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How about benefits such as health insurance, vacation days, sick days?

ryanSrich 5y ago
We offer equity comp, health stipend, and equipment stipend for anyone contracted on a 20 hour per week minimum. Sick/vacation days are harder because we pay for whatever I get an invoice for. Since we don’t track what people do on a day by day basis (I often don’t even know if someone is working that day until I reach out to them or slack, or vice versa), there’s nothing stopping them for billing me for extra hours. And to be honest I really wouldn’t care. I just care about output and quality of that output.
- yupper32 5y ago
  > I often don’t even know if someone is working that day until I reach out to them or slack If you don't know if they're working, don't fucking slack them. How about you check their calendar or send an email. Slack is not for asynchronous communication. It's amazing how high and mighty people can be and then they ping people for non-emergencies while they're on vacation.
  - jlokier 5y ago
    > Slack is not for asynchronous communication. Depends on the organisation. Where I'm currently working, we use Discord. Discord is similar to Slack. It is explicitly for asynchronous communication. We are supposed to not expect immediate replies to questions and comments on Discord, especially as other teammates are in different timezones. Sometimes there's real time chat, but it depends who is on at the time. I posted some comments yesterday. There was one reply within a few hours, and two more this morning. Email is pretty much deprecated. Nobody uses it, except to set up calendar entries for meetings, and formal things like HR and invoices.
  - toomanybeersies 5y ago
    Why don't you just not check your Slack messages when you're on holiday?
dopidopHN 5y ago
I miss vacation so much. I just fly home from the US. And … I still have to work instead of just spending time with my parents that I haven’t seen in years. I earn more than 200k. ( not west coast ) it’s a decent salary right? Why can’t I have vacation, too? I asked and putted and asked again… All that will accomplish one thing: one day in the next 2 years I will wake up, look at my bank account. And quit. To have actual free time. I told that to my boss in those term, we have a decent relationship. But … he gave me some HR bullshit.
- bathtub365 5y ago
  If your job is getting in the way of your life goals, why don’t you find one that doesn’t?
  - dopidopHN 5y ago
    Oh. Thanks, never thought about it that way. Sarcasm aside yes: I’m not gonna keep working in the US for that specific reason.
    - aix1 5y ago
      I could be wrong, but it seems that there's no great shortage of companies offering 4+ weeks of PTO per year in the US. Or are you expecting more vacation than that? (Or are perhaps otherwise constrained as to the choice of employers?)
      - jxidjhdhdhdhfhf 5y ago
        I've got 4 weeks paid vacation. It really doesn't feel like much. That's only 1/13th of your weeks being work-free per year. I personally would like more. I think something like a 20-25 hour workweek plus 8-12 weeks of vacation would be good enough that I would stay in the workforce long term. As it stands today, it seems more feasible to continue working full time, hit FI in a few years and retire early rather than find such a good work-life balance.
- 5y ago

We offer equity comp, health stipend, and equipment stipend for anyone contracted on a 20 hour per week minimum. Sick/vacation days are harder because we pay for whatever I get an invoice for. Since we don’t track what people do on a day by day basis (I often don’t even know if someone is working that day until I reach out to them or slack, or vice versa), there’s nothing stopping them for billing me for extra hours. And to be honest I really wouldn’t care. I just care about output and quality of that output.

yupper32 5y ago
> I often don’t even know if someone is working that day until I reach out to them or slack If you don't know if they're working, don't fucking slack them. How about you check their calendar or send an email. Slack is not for asynchronous communication. It's amazing how high and mighty people can be and then they ping people for non-emergencies while they're on vacation.
- jlokier 5y ago
  > Slack is not for asynchronous communication. Depends on the organisation. Where I'm currently working, we use Discord. Discord is similar to Slack. It is explicitly for asynchronous communication. We are supposed to not expect immediate replies to questions and comments on Discord, especially as other teammates are in different timezones. Sometimes there's real time chat, but it depends who is on at the time. I posted some comments yesterday. There was one reply within a few hours, and two more this morning. Email is pretty much deprecated. Nobody uses it, except to set up calendar entries for meetings, and formal things like HR and invoices.
- toomanybeersies 5y ago
  Why don't you just not check your Slack messages when you're on holiday?

dopidopHN 5y ago

I miss vacation so much. I just fly home from the US. And … I still have to work instead of just spending time with my parents that I haven’t seen in years. I earn more than 200k. ( not west coast ) it’s a decent salary right? Why can’t I have vacation, too? I asked and putted and asked again… All that will accomplish one thing: one day in the next 2 years I will wake up, look at my bank account. And quit. To have actual free time. I told that to my boss in those term, we have a decent relationship. But … he gave me some HR bullshit.

bathtub365 5y ago
If your job is getting in the way of your life goals, why don’t you find one that doesn’t?
- dopidopHN 5y ago
  Oh. Thanks, never thought about it that way. Sarcasm aside yes: I’m not gonna keep working in the US for that specific reason.
  - aix1 5y ago
    I could be wrong, but it seems that there's no great shortage of companies offering 4+ weeks of PTO per year in the US. Or are you expecting more vacation than that? (Or are perhaps otherwise constrained as to the choice of employers?)
    - jxidjhdhdhdhfhf 5y ago
      I've got 4 weeks paid vacation. It really doesn't feel like much. That's only 1/13th of your weeks being work-free per year. I personally would like more. I think something like a 20-25 hour workweek plus 8-12 weeks of vacation would be good enough that I would stay in the workforce long term. As it stands today, it seems more feasible to continue working full time, hit FI in a few years and retire early rather than find such a good work-life balance.
5y ago