Apple gives employees extra paid time off

Course, I've only made five years at one job once in my career, so we'll see.

 

So I'm looking at a job with a travel company in Geneva, Switzerland, and the MINIMUM time off each year, by law, is four weeks. And, by law, you can't work more than 45 hours a week.

Now, I just have to demonstrate that no one in the EU wants that job.

 

Me, too. Two weeks at Christmas and a full week at Spring Break.

 

Dan, you're forgetting the delicious "Thanksgiving Night Newsroom Buffet," which usually includes unlimited portions of cheap potato chips, flat two-liter-bottle soda and those bad Oreo-imitation cookies.

 

My friend temped at Philip Morris in the late 80s. Every Friday, a woman would come around with a cart and give out two cartons of cigarettes to the employees, whether they wanted them or not. My friend was a non-smoker. He'd walk down the street in Manhattan and give packs out to random people.

 

You could also work for a European-based company. I don't want to tell you how much time my wife "has off" in addition to her vacation time because of all the European holidays.

 

Check out what they're doing at my new non-newspaper job.

They are closing the office between Christmas and New Years, because there will be no work to do, but they are making people take their vacation days then. That's just not right. If I want to come in because I don't want to use my vacation, and they don't have any work for me to do, that's their problem, not mine.

Now, my supervisor agrees this is unfair, so she has basically said we can take four other days some other time (scattered, though, not in a row like you would for a real vacation) and just be "working at home."

That's something, but it's still a ripoff.

 

I want days off more than anything at my job. I can fly anywhere in the US for free and anywhere abroad for a very low fee, but I can never get days off to go anywhere.