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Cool idea, just wondering why you wouldn't travel during a sabbatical. > a paid month off that's not a sabbatical anyway, is it? i thought this was 6-12 month

Cool idea, just wondering why you wouldn't travel during a sabbatical. > a paid month off that's not a sabbatical anyway, is it? i thought this was 6-12 months, not one? https://intensity.systems/ https://intensity.systems/ is currently unstyled. Post also has some LLM sniffs, so I'm unsure how much of the content is true.

wdrw 6mo ago
At least in North America (and the author seems to be from Canada), having a company give you any sabbatical at all is pretty rare, and 6+ months is pure fantasy:) And not everyone likes travel, the post actually explains his reasoning pretty well.
- MisterTea 6mo ago
  > and 6+ months is pure fantasy:) I've seen this before. Had a vendor become helpless after their only engineer took a 6 month sabbatical. Had to cancel orders and switch vendors because they stated "Until the engineer returns, we can not quote a delivery time." Imagine being that company...
  - bee_rider 6mo ago
    Kinda surprising they weren’t able to plan around that, surely The Engineer didn’t just decide randomly to go on a 6 month sabbatical all of a sudden.
    - MisterTea 6mo ago
      It was a small vendor that was bought up into a larger umbrella parent so I'm sure there was no one at the helm capable of thinking ahead of making this months numbers.
  - mikepurvis 6mo ago
    "Just so you know, our bus number is 1. Now, about your order..."
  - netrap 6mo ago
    Intel at one time did 6 month sabbatical if you worked 10 years.
- 0xfaded 6mo ago
  I work in the US and every year I take 17 days off over the July period which works out (with another company holiday) to be 4 continuous weeks. The first year I did it I told my manager "I'm going to take three weeks off, but what do you think about four?". I got my three weeks and made myself indispensable enough to get the four the next year. This stuff can be negotiable if asked for and planned correctly. It won't be offered. The Danes do it best, they basically shut down the country for 3 months every summer and have an unspoken agreement that nothing will get done.
  - lagniappe 6mo ago
    >The Danes do it best, they basically shut down the country for 3 months every summer and have an unspoken agreement that nothing will get done. Is there a skeleton crew to run grocery and fuel?
    - zokier 6mo ago
      OP was talking about white-collar jobs, not service industry.
      - 0xfaded 6mo ago
        Yes, but something like 90% of the workforce is unionized, and 5 weeks vacation per year is by law, with a "sixth week" being a common perk.
MisterTea 6mo ago
> Cool idea, just wondering why you wouldn't travel during a sabbatical. That is really none of your business and sounds judgemental. How about we talk about the pollution you contribute when needlessly traveling for ego boosting?
asib 6mo ago
> Cool idea, just wondering why you wouldn't travel during a sabbatical. Because they didn't want to? A very odd question; people have motivations/interests that aren't yours.

wdrw 6mo ago

At least in North America (and the author seems to be from Canada), having a company give you any sabbatical at all is pretty rare, and 6+ months is pure fantasy:) And not everyone likes travel, the post actually explains his reasoning pretty well.

MisterTea 6mo ago
> and 6+ months is pure fantasy:) I've seen this before. Had a vendor become helpless after their only engineer took a 6 month sabbatical. Had to cancel orders and switch vendors because they stated "Until the engineer returns, we can not quote a delivery time." Imagine being that company...
- bee_rider 6mo ago
  Kinda surprising they weren’t able to plan around that, surely The Engineer didn’t just decide randomly to go on a 6 month sabbatical all of a sudden.
  - MisterTea 6mo ago
    It was a small vendor that was bought up into a larger umbrella parent so I'm sure there was no one at the helm capable of thinking ahead of making this months numbers.
- mikepurvis 6mo ago
  "Just so you know, our bus number is 1. Now, about your order..."
- netrap 6mo ago
  Intel at one time did 6 month sabbatical if you worked 10 years.
0xfaded 6mo ago
I work in the US and every year I take 17 days off over the July period which works out (with another company holiday) to be 4 continuous weeks. The first year I did it I told my manager "I'm going to take three weeks off, but what do you think about four?". I got my three weeks and made myself indispensable enough to get the four the next year. This stuff can be negotiable if asked for and planned correctly. It won't be offered. The Danes do it best, they basically shut down the country for 3 months every summer and have an unspoken agreement that nothing will get done.
- lagniappe 6mo ago
  >The Danes do it best, they basically shut down the country for 3 months every summer and have an unspoken agreement that nothing will get done. Is there a skeleton crew to run grocery and fuel?
  - zokier 6mo ago
    OP was talking about white-collar jobs, not service industry.
    - 0xfaded 6mo ago
      Yes, but something like 90% of the workforce is unionized, and 5 weeks vacation per year is by law, with a "sixth week" being a common perk.

MisterTea 6mo ago

> Cool idea, just wondering why you wouldn't travel during a sabbatical. That is really none of your business and sounds judgemental. How about we talk about the pollution you contribute when needlessly traveling for ego boosting?

asib 6mo ago

> Cool idea, just wondering why you wouldn't travel during a sabbatical. Because they didn't want to? A very odd question; people have motivations/interests that aren't yours.