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[+] 63 points 9 months ago (24 children)
  • [–] 54 points 9 months ago (8 children)

    This is insane. Why would you put up with this?

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  • [–] 40 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Because some people need to have multiple hyper-yachts and who are we to stand in their way?

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  • [–] 19 points 9 months ago* (3 children)

    There are millionaires and billionaires in Europe though, so clearly it is possible to have decent work-life balance and still support the excesses of a rich upper class, assuming that's a requirement.

    The amount of productivity lost because of paid leave is almost negligible, study after study has shown that people are less productive the more overworked they are. So staff with no time off work longer hours but are less productive for those hours, the end result is it pretty much equals out. If it didn't, the US economy would be doing better then it is, €1 is $1.16.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    The exchange rate isn't really the best indicator of the economy because either side can print more or take excess money out of circulation.

    Not that your other points are wrong or anything. Just wanted to point that little thing out.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    Studies show programmers are about as productive if they only work 80% compared to 100%. Or so I recall, gotta dig that one up. Personal experience is the more people linger in the office the less (quality) programming gets done.

    My take is that people seem to like it, I mean why are they staying late for free otherwise?

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago*

    Nah, it's a dumb reason to do anything, much less hand wealth to a bunch of people who don't give a shit about the workers who got them there. It was more tongue in cheek than anything.

    Less time off has more to do with middle managers justifying their pittance than anything else.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    What else can we do? A lot of people underestimate how fucked over us working class folks are here in the US.

    The ultra wealthy have been fracking our livelihoods for generations. If we're not hospitalized or crippled by medical debt, we just consider ourselves lucky.

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  • [–] 22 points 9 months ago (14 children)

    In New Zealand if you have an office job there's a decent chance you're not even allowed to work for at least a week, often two, sometimes three over the Christmas/New Year period.

    The days between Christmas and 2 January are not even considered working days when calculating working days in contracts.

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  • [–] 16 points 9 months ago (12 children)

    I'm an American and luckily I work for a company that does the same thing. We "shut down" during that time. They even give 4 weeks of PTO a year starting off. This is no where near the norm.

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago (9 children)

    Haha here the legal minimum is 4 weeks plus 12 more paid public holidays on top.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (7 children)

    Cries in working in health care

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (6 children)

    You might not get the public holidays at the same as others but you're still entitled to them taken in lieu!

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    Oh for sure. It was more the 2-3 weeks off at summer that I was envious of. Although I know lots of people still have to work as well, so I can't complain too much.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (2 children)

    Ironically my gf is a health care worker and she actually earns more PTO than I do.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    Tbh I get 5 weeks AL a year (although only after 5years) so I'm really complaining about not much. I can take leave over summer like everyone else, but only every third year or so as there has to be somebody working

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    Come work on IT projects in government. There's a contractor stand-down period for like 3 weeks over Christmas so even if you work there's almost no one around (yes the government said they would cut down on use of contractors, they said a lot of things).

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