In America, the loyal worker learns to the love the lash.
A lot of Americans bought into the belief that only through never ending hard work can life be rewarding. So people will give up their life and family time to spend working for a company that can and will cut their job without recourse. The big mystery is why that has never ended with a couple of C levels hanging from a streetlamp outside the building.
its mind boggling anyone that thinks its ok to have no vacation- for any tier of job.
sure, if you own a small business and never want to take time off, that's your thing. but if you expect your $15/hr employees to feel the same way, that's insane.
that's where corporate America has a giant disconnect. they expect you to have the same or more responsibilities then your bosses for a fraction of the price. in America, the more you get paid the less work you have to do.
Because America is actually in a recession it just doesn't show in official numbers.
After 1929 you got fired for taking a leak. We are headed that direction. It's obvious isn't it?
There is encroachment on worker comfort, it used to be if you took 35minutes on your 30minute lunch because you hit traffic getting lunch no big deal, now if you take 35minutes for your 30 minute break you are likely to get an infraction or something, rack up 3 and you are fired even if you are the best employee in the business. You know it lol.
Everyone's vacation time is getting turned over to PTO time. So that it does not rollover and you can't rack up nice time for a good vacation.
The way that they cut down the size of things in the grocery store reminds me of the bakers dozen. The economy was under similar circumstances, rising costs and dropping profits for food processors, like bakers. So it was common to get shorted an egg out of a dozen. "They forgot."
So they made it punishable by amputation to be short by one egg. If you ordered 12 eggs and got 11, the shop owner could be put to death. And the bakers dozen (13) was born, just to be extra safe, heh.
Its not like this is the first time in history the economy has gone full retard.
Most states including California require PTO to never expire and for it to rollover.
Why are people conflating PTO with unpaid vacation?its mind boggling anyone that thinks its ok to have no vacation- for any tier of job.
sure, if you own a small business and never want to take time off, that's your thing. but if you expect your $15/hr employees to feel the same way, that's insane.
that's where corporate America has a giant disconnect. they expect you to have the same or more responsibilities then your bosses for a fraction of the price. in America, the more you get paid the less work you have to do.
I'm self employed and never really get a vacation, so wah.
True. I can close the doors any moment I want. And my income goes to zero when I'm not here. Add to that that I'm on a daily schedule. A certain number of things need to be taken care of every day. It's not a lot per day but it is every day.I hate this remark. yes, hate. you are self employed, you make all the profits in the company and you CAN take off whenever you want.
Most states including California require PTO to never expire and for it to rollover.
Funny, my company's home office is in California and we don't get no roll over.
Why should the government dictate how a business is run.
They interfere enough with other regulations and paperwork.
Vacation is a benefit that the company provides to the employee
Find a job elsewhere. Life is too short to be a slave.
i hate, hate taking vacations or vacation time off.
Because the average Americans are morons compared to your average European. Hell, some of our most patriotic members will call the French and Italians scum and think how dare they get 5 weeks vacation, or how dare they get universal healthcare!. How will their businesses ever make the record profits like they do here with that thinking and afford to pay their CEO over 200x the salary of the average employee's wages!
American's have been brainwashed in this country to slowly become legalized slaves. They have forgotten what it is like to live, aside from their routine go out to the bar every weekend or stay in some shitty all-inclusive hotel vacation where you don't even leave the resort.
The answer to your question is, because giant corporations run this country control and how your average person thinks.
To see clear evidence of the brainwashing, look at the attack on the public sector. Because these people have pension plans, great health care, earlier retirement options, and so on, the brainwashed look at that and say they are getting too much instead of we all should be getting these benefits which have been slowly been disappearing from the private sector over the past 35 years. The people with that kind of thinking are doing the elites work for them without even realizing it.
What's funny about your post is you don't realize how brainwashed you Europeans are. So instead of a country run by banks and corporations, you have a non-democratic union run by unelected oligarchs who have the force of armed government thugs in uniform to justify their actions. You'll take your 5 weeks vacation a year, universal healthcare, and early retirement because it worked out so well for Greece, Spain, Portugal, and Italy, didn't it? Oh, and when the thugs declare a new tax by confiscating 10% of your bank account to support a failed bureaucracy, you'll gladly take it too. You have no freedom of speech, no right to bear firearms, no protection from forced self-incrimination, and the oligarchs get away with shit like 50% tax and outlawing paternity tests, because you'll allow them.