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caz604 on 26 March 2010
mirgro said:
Vetteman94 said:
mirgro said:
fmc83 said:
mirgro said:
NJ5 said:

28 days of vacation per year... This means I can have a nice summer vacation and Christmas/New Year to go back home as well.

My philosophy is work to live, don't live to work.

 

I don't know where you are from, but it sounds like you are not US grown but European grown. I like your style and I fully support your philosophy.

I'm gonna risk a ban to say that a lot of US grown people I have met  have some really fucked up priorities in life.

I wouldn't say, that this is f... up, but I reckon this very point is the most important diffference between the US and European countries.

And this basic point leads to all the arguments - may it be health care, economy, social politics: This huge difference is the origin.

I agree that it may not be fucked up, but it is very anti-social different. However even by US standards anti-social is automatically labeled as some form of fucked up and they really make that clear, so I guess I have them to blame if I label their anti-social behavior as fucked up instead of just saying different. Too much has rubbed off on me it seems.

P.S. It's also very anoying to hear how their world view made hem the number one country when it had nothing to do with it. It was all blind luck and huge borrowing and debt accruing.

I would like to know more about how you think certain people have very anti-social behavior when it comes to how they treat their work?

Also is there really a need for the bashing of their people and their world views?

I spent some time in a few of the lower Fortune 500 companies, and the mindset of how the people have to work and how imporant the work is to them is extremely anti-social. They don't see their families for weeks a a time, and i the few companies I saw it seemed like they were under a "deadline" 3 weeks out of any given 4. Their social lives seemd to revolve around work as well.

Meanwhile I spent some time in Spain. You got to work, you get out on time, fuck the rest, and then you never mention work again outside of it. They are super concentrated during those hours they work but the moment time should be gone they are gone. Nothing even remotely as bad as what I saw in the US corporations.

Add that mentality to the already extremely anti-social, suburban, strcuture that the US is in and the consequences are very disasterous. The most social places in the US that I have visited are NYC and Miami, and Miami is full of Hispanics and NYC doesn't have the rich spread out in suburbs.

As to why I bash its world views, it's because humans are social animals, every study on the planet has shown that, and the US system is very anti-social.

While this is a very interesting viewpoint, Vette also replied something a few comments down that had merit.  Open mind, thats the key.

OT:  I get 10 holidays, 19 vacation days at the currently moment in the company I am employed with.  If I stay an additional 20 years longer, those vacation days steadily get incremented to 34 days.

However, I also do own my own business so it cuts into most of my days off.  But like the gent said, I work to live, not live to work.



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Kasz216 on 26 March 2010
fmc83 said:
Kasz216 said:

Not only do Americans get less vacation days. More often then not they don't take them... often times you get paid BIG money if you don't.

There is a reason America is considered one of the hardest working countries in the world.

Not sure where Australia is but i'm sure you'd find this interesting.

Italy 42 days
France 37 days
Germany 35 days
Brazil 34 days
United Kingdom 28 days
Canada 26 days
Korea 25 days
Japan 25 days
U.S. 13 days

My worst has been zero days a year... and my best has been 2 weeks with additional mandatory vacations of a week or two in the summer called "Summer Shutdown." and another break the week of "Christmas"  So 20.

 

 

That's some interesting stuff. Where did you find it?

Just somewhere online.  It's about the numbers i've seen quoted in different studies.

The US generally does get off the fewest days of the year.  We're also less likely to cash in the few vacation days and more likely to identify with our jobs.

It's a sociology of buisness thing.  It's one of the reasons why it pays to open up a company in the US insetad of Europe.  The USA is just more work minded itself.

Hell, I'm the last person to identify with any of the jobs i've had.  I'm not going to take vacation though unless i've got a good reason to.  Don't really see the point.



damkira on 26 March 2010

I work 6 days a week, EVERY week.

Recently I got 5 days off for a vacation, it was the first I'd ever had at this job.. but I don't think most people in the US work as long as I do.

 



Samus Aran on 26 March 2010

I usually skip 1-2 days a week at school, so uhm, a lot?

DSLover on 26 March 2010

Not enough



 

 

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Skeeuk on 26 March 2010

28 days
bank holidays
plus xmas and new year days off.

still get f***ing fone calls on days off and holidays, you even get asked to take the blackberry with you when you go abroad



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pearljammer on 26 March 2010

I've done a bit more digging to see how many days I actually get off:

  • I work 187 days in one year;
  • I am laid off for 9 weeks ( ~63 days) in the summer;
  • Not including weekends off during my employment (~74 days); or
  • National holidays (7).

I have 34 days off. However, all 34 days are pre-determined.

I ama High School teacher.