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The pizza isn’t the saddest part, it’s their terrible break room setup. Two chairs uncomfortably close in the corner, sandwiched between a shoe rack that people might need to access and a trash can. Probably designed by the same people who design their cars…
Do people usually stay home for their birthday? I didn’t know of any companies that specifically give you off, so I’d think you’d use PTO.
I know several (small) companies that give you 8 hours PTO on your birthday. You can use it immediately or save it for later.
My workplace gives you a free day within a month of your birthday. Most people take the closest Monday or Friday to get a three day weekend, but some people are lucky and get to bump a three to a four.
My birthday is on a holiday week, so I usually take the whole week off.
what the hell is a holiday week and how do I get one of those
Move to Europe
I interpreted it as a week with a holiday. If you get labor day off, taking the rest of the week gets you 9 days off for 4 days PTO.
Likewise, if your birthday is near there and you get it for free, it’s 9 days for 3 days PTO.Yes exactly, efficient use of PTO
Mine is usually on labor day so I take the month of September off
I’ve never heard of a company giving you your birthday off either. But it’s the only day every year that I feel special, so I always use vacation time to have that day off. And usually a couple of days surrounding it too.
My company originally said you got two free days off per year, outside the accrued PTO: one for your birthday, and one for parity because office #2 got a state holiday that #1 didn’t.
Now they moved to the “unlimited PTO” gimmick which has no right answer for how much time you can take off, so I follow the old PTO accrual schedule for my seniority as a guide.
What’s wrong with taking off? I do it every chance I get. Screw em, they take enough of my time, and I refuse to go a year where I leave any time unused.
Yeah that’s fine, I try to use all my paid time off to, I just usually take it in larger chunks with family.
I’ve never worked on my birthday
Yeah, I really have no particular interest in taking my birthday off.
I’ll take your birthday off for you.
At least buy me dinner first.
No more birthdays… Loads shotgun
Delay, defend, depose?
I’ve never really given much of a shit personally.
Ate without table -3
That should easily be -30.
Making someone eat without a table is a war crime.
At least there are no laws on the RimAte human meat -5
Ate without table -60
not having a cannibal colony
We should totally overthrow the ruling class and establish a workers paradise, in Rimworld of course
Any reason he should not have come in during his birthday?
Everyone should have PTO that they can use whenever they want.
Yes certainly.
We prefer taking days off around weekends or an entire week for holidays (valid for the part of Europe I been). But talking your birthday off is not particularly common practice although nothing is stopping you if you want to.
Because he had the day off, then came in anyway presumably because they called him in?
I asked because it sounded like a very common thing to do. Where I live the person celebrating is supposed to bring cake, snacks or something. He/she has plenty of time off, just not typical taken during one own birthday
So, just making random shit up?
Id definitely read that as “coming in on his birthday, which he’d priorly arranged to have off”.
Not even a nice pizza either, that’s clearly just a shitty microwave pizza
Prolly Altoona pizza.
Nah, that’s a Tesco uniform so probably UK. It’ll be a Chicago Town mini pizza.
Wow, this looks unappetizing even in the company’s professionally-photographed marketing pages: https://chicagotown.com/the-range/deep-dish
Never heard of this brand before, and they claim to be the “number 1 pizza brand in America”.
The more I look at this pizza, the more I feels bad for the guy in the picture. I’m so sorry your life turned out this way, Cecil.
Crusts go rock hard and the rest is too piping hot to eat out of the microwave. There’s a significant proportion of British people of a certain ages who’s formative impression of American pizza is this.
What’s even more depressing is they come in packs of 2 and he’s only been given one of them.
The second is given to the team to split onto everyone and celebrate, too
Truly Tesco’s generosity knows no bounds.
The “loving your work” poster behind him as well…
And his headset’s still on
And the trash can right next to him
But look how vibrant and happy the chairs are. What a crazy fun workplace.
The hard plastic chairs with no cushion that break when you sit down too fast.
That’s where the happiness goes.
Chef’s kiss. 👌
I’d almost prefer if they didn’t give notice to my birthday if I got that pizza
Defiant Jazz!
Can’t wait for season 2
Show?
Severance. It’s on Apple TV, but it’s definitely worth watching
Same. I think I have the wrong food reward party though
2nded
That’s a man considering a new career.
This picture is pure art. Holy shit.
Most commenters here don’t appreciate how sad the image really is: the headset is playing some corporate prefabricated Happy Birthday message, starting and ending with “Loving your work.” company motto accompanied with nothingmusic in background.
This is Tesco. I heavily doubt they do that. The pizza is probably just something a colleague came up with than an actual policy thing.
Huge feet. Must have absolutely massive socks.
I got called in for an inventory audit on my birthday and ended up working from 8am to 2am the following morning.
What kind of pizza did you get?
Bro that looks like a waffle with syrup wth kinda pizza even is that
microwaved, not even toasted
Toasted?!
waffles? yes. pizza? toaster oven, yes.
And here I am taking off my entire birthday week off like a rube.
This is the way. I don’t even care if I can share most of it with anyone. Like a party or get together is nice perhaps but spending a week sitting around in my shorts, drinking garbage lager and playing vidja games from the past? 1 sick week out of the muddling other 51. Pretty good shit imo.
