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[–] Bigfishbest@lemmy.world 83 points 2 days ago (25 children)

Hi, Norwegian here, we have 5 weeks vacation per year, mandated by law. Oh, and the government takes 10% of your paycheck every month and pays it all out in July, so you have the money to go on vacation. Strong labor unions is the recipe.

[–] BananaPeal@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

American here. I work for a company that gives 5 weeks per year. It's great. I can take a 1-2 week vacation in the summer and various days and weeks off throughout the year. It doesn't hurt that my boss is great and almost never says no to time off. "Hey, this project is draining. I could really use a week off for mental recovery. It looks like nobody is off next week." "Go for it."

It's possible, fellow Americans. Unions are the way.

[–] mad_lentil@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago

5 weeks seems like a good minimum to shoot for, yeah. Even with technically "unlimited" vacation, I tended to take 1 week a quarter, 2 in the summer, and then whatever Christmas to New Year's is. I wish I could take more in the Summer of course, but it is what it is.

[–] onlyhall@aussie.zone 10 points 2 days ago

aussie here. 4 weeks. required by law.

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[–] mad_lentil@lemmy.ca 24 points 2 days ago (2 children)

This has got to be fake, or engagement bait, right?

[–] Karjalan@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Honestly, as someone who doesn't like in America I feel like this wouldn't surprise me if it was real from there.

Where I live you have minimum 4 weeks annual leave a year...

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[–] vivavideri@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Maybe someday I'll work somewhere with good PTO. currently 6 holidays, 2 pto weeks and 1 sick week.

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 54 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Typical AI sludge, complete alien nonsense spouted confidently.

[–] b34k@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Yep that was my first thought too. Gotta be AI written because it makes zero sense.

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[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 202 points 3 days ago (6 children)

What the fuck is this gaslighting propaganda bullshit? People in the US have been taking vacations for decades; it’s not exclusive to GenZ, nor is it a “new trend”. I call bullshit.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 100 points 3 days ago (8 children)

Quiet quitting is just doing your job/acting your wage.

People on the internet love to make dramatic sounding names for normal stuff.

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[–] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 31 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

Speak for yourself. I'm all in on this trend and have even begun taking nano-retirements for about 16h each day.

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[–] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 242 points 3 days ago (7 children)

1-2 weeks every 12-18 months is seen as a lot? No one tell them about europe 😶

[–] oce@jlai.lu 85 points 3 days ago

I guess everyone is doing macro-retirement every year in EU.

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[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 6 points 2 days ago

Just 2 weeks? That is called a vacation!

[–] abysmalpoptart@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I think it's probably a typo caused by AI and a lack of editing. As i understood it, a micro retirement is taking between several months and a year long sabbatical after 1-2 years of working, which is a bit more interesting than 1-2 weeks. So basically, it's working 1 year and taking a break from work for 1 year (whatever that entails, personal project, travel, possibly doing nothing at all).

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[–] ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 56 points 3 days ago

Charles currently takes work breaks every six months for two weeks at a time, and said he heard about micro-retirements from a friend. “I reward myself by traveling to different countries. Whether it’s Europe during the summer or other destinations, and so that’s a way that I incentivize myself to reach certain KPIs,” says Charles.

FML Charles has discovered holidays

[–] MTK@lemmy.world 103 points 3 days ago (10 children)

Not satire: https://www.fastcompany.com/91357784/what-is-a-micro-retirement-inside-the-latest-gen-z-trend

But they specify that unlike PTO, this is an unpaid time off, which can be a break inbetween jobs or a unpaid vacation.

Still fucking ridiculous to call it "micro-retirement"

Soon we will hear how gen z is having nano-retirements every 5 days of work that can include 2 days of no work and often destructive behaviour such as parties and binge watching tv.

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[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 73 points 3 days ago (3 children)
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[–] ComradeRachel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This has to be a shitpost. I can’t believe this would be a real article.

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[–] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 115 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Is the original satire? I know Americans are obsessed with presentism on the job, but even they understand the concept of a vacation?

