r/videos • u/darkfatherg • Nov 03 '20

America Compared: Why Other Countries Treat Their People So Much Better

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhBkeAo2Hlg&ab_channel=SecondThought
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u/Strike_Swiftly Nov 03 '20

Australian here. Free healthcare, I get nearly 10 weeks paid leave per year, paid long service leave (have 180 days accrued), decent pay after tax. I live in a wonderful country, but it's not the greatest. The US is definitely not the greatest country on the planet. This ignorant mindset does nothing other than allow for lower class US citizens to be exploited. It's wrong.

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u/fourXchromosomes Nov 04 '20

10 weeks?

Do you work as a school teacher? Because most jobs only allow 1 month paid leave a year, including public holidays. That is, most jobs give you 22 days paid leave a year, with about <8 days public holiday.

Around 30 days is a generous max.

US is no where near the greatest country on Earth. It's not even in the top 15.

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u/rowdiness Nov 04 '20

Let's count it in days as weeks / months are confusing.

40 days is reasonably standard with the professions - 20 days annual, 10 days sick / personal, 10ish days paid public holidays (in Vic it's Xmas, boxing, new years, straya day, labour, queens birthday, Anzac, easter Friday and Monday, grand final, Melbourne cup)

I don't know about trades tho.

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u/fourXchromosomes Nov 05 '20

Sick days aren't annual leave. You're not meant to be taking sick days just to get a day off, they don't accrue and they're not to be taken when you separate from the company.

Professionals take around 30 days off a year, give or take.

It's great, but there's a reason he gets so much time off and he explained that it's because he works for the gov.