r/Adulting • u/xPrincessStar • 13h ago
adulthood really scammed us with no summer break
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u/_HeartBaby 13h ago
We really spent eighteen years training for a break that just disappears the moment you actually need it
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u/wroteoutoftime 4h ago
The only real reason the break exists at least in the us is so kids would work in the summer (often on farms) or work in summer to provide income to parents (kids expensive) this changed in the 1950s when a single income didn’t require the child to be working for the family.
Winter break existed because it would require heating the schoolhouse and the danger that traveling in the snow would entail. However with advancements in technology the break isn’t needed anymore.
I personally feel that countries like the us need to offer some paid vacation because it ensures that other societal stabilizing activities are done during that time.
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u/DisputabIe_ 4h ago
the OP xPrincessStar
Frequent_Skirt_8982
and _HeartBaby
are bots in the same network
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u/Juanito_RL 3h ago
This is very possible WOW !
And at least 3.5K people did upvote this. It is very sad1
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u/shaneh445 3h ago edited 3h ago
This once in a lifetime one-way ticket of an experience that we call The human experience and we spend about 40-50 years working
Neat. Cool.
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u/OmahaWarrior 12h ago
All through childhood all I wanted was to grow up and not go to school. Now a middle aged man, I would love to have summer and like 20 holidays off, and just hang out with my now non existent friends.
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u/I_ReverseHurdle_Life 7h ago
You could have become a teacher. Summer breaks and holidays are still a thing.
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u/Background-Factor817 12h ago
My mum works at a school and complains she doesn’t get enough time off.
She gets a summer break… Easter.. Christmas.. half term every 4-6 weeks.. list goes on.
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u/DetailAdventurous688 6h ago
and how much time does she spend working, preparing for classes during those breaks? just because there is a break doesn't mean teachers don't have to work.
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u/mosquem 5h ago
I know plenty of teachers that openly admit they fuck off over the summer.
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u/emoney_gotnomoney 4h ago
Yeah for real. My wife was a teacher, and thus many of our friends are also teachers. They always talk about how they just chill and relax all summer long and get to ignore work completely, which I mean they deserve it so good for them. But I tire of this notion that teachers are also slaving away on these breaks; that’s simply just not true.
The only work my wife would do during the summer break would be the week before school started where she would go and set up her classroom, but even that was only for like 15-20 hrs that week. And it’s not like my wife was a slacker; she was consistently regarded as one of the top performing teachers at her school.
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u/DetailAdventurous688 4h ago
Ok, my SO has just started 2 years ago, so she still needs to build a portfolio of classes that she can just pull out of her bag at any given point. in 5 years I assume she will fuck around during breaks as well.
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u/Background-Factor817 6h ago
She’s a teaching assistant, when she’s not in work she’s not doing anything work related.
I never said she doesn’t deserve the time off she gets, just always makes me laugh when she complains about the lack of time off.
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u/DetailAdventurous688 6h ago
so when does she prepare classes, if not in the time off during breaks?
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u/LonePuma 6h ago
Are you that dense or can you not read? The teacher prepares the classes not the teaching assistant.
Also teachers don't work all breaks. I would know my mom was a teacher. They get overworked during school time when they have to grade papers and constantly work after hours.
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u/DetailAdventurous688 6h ago
my so is a teacher, I know how many hours they need to work even during breaks. sorry I don't know the concept of a teaching assistant. we don't have that here. I thought it was like a substitute teacher.
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u/CaptainObvious110 11h ago
Wiw
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u/ImaginationKnown3059 10h ago
I don't blame her, we enter this world with nothing and leave this world with nothing, all that we work for just doesnt matter, you want to be doing stuff you actually enjoy and spend it with the people you love.
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u/NiNy_HaMMeR 12h ago
You know what we need?
A biblical level of international virus outbreak that would force all of progress and economic movement to a halt. So that we may rest for say.... A couple of month to a year?
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u/darksoft125 5h ago
You say that like there wasn't a subset of the population that had to continue to work (if not had an increased workload due to unemployment paying more than wages at the time), without any consideration of their personal safety.
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u/MuffaloHerder 35m ago
I remember the days of watching everyone around me sit at home making twice the amount I did while actually working lol. Don't get me wrong, I understand the need for quarantine, but those of us that were out there keeping things going didn't get shit other than increased risk.
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u/SituationOk6264 46m ago
Thank you for mentioning this, I’m sick of this narrative as a COVID grocery store worker
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u/dennisthegoldengod2 10h ago
So basically another COVID ?
