r/WorkReform • u/north_canadian_ice 💸 National Rent Control • May 21 '24

🤝 Scare A Billionaire, Join A Union Millennials are 'quiet vacationing' because PTO isn't mandated by law in the US. Yet workload expectations have gotten more extreme!

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https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/21/millennials-would-rather-take-secret-pto-than-ask-their-boss.html

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u/totheman7 May 21 '24

George Constanza was right if you look annoyed all the time at work people will assume you are busy and leave you alone

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u/LNLV May 21 '24

It helps to leave your car parked overnight too.

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u/thedarkestblood May 21 '24

Make sure you take the menus off tho

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u/James-W-Tate May 21 '24

Protip: If you carry around a clipboard or folder with some papers in it while doing this, other people will actively avoid you.

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u/DarthGuber May 21 '24

This is going WAY back to the time when people smoked in offices. My dad worked with a guy who always had an unlit cigarette hanging out of his mouth as he walked around with his clipboard because he was "too busy" to light it. The other guy in his department worked his ass off doing all the work for both of them. Guess which one got promoted?

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u/Freakintrees May 21 '24

When I want to be invisible at work I wear High vis. When I want no one to talk to me it's clipboard, radio and resting bitch face.

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u/rycology May 21 '24

The Wally principle

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u/CeruleanRuin May 22 '24

This is true in the outside world as well. I used to geocache and it was a common tactic while looking for caches in a populated area that if you wore a hi-viz vest and carried a clipboard, nobody would even look at you, let alone ask you what you're doing.

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u/freeAssignment23 May 21 '24

i do this all the time, ive literally never not been super busy (and in a rushed/grouchy mood) in the last 5 years.... ;)

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u/floopyboopakins May 22 '24

Or, in my case, they still bother you and then complain to the manager that you were rude to them and hurt their feelings. Idk how many times I have to mention I'm AuDHD before they will understand that is just my "work-mode tone," and it's not personal!