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"I had to return to work with my bad heart because my insurance provider denied me coverage for this lifesaving procedure so I have to raise more money to pay for the procedure myself ..... here is my gofundme page ... please give anything you can .... God Bless America!"
News article: Amazing 10 year old raises money selling his hotwheels car collection to highest bidders to help pay Dad’s open heart surgery.
Breaking News: Mattel Inc has issued a cease and desist order against 10 year old marketing the company's Hotwheels toys without their permission - family ordered to pay for damages.
Too real.
“City shuts down auction as being unlicensed” or something.
that's more like it. cannot have that bad publicity for our corporate overlords.
People who go on PTO and check work messages drive me insane.
I have a coworker who wishes for a 4 day week and brings her laptop with her on vacation "just in case" and responds to tickets.
Right!? Then when I take a vacation and don't respond to tickets my boss has a 'talk' with me about how much Brenda is doing for the company and how she was on her laptop every night clearing tickets. So I'm on the job when I'm being paid, I'm on the job when I'm not being paid because if I let a ticket sit for an hour cause I'm cooking dinner I'm somehow not respecting the companies time and I'm on the job when I'm on vacation. I need to be ready to jump onto my laptop at a moment's notice for the same reason.
Oh yeah and it's good to hear from my manager that there are over 1000 resumes sitting on his computer for the ghost job my boss keeps up just so he can say how easy we all are to replace.
And I'm expected to treat that person with the utmost respect. I hate my job, but I'd hate being homeless more so.
I was joking about going to work during the Christmas break, so I could have some silence to prepare, and my new boss just looked at me sternly and said "don't". In Europe by the way.
Saying you are working during the Christmas break by not doing much is a good way to save days.
But also like, the end of the year is when you have to use up all the vacation days that you can't take into the next year. At my work we get 30 vacation days per year but can only take 12 unused ones into the next year. I had to take Dec 30th-Jan 3rd off because I was still sitting on 15 unused days
This is why everyone is rooting for principled Italians.
What does plumbing do? Takes the shit to where it belongs.
In the ground
I'm in Italy on holiday at the moment and was speaking to some women who were amazed by the fact I could choose when to take my ~4 weeks off per year. They all pretty much have to take their leave during summer and Xmas regardless of field (obviously there are exceptions) so I guess the grass can always be greener!
Only fools take the whole summer off, it's so expensive to go holiday during peak time.
Better is;
2 weeks in the spring
2 weeks in the summer
1 week in the autumn
1 week in the winter
1 week kept spare so you can have odd mid week days off or a Friday and a Monday.
The best jobs, absolutely cream of the crop jobs that Americans can hope for give you 2 weeks of paid vacation, and half of the time you don't get to use it because they deny your shit or give you the run around. I have never met anyone who gets more than 3 weeks, and I have known/had family in high paying corporate jobs, government positions, the secret fucking service, and a cousin who was a fucking post master. The idea of 7 weeks of leave, to an American, especially one like me who's never even had a job that offers paid leave at all, feels like so much it seems like you'd never actually be at work. 7 weeks? Out of 52? Even though I know it, I support, I advocate for it, have for years, every time it comes up, it's fucking mind blowing how incredibly unlubricated the fucking of the american worker is
I get 30 days of PTO + 12 holidays at my job in the US. Of course I know it's not normal, none of my friends get even close to that but most of them get 15-20 days of PTO + 10-15 holidays.
Edit: some typos and missing words (don't drink and post...)
As a French this is crazy.
I have a colleague who has been at my company in the US for over thirty years. As a result, she was grandfathered in for many major benefit changes, like keeping her pension and the old PTO system. The old PTO system (90s) added days every other year or something with no cap. So she's constantly on vacation with all her PTO. The most you can accrue for long service now is 4 weeks, and that takes decades in theory.
Federal job lets you accrue up to 240 hours of leave to carryover to the next year ( at rates of 4/6/8 hours per two weeks accrual, depending on years of service), in addition to a flat 4 hours per pay period of sick leave (which is uncapped). This is considered god-tier amounts of PTO in the US, and its still shit compared to Europe.
https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/leave-administration/fact-sheets/annual-leave/
Yep. Public sector is where it's at, from an American point of view. Still shit compared to Europe, but for US? It's fucking great.
I earn 180 hours/year (four and a half weeks/year) in vacation, can carry 250 hours of vacation (6 weeks and 1 day) over to the next year, and I get 3 weeks paid sick leave/year with infinite carryover. Finally, 11 holidays.
I've also never had a vacation or sick leave day denied, but that's more because of the people I work with, not the company policy.
Wait, they can deny you to be sick?
Theoretically, yes. Realistically, if anyone tried, there would be a long line of people wanting to talk with that person that tried to deny sick leave, and the first ones in line would be HR.
Vacation is more likely to be denied, but I've never had it happen and have never denied any myself.
Yes. Plus if you work somewhere like, say, the post office you can work most of the holidays and get another two weeks paid leave. Nine weeks paid leave after three years service. Leaves private sector people very jealous of what is otherwise a relatively atrocious job.
If it makes you feel better the company I work for it was 6 weeks when I first joined it only went up to 7 once I'd been with them for 3 years (as a loyalty perk). Though, that's because I joined at the lowest level of employee, managers get 7 weeks from day one.
They're also really crap with sick pay, only giving ten days at full pay then it drops down to my country's statutory rate.
Where do you get 35 vacation days? I only get 30 from my public service contract.
I'm not American.
Very few Americans get 30 days.
10 days is kinda standard, with some jobs giving more bar on longevity (e.g.. every 2 years you get 1 more day per year, up to a maximum on 15 days).
I've got it way better than most Americans with my public sector job. I get 10 days vacation 1 "personal holiday" (like vacation, but can be used towards overtime his like a business closure day), 15 days sick leave, and we're closed every federal holiday except for June Juneteenth.
I also attend a lot of night meetings, and get 1.5:1 comp time when I go over 40 hours in a week instead of OT wages, so that is my main source of vacation. I probably get another 2-3 weeks just from that.
I just took a week off for Christmas and have another 3 weeks saved up and I've only been with the city for about 14 months.
The worst part is all the paperwork you have to fill out to get your residence changed after you had to sell your house to pay for the surgery, too.
Silly europeans and their higher life expectancy.
Because you know, anesthesia is not covered by health insurance, so you might as well keep on that grind 😤💯🔥💅💪
Looks at Europe: That's, that's … that's ~~socialism~~ communism !!!
/s
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_average_annual_labor_hours
US is at 39 with 1,765.00 hours.
Above it, with more... Poland, Czech Republic, Croatia, Romania., Estonia, Hungary, and Malta. There's Greece too, but you know, Grexit.
They make the same structural error as everyone:
They list "Average labor hours per worker per year"
while it should be "Average labor hours per 1000 citizens per year".
This way, if more people are employed (for example younger/older people working additional part-time), the average doesn't go down, but up.
Also, it makes it easier to compare to historical data.
For example, in 1970, workers might have worked just as many hours as today, but actual workload per citizens has roughly doubled because the number of workers per citizen has roughly doubled (women going to work). So in total, while in 1970, one partner would have stayed home to do householding stuff, now both partners go to work and then have to split the housekeeping stuff between them, which makes their stress levels go up.