[NeedMoreTea]

> A whole week off is seen as weird.

Hang on. So even if you have paid leave, is a yearly week or two's holiday really not usual in the US? You know to go spend a week hiking or skiing in the Rockies, or fortnight camping, or whatever is your thing.

Not being able to take a week or two straight to get away from civilisation would have me clawing the walls going stir crazy, and I'd probably find myself divorced. Quite apart from the practicality - a long weekend isn't going to work to visit Europe or anything remotely long haul. Even a weekend break taking in the Grand Canyon if you happen to be on the east coast barely works, it certainly isn't going to leave any time to chill and unwind.

[henrikschroder]

If you only have two weeks total, getting two weeks straight is very hard, because you've probably had to use vacation days for other things, family obligations, christmas, etc, so you don't really have the time.

[NeedMoreTea]

Fair point. I'm am so used to the statutory days paid provision as separate and extra from how many days holiday we get - Xmas, Boxing Day, Easter, August Bank Holiday etc.

So we always built around 9 day or 16 day breaks, and everyone else seems to. There's usually a few holiday days left over for the odd day off. Some places didn't even count the compassionate things or family emergencies towards holiday entitlement days. Heck, when I was contracting, we took a few - obviously unpaid - one month holidays!

[wswkb]

>Not being able to take a week or two straight to get away from civilisation would have me clawing the walls going stir crazy, and I'd probably find myself divorced.

That's interesting, as I recall many couples get divorced after being on vacation together because they spend most of the year separated but they discover during vacation that they can't stand each other.

[NeedMoreTea]

I always heard as Xmas - particularly the big family Xmas - as the biggest trigger stressor for divorce.

Everyone here is taking one or two two holidays a year with their partner, as well as several long weekends and all the statutory holidays such as Xmas, Easter etc, yet divorce seems broadly comparable across the globe. Even if a few of those are only lazing in the back garden or redecorating the lviing room.

Being prevented from doing any of that with partner by an employer in the dark ages would also be a divorce stressor. If one partner takes a job with shite holiday provision, the other - also used to civilised holiday provision - is likely to end up resentful, no?

[scarface74]

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