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I have 7 weeks of paid leave yearly to use as I please, however, my autism makes taking more than two weeks of pause together a struggle. I need my routines, even the work one. I found that taking small breaks of 2-3 days often (save for the 2 weeks I take in summer) works much better for me than taking a long pause. Longer pauses screw with my routines and they are actually worse and more draining than small and frequent pauses.
Of course this is because I have to work, if work weren’t a necessity, I’d be perfectly well without it because I’d create routines to occupy the time I spend working.
Our European counterparts are laughing at us, who don’t take a month off every year. And for some reason, this is how I see them doing so.
Eh. In practice, we’re fairly abused as well. I may have more holidays than my US counterparts, but in reality I can only take vacation when the schedule of the company allows it, which is never more than a week at a time at best and like three days in a row realistically.
Depends on a country of course yeah, my home country has a law that forces us to use continuous, uninterrupted, 3 week vacation in a year.
Same here, buts it’s 2 weeks
Same, I hate it. But I am glad it exists.
YEAH THAT SOUNDS FUCKING HORRIBLE, TORTURE REALLY.
I however am the rare american who is enjoying my third uninterrupted week of total freedom. This is because I was fired from my job three weeks ago. Corporate restructuring my ass.
The time is nice and I did get some severance, but there is zero enjoyment knowing that if I don’t land a job soon, I will be hard fucked. Sorry kids, we are canceling music lessons, and any other recreations until your loser unemployed parent can get work again. Wheee!
I hate it because I’m forced to take it, even if I’d want to take 2+2+1 week instead.
Many times if be much better off being able to not take three consecutive weeks off and use that time at other parts of the year. The 3 weeks also HAVE to be taken in June, July, or May. I hate summer and prefer staying indoors and working in AC.
Let me take those 3 consecutive weeks at any time of the year and it’d be great. I’d love to go snowboarding for 3 weeks.
BUT I am glad the law exists at all, forcing employers to give people proper vacations.
In my country you get almost 1 month of vacation time with extra days depending on work (I work Saturdays too so I get extra 4 days because of it) of which it’s actually mandatory that you take 2 weeks in one go so you really unplug yourself from work. The rest is as you please.
That seems to be highly dependent on location…we also have to coordinate with the needs of the company where i live, however we are still entitled to minimum 3 weeks vacation during summer (june-august) and at least two of them back to back regardless of the needs of the company.
Also very dependent on the type of work you’re doing. If a certain amount of people need to be on site and you need to coordinate that, things get more difficult.
If I were to put in two weeks back to back, there’s nothing they could legally do to stop me, true. But since we don’t even have a union at my job, retaliation is guaranteed. Considering it took me the better part of five years to get the job in the first place, the result is that you unfortunately don’t bite the hand that feeds you.
the result is that you unfortunately don’t bite the hand that feeds you.
*the hand that steals 99.9% of the value you create and leaves you with a few crumbs.
Sounds like a crazy toxic workplace TBH, I have never worked somewhere where 3 weeks coherent summer vacation wasn’t the norm in the entire company, with the remaining 3 weeks at your disposal for the rest of the year. We’re generally not unionised in my profession where i live either, at least not in the private sector.
I am indeed laughing exactly like that
I’m not really a Marxist but I do believe in “Workers of the world, unite!” and that includes Yankees. Laughing at your misfortune because I’m getting fucked with slightly more lube would be kinda short sighted.
Laughing at your misfortune because I’m getting fucked with slightly more lube
i should not have laughed so hard at that.
:Cries in American while being laughed at by Spain and France:
as another user in the comments here put it quite well:
we shouldn’t be laughing at the people in the US just because we’re fucked in the ass with slightly more lube.
Still just posting whatever to meme communities, eh?
You’re welcome 😊
Got laid off a couple of weeks ago, been chilling with my 6 and 9 year old niece and nephew, been going to the beach/pool everyday. It’s heaven (need to get a job though).
We shouldn’t be limited to a summer break we should do seasonal breaks instead. I would cover the summer season if someone else would cover my autumn or winter.
I live in a Scandinavian cpuntry. 6 weeks off with pay is alright. Dont really need more at this point.
Fuck that. Take as much time off as you can get.
Yeah thats how you break socialism. Take as much as you need not as much as you can take
Am Swede. I have a legal 25. Then my company gives me +5, and the Union has negotiated 9 more (ark) and then, this year, my boss gave me 5 more. So I know that I am far above the average in sweden, but I currently sit on 44 paid vacation days a year
Cries in United States
You’d have a revolution on your hands if hard working people suddenly realized what they were missing when the 3-month vacation is denied them the next year.
