• CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml
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    Pro Tip: corporations won’t just give you this, you sort of have to riot until you force the government make it illegal for them to not do it. And even then you’ll probably have to re-defend it every few years.

    Source: am from Europe.

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    You know it’s just a bit of an internet joke that we take the whole of August off, right? Just because we’ve got enough vacation days to do that if we wanted doesn’t mean that anyone actually uses them all up in one go at the most expensive time of the year for hotels, flights etc.

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      My summer vacation is 4 weeks and I use that every july - august all in one go as does my SO and all of the people I work with. This is on top of my week long winter vacation and the 10 or so calendar holidays we all get through the year. I also “earn” one extra holiday every 2 weeks or so that I can pretty much spend when ever I want.

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      I mean… It’s not that weird some factories close during august nearly completely and everyone gets the holidays during that month for example.

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        All joking aside, I don’t understand how you could live like that? I’m finding it hard this year because I’m getting married in November and taking 3 weeks. That has meant that I’ve had to really eek out my other 3 weeks throughout the year.

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          How i live currently is very different than i used to pre-covid. Post? I take unpaid days off whenever i can afford it and feel like it. I don’t fucking care anymore.

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          Simple answer is we don’t really live. We just kinda suffer day after day until someone breaks then a new policy is out in place to legally cover the corps ass. It’s a miserable system and most of us are at a breaking point.

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      my experience is the opposite. I take the shortest vacations of the people I know who usually take 4 weeks off and then just do unpaid later if they need more time. Definitely could be a difference of PMC vs the prolest of proles. I spread it out but i get looked at weird

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      It’s so fucking sad, though. We only have this life and we spend it all working and going through shit. I hate thinking about it.

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        But you see, if you don’t work the owner class can’t have permanent vacations and a revolving door of material pleasures. I mean, you need to eat?

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              Yeah, that’s fucked up. I still don’t ever understand why us Americans aren’t in the streets tearing the whole country down to the ground because of the shit that we live in.

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                Because if I do it my family is hurt and we have no home. Its no guarantee anyone will be out there with me. Protests take years of planning, years we don’t have anymore. I want to riot, but I don’t see it accomplishing anything. Not without an organized front with articulate goals.

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                Because then you’d be in even deeper shit. Just breaking things isn’t going to solve your problems. You need to come up with a better alternative and by better I mean something that actually works and doesn’t just sound nice.

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    The other 64% believe that they will be be millionaires any day now, just one more scratch ticket!

    edit: wow, I’m gonna leave my drunk math as stands

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    YES! Oh my God it is a tragedy that vacations are proudly seen as a thing of the past here.

    Imagine living in, say, California and taking a week off just to go surfing or explore some of the national parks or smaller towns. Hell, imagine a country that doesn’t try to gatekeep its youth from walkable cities that make it possible to make and have friends to share those vacations with. I’m sorry but, the people in charge are complete misanthropes that want to force their miserable loneliness on others.

    I’ve said it before and I will say it again, the US is the anti-fun country and it’s the fault of the puritan WASPs who have no taste in anything.

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    I’m really surprised because it means 34% don’t want a month off work.

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    It’s not even part of the law to give people vacations for FEDERAL HOLIDAYS unless you’re government employees. It’s so absurd lol. I honestly don’t know anyone who gets the holidays off unless they’re white collared workers. And I’m talking office/manager white collars, not doctor/pharmacist/nurse white collar.