Six (Stupid) Reasons Not to Go on Vacation

The survey results are in: You should get the hell out of town. WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED BY PETER MOORE

There’s a market research company called IPX1031, and I think that first, they need to gather a focus group to rename the company. I mean, really: It’s a better name for an asteroid than a company trying to communicate their sales acumen. But aside from that train wreck of letters and numbers, the company does good work, typified by their recent study of workers’ attitudes toward vacation. The most shocking stat: During this time of pandflation and inflademic, workers have passed up on 169 million PTO days, which is the equivalent of rejecting $52.4 billion in benefits.

Maybe it’s more difficult to go on vacation, when you’re staying home anyway?

Here are the the six (stupid) main (stupid) reasons (stupid) people are squandering one of their main benefits, and thereby allowing employers to further stuff their corporate pockets, to the tune of unprecedented 13% profit margins this year.

$hameful! $hocking! $tingy! $winish!

In contrast to corporate cupidity, workers are being downright …