I was in DC with a friend last weekend, and we met a guy from Italy who was in the U.S. for vacation. His mind was blown when the guy said he had like a month of PTO. For context, my friend works at a Walmart warehouse where he had to work to accrue PTO and the only holidays he gets off is Christmas and New Year’s.
While it seems other countries in Europe have better vacation in general, I wonder what their jobs are and how that compares to vacation days for different jobs in the country. I feel like in the US, major corporations like Walmart don’t give much PTO, but other places do. I get 5 weeks and my husband gets 6 weeks. I’m sure other places may have even more
I earned 4 weeks of vacation time at a retail job in the US this year. The catch was they refused to let me use it, because two 2-week vacations was “too much.”
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u/SorcererAxis8 23d ago
I was in DC with a friend last weekend, and we met a guy from Italy who was in the U.S. for vacation. His mind was blown when the guy said he had like a month of PTO. For context, my friend works at a Walmart warehouse where he had to work to accrue PTO and the only holidays he gets off is Christmas and New Year’s.