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let’s get these depressed gay men trending

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i think about this tweet a lot

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ok gimmickverse let's all do this

I would be oho-h-

@maryland-officially @the-real-catholic-church @north-dakota-unofficial @non-tyrannical-usa @thee0ne-whos-trying and anyone else!

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glad everyones understanding the assignment

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i totally understand why op made this unrebloggable but it Did change my whole life

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Good Omens | 2.05 The Ball

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cherik bedroom collection because .

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for a literature essay im writing im inexplicably looking up a lot of articles abt private pools and american culture and now im curious.

i'm dutch, and to me a private pool seems like the height of ostentatious luxury. i don't know anyone in my country who has a private pool, i grew up swimming in public pools or whatever random body of water was nearby, lakes or rivers or canals or whatever. american media has so many private pools though, are they really that common?

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I saw THIS and just … it works.

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Someone’s about to get stabbed, idk who yet

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Every single company I've been at that had unlimited PTO actually did have a limit, it just wasn't on paper. One year I took 3 weeks and scheduled a 4th, which was during the week we shut down between xmas and new years, and my manager scheduled a meeting with me to discuss this egregious overuse of PTO. He told me to keep it to 3 weeks from now. I said the policy states it is unlimited. Well yes, but I should only take 3 weeks. No more than that. This one time it was okay because it was going to be the shut down week, but don't do it again.

They never admit this upfront during interviews or negotiations in my experience. And asking about it flags you as someone who takes a lot of PTO and makes you less likely to get an offer over someone who doesn't ask.

Sounds like OP's husband has a nice job. But that is not the case for the majority of companies that are using "unlimited" PTO as a way to avoid paying out unused vacation time when someone quits while still limiting employees to the same time they had before the policy.

I keep seeing people online say that any job offering unlimited PTO is a "scam", because it's reverse psychology and you'll actually take less than normal, or that the manager still has to approve it and won't actually allow more than a few weeks.

I'm sure this can happen, but it's not at all a given! My husband's job offers unlimited PTO and he takes a cumulative average of 6-8 weeks off every year. Management is totally cool with it because he's a good worker who gets his projects done on time, and he's considerate by not taking off during the few weeks of the year that his team crunches for deadlines.

Don't scare people into avoiding jobs that offer good benefits in case they might not pay out. Instead, teach them to ask the right questions during interviews so they can gauge accessibility:

What are common reasons a PTO request may be denied? What's the criteria to be approved?

What's the average amount of time your teammates take off every year? (This will tell you how realistically you will get to take off)

How often do you (the interviewer) take advantage of the PTO policy?

Are there any exceptions to the "unlimited" policy, such as certain weeks of the business year, or length of consecutive PTO days taken at once?

How long does a new employee have to work for the company before the unlimited PTO policy kicks in for them?

Remember, you're allowed to ask questions during interviews! Use it to your advantage. And don't avoid jobs just because someone told you the benefits are too good to be true.

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At the airport, never lose sight of the children...