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Government workers are giving themselves a payrise by cashing up annual leave (www.thepost.co.nz)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I take issue with the article's assertion that it's a "sneaky payrise" as if it's somehow dishonest.

I've done this before after accumulating several years worth of leave due to a previous employer having strange ideas about project management and the mythical man-month.

I suppose I was kind of pressured into it, but I also liked having a pseudo-bonus that year.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Odd, wasn't paywalled for me other wise I'd have found another source.

I guess The Post plays a little bit of silly buggers with the paywall.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Do you access from work where your work might have an IP-identified work subscription?

It seems The Post is a Stuff site deliberately split off so it can be paywalled regional content (along with a couple of others): https://thespinoff.co.nz/media/29-04-2023/inside-stuffs-bold-unconventional-new-paywall-plan

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

No, I was on a train via cellular, using my regular ol' Firefox...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Weird! I'm using Fennec (a fork of Firefox for Android) and I get a paywall every time! I wonder if they have some criteria or maybe something in my stack is triggering it (I have everything from uBlock to Tracker Control to PiHole blocking stuff 😆).

Interestingly, on desktop (Firefox) I'm not getting the paywall! But desktop mode on mobile does paywall me, but mobile mode on desktop doesn't. I don't know what their criteria are 😮‍💨

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Gestures broadly at a giant pile of crap JavaScript.