Workers of the World, Take PTO! - JSTOR Daily
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Vacations in the Soviet Union were hardly idylls spent with one’s dearest. Everything about them—from whom you traveled with to what you ate—was state determined.

This article is an interesting look at vacations and tourism within the USSR (first place in the world to require paid leave). But, the author can't help but describe everything as a sinister authoritarian conspiracy. I wonder what percent of American workers were going on paid multi day river cruises in the 1970s.

    • GorbinOutOverHere [comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      The best part is it's "the health inspectors recommendation," not the fucking health code. Translation, the director doesn't like it and is using the inspector as an excuse.

      I wanna scream at this dude, what is your idiot fucking problem, you would be doing your job better if you let people wear them because your job isn't ffucking aesthetics or health/safety, it's making sure this fucking dining hall is staffed, and you just had another dishwasher quit because you told him no earbuds, you stupid, shortsighted bourgeois FUCK

      • Des [she/her, they/them]
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        1 year ago

        i have the advantage of working at a grocery store where we have a floor and a hidden workspace and i'm the dept. manager. store maangement did a memo a few months ago "no earbuds" and i just told my crew to ignore it. if our director or anyone comes around we just tuck them. to be safe i just pop mine out on the floor so customers don't complain we're ignoring them or switch it to pass through mode.

        i've worked pizza before too. yeah that's shit excuse what is the ear bud going to fall in the pizza? and there's no customers to complain you are in a kitchen being all greasy and sweaty. shit they should just let us be atomized already like they want us to.

        • GorbinOutOverHere [comrade/them]
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          1 year ago

          yeah that’s shit excuse what is the ear bud going to fall in the pizza?

          Yeah that was the reason for the health inspectors "recommendation" but like fuck if it falls in shit just throw it away and remake it, easy. Before that they were grumbling about it being a safety issue but it's really not. Especially not for me, because my station is out of the kitchen 30ft from anyone else

          They really just don't want to have to yell for people's attention. And unfortunately all the supervisors are shitty and following along with it

          • Des [she/her, they/them]
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            1 year ago

            be like "it's either numb my mind with podcasts/music" or "I'll spend the whole work day thinking about how much i hate this place and how i'm going to quit".