[–] henfredemars 60 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

It's hard to tell. I've worked at places that would definitely fire me for using a week of vacation, and legally in my state vacation isn't a tangible guaranteed thing; it's completely legal to just fire the employee instead if they try to use it without compensation. Practically some jobs don't have time off. You just get fired.

[–] sfxrlz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 60 points 3 days ago (9 children)

Thats … really worker unfriendly

[–] henfredemars 52 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (5 children)

My wife was fired from a job for getting sick (kidney stones). We were told if we don't like it, sue, but I bet you can't afford either with the medical bills. It took us years to pay for that stone.

There are some very unkind people out there who take advantage of their position. It's a right-to-work state which just means that you can be fired for any and no reason with no recourse. It's dystopian as hell. Most people in these positions put up with it because they enjoy eating.

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[–] varnia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 66 points 3 days ago
[–] mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 31 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Thats "the Onion", right?

I mean, this cannot be written by a human who means this seriously. right??

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[–] Unpigged@lemmy.dbzer0.com 81 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I was working in a European branch of a SF based private company. It's a company that tries really hard to have good optics everywhere, from being listed as PBC down to "support and inclusion" talks.

US employees officially had "unlimited" vacation days, European had 25. Plus the company has a practice of giving an extra Friday off once a month, plus few days for Christmas break plus one year there was a week of summer break.

That year with a summer break employees in Europe got over 40 days of vacation. 35..37 without it. Plus bank holidays and sick leaves.

I was freaking out after learning that US employees with the unlimited time off were getting under 20. Whenever an employee was using more than 15 vacation days a year, they were presented with an inquiring interview from their manager trying to figure out why they need so much rest.

US has no work culture, it's exploitation.

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 55 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Unlimited PTO is an accounting dodge because PTO shows up as a liability on the books if it is defined, because if they liquidate the business they need to pay it out in lieu. And number doesn’t go up.

Which is why they also don’t allow carry-over in most cases.

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 41 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

A company telling you you've got unlimited off days is actually really bad because it means they will just engage in this judging practise.

If they tell you you've got 25 days then that's great you know how many days you've got, if it's unlimited they start being argumentative around day 10. So in reality people with unlimited time off actually end up with fewer days.

Working for a European company is great, currently I'm being told that I need to take 2 weeks off, in addition to the holiday I've already booked off.

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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I'm actually retired but I think of it as a macro-vacation.

[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 17 points 2 days ago

Oh you mean a fucking short ass vacation?

[–] TomMasz@piefed.social 51 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Please tell me this is fake.

searches the site

Nope.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 33 points 3 days ago

Wow, that article is really trying to make vacations "special" and trying to indicate most people want this "new" thing as a benefit, unpaid.

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[–] m3t00@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

did similar for years with sick time which was use or lose 10 days a year. boss complained my calling in sick Fridays and Mondays had become a pattern. well yeah. worked at a community college in illinois. not a slave.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago (6 children)

1-2 weeks every 12 to 18 months? what is this, time off in Auschwitz?

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[–] ScreamingFirehawk@feddit.uk 42 points 3 days ago

When I've heard about "micro retirements" before, it's been in the context of taking months long sabbaticals, not a regular amount of paid time off to take in a single block

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 31 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Skipping lunch is now "intermittent fasting".

[–] burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 22 points 3 days ago

i call my bathroom trips nano sabbaticals

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Crazy people. We get 4 weeks at the start and then 1 extra per year for five years. So total 5 weeks paid holiday. Only work 33 hours a week too. Some companies treat people well, just have to get lucky and find a small one.

Also, yeah I’m not micro retiring.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 21 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (6 children)

If I don't take at least one 2 week period off per year, that's literally illegal. I'm also entitled to 28 days off per year that if I give enough notice and book in at least one week periods, an employer can't deny me without good reason.

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[–] Octavio@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

We used to do that in my generation, but it was just called getting laid off. 😂

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