I couldn’t work Friday because I was sick, but I’m totally out of PTO for the year and like almost every company, sick-leave and PTO are wrapped together in one package. So I have to go to work right now on a Sunday night and catch up with work I couldn’t complete on Friday. Still sick, but if I don’t maintain this job, I won’t have health insurance among many other things.
It feels like having a literal lifeline attached to my job, I can’t have a bad week, I can’t have a break, I can’t escape. I have to do this dance for decades to go, and according to every calculation I’ve done, unless I win the lottery I am not going to retire. Lost too much earlier in life.
I’m going to be slogging through moving around little numbers on a screen until I die, feeling my years just tick by.
I’m sorry you have to go through that dude and honestly after reading this it makes me think I have no right to complain, it’s all relative though so I’ll still complain.
I can’t believe how bad y’all have it over there. I’m hesitant to point out how much better my situation is in the UK as that would be cruel af. But if you’re curious I can highlight the differences between the USA and UK as we have it so much better than this.
Not the person you replied to, but I’d be curious to know. Especially about time off work, healthcare, and cost of living.
I could write a book about those things, but I’ll just say this. I get 5 sick days a year (used to be 3) and it’s hard to take them when there’s a lot of work, which is almost always. The rent on my last apartment almost doubled in 10 years, and the current one is on track to do the same.
Total hours of work per week 33, standard in the UK is 37.5 but I have a good boss. I work Monday - Thursday 08:00-16:30 with an unpaid hours break. Friday 09:00-12:00. Tuesday and Thursday are office days, the rest are from home.
Holidays (vacation) we start with 20 days per year increasing 1 day per year for a maximum of 25 days total.
Sickness, unlimited within reason but even then it’s unlimited. I’m not happy a lot of the time and so I much have been off sick for 4-5 weeks this year in total and never once been pulled up about it, again my boss is good. Other jobs would typically put you on a development plan if had more than 3 instances of sickness, but even then they would work with you until you got better.
Healthcare, we live in the Uk. It’s free at point of service as it’s factored into what we pay out of wages.
Cost of living is quite high but I wouldn’t say worse than the USA. But everything is pretty much 33-50% more expensive than pre covid. Rent is insane.
I should say that as a software engineer, two years in, that my salary is probably lower than many many companies but for me I like time more than I like money and their is literally never stress at work, it either gets done on time or it doesn’t. We all come first.
Feeling that right now.
I couldn’t work Friday because I was sick, but I’m totally out of PTO for the year and like almost every company, sick-leave and PTO are wrapped together in one package. So I have to go to work right now on a Sunday night and catch up with work I couldn’t complete on Friday. Still sick, but if I don’t maintain this job, I won’t have health insurance among many other things.
It feels like having a literal lifeline attached to my job, I can’t have a bad week, I can’t have a break, I can’t escape. I have to do this dance for decades to go, and according to every calculation I’ve done, unless I win the lottery I am not going to retire. Lost too much earlier in life.
I’m going to be slogging through moving around little numbers on a screen until I die, feeling my years just tick by.
I’m sorry you have to go through that dude and honestly after reading this it makes me think I have no right to complain, it’s all relative though so I’ll still complain.
I can’t believe how bad y’all have it over there. I’m hesitant to point out how much better my situation is in the UK as that would be cruel af. But if you’re curious I can highlight the differences between the USA and UK as we have it so much better than this.
Not the person you replied to, but I’d be curious to know. Especially about time off work, healthcare, and cost of living.
I could write a book about those things, but I’ll just say this. I get 5 sick days a year (used to be 3) and it’s hard to take them when there’s a lot of work, which is almost always. The rent on my last apartment almost doubled in 10 years, and the current one is on track to do the same.
Sure.
Total hours of work per week 33, standard in the UK is 37.5 but I have a good boss. I work Monday - Thursday 08:00-16:30 with an unpaid hours break. Friday 09:00-12:00. Tuesday and Thursday are office days, the rest are from home.
Holidays (vacation) we start with 20 days per year increasing 1 day per year for a maximum of 25 days total.
Sickness, unlimited within reason but even then it’s unlimited. I’m not happy a lot of the time and so I much have been off sick for 4-5 weeks this year in total and never once been pulled up about it, again my boss is good. Other jobs would typically put you on a development plan if had more than 3 instances of sickness, but even then they would work with you until you got better.
Healthcare, we live in the Uk. It’s free at point of service as it’s factored into what we pay out of wages.
Cost of living is quite high but I wouldn’t say worse than the USA. But everything is pretty much 33-50% more expensive than pre covid. Rent is insane.
I should say that as a software engineer, two years in, that my salary is probably lower than many many companies but for me I like time more than I like money and their is literally never stress at work, it either gets done on time or it doesn’t. We all come first.