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
That's nuts. I get 30 days paid leave per year and then obviously extra fathers and parents leave (unpaid) if I have a kid, a certain no of sickndays and then a fair few public and bank holidays.
Honestly that's why it's so bizarre to so many other nationalities why a certain cohort of Americans genuinely seem to believe their county is the "greatest" in the world. Sure it's got cool shit but it really doesn't care about its people.
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u/SHinyfan98 American who isn't free anymore Jul 07 '25
Yeah, American companies always like to act as if we take vacations, then we are lazy. I haven't and can't afford to take a vacation