My mother worked 30 years in the school and got a cheap flower in a pot.
Meanwhile other retiring employees got nice rocking chairs.
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Honestly the best “loyalty” reward I got was not the plaque or “pick an item from this curated gift list”, it was the extra weeks of PTO. I did not even bother to pick anything at 10 years.
I think people who were there 20 years got 6 weeks a year PTO. Of course, if you were there 20 years you were senior and had ZERO TIME to do that - unless you could work on vacation too.
I think by 10 or 15 years I had 5 weeks PTO which was pretty nifty and very much worth it. Same with vestment and matching retirement contributions up to a cap.
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Yes I understand that if the pay scale isn’t high enough you can’t afford to live outside your parents basement to work for a living but you still have lots of free time to play wow.
Sweetheart, I make more than you do. I own a very nice home. Since you want to attempt to be condescending, let’s be condescending.
Unlike you, I understand that people can’t “pull themselves up by their bootstraps” or whatever the Faux News terminology is now. The cost of living and the cost of housing specifically has far outstripped the pace of income growth.
People in their 20s and 30s attempting to buy a house are unable to do so because people like you continue to support this fallacy that they’re simply not working hard enough. Zoning limitations make older people richer, while younger people see their wages stagnate and rents / mortgages go up so quickly, they can’t save enough to afford it.
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And then you have a president who sends billions and billions to another country, while his own people struggle.
I have a hard time believing that considering the content that came out during SL. It wasn’t good content imo but I akin that more to how they’ve been developing the game in recent years rather than them working from home.
My dad had enough time off saved up in his State job to retire 2 years early full benefits
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Yea. MoP was the last real good expansion and that was not WFH material.
That cant be linked to wfh though. Blizzard is just pouring more resources into wow than what they were putting in for the past 4 expacs.
They said in july of 2022 they would move 100 devs to help with wow’s development with the plan of hiring more.
Well to be fair. BFA was done in the office. And everyone knows how much of a dumpsterfire that was
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But MoP and every expansion before were great. I don’t think it has anything to do with wfh or in office.
Oh no that’s what I’m saying. I believe their design philosophy are why both SL and BFA were bad.
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Gotcha. Someone was attributing it to WFH before this.
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!!! My dad went on “terminal leave” when he retired from the Military. Two years is a lot!
Ours was use or lose though. We could only keep some multiple of the yearly max. I don’t remember offhand what that was.
On the good side, because it was an earned paid benefit, if you had not used whatever was in your leave bank by retirement you got a check for the value of it. Same with quitting/getting fired even. We got the PTO as X hours earned per paycheck so you get that back if unused.
I always had a ton in then bank until I got really sick. It goes fast then. Good news was that I had paid for long term disability insurance. It was a tiny bit a paycheck for all those years and I never thought I would need it. Until I did.
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Luckily, illness has not been an issue. That side of my family has always done well. Everyone was military except for me.
I’ll be working until I pass away. Probably never see retirement
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Wow, a whole 0.24 cents for every hour, and don’t forget the tax.
they said that as soon as Microsoft buys blizzard they are going ot add a massive raid boss named Gill Bates
Thought it was “Kobby Botick, the Harbinger of Demise”
Then every company is sabotaging its own ability to complete work because 5% of the workforce was WFH before the pandemic.
Keep appealing to emotion, it’s literally the only argument you have.
Well this is gonna ruin blizz games. Yikes.