Posted on 03/27/2019 7:41:21 PM PDT by vannrox
U.S. schools have always done this. They just call it “summer vacation.”
Then there are the tech companies that claim they offer unlimited time off—except everyone knows their extended absence would either cause such problems or not cause such problems that their continued employment would be endangered either way.
If it makes you feel any better, I haven’t had a vacation since I don’t know when. It has to be four years at least.
The amount it costs to live has gone up so much, and I don’t live extravagantly. My kids aren’t that spoiled (well some). I do have a day off here and there, and do things around here.
In the army, I had 25 days of annual leave. That actually equates to a lot because you tack a day onto a 3 day weekend or so, or around christmas you tack 3 days onto the ones they gave us anyways, and you’d wind up with 2 weeks off. In some cases it was hard to burn up the leave days. One used to be able to bank them and then retire early, but they took that away.
IIRC, E&Y is private, so I doubt any data on how many employees accept this lovely offer will be forthcoming any time soon.
I guess the employees of that company must have a ton of work-related frustrations they need to get out of their system, and so much that it warrants the massive relief valve of twelve weeks paid time off. /sarc
Or the company execs are just idiots.
80% of Millenials think the government should force companies here to do the same.
So a mandatory 12 week yearly furlough. Yeah that is not a feature, that is a bug.
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