Paid Vacation Puns

Edit: And what job if you don't mind saying

I think such things are very popular and are easy to rally behind in America . And I don’t see it particularly hard to implement compared to other things .

I am from Austria where we get 25 minimum from employers by law, in addition to many public holidays. But we make less salary than US Americans. I am curious if you like your system or want it to change.

My wife and I decided to not go on vacation this year and instead focus on growing our business. Usually we would have booked a vacation by now but we haven't due to the stated reason. My in-Laws don't think that this is a good idea after talking to us about our plans on christmas.

On our annual NYE dinner they then handed my wife an envelope which contained tickets for a flight to Africa and some further booking Information. We were confused and shocked since they once again didn't Respect our decisions. We calmly explained them that we don't want to go on this vacation and that they should go instead, since they paid the very expensive 3 week trip to Africa. They did not accept it and decided to cause a scene at the Restaurant we were at. We even got kicked out since my mother-in-law started yelling and throwing stuff all over the place. After getting kicked out, we all drove to my in-laws house and they decided to not say Single word. After getting there you could almost feel the tension get even bigger and then they started yelling again. But this time my father-in-law wanted me to pay them back as a compensation. I was so perplexed since we didn't even want the vacation in the first place and now they want to make us pay for it. I was not having it anymore since they already ruined our dinner, got us kicked out of the restaurant and bought us a vacation we have no interest in. I started yelling at them and my wife couldn't handle it anymore so she left the house. I know that I should have gone with her but I couldn't think clear due to all the anger I felt in this moment. The fight lasted for like half an hour and then I just couldn't take it anymore and left the house. Now almost a day later I am still really mad at them but my wife is also kind of mad at me since I was yelling at her parents so much. She hates when I do that and it only happened once before. My in-laws have done similar things before since they don't actually like me and always try to set something up in the meantime when I am gone. I wish I could just give them back the money but I can't since we really need it for our business.

Maybe they genuinely thought it was a good idea to gift us a vacation but at the same time they completely ignored our decisions.

Am I the asshole for yelling at them and being extremely rude towards my in-laws during our argument?

I 28(M) and my girlfriend (27 F) decided to get away from all of the New York COVID craziness by going to Florida for new years. We have been together now for about 3 years and living together for 1.5 of those.

The vacation started off great, spending a lot of time together on the beach. However, during these last few days she has been requesting that she spend some “alone time” (without me). Going to the beach by herself, lunch by herself, even going to the pool by herself to read.

During the first day I understood as we already spent 10 days together, however it’s been 3 days now and each one she’s texted me on her morning runs that its a solo day.

I texted her in the morning with no response, and waited in our hotel room around 5PM when I knew she’d need to come back to shower before dinner.

I confronted her when she did return and she completely dismissed my argument as irrational, I pressed the matter further and she just started crying when I brought up the fact that I paid for the entire trip.

Fast forward 5 hours - she flew home early and I am just here are the hotel wondering AITA.

I opened an account at a furniture store through TD Retail Card Services, for some reason I thought that I had paid off the account in full.

I went on vacation for a few weeks which turned out to be longer than expected because of a quarantine, and when I got back I checked all my mail and saw my first payment was 35 days late. I paid off the account in full right away, but now I'm really worried that it's going to show up on my credit report.

Is there anything I can do to help prevent this from showing up on my report?

Edit: I called and they said that it was only 29 days late today, and that if I had waited until tomorrow it would've hit my credit report. That's a huge relief.

Coworker and I have ~300 hours of excess vacation banked. Company is finally paying out the excess vacation going forward and coworker doesn't want it to get paid out but rather use it, saying he loses so much on tax. I told him it's still money at the end of the day.

Am I of the wrong opinion to saying that even if it gets taxed, it's still better to have it cashed out as oppose to using it for vacation? I feel like this is similar to the whole "i dont take overtime because it gets heavily taxed" argument. It's still more money at the end of the day so you're better off compared to using it. If you really wanted to use the time, you would have taken it already not bank it. Or is it a matter of personal preference?

