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It’s kind of the same in Canada even if we have mandatory vacations. At some point could WFH and had about a month of vacation every year. I love bike touring and travelling in general, and one year I took about 10 weeks of vacation in total. My boss started to suggest that I could also bring my computer to other countries and work from there.
I must say it was tempting to continue earning money while being able to live in another country. I could have spent a few months in some places, instead of a week. But I wasn’t a fan of having schedules while “on vacation”. Also, more paperwork.
Much of the US doesn’t even have mandatory paid sick leave, let alone vacation.
EDIT: Americans do effectively get 12 weeks of unpaid leave, but only if they or a family member gets a “serious” illness. That only applies to businesses with more than 50 employees though (along with a few other caveats).
ten weeks vacation is a pipe dream in the states.
By law the minimum is only two weeks though. My contract gave me four weeks of paid vacation after a few years of employment. The other six weeks were just out of my pocket. I wasn’t paid and just took this time off. And that’s when my employer started to suggest that I could, maybe, work from remote places.
Honestly, working while traveling sounds like a dream. I guess it would only really work if it came with a solid reduction in hours though.
As a European my autoreply does have a line saying
If it’s really important please contact info@companydomain
Depending on the judgement of the colleague reading the emails sent the I might get a call
This. It’s not forwarded automatically, it’s up to the sender to resend or wait until I’m back.
A January 1st I was in Miami and there was a cellphone store open. On January 1st. Why?
Everyplace is basically open. I worked for a small bakery that really squeezed their work force into working holidays and overtime for little to no extra pay. I swear my checks reflected none of my “above and beyond” work
New year, new phone /s
Not from Europe but same, perhaps when I get back I will check your email
perhaps
I’m proud that I only have 76 unread emails at work. But I’m not going to bother reading them, and I’d feel guilty marking them as read.
I got up to 10,102 unread a while back before my friend begged me to mark them all as read
edit: to be fair Github spams me and my department doesn’t really email each other
edit 2: apparently I’m getting back up there with 494
Had a colleague with something similar, his philosophy was that if it’s important they’ll call him.
Yeah I’ve been living that way more than ever since work stopped allowing us to use email clients other than gmail’s web app. I used to get email notifications with thunderbird but now I check my email like once a week when I remember
The only emails I ever get really are Jira and Github updates along with meeting invites. The updates are fine but I’m already on top of those and then the meeting invites just show up in my calendar so I don’t really need the actual email for them
Just chuck them all into the trash folder.
Credit: Sidney Harris
This is the only correct way.
Hahaha this seems out of adhd memes, been in that situation
I might be an American but when I am not at work do not try to contact me. I refuse to add any coworkers to my contacts unless I genuinely like you. But my bosses are a hard no, all unknown numbers are straight to voicemail. I will not deal with their bullshit on my precious time off, I’ll deal with you when I am supposed to.
This exactly. I don’t care what’s happening at work. If I’m not “at work” I’m not available for work at all in anyway.
