35% of Japanese people say they’ll ‘never travel’ again

Re:35% of Japanese people say they’ll ‘never travel’ again by ultrarunner on Monday December 19, 2022 @01:38AM (#34049206)

My father, a high school teacher, has some absurd >1000 day sick day balance right now. He keeps putting off retirement for some unknown reason despite complaining about how terrible the system is, and a common response from my siblings is "maybe you should just be sick for three years…"

I suspect this varies by state, but the idea that sick leave for teachers is lacking has never been a common theme for any of the teachers in my family.

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Re:35% of Japanese people say they’ll ‘never travel’ again by ghaff on Monday December 19, 2022 @08:40AM (#34051881)

There's been a general shift in the US from a system where large organizations had separate pools for sick time and vacation to a common PTO pool. But you still see organizations, either because of inertia or union contracts, still have the prior system in place. And, yeah, the traditional system tended to have more sick days than anyone would use outside of serious illness or injury although, as I recall, there usually wasn't carry-over.

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