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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • I’d say you earned them as part of the agreed compensation in exchange for your work. That way you also cover circumstances where there’s no union, and no government requirement, but the employer still offers PTO to be competitive with other employers. Which theoretically could also be driven by other people’s unions or governments, but then that would be indirect.

    Besides which, regardless of how the arrangement came to be, you earned your PTO.













  • This happened to someone I worked with years ago. Not in a cubicle, but in a locked basement office. I was his supervisor.

    He died in the office on a Friday evening. He had taken off work the following Monday and Tuesday because he was going to do some work on his house.

    His brother was supposed to meet him on the Saturday, but he never showed up. By Wednesday, the police were involved, and they called me to ask me to see if he was in the office.

    I worked in a different building a few blocks away, so I headed over.

    I didn’t have a key to get in his office, but there happened to be a ladder, so I climbed up and popped out the ceiling tiles to look over the wall.

    He was a strange, troubled guy but very kind.