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If you only have a single extra vacation day you can take off and the plumber doesn't bother to show up, do you get your toilet fixed or lose your job? That's
by JohnTHaller 11y ago
If you only have a single extra vacation day you can take off and the plumber doesn't bother to show up, do you get your toilet fixed or lose your job? That's a societal level construct that you can't fix by deciding not to worry about it at a personal level.
- mapt 11y agoWhile I'm totally sympathetic to the viewpoint that punctuality is efficient? Europe gets almost an order of magnitude more vacation days, sick days, and holidays than the US does, and Mediterranean Europe gets a midday break on top of that.
- jamie_ca 11y ago"almost an order of magnitude" is exaggerating a little. http://www.vpcalendar.net/average-vacation-days-by-country.html http://www.vpcalendar.net/average-vacation-days-by-country.h... pegs it at just over 3x at the extreme. (That said, I'm Canadian - never knew the gulf in "average" vacation time was so stark.)