My wife is at a FAANG company currently covering for 4 people who all get double digit weeks off because they chose to have children. Does she get any time off for literally working 18 hour days 7 days a week? No of course not.
If it's less stressful that the ambient level in your life, then it's a break. Why shouldn't it be?
Really it’s the workers fault when one of the richest companies in the history of the world is working someone to the bone because they can’t figure out staffing?
This made me laugh a little because they’re such bad examples unless you’re American. Universal healthcare and sane house prices make these specifically the times you can and should slow down.
Although US healthcare is fd though (@ work, not sure if the full f word would trigger something :)
It's a hard thing to grok without having experienced it. And yeah I realise how patronising that probably sounds.
It really wouldn't though, or they'd happily work 18 hours a day, just to enjoy the holiday, and then retire in a year or two, to enjoy their permanent holiday. They don't, obviously, because it's just a thing to say that sounds cool.
Sarcasm: Yeah, all jobs should be stressful, tedious, and unfriendly. How dare anyone enjoy their work.