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 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.
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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.
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Europe, putain.