What other employer pays for fun for their employees days off?
Other employers either give you a choice to not go overseas, or pay you enough that you can cover your own expenses for recreation. Doesn’t work that way for the military. You go where you are told, and hope/pray that you are given enough to cover housing and basic needs if your family is going with you.
“What other employer pays for fun for their employees days off?”
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Almost every employer pays for their employees’ days off...
especially salaried employees, like the military. I’m talking about Saturday and Sunday and holidays.
I think you are thinking “days off” means something else.
also...
sick days, and family days, and vacation days are “paid days off”. I’m sure there are others.
Salary employees can work more than 40 hours a week, and get paid the same. Military has lots of “overtime”. During 9-11, I worked 14, 15 hour days for two weeks. Guys deployed on ships, subs work, in a sense, non-stop for months at a time.
An those engaged in conflict, like Army, are gone 11 months at a time, and skype to their family.