As the title says, just got an e-mail from the HR department of my company getting nervous that I have not asked for all my vacation days for this year yet.

Don't be fooled, that's not because they care about their employees. Companies in my country have to make sure that each employee gets to take all their mandated paid vacation days because it is the law. So they have no choice but to comply. Paid time off is seen not a benefit but a right, and it makes all the difference. No company can take that away from you.

So every employee gets a minimum of 20 days off. I have 18 extra days because I work 40 hours weeks (standard is 37 hours per week so I work 3 extra hours each week which are then converted into time off). And I get 2 more bonus days because I have worked for the company for 6 years. Those two days are the only 2 that can be considered a benefit as it is not mandated by the law.

Please American workers, fight for legal minimum paid annual leave.

EDIT: I would like to mention that I work for a large American company which has a site in my country. My colleagues working in the US do not get that much leave, though it is the same company. My number of paid leave days is just thanks to national laws.

EDIT 2: for those who think I am complaining, I am not. I just think that the situation is very ironic and I wanted to show that things can be very different in other countries where annual leave is a legal requirement rather than a benefit that companies can choose to give or not.

EDIT 3: I live in Belgium, but other European countries have similar laws. Yes I am going to take those days off don't worry.

If you take a bathroom break everyday for 10 minutes you will have one week paid at the end of the year. 10 minutes x 5 days a week x 51 weeks of work = 42.5 hours. Take a shit on company time.

I am a full-time W-2 employee for a remote company based out of the twin cities area. I just tested positive today and was wondering if there are any Colorado laws that require my employer to give me paid sick time to deal with covid without using my accrued vacation time?

I've seen conflicting information and was just wondering if anyone knew for sure.

Thanks in advance.

Edit, I meant to say employer in the title.

They want me to go get an “official” test because I used an at home test. There’s no way to get one until Wednesday at least. Also, either way, they’re making me take 10 days off and use all my vacation. Why would I go get tested for them? Is this the policy everywhere/ is this legal? So if you catch one of the most contagious diseases sweeping the nation, you don’t get any vacation for 2022? I hate these people so much.

Yes I am vaccinated.

Also they just lowered vacation time to 5 days from 7 days.

My mother is AWFUL with money. In 2006 she inherited about $4,000,000 from her mother and squandered nearly all of it within seven years. When she was down to about $1.5m left, she decided to build a log cabin on some property that she inherited and move from our hometown to the new cabin. The cabin was only supposed to cost $500,000 to build, but she was so naive and so easily manipulated that the contractor she hired to build the house ended up scamming her for an additional $500,000. And she had to spend another $150,000 to fix all the mistakes and code violations that the contractor left her with.

To put just how bad she is with money in to context… she never even googled the contractors name before she hired him. The first link on Google was a website made by eleven people who he had scammed or ripped off previously….

Anyway… fast forward to present time… she has lived in the cabin for ten years now and lives on the basement level in an apartment that’s separate from the upper two levels. The upper two levels are rented as a vacation rental and generate on average $75,000 in gross revenue annually. Also, several years ago she took out a $150,000 mortgage against the property because she was running out of money. Other than that, the Property is fully paid off. The estimated value of the property in the current market is $1,400,000.

She earns about $1200 biweekly from her full time job as a vet office front desk manager - a job she loved a great deal up until a few weeks ago. In addition to that, she makes $1100 monthly from state teacher retirement, and about $1500 a month of VR profit. The profit from the VR is split with me 60% her 40% me, after expenses like restock and housekeeping are deducted, as I manage 100% of the rental business for her. Her mortgage payment is $1100/month. She just refinanced this year and still owes for 15 more years. Anyway, Right now she basically lives paycheck to paycheck and has no emergency fund, savings, investments, or any assets aside from her home.

Two weeks ago, completely out of the blue, my mom informed me she had decided she was going to sell the cabin and move back to our hometown. She wants to put it on the market before the end of November…. Without giving it any time at all to consider…. Reasons for this include: wanting to pay off the $150,000 mortgage and all other debts, job burnout, missing her close friends from hometown, loneliness, depression mostly related to her dismal financial situation

Hello all.