I can only hope that the US goes through a revolution in the near future. I’m so tired of hearing about how poorly treated we are compared to other countries around the world. American #1 my ass. The things that the US ranks high in are considered the worst things to be highly ranked in. (Unless you’re a lunatic, dictator, oligarchy at wits’ end, etc.
We could have that and more, but the shareholders don’t approve.
It would risk “our” wealth.
Tell me you’re not in Europe without saying you’re not in Europe
Was going to comment the same thing 😅
I’m in Europe and I feel the same way as op.
I mean continuous 3 month vacation is not a thing, even in Europe
If you work in education it sort of can be.
I get that it’s fun to dunk on us Americans, but do you really have 3 months paid time off from work every year?
No. Minimum by law in Germany is 20 days paid vacation and depending on the employer you get additional days.
i take 6 weeks of unpaid leave every year, additionally to my 5 weeks of paid leave. i can only recommend it.
There are not many employers that allow that in my experience.
There aren’t many people I know who can afford it, in mine
I retired 25 yrs ago and it’s still not enough time to do all the stuff…3 months a year won’t cut it 😁 Gaming alone takes a lot of time lol
Universal basic income could help us achieve this. There are people working right now to make this a reality in America
There was a time back when this was possible.
Bikers back in the day would work construction or some other hard labor for half the year and then hit the road for 2-4 months.
The partial working income was enough to cover all thier bills, the bike/gear, motel stays and drinking.
People still do this. I have a buddy who only works 3-4 months a year. Hes a pipeline welder so long hours and hard work, but then he travels around the rest of the time
It works for them because their work is high skill and always useful, general office work like mine (dev) is impossible to find a job if you were to immediately quit. It’s quite different when you’re competing against thousands of cheap IT graduates looking to flock to your country and work for pennies on the dollar.
BTW not saying I’m anti immigration, it’s just the way the tech space is right now.
Not American but I’ve heard American companies hire foreigners because they can wage slave them with Visa entrapment, no Visa and you’re deported. People that are trying to improve their life are just taken advantage of.
I haven’t heard of anything like that happening to tradespeople
I think it’s more because pipeline work is inherently unstable so they get paid a lot but it’s for short contracts. Plus it means businesses are more used to transient workers.
Like my buddy can clear $80k in 3 months working 100hr weeks. There’s no IT job in the world that would give you those kinds of hours.
And yeah, American companies sometimes use the visa trap to get workers. But don’t pretend thats a uniquely American phenomenon haha
I kind of do this. I high rig for concerts in the summer, then fuck off the rest of the year.
the retirement goal is to be a year round camp host for the park system. I’d say national park, but my favorite is a state park and i don’t expect the US national park system to exist in, uh, carry the two, 2065 when I am finally allowed to either die or retire.
In controlled environments, maybe — however those controlled environments still interact with currently established economies.
I’m just not convinced that UBI scaled up will actually result in anything other than what takes place in the Expanse.
They stole our data to train AI. So, if in the future that robots displaced the vast majority of jobs, then tax the robots to fund UBI.
I think it’s less the interaction with currently established economies and more that it would never pass without
lobbyistsCongressmen sabotaging the law to make it fail and then using that to say, “See!? UBI doesn’t work(when you set it up to fail)!”I mean, yes — but the reality is that universal basic income dictates that everyone gets the money.
For instance, let’s say Congress allows the perfect UBI bill to be put forth. For whatever Bizarro World reason you can conjure, because we both agree that they would never agree.
What happens next? We’ve already seen what regulatory capture has done to sectors like real estate. Corpos buy up shitloads of land, whether it’s individuals looking to be land barons or alongside corporate interests.
How would true UBI result in anything other than higher prices? Seriously, in the current markets that exist within the United States — how, without some kind of serious societal and economic shift prior to it’s introduction, would this actually play out?
Maybe it’s better in other democracies, I actually can’t really argue for any other nation — I can only apply this concept to what I already know. I just think UBI is a concept that can only exist in a place entirely separate from corporate greed, and that is definitely not the United States.
So you’re saying that UBI would lead to higher costs of living, because companies can charge more because people can spend more.
Then, explain to me, how did it come that in the 1960s, Americans were wealthy? How could they afford so much stuff back then? Corporate greed already existed back then; why didn’t it just eat up the wealth of the citizens?
Oh, don’t get me wrong — my position has never been that UBI can’t work under the right conditions.
My position is that UBI cannot work without very major changes first. I don’t doubt that UBI can inject a lot of good into an individual’s standard of living — without some kind of regulation associated with it, which requires those regulatory agencies to not be inherently corrupt, UBI seems impossible.
Lack of safety regulations that allowed people to be slowly poisoned by cheap materials or die in freak accidents, siphoning resources from the rest of the world through soft and hard political power, and not being destroyed from WW2 while Europe was recovering
So… become france
Yep, this is the great adjustment america needs.
