Lol. Thanks for making my day better.

Edit: But to add to the comedy (all comedy is tragedy, and all tragedy is comedy according to the Greeks), that’s pretty much the reason why I don’t take vacations. It’s not going to change anything, so I much prefer to take days off so I don’t completely lose it.

The sadness is hilarious.

They may not fundamentally change ones attitude towards a job, but when carefully planned and executed vacations may have the potential for creating some worthwhile times and memories

It depends on how your personal incentive structure is modeled. Behaviorally, everything for me is goal oriented. I reward myself when I accomplish something (hard), this is how my parents raised me. Psychologically, I didn’t earn a vacation yet.

I only take days off to rest, physically and psychologically.

Why not both? There are many companies and countries where you can do just that. Work a 30 hour week with a month+ vacation a year.

People at the office joke about the fact that when bad weather ruins their vacations, they come back happier to work.

I hate to be "that guy," but I don't understand this joke. :/

The joke is the premise that happiness is relative, so being less happy on a bad vacation makes you more happy when you return to work. This is an ironic subversion of the expectation that happiness will put us in a good mood and unhappiness will put us in a bad mood.

Ruined holidays is the only au they can appreciate coming to work