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[–] littleomid@feddit.org 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I’m sorry but you’re enabling this behavior. When I take an official holiday, I’m unavailable for work, simple as that. Work is a part of my life, not the definition of my life.

[–] Dojan@pawb.social 10 points 1 day ago

As per Wikipedia on the topic.

As of July 1, 2019, the monthly salary is of €8,932.86, or just over €107,000 per year.[15] MEPs also receive a general expenditure allowance of €4,563 per month.[15]

If I can be called in from vacation for €43k a year, these cunts can come in to vote for the fucking future of democracy for €107k.

Is it right to interrupt vacations? No. Does it matter in this case? Also the fuck no. The thing happened! They weren't there! If they want better rights or whatever I guess they should fucking unionise or whatever. Sitting out on a vote of this magnitude is beyond reprehensible.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I agree. I guess what I didn't say is that I do a bunch of work on the clock in order to ensure 99% of my responsibilities are covered. And then even the other 0.9% my coworkers can just deflect or work around.

But if a situation arises that actually hurts people imo that is no longer a work issue but a humanity issue, and if my fellows can't handle it then I do want to be made aware.

If this a regular occurrence then there needs to be some way to block or mitigate the damage, so that people can go on vacation and not worry they're coming back to a mess.

[–] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In this case, this is a thing that can be postponed

I can agree if they called them because "OH NO ALL OUR PEOPLE ARE DYING WHAT DO WE DOO" but it's not

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 day ago

I guess I'm not European so I don't know that much about this process. It sounded serious, but if it can be postponed then yeah postpone.