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question everything (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-20-08 01:30 PM Original message |
Workaholic Americans disdain time off |
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Hydra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-20-08 01:33 PM Response to Original message |
1. No vacation days for me |
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supernova (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-20-08 01:36 PM Response to Original message |
2. We do get vacation... we call it "LAID OFF" |
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guitar man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-20-08 01:36 PM Response to Original message |
3. Oh yeah |
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tridim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-20-08 01:45 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. You're very lucky |
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guitar man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-20-08 02:11 PM Response to Reply #4 |
8. well, the company I've worked for |
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LeftHander (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-20-08 02:25 PM Response to Reply #4 |
12. Digging your own grave.... |
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tridim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-20-08 02:34 PM Response to Reply #12 |
16. It's a long story and beyond the scope of this thread |
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raccoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-20-08 02:42 PM Response to Reply #3 |
20. You're very lucky. I haven't had paid time off since the early 90's. nt |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-20-08 01:47 PM Response to Original message |
5. People use their vacation time to go to the DOCTOR |
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question everything (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-20-08 02:31 PM Response to Reply #5 |
15. Ours is the only industrialized nation that does not mandate time off for |
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pitohui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-20-08 01:49 PM Response to Original message |
6. companies need to be monitoring these "workaholics" |
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HERVEPA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-20-08 01:53 PM Response to Original message |
7. I can not understand workers who don't take their time off |
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ixion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-20-08 02:14 PM Response to Original message |
9. *sigh* it is not disdain... it is wanting to keep your job |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-20-08 02:14 PM Response to Original message |
10. Perhaps they see companies in their industry shutting down and |
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NeedleCast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-20-08 02:19 PM Response to Original message |
11. 21 Days Vacation, 5 Days Sick |
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aikoaiko (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-20-08 02:28 PM Response to Original message |
13. Work just piles up if I'm not there to handle it. |
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aint_no_life_nowhere (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-20-08 02:29 PM Response to Original message |
14. I used to work in a busy law office |
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question everything (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-20-08 02:34 PM Response to Reply #14 |
17. And this is the problem. Bosses expect too much |
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pitohui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-20-08 02:40 PM Response to Reply #17 |
19. there is federally mandated time off |
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tridim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-20-08 02:35 PM Response to Reply #14 |
18. That sounds very familiar |
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raccoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-20-08 02:48 PM Response to Original message |
21. If this were the lounge, I'd start a copycat thread, "Sick Americans disdain medical care." |
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kimmylavin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-20-08 03:12 PM Response to Original message |
22. Daily contract. |
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question everything (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-20-08 08:58 PM Response to Reply #22 |
25. This is worse than slavery |
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devilgrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-20-08 03:16 PM Response to Original message |
23. 'Distain' my eye - people work like that to make up for the lack of pay raises the past 8 years! |
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MindPilot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-20-08 03:21 PM Response to Original message |
24. I get 3 weeks a year, four floaters, and pretty much unlimited sick & personal time |
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mattfromnossa (125 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-20-08 09:23 PM Response to Original message |
26. Not me. |
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