• Tb0n3@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    The meme seems to imply that Europeans all get 3+ MONTHS off a year. How do businesses operate if they’re always missing a quarter of their staff?

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        Sounds like one of those bullshit jobs. The further you get from actually making something the less valuable skilled workers are to production.

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          If the same job can be done by more people working fewer hours it’s a “bullshit job”? Elaborate.

          Have you heard about shifts? I hear they’re all the rage in production.

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      Productivity and profits have steadily risen for decades while wages have hours worked have increased.

      So business obviously were able to survive and thrive with more employees taking a larger slice of the profits. The businesses would be able to operate just fine.

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      The meme is clearly exaggerating for comedic effect. Standard is 4 to 6 weeks PTO across Europe.

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        Exactly. And the exaggeration is the same for the American part, I’m sure that even an American would take a whole half day off for kidney surgery.

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      Almost everyone has vacation in the summer (winter is cold and shit) so most office work slows down heavily during a few weeks and then picks up again during and after August…

      Retail and stuff like that is obviously different.

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        1 year ago

        Took my 3 weeks in July. It worked out well because our suppliers also slowed down significantly. The huge amounts of vacation the memes and braggarts claim just seemed ridiculous.

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          It was exaggerated for comedic effect.

          Here we get 25 days (5 work weeks) each year by law. Some get more; I don’t know the average amount of days. Apparently you get 28 days if you don’t get overtime compensation.

          In general 4 consecutive weeks are used during the summer months.

          You also get paid more during vacation, for some reason.

          All other EU countries have a minimum of 20 paid days.