We More Time Off

Now honestly I think European's get too much time off, at the end of her working career my Mum had 7 or 8 weeks a year and she struggled to find the time to take that off. That works out for nearly 2 mths a year. I think I'd be bored with that. But honestly employers in the US really do crack the whip, in most companies you are lucky to get 2 weeks in the first year you work in most cases you get one week for every 6 mths you work so that means at the end of your first year you work. Now get me if I am wrong but when you are hired they generally stipulate 2 weeks vacation a year. But wait a minute 2 weeks a year but I have to work a full year to get that 2nd week then you are moving onto your 2nd year you don't roll over that week you just get 2 weeks so where does that week go?

Not that I take a lot of time off from my job. Just driving to work this morning I notice how light the traffic is then I remember oh yes it's a Federal holiday, one that only half the working population even takes notice of over here and it's not the only one that tends to get conveniently over looked by employers. You have to work in most jobs here 3 or 5 years in a job before you get another week even.

Now I like my job I really do, I just don't like standard business practices of lack of time off...I would kill for three weeks I really would then I get to have 2 weeks off with my husband and we can go on a vacation, that gives us a week to spreed throughout the rest of the year for a day off here and there that you need to get other stuff done or to just take a day when you need it. It makes me wonder when people start using their 'sick' days to do those days off here and there instead does this make business sense? I know I know I'm ranting. Give another year or three and I'll get that coveted extra week and I'll be happy until I have to start a new job at which point you go right back to square one again.