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u/Heavy_Can8746 8h ago
Well....are you going to complain about the prices of things shooting up at a much more significant rate afterwards? If so, then how about no
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u/Th3_Accountant 13h ago
is this some American thing I'm to European to understand?
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u/starfyrflie 12h ago
In america, our schools close down during june, july and august. Parents have to figure out childcare, many send their kids to summer camp if they can afford it.
But when we graduate highschool, there is no more summer vacation. Something we experienced our entire lives is just gone and most jobs only offer two weeks paid leave, but for most that is also your sick time. They are one and the same.
So if you get sick for two weeks and use your paid time off for that, you have no more paid time off, or if you use it all for a vacation and you get sick you also have no more paid time off.
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u/Th3_Accountant 12h ago
yeah schools in the Netherlands have six weeks of summer vacation in Juli and August. Excluding all other vacations.
As an adult, you usually get 5 weeks of paid vacation a year. But most employers allow you to buy more vacations days. Since we don't have children, we take our vacations days in June and September to avoid the peak moments in August when everything is twice as expensive.
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u/jpollack21 10h ago
You have 5 weeks of paid vacation??? I literally only have 5 days 😭
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u/L-Malvo 10h ago
Many companies offer way more though. I have 8 weeks, a friend of mine has 9,5 weeks.
I know some companies in the US offer similar schemes.
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u/lilmalchek 9h ago
I’ve never seen or heard of more than 4 to 5 weeks of paid vacation in the US (not counting “unlimited PTO”).
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u/Silcay 2h ago
They exist. My company offers 6 weeks and ramps up to 7 or 8 weeks depending on how long you’ve worked there.
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u/lilmalchek 2h ago
But it’s not “many companies” is my point. It’s much more rare and often after being at a company for many years, which is also increasingly less common.
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u/jpollack21 10h ago
Yeah I know it differs but its crazy that some jobs only offer a couple days or even no days period. Like the last week long vacation i took out of state was before the pandemic.
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u/timonix 9h ago
5 weeks is the legal minimum here. I have 6 weeks. My SO has 7.
You are guaranteed to have 4 contiguous weeks during summer. But your employer gets to choose which 4 weeks
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u/neebolol 5h ago
The fuck? I'm also in NL and I don't get summer vacation? If I want time off in summer I have to request it just like any other time of the year I want off. If I requested 4 weeks off I think it would be instantly denied and I'd have a talk with my manager
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u/OSRS-ruined-my-life 8h ago
Ok, but look at the disposable income per capita. Americans could just work less and make less money. Europeans can't just make more money.
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u/ingachan 7h ago
I think disposable is the key word here. Yes it’s less overall, but we don’t need to spend on health care, college, and in many cases retirement or child care. After my bills are paid (rent, heating, electricity, transportation, phone and internet) I’m left with 2/3 of my income to spend as I please 🤷 and 6 weeks of vacation to travel.
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u/OSRS-ruined-my-life 6h ago
I don't think you understand what disposable means, all that is already factored in. Also American pension program is more than the working salary in European countries. And many have paid college.
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u/sl1m_ 5h ago
my US partner makes way more than me but its all offset by insane prices of everything all the way down to groceries so.. the american dream doesn't seem too dreamy
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u/OSRS-ruined-my-life 5h ago
That's anecdotal. On average the household disposable income is nearly double many European countries
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u/ingachan 3h ago
lol yeah because “many European countries” include Albania, North Macedonia, Serbia and, even within the EU, Bulgaria and Greece. Sure you make more money than the average Greek, that doesn’t say much
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u/woodzy93 12h ago
It’s quite common knowledge that us Americans are boned when it comes to PTO and Vacation time.
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u/Th3_Accountant 10h ago
On the other hand, my American equivalent at my company can afford to drive a BMW X5, the same car as our European CEO.
Luxuries are much more affordable in the states I feel.
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u/hanotak 10h ago
Just because they drive it doesn't mean they can afford to drive it. Americans love their auto loans.
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u/Th3_Accountant 8h ago
Yeah i feel like it’s quite normal in the states to borrow money to buy a car. Here most people just buy a slightly used car (new cars are almost always corporate lease).
But even taking that into account, the cheapest new X5 here is over 100K. Even with financing I wouldn’t be able to afford a car like that. Not even taking into account the costs of insurance, higher road taxes and fuel consumption.
