friends, yes this is silly but sit for a moment with the fact that it's actually really bad that the very IDEA of a vacation was so foreign to younger professionals that they felt that they had to invent it
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I also wonder if these young'uns had so many "vacation activities" growing up (e.g. camps, sports-training, etc.) that the word was poisoned in their own minds?
jul 3, 2025, 1:59 pm • 1 1 • view
jul 3, 2025, 1:56 pm • 1 0 • view
Gary Neville and his mini-retirements
jul 3, 2025, 2:16 pm • 0 0 • view
I know lots of Gen Z, and they all take plenty of vacation. Not saying there isn’t plenty to criticize in our work culture, but this seems…off.
jul 3, 2025, 2:00 pm • 6 0 • view
I have been so tired for so long.
jul 3, 2025, 1:53 pm • 1 0 • view
Also, that "experts" are warning against it
jul 3, 2025, 2:53 pm • 3 0 • view
guys, i'm a bit tired. didn't sleep great. but if you come in here and say "well, this is a US problem" and didn't (1) read the article or (2) think about how hustle culture has pervaded the rest of the globe then I'm going to block you
jul 3, 2025, 1:58 pm • 49 0 • view
Are they all self-employed/contractors? Because then vacation is a risk/expense.
jul 3, 2025, 2:34 pm • 0 0 • view
And even that is burying the lede when the article goes on to have the gem of “TAKING A WEEK OFF—A CAREER ENDER??”
jul 3, 2025, 1:55 pm • 18 0 • view
news wouldn't be publishing this if they didn't want it to catch on so it can be derided tbh, I haven't heard anyone call it that in any of my extended social circles
jul 3, 2025, 2:46 pm • 4 0 • view
I think I'd be hard pressed to find any zoomers who believed retirement will be there for them, though. or millennials not working tech jobs in 2010-18
jul 3, 2025, 2:57 pm • 5 0 • view
Wat?
jul 3, 2025, 2:52 pm • 0 0 • view
Are we talking about 1 or 2 weeks of paid leave every year? Are we questioning this practice? WTF?! Are we already at the feudalism stage of capitalism? Dennis! I found some beautiful filth over here! Come quickly!
jul 3, 2025, 2:34 pm • 0 0 • view
I’ve joked for a while that it’s going to be rebranded as “work fasting” or career fasting
jul 3, 2025, 2:20 pm • 1 0 • view
Hot on the heels of "quiet quitting" a.k.a. "doing your job description"
jul 3, 2025, 2:13 pm • 11 1 • view
The assumption here is that they dont know what a vacation is. Honestly it just sounds like social branding - vacations sound old and stuffy, so instead there's this. The framing here doesn't fit.
jul 3, 2025, 2:27 pm • 0 0 • view
"Is unplugging worth the risk?" JFC - we've really turned work into a cult, huh? Guess it never matters - my pointing out that, as a union guy with a ****ton of benefits and vacation time, I actually work harder than when I wasn't in one. But, "Fast Company" will probably never write that piece.
jul 3, 2025, 2:11 pm • 4 0 • view
Beside the self-destructive work ethics, I also see a loss of cultural memory. I have a fair picture of the kind of lives my parents lived. Less so for my grandparents and great-grandparents, but still a rough idea. These guys seem clueless about most of what existed before *they* came along.
jul 3, 2025, 2:14 pm • 6 0 • view
Only getting all your information from the internet, social media sites in particular, traps you in an eternal present. You need physical books to show you how people in the past saw the more distant past.
jul 3, 2025, 4:54 pm • 1 0 • view
This seems a lot less about not knowing about what vacation is, and a lot more about coming to terms with the fact that they’ll have to work until they die.
jul 3, 2025, 2:25 pm • 12 1 • view
Yeah, it’s a solid indicator of the rot of American work culture
jul 3, 2025, 1:55 pm • 0 0 • view
Right?! I was reading along going, "wait, this is just sabbaticals, which should be a thing for everyone" and then it was like ... 1-2 WEEKS?!
jul 3, 2025, 1:52 pm • 23 0 • view
Sabbaticals should be for everyone, and the inequity of test in church work really sucks.
jul 3, 2025, 2:16 pm • 6 0 • view
Yup.
jul 3, 2025, 2:20 pm • 1 0 • view
The grindset mentality is fundamentally antithetical to the idea of vacation
jul 3, 2025, 1:53 pm • 9 0 • view
the naive economism of the 2000s has finally had it's apotheosis.
jul 3, 2025, 4:14 pm • 0 0 • view
I work with young professionals and am one myself. Nobody at my workplace has ever uttered the words "micro-retirement" in my presence. People take 1-2 week vacations all the time. I think you've been got by a clickbait title. (tbh, "Yep, People Still Take Vacations" would not get as many clicks)
jul 3, 2025, 5:35 pm • 0 0 • view