• aquinteros@lemmy.world
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    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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      That’s why they are the best country in the world and us lazy people are third world shitholes /s

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      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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        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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          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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            Yeah it’s pretty shit. Since some places they only offer 1 or 2 weeks vacation a year if you want a longer one you end up needing to take the unpaid time off.

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      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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          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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            If the same job can be done by more people working fewer hours it’s a “bullshit job”? Elaborate.

            Have you heard about shifts? I hear they’re all the rage in production.

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        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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        The meme is clearly exaggerating for comedic effect. Standard is 4 to 6 weeks PTO across Europe.

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          Exactly. And the exaggeration is the same for the American part, I’m sure that even an American would take a whole half day off for kidney surgery.

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        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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          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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            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.