Draconian vacation policies for US slave workers
in [Europe]
|
From: JohnT on 22 Jul 2006 15:39 "Mxsmanic" <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:9au4c2hfbdvefr1jve8g688jr7gs8mcsu2(a)4ax.com... > JohnT writes: > >> That happened to you? > > No. So, yet again you don't know what you are talking about. JohnT
From: dgs on 22 Jul 2006 16:20 Stephen Dailey wrote: > Every employer I've worked for has offered 4 weeks of vacation after a > specified period of employment. I've never been with one employer long > enough to earn 4 weeks, though. You've just touched on a significant difference between American and (many) European policies regarding vacation/holiday leave. Yanks might accrue 4 weeks of leave at a given employer, but once they change employers - a not uncommon occurrence - the meter gets set back to 2 weeks, because the new employer is not obliged to honor the former employer's vacation/holiday leave policy. In Europe, vacation/holiday leave is more tied to the worker. If you quit one company to change jobs to a new employer, and you had four weeks of vacation/holiday accrued, no big deal; you'll still have four weeks at the new employer - or even five or six weeks. -- dgs
From: Dave Frightens Me on 22 Jul 2006 16:27 On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 21:17:40 +0200, Mxsmanic <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> wrote: >Dave Frightens Me writes: > >> No building produces heat. > >All buildings produce heat, from lights, office machines, the people >inside, and so on. The buiding produces nothing. Everything else can be controlled. >> You left. That suggests you didn't learn a thing. > >On the contrary, I learned that a hellhole with air conditioning is >still a hellhole, and I decided to move somewhere where I don't have >to spend nine months of the year indoors. I think you spend that much now indoors anyway. -- --- DFM - http://www.deepfriedmars.com --- --
From: dgs on 22 Jul 2006 16:42 JohnT wrote: > "Mxsmanic" <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> wrote in message > news:7ui4c2d5kprqgrb0k5aan6ioo4kk3pl8aq(a)4ax.com... > >>[...] in today's world, one's job is likely to be eliminated or >>outsourced long before one reaches the necessary level of seniority. > > That happened to you? And you are not clever or resourceful enough to > respond positively to the situation? He's only clever or resourceful enough to edit your post in such a way as to provide a terse one-word reply to the first question, while completely ignorning the second question. -- dgs
From: BB on 22 Jul 2006 17:04
On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 13:20:50 -0700, dgs wrote: > Yanks might > accrue 4 weeks of leave at a given employer, but once they change > employers - a not uncommon occurrence - the meter gets set back to 2 > weeks, because the new employer is not obliged to honor the former > employer's vacation/holiday leave policy. It is typically 'reset', but usually to 3 or 4 weeks unless the job is low-skilled & low-paying. I've never had only 2 weeks. -- -BB- To e-mail me, unmunge my address |