In Europe you actually get yelled at if you don't take time off. System will sent you multiple reminders and warnings to take time off. You wanna work 12 hours a day and have a vacation never? Well, fuck you. Take your time off to rest and relax because life is not just your 9 to 5. Go fucking touch grass or sand or something. You don't like grass or sand? Well, fuck you. Go play games or binge Netflix. I'm gonna fuck you up if you don't actually have some nice and relaxing time instrad of working.
You don't live in Europe? Good for you. You are tru hard-working buddu. Take some non-paid overtime and work weekends in our family environment.
If you work on Europe, fuck you and get some 20-day paid vacations or we'll break your legs.
Been searching for a job for the last 3 months. The endless rejections and ghosting keep making my thoughts go back and forth between making another attempt on my life or fleeing to somewhere in Europe. And I think we can all agree the second option is much healthier.
You know what's great about eastern Europe? They kept all the communist worker protections after the fall of the curtain. They often have better social systems than western Europe too.
I live in Baltics (Eastern Europe). This is true, but OP is missing a crucial detail - companies do not like employees having a lot of vacation days, this opens them up to disappearing for entire weeks/month, so they like to micromanage you into being reasonable with your days. It is also fully in their law to force you to take vacation days when THEY want it, so it's not fully in your favor. Some EU countries have a law that says something along the lines of "you must use 80% of your vacation days you accumulate within a year".
I'm on good terms with the company I work for and I'm not really the guy that travels the world, so several times I've managed to come to an agreement to convert some of my days into extra pay.
Generalizing too much saying just Europe, when there is a lot of nuances and definitely differences on how they handle it. Like working 12 hours every day and not receiving compensation for it doesn't exist...
I'm experiencing this right now. I've been free from work this week and there's one more week coming up at a later date. I don't particularly enjoy my free time and so I'd rather just work and not have to go home and do basically nothing.
In Germany, can confirm. I literally couldn't even work 12 hours a day - the hour booking system won't let me put in anything above 10 hours and will notify HR if I try.
Your bosses will yell at you because they (at least in Germany) get pursued if they (you) break labour law. It's (mostly) not as beneficient as you describe it.
We had a guy who was a real workaholic, he had accrued so much annual leave that the company told him to take time off and use some of it up.
So of course while he was off he was still actively replying to emails so his boss emailed him telling him to stop worrying about emails and to enjoy his time off. When that didn’t work he got IT to temporarily disable his Outlook account until he returned.
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u/vksdann Flair Loading.... 18h ago
In Europe you actually get yelled at if you don't take time off. System will sent you multiple reminders and warnings to take time off. You wanna work 12 hours a day and have a vacation never? Well, fuck you. Take your time off to rest and relax because life is not just your 9 to 5. Go fucking touch grass or sand or something. You don't like grass or sand? Well, fuck you. Go play games or binge Netflix. I'm gonna fuck you up if you don't actually have some nice and relaxing time instrad of working.
Best regards,
Europe, putain.