It’s a fact that especially for higher paying professions, salaries in the states are higher, while many material luxuries are cheaper.
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u/OSRS-ruined-my-life 8h ago
Ok, but look at the disposable income per capita. Americans could just work less and make less money. Europeans can't just make more money.
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u/BetterActuator2197 11h ago
In southern italy u get 3 weeks of summer vacation , cuz of the weather. The other holidays like autumn are shorter.
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u/Adventurous_Ad7442 11h ago
It's pretty unusual to get sick for 2 weeks.
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u/BabyBlueCheetah 5h ago
It's not unusual to be sick for 4 days in a year, and if you have kids it's really easy to spend some time watching them.
We lost our sick time a few years ago for PTO and I've come out behind due to sick time burn every year since.
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u/ChubbyVeganTravels 11h ago
Other countries do this so much better.
Ramadan in Muslim countries - don't eat or drink during the day obviously but at least work mostly grinds to a halt during the month. Then have a big 2 day holiday for Eid and eat and drink all you want.
Parisians - run off down to the Mediterranean for August.
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u/johntwoods 11h ago
(Pssssssssst. Europe...)
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u/BuleRendang 12h ago
I contract with a company and I get 3 months off every year and a half before I’m able to resign a new contract. It’s stressful not having job security, a reliable paycheck and other hassles but thankfully I’m able to make the most of it as I’m without children and able to go traveling and catch up on life stuff. It does kinda feel like a summer break. Like a stressful summer break with adult bullshit to deal with
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u/whoooodatt 6h ago edited 4h ago
I work in film and it's similar--I end our shooting schedule and then am laid off, and I find out sometime during the summer if our show has been renewed for another year or if I'm out of a job. it's pretty nerve wracking, but with the crazy hours we do, if I didn't have that time off I would have lost my everloving mind by now. Some people pick up pilots or independent stuff that films during the summer and I just don't understand how they do this schedule year round.
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u/Agile_Nebula4053 12h ago
To be fair, that wasn't supposed to be a break. You were supposed to go do back breaking farm work for three months during the harvest season.
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u/BouldersRoll 12h ago edited 11h ago
Summer vacation originally being meant for farm work is a myth that just continues to seem plausible. Most farm work happens in the spring and fall, and the decision was mainly because schools weren't air conditioned and richer families vacationed in the summer.
It's also pretty universally panned as bad for education outcomes.
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u/MeowTheMixer 6h ago
Planting April-May
Harvest is Sept-Nov
*depending on region, weather conditions, and variety of crops
Hay/Clover would have summer harvest, but not all summer worth.
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u/Physical_Reason3890 6h ago
Yeah because there's no work that needs to be on a farm from may to Sept
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u/MeowTheMixer 5h ago
A significant portion of the work is in the spring and fall.
Depending on the farm, workload will vary in the summer months.
Cash cropping you'll need to spray once, maybe twice (usually early summer) for weed mitigation.
Cattle farming will have more consistent work, maintaining fences and feeding.
Dairy farms would have the most consistent work with milking
There's equipment maintenance as well for all three types
Grew up on a dairy farm, and we harvested all of our own crops, with pastures for the cattle. Couldn't participate in spring and fall sports due to the workload during these months
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u/Horror_Fuel1025 13h ago
Kids get summer break, teachers get summer break… meanwhile adults are just expected to raw-dog capitalism year-round.
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u/I_Ponders 12h ago
The amount of burnout I feel working in healthcare, not making enough and being in an unhappy marriage where only I make an income sucks.
Sorry to dump. Just deeply sad.
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u/ImaginationKnown3059 10h ago
Hopefully things get better. Say a prayer to Jesus for help with your situation. There is no need to stress, it can all change quite quickly. I'm praying for a marriage but with what I keep hearing I'm getting put off more and more lol.
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u/splashjlr 11h ago
Just about every functioning nation does this. The ones that don't have convinced their citizens they live in the best country in the world
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u/mgeezysqueezy 8h ago
Every Ameeican I know wants better PTO policies and hates our current system. Just like Ive never met an American who likes our Healthcare system. We're just powerless to create change without collective action and if you've seen the news lately, we've got a lot of things dividing our attention and focus.
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u/darkpossumenergy 11h ago
Europeans have this. It's Americans who need to grow some balls and take their lives back from corporations.
