• @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.