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[-] miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 372 points 1 month ago

And then he went golfing. True story.

[-] CatDogL0ver@lemmy.world 118 points 1 month ago

And he flew using US government plane. He has spent millions on just plane rides.

Who is wasting tax payer's money.

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 222 points 1 month ago

I hate paid time off. It’s one of the greatest crimes of modern life. I think I’ll campaign to have my union dismantled and my pay cut in half because the current model is clearly ripping off my employer.

Keep in mind that the guy complaining about PTO hasn’t worked a day in his life.

[-] FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world 66 points 1 month ago

"Yeah, PTO is gay!" - Guy who works part-time at Dollar General.

[-] Pika@sh.itjust.works 33 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

FOR REAL THOUGH. Like every person I have ever heard that has complained about PTO, are people who are in positions that either don't accrue it, or accrue it so slowly that it's never usable, or make enough that they don't need to ever worry about being paid vs unpaid when they take holiday.

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[-] Protoknuckles@lemmy.world 39 points 1 month ago

I actually have coworkers who were complaining about a day off, and saying "everybody's lazy, nobody wants to work anymore". Take the day off, and shut up!

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[-] stevestevesteve@lemmy.world 134 points 1 month ago

What a fucking moron along with all his voters

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[-] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 120 points 1 month ago

"the workers don't want it"

The fuck we don't

[-] renamon_silver@lemmy.wtf 48 points 1 month ago

Imagine being this guy and trying to speak for the working class

[-] SoupBrick@pawb.social 37 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

And having legal adults stop and think, "Hmm, maybe this day off thing IS kinda woke."

[-] silasmariner@programming.dev 24 points 1 month ago

Fellas, is it woke to like holidays?

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[-] FancyPantsFIRE@lemmy.world 103 points 1 month ago

I doubt he cares about holidays at all, but he very much cares about removing a holiday that is specifically relevant to not white people.

I was taking with a family member yesterday and said I'd be shocked if Juneteenth is still a holiday next year.

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[-] Nangijala@feddit.dk 91 points 1 month ago

As a Dane, I have always been fucking shocked at the slave-like working conditions Americans work under. They barely get any time off as it is. What do you mean too many holidays?

[-] ECB@feddit.org 44 points 1 month ago

The worst part is... If you've ever had the pleasure of working with an American company you'll notice just how unproductive they are.

Obviously the two are closely connected, but it's always fascinating to me

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[-] Alaik@lemmy.zip 82 points 1 month ago

We have the least mandated PTO in the developed world and a good portion of the underdeveloped world.

Our federal holidays aren't even days off for most people. Lol

My opinion of him can't be lower but man I keep realizing how fucking stupid his supporters are with every one of his asinine comments.

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[-] VeryInterestingTable@jlai.lu 76 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

One of the country with the least amount of paid vacation in the world. And that's the hill he decides to climb on. He excels at making himself look increasingly moronic.

[-] meekah@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago

The only reason they don't have a lower amount of mandatory paid vacation is because it is impossible to go below 0.

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[-] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 74 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

America produces way more than enough to allow everyone to live comfortably and enjoy life. But the fruits of all that extra productivity is being hoarded by a tiny portion of the population while workers are being increasingly stretched and strained to extract as much value from then as possible while paying them as least as possible.

The scarcity of wealth and the need to always work harder and longer hours to barely make it is an illusion maintained to exploit the workers.

[-] kn0wmad1c@programming.dev 63 points 1 month ago

And the fact he posted this on Juneteenth is just coincidence, right?

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[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 60 points 1 month ago

Remember back in the middle ages, when everyone was sporting an axe and knew where the boss's house was?

[-] dumbass@quokk.au 48 points 1 month ago

They also had more days off back then, more time to sharpen that axe.

[-] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 month ago

More holidays, but when you're a subsistence farmer, those aren't really days off, just days you don't have to work for the rent.

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[-] cecinestpasunbot@lemmy.ml 51 points 1 month ago

Kind of telling to be complaining about this on a day which celebrates the end of slavery.

[-] bieren@lemmy.zip 47 points 1 month ago

“The workers don’t want it”. He had about as much sense of this as he does of a concept of health care plan.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 51 points 1 month ago

Workers. Hate. Paid. Holidays.

We've been saying it for years, but nobody listens. The liberal nanny state keeps forcing me to stay home, spend time with my family, or even go on vacation, when all I really want to do is stare at spreadsheets for another eight hours.

Enough is enough!

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[-] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 44 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

What a piece of shit post. He's using the date to signal solidarity to his racist voters.

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[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 39 points 1 month ago

Said the guy who spends 1/3 of his time golfing

[-] KingPorkChop@lemmy.ca 38 points 1 month ago

It would be fun to make Trump work a job for 90 days. Nothing major. Maybe answering phones for a help line.

9 to 5 desk job.

Monday through Friday.

If he misses a day he has to "find a new job" and start over.

The dude would fucking CRACK like he was being waterboarded!

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[-] MetalMachine@feddit.nl 37 points 1 month ago

Nah F that, most Americans barley get any paid time off if any. If anything we need MORE.

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[-] Buske@lemmy.world 36 points 1 month ago

This guy LITERALLY raped a 13 year old back in the day, and only golfs.

[-] yesman@lemmy.world 36 points 1 month ago

Come for the racism, stay for the contempt of working people in general.

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[-] Doomsider@lemmy.world 34 points 1 month ago

King Cuck says no more holidays while golfing his presidency away.

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[-] Kalysta@lemm.ee 34 points 1 month ago

Translation: we shouldn’t give black people in america a federal holiday because i am a racist and demented old man who is increasingly irrelevant in society.

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[-] Lucelu2@lemmy.zip 32 points 1 month ago

Ah yes. The obligatory racist whinging on Juneteenth. Fat lazy bastard who doesn't get to work before 11 am because he requires "executive time" (tv time).

[-] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 32 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

life is not created for an economy

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[-] Foni@lemmy.zip 32 points 1 month ago

I think any European politician who said anything remotely close to this would see their careers instantly over. How is it possible that saying something like this doesn't cost them votes in the US?

[-] kautau@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

He said this specifically on Juneteenth so that his hateful voters agree, and those that work for businesses that don’t give a day off on Juneteenth get angry at the people who work for companies or the government that do.

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[-] trumpetmouth@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago

maybe there are too many non-working presidents right now?

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[-] NoMadLadNZ@lemmy.nz 27 points 1 month ago

Get off the golf course yourself then you orange turd

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[-] polyamorypagan69@lemm.ee 25 points 1 month ago
[-] cook_pass_babtridge@feddit.uk 23 points 1 month ago

This isn't entirely true - someone calculated that, on a good year, a peasant could only work 150 days a year towards the rent of their own farmland. Then they have to actually work that land, take care of their animals, and manually do basically every industrial process we take for granted to get food in their belly. They didn't work 150 days a year then go off with a cheque that will sort them out for the rest of the year.

Source: https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/regulation-industry/medieval-peasants-really-did-not-work-only-150-days-a-year/

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[-] frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io 23 points 1 month ago

OK, start with Christmas Day. I'll wait.

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[-] kreskin@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago

Thinly veiled attempt to get rid of juneteenth. So just the usual rightwing racism.

[-] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago

Technically, there is no law requiring a company to provide PTO or close on Holidays. Its up to the company, not this stupid bastard.

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