Tight with time off
Jan 9th 2006, 2:43 pm
#46
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Re: Tight with time off
Originally Posted by Dan725
Why is it that in the USA, vacation entitlement is so terrible? I have just taken a week off work - which is exactly half of my annual entitlement. Which is no good to anyone!
Is it proven anywhere that the US is more productive than Europe? Because all I see every day from the depths of cubicle land is people surfing the web, bitching about not getting any time off, or conversely, feeling guilty for taking time off!!
5 years to get four weeks off - seems like a bit much to me. Especially if you change job at some point and it's all of a sudden back to two!
This is probably the single worst aspect of living here for me. Just wondering if anyone else shares my "lazy assed European" approach to life in my desire to get four weeks off!
Is it proven anywhere that the US is more productive than Europe? Because all I see every day from the depths of cubicle land is people surfing the web, bitching about not getting any time off, or conversely, feeling guilty for taking time off!!
5 years to get four weeks off - seems like a bit much to me. Especially if you change job at some point and it's all of a sudden back to two!
This is probably the single worst aspect of living here for me. Just wondering if anyone else shares my "lazy assed European" approach to life in my desire to get four weeks off!
Imagine my Spanish wife's view of the vacation issue- in Spain they are given 1 month (in addition to 20 paid holidays off) and are given (by law) 1 extra month pay in both July and December.
Of course there is that pesky 15% unemployment issue in Spain and Europe as a whole...
Jan 9th 2006, 2:52 pm
#47
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Re: Tight with time off
Originally Posted by ironporer
To most Americans, 4 weeks given at the 5 year level would seem extraordinaryly generous. It takes me 10 to get that.
Imagine my Spanish wife's view of the vacation issue- in Spain they are given 1 month (in addition to 20 paid holidays off) and are given (by law) 1 extra month pay in both July and December.
Of course there is that pesky 15% unemployment issue in Spain and Europe as a whole...
Imagine my Spanish wife's view of the vacation issue- in Spain they are given 1 month (in addition to 20 paid holidays off) and are given (by law) 1 extra month pay in both July and December.
Of course there is that pesky 15% unemployment issue in Spain and Europe as a whole...
I'd rather be unemployed in the UK than work 2 mcjobs here just to stay afloat...
Jan 9th 2006, 4:46 pm
#48
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Re: Tight with time off
I guess I've always been lucky that my bosses never had a problem with me taking time off from work -- even when it was sometimes unpaid -- to go back to the UK. I've worked at a variety of places and all were fairly generous with their holiday allowances. OH currently works for an insurance company and has 6 weeks paid leave with some extra days thrown in. Granted he's been there for 11 years now, but it's never been an issue when he's taken 3 weeks' vacation at a time.
Jan 9th 2006, 4:52 pm
#49
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Re: Tight with time off
Originally Posted by ironporer
Of course there is that pesky 15% unemployment issue in Spain and Europe as a whole...
http://epp.eurostat.cec.eu.int/porta..._schema=PORTAL
Jan 9th 2006, 6:18 pm
#50
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Re: Tight with time off
Originally Posted by anotherlimey
Apart from Europe's unemployment is about 8.5%....
Jan 9th 2006, 11:52 pm
#51
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Re: Tight with time off
Originally Posted by Neathborn
I guess I've always been lucky that my bosses never had a problem with me taking time off from work -- even when it was sometimes unpaid -- to go back to the UK. I've worked at a variety of places and all were fairly generous with their holiday allowances. OH currently works for an insurance company and has 6 weeks paid leave with some extra days thrown in. Granted he's been there for 11 years now, but it's never been an issue when he's taken 3 weeks' vacation at a time.
