In the US, a decent company will give you three weeks total vacation. To get more than that can require decades of service (eg four weeks after 10 years with the company).

To “squander” two thirds of the allotment in one go is rare.

I tried to negotiate 4 weeks when I joined my current company, but the hiring process went dead. My inside contact told me that as far as he could tell, they simply did not have a mechanism to handle someone asking for more than 3 weeks.

I usually do the same. It seems to blow many minds.

Crazy how this is normal, in Germany you won't even find anybody to work for you if you offered less than 30 days of vacation

How many holidays do you get in addition to that? Is that in any industry, such as fast food service or grocery store clerks, or just professional jobs, or only your own industry? I know time off isn't the best in the US, but a good comparison requires a bit more info.

When people generalize across Jobs they often really do mean All Jobs.

https://www.statista.com/chart/15005/statutory-minimum-paid-...

Generalizing a bit but there is less of a divide between “fast food service and grocery store clerks” and professionals in Western Europe compared to some other places. Workers are workers and they have certain rights as that.

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[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_holidays_in_Germany

Brazilian here. We get a minimum of 30 days/year by law, across every industry, plus a handful of holidays.

I live in Sweden where we have minimum 25 paid vacation days (I have 28) and 9 paid holidays.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minimum_annual_leave_b...

Sweden here also. Quite common with 25 days and paid overtime or 30 days with unpaid overtime.

And then you have parental days which are 480 in total per child which can be used both before they start preschool and for longer vacations when they are older. In Sweden it’s also quite common that both parents split it 50-50.

So 4-5 weeks of time off in the summer is not uncommon at all for parents and totally accepted by companies.

Better: in Germany you have the legal right to have a minimum of 24 days of vacation in the year (§3 Bundesurlaubsgesetz).

If you work Monday to Saturday. The law requires 20 days for people that work Monday to Friday. The effect is the same though: In both cases you get 4 weeks off.

Offer 300k Euros for 6 year experience and see if that still holds.

Was at a boring company for a long time, because it paid well enough and I had 6 weeks PTO that rolled over and even paid out when maxed. I turned down a lot of job offers because I valued that.

As you can imagine with the enshittification of literally everything in my lifetime, that moved to use it or lose it eventually. Then two years later, getting rid of it for 'unlimited PTO, how cool is that guys?'

Needless to say, that was the end of my run there.

If in US, that'd be once in a lifetime - e.g. for your honey (half) moon.

Here in the Netherlands most people take 3 weeks in the summer. Then a week in fall, one around Christmas and then perhaps you just buy some extra days (meaning it’s unpaid time off) for a skiing trip in February.

And then we have Easter, Pentecost, ascension day, Christmas, New Year’s Day. All public days off.

Personally for a long time my contract was 36 hours, get you 1 more day off every 2 weeks.

That American system sounds so depressing, but I guess you get used to anything.

I didn’t expect the most discussed part on this submission would be about people who don’t take vacation when this one[1] is (whatever absence is about).

[1] The Git maintainer. Not a kernel maintainer.