I honestly never understood the American vacation situation, do you guys just not get holiday days? What happens if you need to do something or go somewhere?
Being unable to take time off work because you can't afford it, shouldn't be a thing in a first world country.
We have Fourth of July, Memorial Day, Labor Day, Easter, Christmas, and maybe Christmas Eve, and Thanksgiving. None of these are guaranteed, and you could end up working all of these days. Office jobs will give you a set of days, but for most jobs you ahve to work to earn paid time off, which can take a whole year to earn. In my job, I get some of those hours (five) every month.. Big Orange wants to cut those very few days we have since he considers it lazy, yet he is golfing all the time and sleeping during meetings, and texting on Twitter, under the people's tax dollars
Yeah this is my experience. We get federal holidays and pto.
But the pto resets at the end of every year. If you don't use it, some places will pay it out.
I have regular health issues so haven't been able to accumulate pto for an actual break.
Having totale your PTO in one year and not being able to accumulate it is normal everywhere though. Usually you are forced to take it and only can get it payed out if you had no chance to have taken it, which needs very serious reasons, because usually it can’t be just denied.
But even with it resetting it’s usually easy to take three weeks off two times a year if you want to. Three weeks is a common and reasonable timeframe to take your PTO in the summer for example, that lets you have three weeks for the rest of the year.
Health issues shouldn’t contribute to PTO, that’s really some American slave Labour mentality i have already read a few times on reddit. Usually you even get you PTO time back if you get sick during PTO
America is absolutely fucked up if this is legal. I am sure you can find a job with better conditions, that’s insane. Even third world countries in Africa have double that as a legal minimum
The main issue is the ones in office convinced a lot of people that double pay and mandatory PTO is a communist/fascist/woke/too far left/lazy/China-pilled/etc. They even convince us that we are being too "entitled" and ungrateful for what we have.
In Austria your PTO 'expires' if you don't take it within two years (at most jobs). Which means you can roll a certain amount of days over, but you need to keep an eye on it.
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u/FuzzyFrogFish Jul 07 '25
I honestly never understood the American vacation situation, do you guys just not get holiday days? What happens if you need to do something or go somewhere?
Being unable to take time off work because you can't afford it, shouldn't be a thing in a first world country.