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Sir EvilFreeSmeg
18-09-2006, 17:52
After 7 1/2 years of working for the same firm they finally got the bright idea to give me TWO WEEKS VACATION! WHOO HOO!!!
I'd rather have a raise.
I finally get 3 weeks at the first of the year and I agree I'd rather have the raise.
that's wrong in so many ways...
(Alex dances a jig that he's not working in the US. :jig: )
I get 4 weeks but that is combined vacation/sick time.
Plus, I can carry it over.
mine doesn't carry, at the end of the year I get a check for the unused balance. It usually works out that I have 6-18 hours left. this year i think i'm down to 6 or 7 hours left.
Draconis
18-09-2006, 20:35
Pah, I've been out of university two years and I get four weeks paid holiday plus a week at Christmas. And sick leave.
Talga Vasternich
18-09-2006, 20:44
Pah, I've been out of university two years and I get four weeks paid holiday plus a week at Christmas. And sick leave.
So you don't have to earn it, is what you're saying.
Today I've asked my superiors when I'm supposed to take days off.
I have a certain amount of days off left, and they keep tell me to use 'm or I'll lose 'm (that's not up to them but staff management) - but I don't get a chance to use 'm!
Now most of my colleagues planned their holidays. I'm the one who has to work. :embarassed:
{KOW}Spazed
18-09-2006, 21:22
I get 4 weeks but that is combined vacation/sick time.
Plus, I can carry it over.
So don't get sick/take off work for 13 years and you can get a full year off.
I don't work an official job so I can take as many days as I want.
Still 7.5 years? Smeggy, you need to find a new jorb.
Pah, I've been out of university two years and I get four weeks paid holiday plus a week at Christmas. And sick leave.
That's because Europeans don't work as hard/much/often as Americans.
myleftfoot
18-09-2006, 22:50
After 7 1/2 years of working for the same firm they finally got the bright idea to give me TWO WEEKS VACATION! WHOO HOO!!!
I'd rather have a raise.
hahahaha, sucks to be you dude.
Breakdown
18-09-2006, 23:34
Anyone wanna swap lives? Then all you need are 3 more years of highschool.
Breakdown
18-09-2006, 23:34
Anyone wanna swap lives? Then all you need are 3 more years of highschool.
So don't get sick/take off work for 13 years and you can get a full year off.
They have a cap on how much you can bank. I am not sure but it may be 320 hours. I never flirt with it so I don't keep track.
Over here employers are jostling at the chance to negotiate with their workers to swap holiday time for higher wages. We have a big problem with "presenteeism" over here, maybe that's why.
That's because Europeans don't work as hard/much/often as Americans.
Those three things are different though. As I understand it, Germans work harder but for shorter hours, for instance.
That's because Europeans don't work as hard/much/often as Americans.
????????
I've never been in a US office, but the people working at the register/baggers are working REALLY slow in the USA.
So I don't know about the harder working. More, probably.
Grr pIER
That's because Europeans don't work as hard/much/often as Americans.
This leads me to a conclusion that Americans like to work more.
I was pointing out that in the U.S. many jobs have something like 2 weeks vacation, while many places in Europe have 6 week vacations. I've heard you get something like 2 months in Italy and France. I've also heard the average workday in the U.S. is longer then in Europe.
But maybe they work harder when they are working.
Talga Vasternich
19-09-2006, 13:40
But maybe they work harder when they are working.
Maybe, but it's doubtful.
Why work harder when there is no reward for working harder?
Maybe, but it's doubtful.
Why work harder when there is no reward for working harder?
I'm not claiming they do, just pointing out that the original "hard/much/often" conflated separate ideas.
Bordillo
19-09-2006, 13:57
Europeans dont have to try hard at work because its impossible to fire someone
myleftfoot
19-09-2006, 13:58
Maybe, but it's doubtful.
Why work harder when there is no reward for working harder?
No reward for working harder?
Maybe they work harder because the have rested more.
It's "impossible" to fire someone, but that also means that the hiring procedure is longer and more difficult to get a job. And the company puts in effort to improve the quality of their employees, instead of fireing one and get a new one, who might be better.
Grr pIER
Sir EvilFreeSmeg
19-09-2006, 15:00
Need I remind anybody that the unemployment rate in Europe is more than double the rate in the US? Our system works better. Always has, always will.
innorton38
19-09-2006, 15:02
I got 2 weeks after 6 months here. We get as many sick days as we need a year. It's not regulated unless someone obviously abuses it.
I never get to leave early on friday's or anything though...
Sir EvilFreeSmeg
19-09-2006, 15:06
I also work for a tiny firm. There's three of us. Taking time off buggers things up. But it allows for us to work on whole projects, not just small segments of them.
myleftfoot
19-09-2006, 15:11
Need I remind anybody that the unemployment rate in Europe is more than double the rate in the US? Our system works better. Always has, always will.
I'm not unemployed so I don't care about that, I just care that I get more holidays in 6 months than you do in 7 1/2 years :grin:
Also, I think it's kind of stupid to average out the Europe's unemployment rate with so many different countries involved.
And the fact that the US statistics are only taken from a (large) sample.
AND, in the US statistics only people on unemployment benefit are counted, while in Europe everybody without a job is counted.
Grr pIER
Europeans dont have to try hard at work because its impossible to fire someone
Got any proof of that or is that just one of those "OMG Commies" comments?
Need I remind anybody that the unemployment rate in Europe is more than double the rate in the US? Our system works better. Always has, always will.
Depends which country you pick. After all, what would the "American" unemployment rate be if you added together the unemployment rates of every North and South American country and divided by the total number of countries?
U.S.: 5.1% (2005 est.)
Luxembourg: 4.5% (2005 est.)
Norway: 4.6% (2005 est.)
Switzerland: 3.8% (2005 est.)
Iceland: 2.1% (2005 est.)
Ireland: 4.3% (2005 est.)
U.K.: 4.7% (2005 est.)
I can't find reliable data on Liechtenstein after 2002, but it was 1.3% then and reports I've seen suggested that it has gone up to about 2.4%. And I don't really consider the U.K. and Ireland to be European, but I think technically they are.
And not that it's really relevant, but you may be interested to know that the rate of unemployment in Australia is approximately the same as yours (dead even in 2005) even though we're distinctly more left-wing than you. And New Zealand, who are a bunch of hippies and socialists compared to us, has a rate of 3.7% (2005).
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