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Americans take the least vacations globally. We also get the least amount of time off.
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America does not guarantee time off. How much time you get off is ENTIRELY up to your employer.
Which sucks, because while my employer is VERY generous, my wife's is not. So, realistically, we can't go anywhere or do anything because she's not allowed.
Example:
July 4th Holiday:
My office is shutting down 7/1 to 7/5. Counting weekends, I have 9 days off in a row.
My wife? July 4th. A Thursday. They aren't even decent enough to make it a Thursday/Friday so she can have 4 days off in a row.
So while I have the opportunity and the means to go do something nice, get out of town, travel, do SOMETHING, my wife, at best, has Saturday/Sunday. That's it.
Do you know how hard it is to do something nice when you only have 2 days off and part of that has to be spent travelling there and back?
She would LOVE to see Washington D.C., we could go, see maybe one place (Library of Congress) then have to pack up and head back home.
What's the point? New Orleans? Hawaii? Yeah, no.
The last time we did anything, it was for her birthday and she had to ask for an extra day off 3 months ahead of time so we could do a Friday-Saturday-Sunday thing.