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[–] 49 points 5 months ago* (4 children)

Europeans: out of office until October. 🚬🍺

Jokes aside tho, it's mandatory at my job to take a vacation for at least two weeks at least once a year, and managers can get in trouble if someone doesn't take a vacation in a long time.

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  • [–] 25 points 5 months ago

    In America, we have to request dying. Unless you have approval from your management, you're not allowed to die. We must appease the shareholders at any cost. We live for the capitalists!!! Hurrah! Greatest nation on earth

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

    I may get 4 to 5 weeks off for the year, but it is absolutely taboo to try and take 2 of those at the same time. The amount of guilt you get even requesting it is all you need to know about our current state. The only exceptions i have had fot this was when i got married and had each kid. Besides that i have not had more than 1 week off at one time since i was 15 and im in my 40s now.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    I may get 4 to 5 weeks off for the year, but it is absolutely taboo to try and take 2 of those at the same time.

    Here in the Netherlands you have the right to take at least one 2 week vacation a year.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    I'm in the US and I only have to take 5 consecutive business days off once a year (not clear if it's just a security thing or a law for the industry I work in), but my workplace absolutely has people take more than a week at a time. Sounds like you work in a rough industry, sorry.

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  • [–] 23 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Become an audio engineer, you will get a few months off in the summer when everyone stops doing shows

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago* (3 children)

    how would one get started in something like that

    EDIT oh you mean like, the sound guy at a concert?

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    You could refer to me as a sound tech, but I do a whole lot more than just press buttons on a mixer. My job includes designing speaker systems for live events. If youve ever seen those big stacks of speakers at a concert, those are setup according to an engineers specifications

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago

    Once I began working for a school district, I never looked back.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago

    My kids keep asking why I have to go to work when they have summer off. Its harder cause their mom is a teacher and has the summer off.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    In Europe 4-6weeks off per year are a norm. Some companies even offer unlimited sabbaticals. That's why I go every other year on a 2 month vaccation + normal vaccation in between.

    Fight for your rights. Unionize.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago

    Poor you, I've got six weeks holiday because I asked for two weeks unpaid.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    I know a few married teacher couples who take months-long vacations in the summer.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    You get that back when you get laid off

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Iirc summer break was for rich kids families to take vacation.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (3 children)

    It's called "unemployment"

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

    Eh, but you're still matriculated during summer break. Unemployment is just unemployment.

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  • [–] -5 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    3 months! That's nuts. No wonder Americans are behind in education, you're never at school!

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    How many school days do the schools where you live have in a year?

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