• @aquinteros@lemmy.world
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    251 year ago

    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

    • @Oneobi@lemmy.world
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      101 year ago

      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.

      • @Strykker@programming.dev
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        61 year ago

        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.

        • @Oneobi@lemmy.world
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          11 year ago

          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.

          • @Strykker@programming.dev
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            21 year ago

            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.

    • Tb0n3
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      -171 year ago

      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?

      • BetoA
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        211 year ago

        You hire more people.

        • Tb0n3
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          -171 year ago

          Sounds like one of those bullshit jobs. The further you get from actually making something the less valuable skilled workers are to production.

          • @hdnsmbt@feddit.de
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            21 year ago

            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.

      • @Riplikash@lemmy.world
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        151 year ago

        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.

      • @Obi@sopuli.xyz
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        71 year ago

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

        • ThenThreeMore
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          51 year ago

          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.

      • @ludwig@lemmy.world
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        11 year ago

        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.

        • Tb0n3
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          11 year ago

          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.

          • @ludwig@lemmy.world
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            11 year ago

            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.