I got fired from my job because i was on sick leave, even if i was a "permanent worker" (i worked there for 7 months and probezeit is 6 months). I was sick for only one and a half weeks but didn't matter to my employer. As far as i know i had a right to sue him because he fired me, but i opted not to do that. I knew that would take some time to settle, in which i can't work (i think). My contract ended on 31.12.2021 after which i went to "Arbeitsamt".

But today i was unpleasantly surprised when i recived my salary for December, and saw that my leftover vacation days were not paid. I had 12 days of vacation which i didn't use and i thought that would be paid to me. I tried to ask my old boss about that but he just said that is not his responsibility and to ask "Zentrale". I sent an email to my company but so far no response.

I wanted to ask what are my options or what would you recommend to do?

I am sorry for any gramatical errors, englisch is not my native language.

Thank you in advance.

I work full time. My state requires a minimum of two weeks paid vacation/sick leave. I was told a few days before my holiday trip home to see my family that the trip that I’d been planning for months will now be unpaid. No reason was given. Not only is this illegal, I also specifically have a section in my employee contract that I made the company change when I was hired to correctly identify that I would have two weeks of paid vacation. I’ve used none of it so far.

Well, I got my paycheck today and sure enough, it’s pennies. I was waiting to complain because I’ve already tried to complain and they made it seem like they’d take care of it. They also act like I’m being completely ridiculous for asking about this. I’m embarrassed to have to ask again.

I don't think so but my parents keep saying I still get paid for those but my boss said this was my last paycheck. They keep insisting and I don't want to go back and ask I'm done with that job.

Edit: I live in US, California

Do any locals get paid vacation? And if not why is this not something we try to bargain for?

Edit: I know a lot of locals have a vacation check or fund I should have said paid vacation days. Just think most people in this industry don’t take enough vacation and actual vacations days would fix that.

Why is this allowed

Not today. This would have been about 2002.

There was a new Nickelodeon movie coming out called Clockstoppers. An otherwise forgettable movie but it has haunted my dreams for the last 20 years.

Back in Nickelodeon's heyday, whenever they had a new movie premiere like this they would have a contest for an all expenses paid trip for 4 down to see the premiere and probably a couple days at Universal Studios, and I think $5-$10k in cash... I don't remember everything that was included but that was the jist of it.

So they have the contest and it's being played out as part of a live "reveal show". You call into this number and they would connect the call live with the cast of the movie to tell them they won.

So I'm calling - I wasn't really that interested in the movie itself but it would have been a once in a lifetime experience - and I'm consistently getting busy signals, hanging up, and trying again. After maybe 10-15 calls with busy signals, I call and the phone just keeps ringing.

The reveal show is in commercial before coming back for the big reveal and the phone just keeps ringing. Now they're back from commercial and my phone is still ringing. This is my last chance, I'm thinking. I can't wait for this line to stop ringing, I need to try again before it's too late!

So they start the reveal, something like "alright, let's go to line 1!". But I'm panicking - the phone is still ringing but I want to be the winner, or maybe part of me had just given up since they were about the reveal the winner.

So I hang up the phone.

On the show: "Hello, are you there?"

CLICK. JUST AS I'M HANGING UP THE PHONE.

"Oh bummer, alright, line 2!"

Now, there's no way to prove for sure that that was me hanging up on the show right as I hung up my phone. It's possible someone else made the exact same mistake at the exact same time... but I'd say it's pretty unlikely.

So I'm there at home as a 10 year old kid, realizing what likely just happened, listening to someone else win the prize. I don't think about it a lot anymore but when I do, I feel a brick drop in my stomach.

TL;DR: I hung up the phone right as I was about to win a Nickelodeon all expenses paid vacation for 4.

Also, how many days PTO/sick leave? And how long have you been working at your firm?

Reminder for all employees to make sure you put in for your paid vacation and personal days before the years end as they dont normally carry over.

I believe they were going to allow part timers to roll over SOME PTO this year but definitely double check with your manager!

And do you have to wait until your first year at the job is completed before you “gain” your vacation days?