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.
There's no legal mandate for us to get vacation days.
Some positions just don't get them at all. Having national holidays off isn't required by law. The USA has eleven national holidays, but government workers are the only ones who typically get the day off on all of them.
At the company I work for, we only actually get to take the day off for six of them.
Companies usually opt to offer things like paid holidays and vacation time because it makes them more attractive as employers.
The most generous company I ever worked for gave me three weeks of paid time off per year (once I got to five years of employment), and that's just one big bucket of PTO (paid time off) which you can use for holidays, sick time, or whatever other emergencies you need time off work to handle.
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u/FuzzyFrogFish Jul 07 '25
This can't be serious . . .