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Excuse me for being flippant but, I don't care if you're a 10- or 10,000- person company, but I'm going to take >4 weeks of vacation per year and if you can't h

Excuse me for being flippant but, I don't care if you're a 10- or 10,000- person company, but I'm going to take >4 weeks of vacation per year and if you can't handle that then you don't deserve to exist in the market.

sieabahlpark 8y ago
Whoosh, your 4 weeks isn't comparable to 2 months of degraded quality of life and recovery after pregnancy. Not to mention the children if the father is also working full time.
paxys 8y ago
There is a huge difference between a few weeks of vacation a year (probably taken in 1-2 week chunks) and multiple continuous months of parental leave. The latter can absolutely kill a startup, especially when the person leaving is a subject matter expert in a critical area.
- chii 8y ago
  > probably taken in 1-2 week chunks if that wasn't mentioned in the employment agreement, then you (the boss) just lied about the conditions of employment. I think a startup deserves the right to not hire somebody who plans to take multiple months off (without telling the boss), but a startup also needs to be upfront about it. I think a bit of transparency goes a long way towards making the market more efficient.
  - emilfihlman 8y ago
    Almost all contracts require you to agree on the vacation schedule beforehand with your boss. If your contract does't have that either the company is very, very lax or their lawyer is incompetent.
- YeGoblynQueenne 8y ago
  Third time I post this: my partner's company is a small startup of ~12 people and 7 of their women employees became pregnant and had babies while working for them. One of them was a very important manager, who gave birth to twins and came back within a month. The company is doing just fine, thank you. If a startup dies because it's hiring human beings, it should maybe start to pivot into employing dogs? Or robots, of course.

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Excuse me for being flippant but, I don't care if you're a 10- or 10,000- person company, but I'm going to take >4 weeks of vacation per year and if you can't h

by eanzenberg 8y ago

sieabahlpark 8y ago
Whoosh, your 4 weeks isn't comparable to 2 months of degraded quality of life and recovery after pregnancy. Not to mention the children if the father is also working full time.
paxys 8y ago
There is a huge difference between a few weeks of vacation a year (probably taken in 1-2 week chunks) and multiple continuous months of parental leave. The latter can absolutely kill a startup, especially when the person leaving is a subject matter expert in a critical area.
- chii 8y ago
  > probably taken in 1-2 week chunks if that wasn't mentioned in the employment agreement, then you (the boss) just lied about the conditions of employment. I think a startup deserves the right to not hire somebody who plans to take multiple months off (without telling the boss), but a startup also needs to be upfront about it. I think a bit of transparency goes a long way towards making the market more efficient.
  - emilfihlman 8y ago
    Almost all contracts require you to agree on the vacation schedule beforehand with your boss. If your contract does't have that either the company is very, very lax or their lawyer is incompetent.
- YeGoblynQueenne 8y ago
  Third time I post this: my partner's company is a small startup of ~12 people and 7 of their women employees became pregnant and had babies while working for them. One of them was a very important manager, who gave birth to twins and came back within a month. The company is doing just fine, thank you. If a startup dies because it's hiring human beings, it should maybe start to pivot into employing dogs? Or robots, of course.