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Apr 26, 2023 14:40:15 GMT -5
Post by Isadora Is a Door on Apr 26, 2023 14:40:15 GMT -5
How much paid holiday do you get from work? My understanding is that general people in america get very little compared to uk, but I want to see if this actually true or not.
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Post by Optimism is my Phil-osophy on Apr 26, 2023 16:01:29 GMT -5
Well, I will answer because I am on the American continent. (And yes, it's always important to point out that the United States is only a small part of America.) In Brazil, the country's law states that a worker is entitled to 30 days of paid vacations or (holidays) throughout the year. (Actually, I prefer the term vacations, as I think "holy days" are those that are considered holy by many people because of religious or political events, and I think that etymologically speaking holiday should come from holy-day, but maybe I'm wrong) This vacation can, if the employer accepts it, be divided into up to 3 parts. The law says that the additional payment must be 1/3 of the base salary, although agreements between employees and employers can increase this. The law allows employees to sell up to 10 days out of the 30 to which they are entitled, working those ten days and receiving additional remuneration without paying income tax for the days sold.
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Apr 26, 2023 20:22:53 GMT -5
Post by twigz on Apr 26, 2023 20:22:53 GMT -5
i am a casual employee so i get 25% more than part-time workers but i am not entitled to sick days nor paid leave
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Apr 27, 2023 11:11:36 GMT -5
Post by Tiran O'Saurus on Apr 27, 2023 11:11:36 GMT -5
Well, I will answer because I am on the American continent. (And yes, it's always important to point out that the United States is only a small part of America.) Respectfully, there's no such thing as the "American continent". There's North America (Canada, USA, Mexico, most Caribbean islands, and what we call Central America), and there's South America, but those are geologically different continental plates. If America called itself "The United States of all North America", then I'd agree with you.
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Apr 27, 2023 12:29:32 GMT -5
Post by Reba on Apr 27, 2023 12:29:32 GMT -5
i pray you find peace in your soul, Mr. O'Saurus
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Apr 27, 2023 12:37:14 GMT -5
Post by Esmé's meme is meh on Apr 27, 2023 12:37:14 GMT -5
America as a continent is actually a thing, it all depends of the geopolitical view you have. You can consider America as a whole, you can consider South/North America, you can consider Latin America, you can consider Hispanic America and so on and so on. They're all valid for different criteria.
The only thing that's objectively wrong is people calling themselves "american" for being born in the USA but that's a whole different discussion.
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Apr 27, 2023 13:11:24 GMT -5
Post by Optimism is my Phil-osophy on Apr 27, 2023 13:11:24 GMT -5
Well, I will answer because I am on the American continent. (And yes, it's always important to point out that the United States is only a small part of America.) Respectfully, there's no such thing as the "American continent". There's North America (Canada, USA, Mexico, most Caribbean islands, and what we call Central America), and there's South America, but those are geologically different continental plates. If America called itself "The United States of all North America", then I'd agree with you. In none of the current continent definitions, tectonic plates are taken into account.
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Post by Tiran O'Saurus on Apr 27, 2023 13:47:25 GMT -5
The only thing that's objectively wrong is people calling themselves "american" for being born in the USA but that's a whole different discussion. I think you can? Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't yours and Lucio's argument that everyone in North and South America is an American? By that logic, all of the US except maybe Hawai'i should have a claim on that description for its people.
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Apr 27, 2023 13:54:47 GMT -5
Post by Kit's tits kick ticks on Apr 27, 2023 13:54:47 GMT -5
In the UK you don't actually get much compared to a lot of European countries where 30 days plus public holidays is standard.
We have "flexible bank holidays" where I work, so apart from Christmas and new year and monarch related days that don't happen regularly we don't have the UK public holidays off automatically, we get extra days to book off either on those days or whenever we want. Most people take them off on the actual holidays, but I like to take them on other days so I can do things without everywhere being really crowded. Plus work is normally more chilled on those days because half the other people are off so they can't bother me with questions.
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Apr 27, 2023 13:55:16 GMT -5
Post by Tiran O'Saurus on Apr 27, 2023 13:55:16 GMT -5
I think there might be some confusion on my end here, but from what I can tell you're factually wrong. This is what dictionary.com lists as the definition for continent: The way that you get these "landmasses" is through tectonic plates. (Otherwise, Asia and Europe would be listed as one continent).
That being said, Zortegus's statement that you can divide the culture and politics of both continents up in different ways rings true to me (even Mexico, America's neighbor, seems closer to some South American countries than it does to us.) However, saying ACTUAL GEOGRAPHY isn't used in discussion of geography is factually wrong.
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Apr 27, 2023 14:13:57 GMT -5
Post by Reba on Apr 27, 2023 14:13:57 GMT -5
when i worked at a supermarket the full-time workers got 2 weeks a year. i think you got extra days for each year you'd been with the company, so some older people had up to 4 weeks. part-timers didn't get any paid vaycay.
my mom gets 2 days a month, and the days accumulate so you can save up for a week off or whatever.
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Apr 27, 2023 14:37:42 GMT -5
Post by Optimism is my Phil-osophy on Apr 27, 2023 14:37:42 GMT -5
The only thing that's objectively wrong is people calling themselves "american" for being born in the USA but that's a whole different discussion. I think you can? Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't yours and Lucio's argument that everyone in North and South America is an American? By that logic, all of the US except maybe Hawai'i should have a claim on that description for its people. I just want to make it clear that my arguments and insistence should not be taken too seriously... Evidently people who were born in the United States Of America refer to themselves as Americans because part of the name of the country includes the word "America". I don't think there is a conspiracy to exclude others. In real life, I don't mind being called an American, nor do I care that those born in the United States call themselves that. I just wanted to be controversial, and I got it, I think.
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Apr 27, 2023 15:58:14 GMT -5
Post by Tiran O'Saurus on Apr 27, 2023 15:58:14 GMT -5
It's fine. I was mostly just confused.
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Apr 27, 2023 18:41:03 GMT -5
Post by Esmé's meme is meh on Apr 27, 2023 18:41:03 GMT -5
The only thing that's objectively wrong is people calling themselves "american" for being born in the USA but that's a whole different discussion. I think you can? Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't yours and Lucio's argument that everyone in North and South America is an American? By that logic, all of the US except maybe Hawai'i should have a claim on that description for its people. But in the USA they use American as an exclusive term referred to people from the USA. If I say I'm an American, people will asume I'm from the USA, not from an american country, so that's the problem with the word.
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Apr 28, 2023 15:05:54 GMT -5
Post by Kit's tits kick ticks on Apr 28, 2023 15:05:54 GMT -5
I use that term in that sense sometimes, but it's normally with a negative connotation so you can be glad you aren't included.
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