[onlypassingthru]

While working in Japan, I once asked my Japanese supervisor what he was doing for his next vacation. He responded that he never took a vacation and had, in fact, accrued some ridiculous amount of PTO over many years that he never intended to use. がんばって!

[m463]

Americans do that too.

I think europe seems to be pretty balanced. Friends take 5 week vacation in the summer.

[guywithahat]

5 weeks in summer is outrageous? Once you add weekends that's like only working half of all days, not to mention if you add real value to your company your company has to wait weeks for you to return. I guess there's a reason Europe has become so poor

[schrijver]

> your company has to wait weeks for you to return

I mean that’s the very concept of a holiday to me ?