My boss just lies. My predecessor DID have open heart surgery, and retired so he could have a heart replacement, so he missed a lot of time. They used to have a “sick time bank” but turned it off and enabled rollover instead. So my boss apparently just told everyone he was in his office for 6 weeks while he was hospitalized. Nice, but shouldn’t have to risk your own career and retirement to be human.
It just seems like there are so many people in the US that are like “we can’t have more mandated vacation days! Chad doesn’t work as hard as I do and if he has something nice, I’ll die! Also my boss said the company is really depending on me- if I put in the extra hours he can buy another sports car this quarter!”
There’s shockingly low class solidarity among labor.
I guess the trouble was that we didn’t have any self-admitted proletarians. Everyone was a temporarily embarrassed capitalist. Maybe the Communists so closely questioned by the investigation committees were a danger to America, but the ones I knew—at least they claimed to be Communists—couldn’t have disrupted a Sunday-school picnic. Besides they were too busy fighting among themselves.
–John Steinbeck, America and Americans
It’s really gross how many people think everything in life is a zero sum game. The anti gay marriage folks are like that: if gay people can get married then somehow their own marriage is lesser. If people who aren’t working get healthcare, then it somehow takes away from them. It’s disgusting.
Absolutely, you have to be very guarded about what you say around colleagues cause some of them will snitch behind your back to higher ups, that’s how I lost my job. I’ll never make the mistake of speaking my mind with anyone ever again. They will get a fake work persona I’ll construct from now on. Can’t believe how eager some people are to fuck themselves over just so long as they are doing better than those others they have been conditioned to hate
The percentage of people that would be just as happy with their neighbour having less as they would be with themselves having more is shocking and depressing. It’s all about comparisons. Crabs in a bucket.
Denied be back by lunch
I know its a joke, but I had a coworker get into a car accident with an 18-wheeler on his lunch break. My bosses first words out of his mouth were, “can you make it back in today?” You could literally see the accident from our location.
You could literally see the accident from our location.
Sounds like he could make it in then. /s
The perfect country to make a bunch of money if you’re young, healthy, highly skilled, and have no kids. If you check all these prerequisites then you are making money like crazy. Just no time off, no flexibility, just working for the man. Everyone else though it’s very hard.
Where do I move to once I’m ready to settle down, I don’t see a future in which I raise kids in this country
Anywhere in the EU where it’s safe, sane and there’s a real social safety net. Just be prepared to learn a new language and culture, be humble and grateful.
What’s wrong with Canada, eh?
We’re situated geographically between the US (which is not longer a country we can consider as allies) and Russia, and we have 20% of the world’s surface freshwater (7% of the world’s renewable water flow)
In the upcoming times of global instability and climate crisis, Canada’s definitely gonna be seeing some action.
Alberta
dont forget the rich family!
Take the bet
Make a lot of money
Move
Move
before ICE gets to ya
Home of the brave, land of the free.
Leader of the free world.
Greatest country on earth.
Don’t forget the strongest economy EVER!
Or the endless amounts of OPPORTUNITY!
You fuckers joke, but this is totally not accurate. If your employer is large enough and you’ve got money to hire a lawyer if/when things go wrong, there’s a legally mandated program referred to as FMLA in the USA that gives you the right to 12 whole fucking unpaid weeks of time away from your job if the company that your employer contracts out to handle these things approves of your request and your medical providers properly fill out all the paperwork necessary. So suck it Europe. And suck it Asia. And suck it Africa. And suck it all the other continents that don’t have FMLA.
gives you the right to 12 whole fucking unpaid
unpaid
That’s not really something to brag about. But poe’s law is real, and maybe you’re doing a bit?
IMO The sarcasm is pretty thick in OP’s comment. At least, as an American, I’m picking up on a whole lot of mockery of the red tape that goes along with this “benefit” if you are lucky enough to work somewhere that even offers it in the first place.
