There is much more to life than work. We all have families, friends, and a beautiful world to enjoy. We need more time off to enjoy it.
There is much more to life than work. We all have families, friends, and a beautiful world to enjoy. We need more time off to enjoy it.
The thing is, it’s not that Americans don’t have time off, it’s that we don’t have GUARANTEED time off.
It all depends on who you work for.
The only guaranteed days, generally, are New Years Day, July 4th, Thanksgiving and Christmas Day. Some employers, but not all, make exceptions for New Years Eve, the day after Thanksgiving, and Christmas eve.
But again, it depends on who you work for. The banking and financials industry get President’s Day, Memorial Day, and Labor Day. “Bank holidays”.
In the end, nothing is guaranteed, employers are allowed to do what they want. Service industry? Fuck you, you’re working.
Technically, today is Labor Day and I could have had it off, but I volunteered to work so I could take tomorrow off for doctor stuff.
“It all depends on who you work for.”
Then it’s complete byllshit then? Any company at any time can just change it whenever they like. Man,im sorry to say it,but America is bullshit
Oh, definitely… and get this…
My employer is very reasonable. Time off when I need it, vacation time, sabbaticals, etc.
My WIFE’S employer, not so much.
So if I want to take a 2 week vacation, totally do-able. My wife can’t.
So I can pack up and go to the Bahamas for 2 weeks. But I’d be going by myself. “Bye baby! See you in 2 weeks!” She can’t so much as drive me to the airport.
Bummer. How many week does she get? Like three Tuesdays a year or something mental I bet
LOL @ weeks. TBH, I don’t know what she gets, and the process to apply for time off is so inscrutable, she may as well not have any at all.
So here in Italy you get 168 hours of holidays, which you have to schedule in agreement with your employer; then you also have 104 hours of leave, which you can take whenever you need to, and your employer cannot refuse them. At a previous job we also had, as a second level agreement over the national collective contracts, 10 hours of medical leave, which you could use for… doctor stuff.
edit: you don’t HAVE to take your holidays, but most employers FORCE you to, because it’s costly for them if you don’t, they pay more taxes and may get fined
Yeah, I had 40 hours of medical and I burned that already with surgery last month. :(
Thats fucking heartbreaking. If I was you I’d take my last paycheck and move to anywhere in the eu,ASAP. Free Healthcare, days off and employers that aren’t complete fuckers
Surgery is sick leave, that’s unlimited, wtf
Most Americans have a separate bank of “Sick Time” from their normal “Vacation time” bank, if they have any at all.
i got fired for taking too much sick leave in statesia
See, my current employer leaves that up to our managers. Some managers consider all sick leave PTO, some consider it “do whatever you need to do” and it’s kinda insane.