Here’s the thing… a tiny bit of devil’s advocate here just to make sure we’re maintaining a bit of objectivity and not rushing to demonize, even though it’s Intuit and everything they do is fucking atrocious anyway. At least let’s make sure we are criticizing them for legitimate reasons.

IF we ignore the fact it’s the genocidal IDF we’re talking about here specifically… what would this situation look like if it were say the US Army Reserve instead?

Reservists having orders and needing time off from their day jobs isn’t exactly uncommon. Granted, the time frames here are probably longer than most of those instances. This isn’t something outrageous or particularly unexpected for military reserve employees.

I don’t know specific laws, but I’m willing to bet there are some about employers being required to approve requests related to military service. Whether those laws are specific enough to only refer to US armed forces is potentially questionable. As we’ve seen recently, apparently there are a shocking number of laws that are vague and lack specificity but just haven’t made their way through the courts for that before. It wouldn’t be surprising if simply applying that towards all military reserve versus just US could have a legal justification to prevent lawsuits against the company.

However, I can’t remember ever hearing about a company freely letting employees wear their US Army uniforms to everyday work. Especially a desk job. That’s batshit crazy. Openly allowing it is even crazier.

The article’s focus on the time off affecting workflows and that sort of thing are par for the course anytime someone takes time off at most companies. Because no one actually hires enough staff to start with, and especially not enough to properly cover for time off requests. It sucks for them obviously, but that is in no way specific to Intuit, that’s entirely on the lack of worker protections, either via law or through collective bargaining/Unionization.