Pod Save America is a mess?

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Bloomberg is reporting that there is massive strife within the popular podcast. There are no huge bombshells but here are the most salacious details:

• Jon Favreau has a $10 million house in L.A.
• The staffers feel the

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[doverz]

The only podcast I still really listen to is Pod Save. World.

It’s cool that the employees get unlimited vacation and great healthcare, but I wonder if that has ever been used to justify employees working longer hours.

[wrathfulgrape]

Great healthcare is def a perk but unlimited vacation is such a misnomer and usually offered at places which have extremely high stress, high performer work culture

[spellgabbana]

usually offered at places which have extremely high stress, high performer work culture

absolutely this. my direct manager will say we all need to take out time off but taking even a day off is so stressful for days beforehand and sometimes days after PLUS it's a hardship on our teammates because we have to cover for each other. even a coworker missing on day the other week because of an unexpected death slowed me down so much. i'm taking a week off in early november and my direct teammate is taking one off in late november and i just know that entire month will fucking suck because of it... most of the time i stick to just taking one three day weekend a month rather than long stretches off but i'm taking the week of the election off because i did it in 2020 and it was a great decision.

also spot on about the unused vacation days payout. we're had 3 RIFs (maybe 4...) in the last year and that was surely a chunk they wouldn't have been able to afford. hell, they stopped matching on retirement funds for this year too.

[wrathfulgrape]

i'm taking the week of the election off because i did it in 2020 and it was a great decision.

are you me? because i took a couple days off after Election Day also! Doing it again this year!

most of the time i stick to just taking one three day weekend a month

One of my company's best perks is that they give us a recharge day 1x a quarter. So how that shakes out is that we have at least 1 3-day weekend every calendar month. On occasion, I will also take an additional extra day off for almost a week of mental health self care or just to get stuff done. We really need to consider a 4 day workweek in the US but I don't think I will see that in my work lifetime (I hope to only have about 10=12 years left before retirement).

it's a hardship on our teammates because we have to cover for each other.OMG--so July was crazy because everyone was taking time off and my poor manager was losing her mind trying to cover it all. This year my PTO (I am product) and my tech partner's overlapped and so it was close to a month before we were both

[spellgabbana]

i was working around republicans in 2020 so i knew i needed to be away from them last election - no matter how it turned out - to make sure i kept my job. i work around better people now but focusing during election day and after feels impossible

[kjesta]

i remember unsubscribing from pod save the world years ago when they did an ep during brexit i think? they covered some debate in parliament iirc. and it was shocking how stupid it was. they just did bad english hoity toity accents and harry potter jokes, just the absolute lowest hanging fruit to be talking about when the literal shit show of brexit was happening! it just seemed like they had ZERO knowledge of the politics going on in that clip, and it pissed me off, bc then just don't comment on it rather than giving kindergarten level jokes on it. if you claim to be a show on international politics and foreign politics, deliver commentary that is actually funny bc it pokes at the relevant issues! i can get dumb harry potter jokes from any fellow millennial who hasn't read a second book.

man i didn't know i still had this much rage in me lmao.