couple of nephews that are Navy pilots, whenever they're about to deploy the Navy has to make sure they are not in need of a mental health day before they go out to drop missiles and bombs, fricking millennials!
Posted on 7/12/17 at 2:09 pm to Uncle Stu
I don't see the problem. Last year I took a bush-hogging day. Deer camp looked better and I felt better.
Why worry about what other people do with their days off?
Why worry about what other people do with their days off?
Posted on 7/12/17 at 2:09 pm to Uncle Stu
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I dont care at all. You can go murder some hookers for all I care
they dont think this is applicable to their PTO
this is an all new excused day off that doesnt ding their vacation days, nor their sick days, nor their PTO
You sound like a real pussy.
I can't help but roll my eyes when I hear someone say blah blah blah "millenials." It's the laziest most worthless of generalizations. It immediately makes me think that the person lacks the ability to reason or apply critical thinking. There's such a broad range of people that fall into that generation (as with any generation) which makes any attempt at a generalization pointless.
Posted on 7/12/17 at 2:10 pm to Uncle Stu
Millennial checking in here. I work 55-60 hours a week and got my first three day weekend of the year the weekend after the Fourth of July. This year I've worked on the Fourth of July, Labor Day, MLK day, and Easter. I don't get PTO. I do get three sick days and on my three year anniversary at my current company last year I went from one week of vacation to two weeks vacation which was very nice. I work 10-14 hour shifts overnight. I'm not complaining they treat me ok. I just felt like my experience as a millennial employee was pertinent to your thread topic.
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