If you're going for a whole month off, why August, the hottest, shittiest month of the year?
this post was submitted on 27 Aug 2023
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July and August are most common because they overlap with summer break from school, which means families can plan a trip together.
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Yeah good luck with that. In the US capitalism is first and last, it's god, it determines everything. Votes vote against their own interests because capitalism. Way too many religious persons see Jesus more like a capitalistic investor than the socialist heretic he was. If the rich and greedy can no longer squeeze out the poor and vulnerable then america stops being America.
Never going to happen
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Look you guys can have August. I'll work it. But I get December 15th to January 15th.
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The US company I work for offers unlimited vacation whch is a means for a company to avoid the financial liability of an entitlement to leave. That is illegal in Canada so for Candian employees we have unlimited vacation with a minimum of four weeks.
In Europe, vacations are paid time off. That wouldn't work with unlimited days.
"Unlimited PTO" is just a scheme for companies to not have to keep track of PTO owed to the employee (and not have to pay unused days out when they leave). It's generally a raw deal for the employee.
In a company with traditional PTO, an employee could save up 4 weeks, and with adequate planning, take it all at once, even in the US. Their manager might grouse if it is near a key deadline, but if the employee has the time banked up it will generally get accepted. But in a company with unlimited PTO, the employee doesn't have that documented evidence that they have been saving PTO, and the manager has more leeway to reject the request if it is at an inconvenient time.
If I can't have both, I'll take either this, or working 4 days (i.e. 32 hr) a week.
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I remember, few years back I had conversation about PTO with American. It blew his mind when I told him that I took two weeks PTO without any problem.
So nearly 34% of Americans don't support having workers get vacation time. Huh, wonder who those 34% are...
Small business owners, managers, people worried that they will end up picking the slack from their coworkers, people with jobs that pay less but have large amounts of vacation time, the retired who don't benefit but definitely lose, and of course bootlickers.
With the number of billionaires Wall Street is making, we can afford this