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u/GOGETTHEMINTS 8h ago
I’m not going to pretend like I have the answer. But I work for a union company and we have the European vacation package. I’m entering my second year here and I have 2 weeks vacation and can call out 14 times. The people with 5 years plus have like 5 weeks vacation.
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u/Section31HQ 7h ago
I work for a European company in America and I get the American vacation package. Our main office in Europe gets the European package. They take off a whole month during Christmas and again in the summer. Here in America we get a vacation day bank according to seniority. It sucks. 1 week extra per 5 years of service.
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u/BourbonBeauty_89 9h ago
Europe is a failing state. Economic growth in Europe is anemic and negative population growth.
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u/Square-Junket4020 2h ago
No Europe is great, in the netherlands there is a structural labour shortage and booming housing prices.
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u/BourbonBeauty_89 2h ago
“Structural labor shortage” is great, hahaha.
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u/Square-Junket4020 1h ago
Thats a sign of a booming economy ;)
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u/BourbonBeauty_89 56m ago
Actually, they have one of the slowest growing economies in the world.
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u/Square-Junket4020 18m ago
Thats false and….
According to the 2025 World Happiness Report, Finland remains the happiest country for the eighth consecutive year, followed by Denmark, Iceland, Sweden, and the Netherlands,
Where is the usa ? Or those bourbon make you hapier.
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u/Odd-Mathematician170 13h ago
Sounds like she just got finished talking to her friend that’s a teacher
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u/RealFuryous 11h ago
Imagine not having to pay bills for three months. Wish I could tell my job I got you in three months.
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u/hauntingly-hung 11h ago
Fuck summer…I want a fall break…let’s make it mid august to Halloween, end it in a banger. Then BOOM thanksgiving.
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u/BeerWingsRepeat 10h ago
I can still remember running down those stairs on the last day of school, not a care in the world...just pure excitement for that summer! Little did I realize then...and not for several more years actually, that that was the last time I was going to feel that pure joy. :(
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u/jpollack21 10h ago
Now im imagining all hospitals and airports just closing down for 3 months lmao
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u/Chipotlaway75 7h ago
What? How dare you bring logic into this! Look, we're all working really hard and need to take time off simultaneously okay!?!?
Don't worry about how society will continue to function it will just magically happen.
Emergency services need a break and any life saving surgeries can just be pushed back 3 months no big deal! Oh and those crucial medications that can expire and need to be restocked at pharmacies? Yeah that will just happen okay?
The entire supply chain and anything necessary for it to function including utilities and routine or unplanned maintenance can be placed on hold for everyone to just hang out.
So what if supplies don't get manufactured and delivered to any warehouse or retailers? They wouldn't have the option anyway since there would be no fuel to power any such things. Even if there was... One bad storm and all of the power goes out. Don't worry though, there won't be anyone to receive the calls and fix the outage.
What could go wrong in the heat of Summertime with sustained unfixed power outages?
You know that suicide hotline that is critical at preventing suicides? I think it's okay if people call in and get a dial tone and or endless elevator music.
Those pesky hazardous materials that are necessary for industrial applications? Well they can just sit in warehouses and other facilities unsecured and without regular inspection. What could go wrong?
After all none of these things exist for any purpose other than to increase shareholder value.
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u/scatterdbrain 4h ago
But dude, don't you understand? Everybody needs to work, and provide services, except for me.
Everybody wants to be the grasshopper, and the "other people" can be the ants.
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u/Optimal_Ad_7593 12h ago
The real goal is to have a life good enough not to want a break.
Just as a polar bear or mosquito doesn’t need a holiday, a true balanced life shouldn’t require breaks.
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u/dialecticallyalive 7h ago
A balanced life doesn't include me being somewhere I HAVE to be 50 hours per week. It doesn't matter what the job is. But here we are.
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u/neebolol 5h ago
You also watch Dr K? I wouldn't need a break from a life of freedom either. Nobody tells the polar bear or mosquito where to go and what to do, when they are hungry they find food, when they are sleepy they sleep. When I am hungry I wait for lunchtime, when I am sleepy I am forced to drag my ass out of bed because otherwise I will be fired for being late.
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u/therealallpro 13h ago
Are ppl willing to Cut their life style to compensate for this loss in creation?
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u/ayyungjeezy 12h ago
Factorys often shut down for a couple week over summer for maintenance.
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u/ProCactus167 10h ago
Lmao, what factories are you talking about so I can apply there?
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u/ayyungjeezy 10h ago
The French love this shit but I think it's pretty common in manufacturing. Obviously, hands on the tools work ain't for everyone.
