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Cake day: November 14th, 2023

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  • I was working in a European branch of a SF based private company. It’s a company that tries really hard to have good optics everywhere, from being listed as PBC down to “support and inclusion” talks.

    US employees officially had “unlimited” vacation days, European had 25. Plus the company has a practice of giving an extra Friday off once a month, plus few days for Christmas break plus one year there was a week of summer break.

    That year with a summer break employees in Europe got over 40 days of vacation. 35…37 without it. Plus bank holidays and sick leaves.

    I was freaking out after learning that US employees with the unlimited time off were getting under 20. Whenever an employee was using more than 15 vacation days a year, they were presented with an inquiring interview from their manager trying to figure out why they need so much rest.

    US has no work culture, it’s exploitation.








  • One of my historically worst hangovers was from soju. Together with friends we went to a Korean grill place and the drinks just kept coming. Next morning was bad. I was wrecked in a ways Sodom and Homorrah were, and I was the Lot’s wife looking back at the inferno in the mirror. Big bang headache with coordination of a limp muppet and diction of a local railway station announcement.

    I’m a big guy. I’m my life I’ve experienced some shits. Metal band tours. Post game rugby bus shenanigans. Hoboing around and drinking to keep warm. Getting wasted with carbide enriched hooch while at a LARPG. Soju brought every of that memory, and played a sadistic slow motion replay, making me question every life decision.

    So yeah, gotta try that again once. And I need to score some buckfast.