• netvor@lemmy.world
    16·
    3 days ago

    Most commenters here don’t appreciate how sad the image really is: the headset is playing some corporate prefabricated Happy Birthday message, starting and ending with “Loving your work.” company motto accompanied with nothingmusic in background.

  • gedaliyah@lemmy.world
    74·
    4 days ago

    Coming in on his birthday

    Wait, you have jobs where you don’t have to show up if it’s your birthday?

    • toynbee@lemmy.world
      17·
      3 days ago

      I’ve never had that … But for the past seventeen years I’ve used PTO if my birthday wasn’t on the weekend and I haven’t been denied yet, so there’s that?

    • smiletolerantly@awful.systems
      9·
      3 days ago

      We get birthdays off, not counting towards the 30 days paid holidays, which is completely separate from unlimited paid sick days. Oh, and also since last Wednesday, the entire company is on holidays, we’re back 2nd week of January. Doesn’t count towards the 30 days, of course 👍

    • udon@lemmy.world
      3·
      3 days ago

      It says “shift leader”. Shift work jobs have some flexibility for days off anyway, and if the management is nice they schedule the week so your birthday is free.

    • ricecake@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      3 days ago

      There are also some places that might just do a nice, if not grandiose, gesture for someone on their birthday.

      Previous place I worked it was pretty routine for a manager to grab one of those containers of store made cupcakes if it was someone’s birthday and they knew they didn’t mind, make sure they got one and leave the rest in the break room.
      Never anything more or less than just a nice gesture.

      I’m guessing someone tried a nice gesture and it came out looking sad, so they posed for a picture for a chuckle and moved in. I don’t know anyone who would be really upset by being given a pizza bagel on their birthday.

    • Anti-Face Weapon@lemmy.world
      1·
      3 days ago

      I always tell the months in advance that I’m going to take that day off. I haven’t been denied, and if they did I would just take the day off anyway.

    • Pika@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      I had a strict I don’t answer the phone when not working policy. They could attempt to call me in but it wouldn’t be recieved. If they asked me while I was at work I usually said yes, but I’m not about to come in on an hours notice for the same rate of pay, if you want on call, pay for on call.

  • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
    14·
    3 days ago

    I got called in for an inventory audit on my birthday and ended up working from 8am to 2am the following morning.

  • JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works
    77·
    4 days ago

    Do people usually stay home for their birthday? I didn’t know of any companies that specifically give you off, so I’d think you’d use PTO.

    • ricecake@sh.itjust.works
      27·
      4 days ago

      My workplace gives you a free day within a month of your birthday. Most people take the closest Monday or Friday to get a three day weekend, but some people are lucky and get to bump a three to a four.

    • TheFlopster@lemmy.world
      20·
      4 days ago

      I’ve never heard of a company giving you your birthday off either. But it’s the only day every year that I feel special, so I always use vacation time to have that day off. And usually a couple of days surrounding it too.

      • HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org
        7·
        4 days ago

        My company originally said you got two free days off per year, outside the accrued PTO: one for your birthday, and one for parity because office #2 got a state holiday that #1 didn’t.

        Now they moved to the “unlimited PTO” gimmick which has no right answer for how much time you can take off, so I follow the old PTO accrual schedule for my seniority as a guide.

    • HeyJoe@lemmy.world
      7·
      4 days ago

      What’s wrong with taking off? I do it every chance I get. Screw em, they take enough of my time, and I refuse to go a year where I leave any time unused.

    • Humana@lemmy.world
      3·
      3 days ago

      I know several (small) companies that give you 8 hours PTO on your birthday. You can use it immediately or save it for later.

    • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world
      11·
      3 days ago

      There’s some wonkyness here, that’s for sure. The major thing that makes this look legit is that the mirror is dirty and it has a correct reflection for the person’s arm and the trashcan.

      • rational_lib@lemmy.world
        2·
        3 days ago

        And the shoes (which are abnormally large) don’t look like any work boots I’ve ever seen, resembling trail running shoes but bigger. The laces seem to be oddly non-existent and instead the straps for lacing them appear to connect with each other.

        AI can get reflections right, just when it doesn’t it can be very creepy.

      • Suburbanl3g3nd@lemmings.world
        2·
        3 days ago

        Left hand has a pinky/ring finger thing, the garbage can angle looks off because it comes towards you but the angle of the wall is going the other direction and if it’s against the wall, it would follow the angle of the wall

        Edit to add more since I’m on mobile swapping between the two (inefficiently): the weird blue coat thing going down the back of the chair, seemingly no back legs to the chairs

        Foot pedal of the garbage can is misaligned

        Garbage can lid isn’t symmetrical

        no buttons on his button-down shirt

        The big cabinet casting a shadow the width of a chair leg on the left side (ironically right next to the chair on the left)

        Shelving next to the chair’s shadow is misaligned at the bottom when it transitions from under the chair to above it

        • ObsidianNebula@sh.itjust.works
          6·
          3 days ago

          I’m on mobile, so maybe the photo isn’t loading at high resolution, but I don’t think your points lead me to believe AI generated this.

          The finger looks a little odd, but it could just be the way the shadows fell. The garbage can doesn’t look flat against the wall. If you look in the reflection of the mirror, one corner is closer to the wall than the other, which would account for the distortion you mentioned. The blue coat of the back of the chair might just be a coat. The chair legs seem like they should be behind his leg and the trash can. The foot pedal on a plastic trash doesn’t seem like the sturdiest thing and can just bend. The lid seems symmetrical to me personally. There just aren’t enough pixels in the image for me to see if there are buttons or not.

          Maybe I’m completely wrong and it is AI, but it seems to me like too many of the fine details match up with reality. It may also be the low resolution that makes things seem more realistic. If it is a fake image, I think it would be more likely that the photo was taken out of context or staged.

          • Suburbanl3g3nd@lemmings.world
            1·
            3 days ago

            I mean it’s possible it’s real. But the seat of his chair has no leg under his butt cheek. If you zoom in and look at where the seat is going, you would expect a leg there at least to be visible