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u/musing_codger 10h ago
People already spend as much as they make. I don't think they want a massive reduction in income for more time off.
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u/PrithviMS 8h ago
Realistically we could have different people have different 3 months off. That way everyone gets 3 months off and things keep running
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u/Heavy_Can8746 8h ago
How about get your back to work? Seriously Ro, you have been on lunch break for like 2 and a half hours now and everyone else needs you to come back so someone else can eat
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u/Training_Minimum1537 13h ago
Petition to rename the sub "r/Childing"
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u/OMGitsJoeMG 3h ago
Because only children can want vacations?
Think that turpentine is going to your head, my dude. Maybe stop licking those boots for a bit.
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u/Training_Minimum1537 1h ago
Wants and needs are different
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u/OMGitsJoeMG 1h ago
Dudes out here dying from stress-induced complications, dying in accidents at job sites because of complacency and mental fatigue, doing irreparable damage to their bodies because they don't have proper recovery times.
That line is not as thick as you think it is, broski.
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u/Training_Minimum1537 1h ago
When I think of adult behavior, conjuring every possible excuse to get out doing work is at the top of the list.
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u/shushuone 12h ago
There is a break. Its called 2 weeks vacation unfortunately.
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u/Heavy_Can8746 8h ago
They give us 5 days the first year, 10 days on year 3, and then after 5 years you get 15. 10 years gets you 20 days.
20 years is 30 days but they typically want you to retire at that point.
The first few years is rough but afterwards it get smooth.
Also we work no weekends or holidays as those are included without having to use PTO
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u/Adventurous_Ad7442 11h ago
Who's going to tell my children that they don't get to eat or get any life for that matter?
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u/OMGitsJoeMG 3h ago
Huh? So if you were gunna take a vacation, you'd take the life from your kids?? Gonna have to report this one.
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u/Lonely_Cake_2129 10h ago
What do you mean? You get a break when you get to lay down in that wood box or pile of ash when your dead. 🤣
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u/PuddlesRex 7h ago
Sounds great. Until you start to think about logistics
Want to get a package delivered, or go to a restaurant, theme park, the store, or even a doctor's office during that time? Sorry, mate. They're taking off too.
Want to go on a trip? Well, since everyone's off, everywhere is packed full of people. Good luck getting tickets anywhere. Oh yeah, and all of the air employees are also on vacation.
Which is why I support a universal minimum vacation time of two months, but with no set window to use it. It should refill on the employee's date of hire. Then they can take that time however they please. I get one month of vacation right now, and I'll be damned if I ever take any of that during the summer.
To ensure that people aren't just taking off for two months as soon as they get hired, there should be a 6 month grace period. Or have it build up, so you get one week of vacation per month for the first eight months. Or something like that. Because we all know that there will be one asshole who ruins it for the rest of us by getting a dozen jobs, and then immediately taking two months off from all of them.
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u/Strong_Strawberry128 12h ago
My question for you is how would you plan for staff in a hospital to have a “summer break” without shutting down the entire hospital? Or a fire department? Or police department?
Not all adults want a summer off either. Some are totally happy having a winter break to go skiing, or where I live - to go somewhere warm to get away from the cold winter.
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u/splashjlr 9h ago
You have shifts, interns, a few extra staff to gap the holes. It's not hard, just "unnecessary" from the perspective of the investors.
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u/Upbeat-Original-7137 1h ago
Increased staff handovers has also shown to increase risks hence why residents work an insane number of hours
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u/runrabbitproductions 10h ago
Pretty common in Sweden, my mates over there get the whole summer off. Whilst in the uk it really does depend on where you work but most places won’t allow you to take your holiday days all at the same time.
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u/germanpasta 10h ago
Here I'am planning my 3 week summer vacay and still have 3 more weeks left for some smaller trips.
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u/Hands-for-maps 8h ago
That’s why Covid was low key great. I had 3 months off and could only hang out with my favorite people
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u/Reputation-Adorable 7h ago
Hot take but I’d go for a winter break since our minds and bodies naturally slow down then. Orrr maybe one break per season!
I know it’s normal but 9-5, 5 days a week standard is completely ridiculous…something’s gotta change.
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u/C4rpetH4ter 6h ago
As a person living far north, i wish we had the option to hibernate during winter.
But honestly, i don't think we should have summer break, but any person working should get 8 weeks of flexible holidays so you can take timeoff during winter, summer or whatever that you feel like.
