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Cake day: July 15th, 2024

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  • Fun fact: Hitler’s father was called Alois Schicklgruber until he was 40.
    A pretty convoluted and sketchy turn of events surrounding a small inheritance lead to him being forced to change his last name to Hitler, 10 years before his son Adolf was born.
    It’s debatable whether Germans would have been as eager to shout “Heil Schicklgruber”.










  • “Unlimited PTO” is a meaningless term, and a trap.
    I have 42 days of PTO per year, plus 13 state holidays.
    I have a right to take those days off, they can’t be denied by anyone.
    And if I don’t take them, my team lead will have a talk with me in October at the latest, because the company would get in legal trouble if I didn’t get them.

    With “unlimited PTO” you have no such right to any amount of PTO.
    Sure, you could try to schedule lots of PTO, but it can just be denied (“not possible right now”), or if you take too many, you’re just fired.