unpaid
To get a surgery done.
which wasn’t covered by insurance.
and they’re still sending letters…
It took me way too long to get the joke.
Yeah I’m American.I mean I cannot remember the last time I took 36 hours off…
If I work over night (like literally to the morning), I will some time take the next day off, and then have a slow day after :( Most of the time, I only take the morning off.
Hopefully, life will get better, but I don’t honestly see an obvious way off…
Well I am in France and have 5 weeks mandatory; but its unpaid because i have a freelance (=daily) contract
About a decade ago I worked a few weeks at ShopKo. Their hours were terrible; they’d make you work 5-9pm to unload the trucks, then make you work 5am-1:30pm the following morning to restock the shelves.
You get exactly 8 hours between shifts making it physically impossible to get 8 hours of sleep. And since the hours were spread so wide throughout the day it was impossible to have a regular sleep schedule. It’s legal for companies to do this to their workers in the US. I was also only paid around $8.50/hr, but that’s beside the point.
In a similar vein, my next job was at another retail store. One time I requested a weekend off to help a friend move, but they denied it and instead made me work 7 days in a row, Wednesday through Tuesday. They got away with it because the company’s shift tracking app ends the work week on Saturday, so it didn’t realize I worked a week straight.
I was paid around $10.50/hr on average there.In my country most Collective Bargaining Agreements negotiated by unions include a “coming off” day. After a night shift, you are legally required to have a rest period that usually covers the rest of that day and often the next, depending on the rotation cycle
Wait, a retail place let you get that many hours per week?
Both jobs were only part time, so it wasn’t every day, but it was still around 3 times a week, so recovering from it was difficult. It was dependent on when the trucks arrived.
In Denmark, there must be 11 hours between each work shift, probably for that exact reason.
Man I’d kill to go on holiday. I straight up cant afford one though
As usual, it depends. Work conditions, cost of living and vacation days vary wildly throughout european countries.
Afaik, EU mandates a minimum of 20 days, but yeah, there’s deviation between countries.
I mean even in europe you dont usuqlly go on 2 week vacations. Its like once a year if youre middle class but most people would choose to go on more shorter ones.
I mean even in europe you dont usuqlly go on 2 week vacations
Nonsense. In Germany, we usually have 6 weeks of paid vacation time. I usually spend two weeks in the summer south my family somewhere nice, another two weeks for Christmas and new year and then use the remaining days in conjunction with bank holidays, so you get a full week off while only “spending” three or four vacation days. If people at my job want “shorter” holidays, they usually just work some overtime in advance to then spend it on two or three days off.
What’s a typical yearly package like for Canadians?
Lol. Its not a package. Its protected by law. Most provinces require employers to allow two weeks minimum. Which isnt a lot tbh.
That’s just a legally protected minimum. What’s a typical Canadian package like?
I get 3 weeks and 5 sick days. More than many but still not enough tbh
Yeah this is just the minimum. Most provinces also have a provision that it must be raised after five and then ten years of employment.
Yes indeed, sorry I wasn’t implying that what I have is the baseline, just saying that I have above the minimum and it still isn’t enough
So 4 ½ days, right? Right?
In my line of work, anything more than 24 hours feels like a vacation.
A few lucky Americans are getting this Monday off. Some paid, some not.
I had to schedule my vacation days because by law I couldn’t push further. We are in the middle of a super complicated project that I’m leading. Oh well
By law?
These 36 hours occurred during the weekend.
2 weeks? That’s like a once a decade vacation.
Once a few months 🙃
I used to work in the financial industry where it was mandated for compliance reasons that we take 2 (TWO) solid weeks of vacation. Reason being that if you were doing anything funny like cooking the systems, either people would catch it when they took over your duties or your absence would cause a discrepancy when you were unable to keep up your shenanigans.
I only had 2 (TWO) weeks of vacation. So in an act of mercy the company decided to bend compliance so that I only needed to take one solid week off and the other week was mine to take at another time or split up as needed. You know, rather than give me any more vacation time.
As a european, I simply do not understand how America even acts as if it functions. Shit cost of living, Shit work hours/week, shit vacation time, “benefits” that we see as the bare fucking minimum for us to even show up to an interview, shit healthcare system, shit unemployment system.
Y’all are slaves, but most of you don’t even realise it.
Especially how can you be productive? I mean you’d dig more holes if you work more hours, but mental work just breaks down when people are overworked.
Manual labor also has its limitations. I used to work in construction, and after my 37 hours my body didn’t want to continue. Sure, I’ve worked more some weeks in an attempt to get roofing done before a period of bad weather, but I’m not convinced I actually did more work than regularly, because I’d just be more tired the following day/week.
Literally everything is a farce, almost every product, every deal and agreement is an inherent ripoff, and there’s a catch to everything short of taking a walk in a park.
shit, they towed my car
That’s the rub though isn’t it? Most are fed propaganda and believe it and fuck the rest who actually know this.
