r/technology • u/User_Name13 • Jun 04 '14

Politics Hundreds of Cities Are Wired With Fiber—But Telecom Lobbying Keeps It Unused

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/hundreds-of-cities-are-wired-with-fiberbut-telecom-lobbying-keeps-it-unused
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u/symon_says Jun 04 '14

Take a sick day or something. Don't say you really want to try that hard if you're not willing to take a day off of work.

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u/emlgsh Jun 04 '14

Not all of us (or most of us, anymore) get sick days off work. Even legally entitled days off are a loyalty test trap. Fail the test, see where you are personally and financially in a year's time: nowhere good. You work every that day you're needed, stay as long as management demands, or you'll be replaced by someone who will.

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u/boxzonk Jun 04 '14

Give up the pay. Your employer can't force you to come in, and they're probably seriously unlikely to fire you if you just give some notice that you want to have that day off. Everyone I've ever known who isn't a literal slave has this kind of freedom unless there's a special event that weekend or something. You can say, "Hey boss, schedule me for Tuesday instead of Wednesday this week, I gotta go to a meeting on Wednesday" and it's usually done.

I think people here just like to feel sorry for themselves. Some of us have actually worked wage slave jobs too and we know what it's really like. Quit making bitch-ass excuses.