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   acb (acb@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 07-Jul-2025 21:54:33 JST acb

   Are the Americans OK?

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     acb (acb@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Jul-2025 01:37:19 JST acb

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     I’m in Sweden. About ⅔ of the office is micro-retired for the next month or so. (The consensus-minded Swedes do like taking July and/or the first half of August off.) I’m not, but I did a 1½-week micro-retirement in March, and have a shorter one coming up later this summer. Last year, I took most of a month (so, a mini-retirement) to go to Australia.

     Framing a week every 1-2 years as a “micro-retirement” sounds like giving the Overton window a further push to normalising servitude.

     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: and Doughnut Lollipop 【記録係】:blobfoxgooglymlem: like this.
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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Jul-2025 01:44:50 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @acb micro-retirement to me should sound more like "Oh yeah, I'm taking 6 months / a year off from career stuff"
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     botvolution (botvolution@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Jul-2025 03:31:31 JST botvolution

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     @acb
     Betteridge's Law applies.