Don't worry, our rich and powerful are trying their hardest so they can make the Europeans enjoy the American experience too
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what the fuck is a "paid vacation day" even when they're being ridiculous they don't know how bad it is
I'm a school bus driver who used to be a programmer. My school district has a rule where if you don't show up the work day before or the work day after a paid holiday (like Labor Day, for one ironic example), you don't get paid for that holiday. I've never encountered a rule like this anywhere I've ever worked before, but my fellow drivers are all like "yeah, that's totally normal". Apparently they don't want people turning 3-day weekends into 4- or 5-day weekends, but it's still all kinds of fucked up abuse of workers.
Meanwhile half my co-workers didn't show up the day after Philly won the Super Bowl, forcing us to cancel a bunch of bus runs.
I'm in one of the few states that mandates PTO, but we only get one hour of PTO for every forty hours worked.
It's called living in hell
I get paid more during my 6 weeks of vacation, than the rest of the time.
The Danish holiday bonus is not much though. The minimum 1% holiday bonus is paid out because the days that you take off as a salaried employee are worth slightly less than the legal minimum holiday. Had you been paid by the hour, you would get the same without the bonus.
It's negotiable of course, but personally I'd rather have one of the holiday bonuses from almost any other EU country to be default. For instance Finland gets 50% for resuming work after a holiday and in Belgium they get a full months pay in bonus.
Depending on your union agreement you might get similar things but not by law.
are unions common there?
for non-union employees do they have an equivalent holiday or bonus?
The heart problems have been a production of the American Association of Processed Food Advertising.
No fresh vegetables were harmed in the making this text message.
My boss just lies. My predecessor DID have open heart surgery, and retired so he could have a heart replacement, so he missed a lot of time. They used to have a "sick time bank" but turned it off and enabled rollover instead. So my boss apparently just told everyone he was in his office for 6 weeks while he was hospitalized. Nice, but shouldn't have to risk your own career and retirement to be human.
It just seems like there are so many people in the US that are like "we can't have more mandated vacation days! Chad doesn't work as hard as I do and if he has something nice, I'll die! Also my boss said the company is really depending on me- if I put in the extra hours he can buy another sports car this quarter!"
There's shockingly low class solidarity among labor.
I guess the trouble was that we didn't have any self-admitted proletarians. Everyone was a temporarily embarrassed capitalist. Maybe the Communists so closely questioned by the investigation committees were a danger to America, but the ones I knew—at least they claimed to be Communists—couldn't have disrupted a Sunday-school picnic. Besides they were too busy fighting among themselves.
--John Steinbeck, America and Americans
It's really gross how many people think everything in life is a zero sum game. The anti gay marriage folks are like that: if gay people can get married then somehow their own marriage is lesser. If people who aren't working get healthcare, then it somehow takes away from them. It's disgusting.
somehow their own marriage is lesser
It's a cover, they're just trying to erect a stiff wall of turgid legislation with no gloryh- I mean, loopholes, in order to take that option away from themselves. Worried that the temptation will bulge out of them some crazy night in Vegas and they'll wake up with a new husband like that one time in 1972 that he and his curiously close best friend never talk about (but think about often).
I'm sure there are a number of "we can't allow gay sex because we'd all be having it if it was allowed and everyone should resist the sin like me" people, but there really are a lot of folks who feel it takes something away from them if others get what they have. It's like the mentality of the guy who loves his BMW until his neighbor gets one too, and then he has to get a more expensive car.
The percentage of people that would be just as happy with their neighbour having less as they would be with themselves having more is shocking and depressing. It's all about comparisons. Crabs in a bucket.
Absolutely, you have to be very guarded about what you say around colleagues cause some of them will snitch behind your back to higher ups, that's how I lost my job. I'll never make the mistake of speaking my mind with anyone ever again. They will get a fake work persona I'll construct from now on. Can't believe how eager some people are to fuck themselves over just so long as they are doing better than those others they have been conditioned to hate
Denied be back by lunch
I know its a joke, but I had a coworker get into a car accident with an 18-wheeler on his lunch break. My bosses first words out of his mouth were, "can you make it back in today?" You could literally see the accident from our location.
You could literally see the accident from our location.
Sounds like he could make it in then. /s
The perfect country to make a bunch of money if you're young, healthy, highly skilled, and have no kids. If you check all these prerequisites then you are making money like crazy. Just no time off, no flexibility, just working for the man. Everyone else though it's very hard.
dont forget the rich family!
Where do I move to once I'm ready to settle down, I don't see a future in which I raise kids in this country
Anywhere in the EU where it's safe, sane and there's a real social safety net. Just be prepared to learn a new language and culture, be humble and grateful.
What's wrong with Canada, eh?
We're situated geographically between the US (which is no longer a country we can consider as allies) and Russia, and we have 20% of the world's surface freshwater (7% of the world's renewable water flow)
In the upcoming times of global instability and climate crisis, Canada's definitely gonna be seeing some action.
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