Greetings Comrades and Fellow Gamers

The system intrinsically abuses poor people.

You're not nomads relying on each other to hunt and gather anymore, you're talking about stocking shelves for fucking wal marts

"So what's the name of your melon stand?"

Come hear Emmrich say, "Emmrich's big naturals," in the Emmrich voice.

I failed at a lot of things, but this change was one of my biggest crowning achievements at my last gig before I left. I couldn't get a "you can have up to 2 years" provision in there, but I was able to institute a very generous UPTO policy for an "American" org.

As a nonprofit executive at a small grassroots local nonprofit, I didn't answer to shareholders frothing at the mouth to kill employees for profit. All I had to do was recognize my own power and then make a business case to my board as to why it was smart.

Lmao don’t worry you’re breaking nothing to me. I actually knew somebody was going to say this and I almost proactively included my rebuttals against it in my original post, but it was already so wordy that I figured nobody was gonna read it anyway.

OK, so here’s how you mitigate it as a leader who actually has power the way that I did. You set a policy where at least once a quarter supervisors meets with their supervises specifically about time off taken and works with them to create more opportunities to take time if they are not taking as much as they would have in our previously non-unlimited PTO system.

A small part of my staff was really afraid that when I instituted UPTO, it wasn’t real and we were all going to not be taking time off to try to impress each other and look like the hardest working people.

But again you just forecast and mitigate that as the leader with clear expectations and setting the tone. Do I reward people for excellent work well done? Or do I reward them for how many hours they just sit at their desk and look like they are chained to it? Do I reward them for results? Or do I reward them for how much it seems like they are killing themselves to do it? 

Obviously, I am somebody who would choose the first one. So I did and we tried it out for a year. The result was that after the first year that we instituted the new policy, 20% more PTO was taken staff wide than the year before it. AND we also had about a 30% increase in program outputs agency wide. 

Companies like Meta who have done the same policy changes literally have boasted in their reports that like nobody actually takes time off anymore, to those frothing at the mouth shareholders. 

But again, I am not Meta. I was a small nonprofit leader who could actually do things the right way and so I’m trying to appeal to people who have that kind of power within their locus of control directly.

It takes moving heaven and earth to change the government or companies like Meta. It just takes a couple of good compelling arguments and peers who do the same to change a small nonprofit or company.

To give you a brief tldr I'm leaving the country, my ticket is already bought, I have a place to go, and quite possibly even a job lined up when I get there.

The issue lies in trying to get my stuff moved. I have found an international moving company that is very well rated and has given me the lowest quote they can, I have a bit of money saved up in expectance for this but I'm about $1800 shy. I've already put in my leave date at work and I cannot overstay any longer than I have already allotted myself to.

I know I'm asking at like the worst possible time, it's just after Christmas everyone's fucking broke I know that. But any little bit helps even sharing this post would help me immensely.