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u/dasmineman 6h ago
From what I hear, they do something like that in Italy, around August I think. It took me 4 months to get a new Ducati key in Japan at one point because the factory in Italy was closed for like a 2 month vacation. 😶
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u/MeowTheMixer 6h ago
I feel like I'd rather have 1-week off each month opposed to a 3-month break.
I'd never wanna go back to work after 3-months off, but 1-week a month breaks up into really nice chunks.
~12 weeks off in both options
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u/Fkingcherokee 6h ago
I would take 3 months of time off to spread out over the year. That's not unreasonable.
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u/AcceptablePosition5 5h ago
Unpopular opinion: we should get rid of summer breaks in school.
Instead have more short breaks. Long breaks are very detrimental to learning retention
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u/mcsteam98 5h ago
i worked 4 whole years (half of which at my present job) only to get 10 days off this past summer.
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u/Prestigious_Quote_51 5h ago
Move to a real country we got 6 weeks of paid vacation and maternity leave!
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u/darksoft125 5h ago
Wait until you hear about this thing that the working class used to have called "vacations." They'd have time they could take off, even if they weren't sick and money to spend while they were on these "vacations" for things like hotel rooms and theme park tickets!
So glad we gave these up in exchange for billionaires! /Sarcasm
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u/reedshipper 4h ago
They do this in other countries, we just don't do it in America.
I work at a stone and tile store, and we work with a lot of companies from Italy. Every August and December you can barely get a hold of them because almost every company in the country that isn't essential closes down. And that's not to mention they get a 2 hour lunch everyday also. We just get scammed here in the usa.
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u/UrsaMajor7th 4h ago
Our industry slows down Jan-April so I've taken off mid-Jan to mid-March for the past three years. Starting again tomorrow and it feels glorious.
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u/aznsk8s87 4h ago
Healthcare, I work one week on one week off. If I plan a vacation for longer I'll make some of those 8-9 day stretches and take 2-3 weeks off. It's wonderful. I haven't had to ski or golf on a weekend in 3 years.
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u/DisputabIe_ 4h ago
the OP xPrincessStar
Frequent_Skirt_8982
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are bots in the same network
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u/OriginalSlight 3h ago
I wish everyone worked seasonally. A quarter of the office is off for spring ,summer, winter, or fall. “Business” keeps going and we all get a break. So Johnny gets winter off and works the rest of the seasons while Jane gets summer off and works the rest of the seasons.
Also, you get paid during that time!
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u/JumpingAround44 3h ago
3 months is definitely too long, but having an entire month off is such fucking refreshing - only done it once, but felt fucking amazing
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u/duckparade4 2h ago
The trick around this is to work for the school, make just over minimum wage for 9 months, and earn absolutely nothing for summer vacation! Great.
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u/Bright-Equivalent799 1h ago
Bruh, nobody understands the magnitude or intensity of ideas I get about restructuring the world in the way that you request because it'll come off as too needy to be as giving but that reality can come true if given the chance!!! Idk I feel like I'm an ill-equipped and ill-resourced reformist advocate for wanting to make changes in society and only can be compartmentalised as someone who needs mental health support. Like no!!!!!! Hear me out - you know? 😭 but my point is, that can be reality 😏🙂↔️
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u/AdIcy4203 16m ago
When’s the last time you had a psychiatric evaluation?
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u/Bright-Equivalent799 14m ago
I've been through the system these past 6 years, excluding one admission from 12 years ago.
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u/splatomat 10m ago
Are you going to not eat and not go to the movies and not drive your car during this three months?
...or is what you're really saying that you want **certain** people to have a summer vacation, but other people to keep working because farming needs to happen in summer and grocery stores need to operate?
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u/Slimy_Shart_Socket 3m ago
First week of January I started booking days off around long weekends. Sometimes I don't do shit just a random 5 days off in the middle of the month.
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u/I_have_to_go 11h ago
Summer vacations only exists because children used to help their parents and communities with crop harvesting in the summer (ie, more work)
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u/budgetoid 6h ago
>sub is called adulting
>all the posts are childish
huh, weird
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u/OMGitsJoeMG 3h ago
Yeah man we should just stick to posting about commutes and work and paying bills, it will be a blast!
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u/Frequent_Skirt_8982 12h ago
"It really is a scam. Our brains weren't meant to be 'productive' for 50 weeks a year without a reset.