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Since we're railing on corporate America... (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/memes@lemmy.ml
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[–] 26 points 3 years ago (16 children)

it's not just europe, I live in Latin America we have 3+ weeks of payed time off, the us job market is the weirdo

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    I've always found the term Paid Time Off as a degenerative term. Like they are doing you some kind of favour.

    It's a holiday, please kill that PTO term.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    The pto thing is because most office/tech jobs let you take unpaid time off too. Just means you won't make your full salary for the year based on the number of unpaid days you take.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    The fact that's also a thing blows my mind.

    We don't have that option here. Between the holidays and things like special leave, I've never been not paid for taking time off.

    You can take a years unpaid career break which is kinda cool as your job is guaranteed when you return.

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  • [+] -17 points 3 years ago (9 children)

    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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  • [–] 22 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    You hire more people.

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  • [+] -18 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 16 points 3 years ago

    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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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    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.

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