Is this what the World thinks a majority of Americans are like?

[MonstaMack]

dsgrue3 said:

Euphoria14 said:

dsgrue3 said:

MonstaMack said:

This always cracks me up.

If other developed countries aren't watching TV what are they doing?

Probably playing games on their TV or on the computer. Which to me is the same damn thing.

It's the same amount of eye strain and throw in some wrist detoriation down the road.

They aren't all reading books or going for daily jogs

Don't forget the US works more hours per week then any country, at least compared to this old study.

http://20somethingfinance.com/american-hours-worked-productivity-vacation/

Yep, could just be we're exhausted from working and have very little paid holidays. (Holy crap @ Finland)

Wow, I need to move to Finland!

Is that really a zero for US? I get 17/days of paid time off a year + your regular main holidays and all of Dec. 24th-Jan. 2nd.

From what I understand, these are mandatory vacation in the listed countries by law. I think most in the US get some paid vacation, it just isn't by law.

Correct I believe. (Phoenix Wright please correct me if I'm wrong) where as here we have to earn vacation/depending on contract of employeer.

I work in retail and get 3 paid weeks of vacation off a year and close to a week of personal time after working 11 YEARS for said company. To accue personal time I also most not call out for sometime. I didn't call out of work for a year and I ended up with 28 days of paid time off. Going to a new company I would have to work a full year without any paid time off and would most likely get just one week of vacation and a personal day or two. If I'm part time? Forget it, I wouldn't get any paid time off at all.

Also working in retail I may work every single holiday (with the exception of Christmas day, which they have been trying to take away for years) so theres not a single holiday day I am off besides Christmas.

I can request unpaid time off to relax but um... wouldn't get paid so it would kinda suck lol.