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I lived in Europe for the first 30 years of my life, and the only time I got all of August off was when I was in school.
Yeah everytime I see one of these posts romanticizing Europe, I roll my eyes. And I have to scroll so far to see it debunked.
It seems even Europeans themselves go along with it, because they kinda enjoy the pride of it?
I mean 5 weeks vacation per year certainly isn't ideal but if I talk to friends from abroad I can't help but feel lucky.
I'm European and the title made me chuckle a bit.
I upvoted one of the most upvoted comments by a fellow Euro person saying that basically no one here does that (when I say no one, I mean statistically. Maybe 1 in 10k people does).
The point tho is, that you technically could.
And even if you don't take the entire month off in one go, you still have around 4 or 5 weeks paid leave over a year, which is much better than most of the places in the US, from what I hear.
I lived in the UK and now live in the US, and I have more time off now than ever before. I work in tech in the Bay Area, so I know I'm living in a bit of a dream world, but it's not all doom and gloom to move from Europe to America.
I actually have 32 days off here in Belgium.
20 days for everyone working full time, and 12 ADV days for anyone working 40 hour weeks instead of 36 hours.
All of them are fully paid of course.
I definitely can take off the whole of August. But I'd rather spread it out over the year.
So instead of rolling your eyes, you should be rolling your bosses off a cliff for not granting you the same courtesy.
You get 5 weeks usually
Yeah, I lived there for three decades. I got a bunch of time off, but if I said I wanted every August off I'd be in for a bit of a shock.
Most countries would legally allow you though.
Companies would be able to schedule a replacement for that time.
But why would you want to, really? August is expensive and everyone else is on holiday as well.
It's unusual to see more than 3 weeks where I've worked too but it's more so because of people's travel habits and not wanting to be out of vacation days the rest of the year
I'd get shock and a comment but yeah it could go through
Places I've been to follow the 2-1 rule, try to ask two days in advance for 1 day off