So I see an ad on TV. It makes light of the serious lack of vacation time Americans get compared to workers in other countries. They provide a link, purportedly to help you demand more vacation time: www.iwantmyvacation.com
So I’m thinking: great! Finally, progressive advocacy has come into its own! Finally, the common man can stand up for himself. I thought it was an online political advocacy group that raised enough money to air their views on television, and the link would exhort us to write our Congressman and State Legislatures to pass laws making employers give out more vacation time.
But it all was just a cheap trick by Universal Studios to get people to go to their corporate vacation sites.
Yeah, I pretty much figured it was just a site to sell you vacation packages. I don’t really care, though, because I find the commercial itself amusing. And just to avoid irony, I sure hope the company that made the commercial is more than generous to their employees in the PTO dept.
Yeah, let us eliminate capitalism. That way, we can all stand in long lines to buy toilet paper made of raw pulp splinters, and wear gray linen muu muus.
Talk about a leap. “Fuck coroprate American” hardly equals “Let’s eliminate capitalism”. Hell, you could argue corporate America is leading away from capitalism. Edward Bellamy did.
Beyond that, yeah of course ANY system not based capitalism of course results in Soviet style deprivation. Errr…yeah.
Beyond that…I saw those ads…and I liked them. I did figure it was ultimately some (inherently evil, because of being capitalist, of course ) scheme. After all who else can afford TV air time? But it’s still a good sentiment :).
Like most everybody else I figured it was an ad gimmick. The commercials are kinda funny though. And “Bash The Boss” is fun! Ya gotta love the site for that alone.
Count me amongst the duped. I consider myself to be pretty media savvy, but they got me. As if I needed another reason not to go to their shitty, plastic corporate vacation sites. Fuckers.
Don’t know about all the divisions, but my husband used to work for Universal Music Group (though they’re no longer under the same umbrella as Universal Studios, they were when he worked there), and they were actually quite generous with PTO. As a new hire, he got the standard 10 days of paid vacation per year (2 weeks), plus the company was on shutdown the week between Christmas and New Years (and if he had to cover the NOC that week, he was given a comp week to make up for it), plus 5 “personal days”, which, for all intents and purposes, added up to 4 paid weeks off per year, not including paid holidays, which I think he got like 10 or 11 of. So not as bad as he expected, having come from the European work environment and being accustomed to 5 weeks off per year.
Actually, I very much agree with that. The problem is in the equivocation. If by “corporate America” he means the hypostatized rights-bearing entities declared to exist by magistrates, then surely they are the enemy of capitalism. But if he means, as I presumed, profit making entities, then I stand by what I said.
) scheme. After all who else can afford TV air time? But it’s still a good sentiment :).