as a salaried worker I refuse to participate in flex PTO, it's not how the labor laws are written. I work for a significant part of the day and have a legitimate reason to stop, I do not submit any leave requests.
My company recently granted an extra 40 hours of COVID PTO to use for flex, which is nice, but they could just stop trying to work around labor laws.
Your observation is only true in the ephemeral surface. there is no moral equivalence. there is no legal equivalence. What is your purpose in this deflection?
Rome of that age was very self aware of the histories of the many city states that had risen and fallen before them, as I think the very story describes. The personal choices made by leaders of those many prior city-empires were the very reasons for each to fail on the global stage. The Aeneid was the zeitgeist of Roman manifest destiny under the imperial banner.
I am to understand that in all of her Majesties kingdoms they have regulations against making things of cardboard such that the front does not fall off.
try being a person of color in a coffee shop or hotel lobby. Maybe you heard about some difficulties for a pair of young men had in a Philadelphia Starbucks?
My first job in the '80s was doing RFI/RFP shotgunning for a mom & pop (my mom & pop) defense consulting firm out of the GSA register. We would essentially cold-respond to everything in our domain. From that experience I learned that there were some genuine requests with no fix in.
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I used to work for Cogent Communications, this was common practice in customer service. Comstat scores are 100% gamed.
The Global Director of customer service has his managers change ticket parameters for two weeks around ticket closure so that only 'happy' customers get review emails.
My company recently granted an extra 40 hours of COVID PTO to use for flex, which is nice, but they could just stop trying to work around labor laws.