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Thankfully for BC, John Horgan's NDP mandated that every British Columbian gets five paid days off, no matter if they are a gig worker or a kid doing their 1st job at the mall.

RIP Horgan ⚘ You did so much for the working class. The NDP removed MSP premiums, slashed insurance costs (I get annual rebates now), mandated sick days, took the tolls off of bridges, made contraceptives free, and made period products free in every school. (He passed away last week)

I hope your province gets it together.

It took forever to get a corporate job but both corporate roles I've had provide decent PTO. Current job has 3 weeks PTO+ accrued sick time. The pay isnt good but at least I get time off.

Other people I know in more corporate roles have similar pto but without the accrued sick time. The only time I didn't get PTO was when I was working minimum wage jobs.

The concept of sick days is fucking ridiculous

It exists but it is usually pretty slim. Usually works out to be 2 weeks a year or something, which if you have a family and go to regular doctors appointments as advised, by the time your done... No more time for an actual vacation.

The average person is supposed to go to the dentist twice a year, the doctor once, a dermatologist once, the gynecologist once. If Anything is wrong, like a cavity.. you need another trip. So we are up to at least 6 half days off there.

So let's say another 3 for the kids. 2 dentists, and 1 physical whether it be for general health or for sports. (Vaccinations? All that jazz). Now any parent would know we are undershooting these numbers by a lot, as we haven't talked at all about a kid getting sick yet.

Parents/Grandparents need a ride to the doctor once or twice, assuming you divy it out over multiple kids. Maybe one breaks a hip and needs physical therapy your fucked.

Note none of this has included a single day that is ever considered to be a vacation, just half days and rushing around and trying to get back to work.

If somehow you get through all of this, what many people do is take their last couple hours of free time to fly to where their in laws are to celebrate Christmas or some shit. Which is why there is so much animosity surrounding the holidays. It is the last time that someone may have to spend to relax, and they end up spending it with others who all don't want to be making large extravagant meals, putting up and taking down decorations nor spending money they didn't have in the first place, to waste time figuring out some gift they feel obligated to give to someone that yes they care about, but really is obstructing their last few moments where they could actually take a vacation and relax.

Think my brain just fabricated that use by mistake. Maybe a mix of spout as in a faucet, being a stream or leak, combined with what I assume my brain meant as a spurt as in short term. Short term leaky faucet of depression. < My brain is just falling apart

boneappletea

That's a really nice example to use as a terminology.

Is there a name for this practice? Of taking an example of something and making it the name of the genre? I found one - "Eponymous Representation", but it is not precise enough.