• bitchkat@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    We don’t get the day off to vote in MN but you are legally allowed to take time off to go vote (with pay). So when I was in the office, I always voted in the middle of the day right after my lunch hour.

    • paddirn@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      Our boss just took us out to lunch and gave us four hours off the rest of the day to go out and vote, which is probably the most encouragement to vote I think I’ve ever gotten from any boss before. I’m sure I was entitled to it this whole time, but it’s never been encouraged like this before with this boss at any of my other workplaces, if anything, previous bosses probably would’ve talked shit if I said that’s what I wanted to do with my time.

  • Christer Enfors@lemm.ee
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    1 day ago

    “We”? Who are “we”? Star fleet?

    People have to remember that this is the Internet, this thing is global.

  • Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    In most civilized countries, voting takes place on weekends and your employer is legally obligated to let you leave work to go vote

    • TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee
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      1 day ago

      Employees have to let you leave to vote.

      They can also fire you the next day for a coincidentally unrelated reason, and unless you have 50k in lawyers retainers handy there’s not shit you can do about it

  • hperrin@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Because Republicans don’t want you to vote if you have the kind of job that you can’t just take whatever time you want off.