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It's legal to have ZERO days off a year?! This feels like a human rights violation somehow

I have 6 weeks per year of vacation, with pay 🇩🇰

That's wild. I get 35 days plus bank holidays plus 42 hours a year for when you need to take a few hours off at the end of the day or start a few hours late if you have other commitments.

Boomers love playing the work martyr. They've wrapped their entire sense of identity in working, their role at work, and some strange dogged determination that such a way of life has greater value than time spent with their family, children, friends, or pursuing any non-work interests.

And now huge swathes of them have nothing but their grinding mentality, as their family has splintered, their children have gone no-contact, and they have nothing of their Self to fall back on. It's why they still perch on the upper rungs of our political and corporate ladders, punching down at anything they don't understand.

It used to pay well. People used to buy big houses and earn pensions, and get a new car every 5 years or less.

Man oh fucking man, have times changed. No new cars, no houses at all... We're lucky to get a decent rental that doesn't go up more than $100 a year.

Goods are skyrocketing in price, LLM's are taking jobs away, Healthcare costs are skyrocketing, wages are way, way, WAY below what they should be... I could keep going, but this is enough depressing things in one paragraph.

The American dream is that someday you'll have other people work their lives away so you can have a comfy life of luxury.

It was always bullshit.

This is insane. Why would you put up with this?

In New Zealand if you have an office job there's a decent chance you're not even allowed to work for at least a week, often two, sometimes three over the Christmas/New Year period.

The days between Christmas and 2 January are not even considered working days when calculating working days in contracts.

You don't have weekends?

To get a surgery done.

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.

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

It's sad there's such a disparity between leave amounts at different employers in the USA. It really should be standardized.

I'm from Australia, where it's mandated to get four weeks (20 days) of PTO per year, 20 weeks of paid parental leave, at least a year of unpaid parental leave, and an extra 8 weeks of PTO every 7 years ("long service leave").

I'm living in the USA now, and am fortunate that my employer offers 21 days PTO per year. I also have unlimited sick leave, which is a strange phrase to hear as an Aussie (why would sick days be limited??)

Fast food working is not lesser work than office work, even though it might be like that in US. Same laws apply.

It'll vary country to country. In the UK (I know we're not in anymore) it's 28 days. France is 30, Italy 32, Estonia 40. I'm not sure if there's any with less than the UK, as we've probably got the closest work culture to the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minimum_annual_leave_by_country

That's the idea, the job doesn't matter, only how much you work (half-time, full-time, 4/5, 9/10, ...).

Here in Belgium, for me, full-time is 38 hours. Because 40 hours is easier, that means I get 20 vacation days + 12 days for compensate for the 2 hour surplus each week.

Then there's a few extra days, like when a holiday falls in the weekend, you're allowed to move it.

There's a lot more, but they often require special conditions. You can get days off for education. When you're fired or leaving the job, you can get days off when applying for a new job. There's days when you're getting (or adopting) a baby.