European here. I thought the sarcasm was pretty obvious. Europeans online will often take any opportunity to dunk on USA, even if it’s an obvious mockery/joke. It’s a bit weird, lol.
lol 12 weeks unpaid
you know we europeans get money while sick based on our salary, so we don’t have to use up our financial reserves if we get sick. and this pretty long - after a few months sick pay gets reduced to about 70% of your income, but i was nearly a year on sick leave when my back crapped out hard and needed multiple surgeries. i never had to fear that i lose my living arrangement or even a lot of living standard - i didn’t even lose my job.
your FMLA sounds like “you are allowed to die homeless if you are sick and don’t have reserves”
It is exactly that.
Unpaid. And, at least in my experience, you have to use up your paid leave before you can start drawing from that unpaid time. That is worlds different from the typical paid time off in Europe.
Edit: I totally missed the satirical tone of your comment the first time I read it.
Unpaid lmao
There’s nothing like a ridiculous generalization to highlight how stupid Europeans are.
/s
It’s also not technically wrong, its my understanding as someone in the US, a lot of places if you take medical leave, you’re required to use up all your vacation and sick leave doing so, before the company let’s you start eating into unpaid days or medical leave. So if you have a large medical issue, have a kid, etc, this post is true, you’re being forced to use up all your vacation days to have surgery, or birth, and recover.
No, we don’t have to use vacation and/or sick pay to utilize LOA. Source: I went on paternity leave which was theough LOA benefits (not unpaid, though pay was like 70% or something based on some range of time leading up to the LOA start date) and came back to work with all of my vacation and sick pay available to me.
Then again, I don’t think it works the same at every job.
meanwhile in europe, i’ve been specifically told at multiple places to call it in if i get sick on vacation so that my days off don’t get used up being unwell.
That’s fucking awesome!
Most decent jobs will give you SOME maternity or paternity leave.
My wife gets 5 weeks and I get 6, but I was allowed to stretch it to 7 weeks with pre-approval.
There’s a big difference between ‘most decent jobs give you some maternity leave’ and ‘every job must give you 14 weeks (Germany) of maternity leave’.
Oh no I totally agree. Workers need rights.
I’m just offering the more average experience.
5 weeks is an insult and harmful to the child. Also not something to brag about.
I do not disagree. I was offering the more “expected” experience as an American who yearns for better maternity and paternity rights.
You may be given it, but the problem I was trying to point out is that I think places force you to use all the paid time you have left before you start eating into the maternity/paternity leave, thus rendering OP’s post true: you’re forced to use your vacation time on medical issues in the US.
Yes. I agree that it’s a problem.
A statement which, in itself, is a generalization.
- Vacation (Annual Leave) for the EU is minimum 4 weeks (20 paid days) per year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absence_management
- The US has no federal mandate for paid vacation, where the private sector average is about 10 vacation days after one year, plus about 6 paid holidays, totaling around 16 days annually: https://time.com/4227072/job-benefits-united-states/
In addition, some European countries have more, like Sweden’s legal minimum is 25 paid days per year, with a special rule for new employees hired after August 31 granting only 5 days until the next April. Sick days 1–14: Paid by employer at a minimum of 80% of salary, subject to a deduction, and from Day 15 onward: Compensation provided by the state, typically 80% for 364 days, then 75% up to 550 days, with medical certification and administrative reporting required. https://www.e-days.com/holiday-compliance-guide/emea/sweden
Even if what you said were true, the “stupid” Europeans have it better than the US.
Cool. Thanks for getting the joke
Who would read this as some sort of prejudice or attack against Europeans?
If you think this post is a comment about how bad Europeans and the European system is, you may have some mental problems around this issue.
Not sure if this is a serious dumb comment or I’m being wooshed because saying “how stupid Europeans are” is exactly a ridiculous generalization.
Hmm
What are the statutory rights of US workers?
Yeah, only a fool would take the whole summer off. Everything’s so expensive when the kids are off school. Couple of weeks in early spring then another couple in autumn, then a week off at Christmas and week somewhere in the winter. Gotta spread the little holiday we get out.
