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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They also demand and take vacation and obey time off the clock. Employees, too. American business doesn’t like that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I'll just just repeat this here. I am a US laborer. I got two days paid time off last year, and when I brought it up, my boss suggested saving them for an emergency. I got an email January 1 that they disappeared.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

Save your days off for when you’re dying. But don’t worry, we’ll fire you when you’re sick enough first.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Advice for others reading this:

  • know the vacation policy.
  • do days carry over to next year?
  • what happens if you go over. (Sometimes one is fired, othertimes one only ~~looses a day of pay~~ don't get paid for that day.)

Edit: clarification

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Damn that sucks. In the UK a full time employee gets a minimum of 28 days off a year, and you'll probably be encouraged to at least tell the company how you'll use them before the end of the financial year, depending on how the company does time off.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Don't rub it in. I know.

I want to leave so bad.