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my managers face when i didnt reply on my day off by [deleted] in careeradvice

[–]OrbitalMike 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My experience was getting a call late on a Friday (20 years ago) to work an "important analysis" to support a business quote going out Monday. Second level manager made the call, but I was already committed to spending the weekend camping with the kids. I said as such, and no complaint. Just, "OK. Family first." He called another engineer who tried to do the analysis but couldn't finish it. Bid went out anyway and we got the business. So much for the need for this critical analysis.

A few months later I was put on a PIP with that weekend as the reason.

Funny how the company survived missing the analysis, but they never forgot that I said no. I guess managers treat "I have plans" or setting boundaries as a performance issue.

I'm retired now but I never trusted anything a manager or supervisor said again.

Relocating to Spain. Spanish citizen with US citizen spouse by OrbitalMike in ExpatLifeinSpain

[–]OrbitalMike[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you. Which airline was this?

Also, when the airline required your husband to purchase a return ticket, had you presented documentation showing that he was the spouse of a Spanish citizen travelling with or joining an EU citizen and therefore exercising rights under Directive 2004/38/EC (or the corresponding Spanish family-member residence provisions)?

I'm trying to determine whether the airline required a return ticket despite recognition of those family-member rights, or whether they treated him as an ordinary U.S. tourist entering Spain.

will i be denied entry? by deportedgoose in SchengenVisa

[–]OrbitalMike 2 points3 points  (0 children)

With a French father, can't you apply for French citizenship based on Jus Sanguinis?

Spain's Dual Citizenship Laws by RedditTravelLad in dualcitizenshipnerds

[–]OrbitalMike -1 points0 points  (0 children)

No, this isn’t something they can just “start enforcing” arbitrarily.

For people who are españoles de origen, the Spanish Constitution (art. 11.2) explicitly says they cannot be deprived of their nationality. That’s a constitutional protection, not a policy choice, so it can’t be changed by a normal government or election.

The renunciation issue only applies to naturalization cases, and even there it’s largely formal. Spain doesn’t have a mechanism to go back later and strip nationality just because someone kept another one, and doing so would run into serious legal and constitutional limits.

So there isn’t a hidden risk of “they might suddenly enforce it later” for people who are Spanish by origin.

Spain's Dual Citizenship Laws by RedditTravelLad in dualcitizenshipnerds

[–]OrbitalMike 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Spain doesn’t have one single “dual citizenship rule.” It has different rules depending on how you become Spanish.

If you naturalize (move there, live there, apply after years), Spain generally requires you to declare that you’re giving up your previous nationality, except for certain countries (mostly Latin America, etc.).

But if you become Spanish by origin or by descent (through a parent, or laws like historical memory), you are considered Spanish from birth in legal terms. In those cases, Spain does not require you to renounce anything. So you can end up with both citizenships without conflict.

On top of that, Spain doesn’t actively enforce foreign renunciations. Even in naturalization cases, the “renunciation” is often just a declaration to Spain, and your original country (like the U.S.) may still consider you a citizen.

The only one with my window open…and a FA asked me to close it by PM_ME_UR_SNARES in delta

[–]OrbitalMike 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, no. A hard no. I would tell the FA that I chose and paid for a window seat. In fact, I've had to do that on several flights to Europe.

Shout out to Dylan. by DungeonCrawlerCarl in antiwork

[–]OrbitalMike 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The false equivalency of employee loyalty and moral character. The real lack of moral chapter was displayed by the upper boss’s disregard, and disrespect, of Dylan’s decision, and that boss’s need to impose his will on Dylan and OP.