[blam]

More Americans Swap Beach For Office

[CommieCutter]

"many people are now so ambitious or so terrified of losing their jobs that they have to be forced to take their meagre allowance"

I'd rather live here and take my "meagre" allowance than put up with your country's BS. And one more thing telegraph, it's EARNINGS not ALLOWANCE.

[Tamar1973]

The problem has become so severe that several large companies now close down at holiday periods to force obsessive workers from their desks. The accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers shuts down all its offices for 10 days at Christmas and five days for the Fourth of July.

My husband works at a place where they usually force them to take the week between Christmas and New Years off, out of their own vacation time of course, I'm sure a lot of them resented being forced to take the vacation time at the time of management's chosing rather than their own.

[goodnesswins]

Rather people (young men especially) were working hard, than setting fires to autos, and performing other destructive acts.....WORK is one of the best things in the world for MEN!

[Tamar1973]

Even President George W Bush, celebrated in previous years for taking most of August off at his ranch in Crawford, Texas, spent only 10 days there earlier this month.

Celebrated for it?! Where? In what hemisphere? Most of the MSM (on both sides of the pond) mocked him for it.

[theBuckwheat]

More projection of Yankee envy by those on the east side of the pond. And part of the reason they are clueless as to why their per capital GDP is much lower.

[Lazamataz]

Take A Holiday, Companies Tell Worried American Workaholics

I'dLoveToTakeAHolidayButNotReallyCuzI'mAlmostFinishedWithThePenskeAccount AndOnceIFinishThatIHaveTwelveBackToBackHourLongMeetingsAndThenINeedToComplete MyFiveDifferentStatusReportsToTheCIOAndTheCOOAndTheCEOAndTheProjectManager AndTheBusinessAnalystBecauseIt'sImperitiveThatTheyKnowWhat'sGoingOnAndThen INeedToWriteTheDocumentationForThePASLOSystemThenINeedToWriteTheTechnical SpecsForTheARAMOSProjectButNotBeforeIDoMemberImportsBecauseIfIMissASingle ImportTheSystemWillNotBeCurrentGoshISureCouldUseSomeCoffeeCoffeeCOFFEE

[DarkSavant]

Wonder what the stats for Japan is.

[NavyCanDo]

Take a Holiday? Way ahead of ya

Disneyland Countdown - 14 days, 22 hours, 57 minutes

[Overtaxed]

Take time off from the office, spend it working on the house...

[Xenalyte]

I don't take enough vacation . . . I'm taking a half-day next Friday (we only work half of Friday) and the following Tuesday, so I get a five-day weekend.

I plan to be a complete toad and do nothing, unless one counts drinking beer and sewing beads on fabric "doing something."