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Coming in on his birthday
Wait, you have jobs where you don’t have to show up if it’s your birthday?
My current job and not my last job but the one before fhat yes. (Join a union)
I have pto
I used to in a previous job. They brought in a thing where if your birthday fell on your usual shift day, you got it off at full pay.
It says “shift leader”. Shift work jobs have some flexibility for days off anyway, and if the management is nice they schedule the week so your birthday is free.
There are also some places that might just do a nice, if not grandiose, gesture for someone on their birthday.
Previous place I worked it was pretty routine for a manager to grab one of those containers of store made cupcakes if it was someone’s birthday and they knew they didn’t mind, make sure they got one and leave the rest in the break room.
Never anything more or less than just a nice gesture.I’m guessing someone tried a nice gesture and it came out looking sad, so they posed for a picture for a chuckle and moved in. I don’t know anyone who would be really upset by being given a pizza bagel on their birthday.
I’ve never had that … But for the past seventeen years I’ve used PTO if my birthday wasn’t on the weekend and I haven’t been denied yet, so there’s that?
We get birthdays off, not counting towards the 30 days paid holidays, which is completely separate from unlimited paid sick days. Oh, and also since last Wednesday, the entire company is on holidays, we’re back 2nd week of January. Doesn’t count towards the 30 days, of course 👍
Sounds nice, it’s good to see some people receive better conditions
The “loving your work” poster behind him as well…
And his headset’s still on
Chef’s kiss. 👌
And the trash can right next to him
That’s where the happiness goes.
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.
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’ve never really given much of a shit personally.
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.
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 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.
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.
Mine is usually on labor day so I take the month of September 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
I’ve never worked on my birthday
I know several (small) companies that give you 8 hours PTO on your birthday. You can use it immediately or save it for later.
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…
… This is an AI pic and a probably fake description to go with it
This is not real.
There’s some wonkyness here, that’s for sure. The major thing that makes this look legit is that the mirror is dirty and it has a correct reflection for the person’s arm and the trashcan.
And the shoes (which are abnormally large) don’t look like any work boots I’ve ever seen, resembling trail running shoes but bigger. The laces seem to be oddly non-existent and instead the straps for lacing them appear to connect with each other.
AI can get reflections right, just when it doesn’t it can be very creepy.
The first time I saw this pic, it had enough pixels to see it really looked real, at least to me
Higher res shows he has a plaster and the shelf is balancing on another shelf
The more I look into the high-res picture, the more mildly bleak details I notice.
- Torn plastic wrapping of tiny plastic bottles on the chipboard counter.
- His sleeve is mildly dirty.
- The shoes on the shelf seem awkward to access over the chair.
- The whiteboard has permanently marked spots “use me to write” and “use me to clean”, both empty.
- That “pizza” is barely an oversized muffin.
- Fire prohibited.
- The mirror is pretty dirty.
- Corner of the steel cabinet is a bit bent.
- The badly attached sheet of paper hanging from the whiteboard; you can’t read anything.
- On the top shelf of the cupboard, something is kinda balancing there.
- Cheap plates not perfectly aligned.
- ROTATE:
- ROTATE
- ROTATE
- ROTATE
- The pedal on the trash bin is weirdly bent.
Not that any of this really matters, though.
I mean, I wouldn’t expect a supermarket break room to be immaculately kept. It actually looks alright. Depends on how good of a place it is to work, etc. My guess is that most employees usually book their birthday off, this guy didn’t (some people just don’t bother, which is understandable) and some colleague was like “we had to do something”, so got a pizza from what they were allowed. I think there are pictures far more depressing than this (like Amazon’s Christmas dinner which was probably an actual big organised thing for a mass amount of people).
I know someone who works in a supermarket and colleagues usually give them a nice cake, but it’s passed its sell-by by a few days. It sounds depressing, but the cake is perfectly fine and would just be thrown out due to policy.
Green box is pushed against the wall like the shelf it’s on but somehow has more overhang on one side?
I think I saw it before AI became that good
Where does the door frame siding go that runs from the floor up to the top of the wall? It just becomes wall
You nailed it with this one, it’s 100% AI
Quite a clear line
What about this picture makes you think it’s AI?
Left hand has a pinky/ring finger thing, the garbage can angle looks off because it comes towards you but the angle of the wall is going the other direction and if it’s against the wall, it would follow the angle of the wall
Edit to add more since I’m on mobile swapping between the two (inefficiently): the weird blue coat thing going down the back of the chair, seemingly no back legs to the chairs
Foot pedal of the garbage can is misaligned
I’m on mobile, so maybe the photo isn’t loading at high resolution, but I don’t think your points lead me to believe AI generated this.
The finger looks a little odd, but it could just be the way the shadows fell. The garbage can doesn’t look flat against the wall. If you look in the reflection of the mirror, one corner is closer to the wall than the other, which would account for the distortion you mentioned. The blue coat of the back of the chair might just be a coat. The chair legs seem like they should be behind his leg and the trash can. The foot pedal on a plastic trash doesn’t seem like the sturdiest thing and can just bend. The lid seems symmetrical to me personally. There just aren’t enough pixels in the image for me to see if there are buttons or not.
Maybe I’m completely wrong and it is AI, but it seems to me like too many of the fine details match up with reality. It may also be the low resolution that makes things seem more realistic. If it is a fake image, I think it would be more likely that the photo was taken out of context or staged.
I mean it’s possible it’s real. But the seat of his chair has no leg under his butt cheek. If you zoom in and look at where the seat is going, you would expect a leg there at least to be visible
The reflection in the mirror makes me think this is surely real. Even the best AIs don’t understand mirrors
Damn, is that a Lunchables UPLOADED!?
“I suddenly feel very sick.”
The pizza inexplicably gets tossed in the garbage and he’s homeward bound…
I can’t decide if this is AI generated or if bro has size 38 shoes
He’s clearly a big guy, look how far his legs extend past the edge of a normal chair.
Jesus it’s wild to think people would assume I’m an AI generated image based off of the fact that I wear a size 15 US (49 Euro).
Sure, that’s what an AI generated image would say
If he is working at a place that requires steel or composite toes they will also look like clown shoes.
Why would he still have on his phone headset during lunch too?
Is it a headset? They .ight just be cheap headphones, but you don’t really see those anymore
1, I used to work for this company when I was young and had no idea what my rights were. They very much took advantage of this, such as calling me in on an hours notice on my days off.
2, The Raw Egg Nationalist is a right-wing twat. https://hopenothate.org.uk/2024/06/20/egg-sposed-we-reveal-the-identity-of-far-right-bodybuilder-the-raw-egg-nationalist/
I had a strict I don’t answer the phone when not working policy. They could attempt to call me in but it wouldn’t be recieved. If they asked me while I was at work I usually said yes, but I’m not about to come in on an hours notice for the same rate of pay, if you want on call, pay for on call.
A free meal on your birthday is pretty sweet.
They never said his pay wasn’t docker for that
Pizzas are usually savoury
And what a feast it is!
This picture is pure art. Holy shit.
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.
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?
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.
That’s a man considering a new career.
