That's just idiotic.

First child back after 6 weeks. Second back after a week. I was self employed. If I didn't work I didn't get paid. Also after insurance her birth was $8k

Things don't close in the UK over August, but as soon as the schools are off the whole pace of businesses slows down. Roads are noticeably less busy in the morning. I personally don't schedule any significant work for the month of August as it's too quiet to get much done.

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Touché

"and generous people help with the gofundme to help them afford the bills"

Uh.. what would have been the solution without him taking one of his vacation days?

And that's when think of your own and the baby's health and get out without even answering the fool.

I'd be pisssed if I HAD to take 4 weeks in a row in summer. That would eat up two thirds of my vacation days and I want/need those days at other times of the year. I like to take more time off around Christmas and New Years.

And the big surprise is, nothing, absolutely nothing bad happens if you don't check your emails.

I'd say, "So, what's your point?"

Good for you that you did. I has minor surgery a few years ago and had two weeks off medical leave. It took that long for the aesthetic to wear off enough for me to be somewhat functional.

I get what this is saying, but there's some part of me that breaks out in a cold sweat thinking "yes, but what if there's a deadline and you watching the world cup instead of being in the office means that your counterpart in the US doesn't make their deadline? What if they get reprimanded? What if they get fired?"

This is just sad

My cousin is legal counsel for Greensill. Between their current catastrophe and the American work culture, i have never seen a human being crumble into a shell faster. 18 hour days for years and panic every second of the way.

How tf can work be so important?

lol, in the USA a bank holiday is only a day that banks take off. No one else.

Sure, boss. Just let us know when it's convenient for you. Her mother will hang in there until you find an opening in your agenda.

My job: 'yeah, we should plan too much from June up to October, people take holidays then.'

I am sorry for your loss.

My UK-based wife once considered a job offer in her company's New York office. Not talking scrubbing toilets- a good white collar publishing job on 85,000. More pay than the same job in London, but by the time we worked out the costs of things like health insurance that difference was wiped out immediately. And then there was the fact her paid leave would be less than HALF what she gets now, and the company wouldn't give her a contract with guarantees of basic workplace expectations such as a guaranteed notice date or even a guaranteed FIXED leave entitlement (company's US hiring policy document actually said *leave entitlement subject to change). It turns out that for not a lot more money we would have a terrible overall package. I think you'd need to be earning well over £150,000 a year to make moving to America work out better than in the UK- and that is about the top 2.5 percent of earners here. I don't understand why the middle class put up with it in America.

teacher here too--Covid rules- if health dept quaratines you then 14 days off with Personal Days no email/no work (close contact/tracing etc)..if you become sick without notifying the health dept the you take sick days and are still responsible for your class via zoom in your classroom (we're in school, not remote)...we also don't have a union

Not true

Tricky, what country can this be?? It's so hard to guess!!! *rolling my eyes*

My (US) company has an office in India. Even though we try to be cooperative and balance meeting times so fewer people get the bad end of it on late evening meetings, it's not unusual for me to be starting work in my morning, which is their late evening, and they're still at it on our group chat, or staying up past their midnight so they can collaborate with the US team. Also, their managers don't seem to hesitate to give them weekend work whereas something better be on fire here for our managers to mandate it. Sure, we sometimes do it anyway because of our deadlines, or we'll take courses on our own time, which I imagine would appall our European pandas, but that's far less often than our India teammates. The standard work week in India is 48 hours, and from what I can tell, that's a minimum, at least in tech.

They have this amazing invention called a "kitchen". You can find one in all German houses. You use it to prepare and cook your own food because adults should be able to feed themselves. They have time to do this because they don't live in a backward country where they work ludicrous hours and have no holidays.

The world makes fun of us for not being worldly and untraveled and ignorant of other cultures. This is why. A Canadian friend of mine asked me why i would travel to a far away place for only 5 days. I told her that even that was stretching it and that is all i could possibly muster for that period of time.

shame, if you tried to phone be between 13:00 - 14:00 - YOUR BAD!

Wait, what? Why are you not geting paid during your lunch break?