As a European it makes me proud to get a direct shout out from Linus 🫶🏻 <insert picture of beach here>

  • mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org
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    4 months ago

    I’m European, but I don’t get your excitement. Everybody has summer vacations, no? Not just Europeans. So what’s the deal?

    • laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      4 months ago

      Most people over school age in the US do not get a summer vacation. Most are lucky if they have enough vacation hours to rub together to cover a random illness so they don’t have to work while barely able to function for being too sick.

      And I’m not even close to joking or exaggerating.

      It’s fucking bad here. We’re horribly jealous.

      I’m extremely fortunate for having 5 weeks of vacation per year, and half of that is only because of working extra on the weekends to bank extra time. And good luck getting approval to take more than about a week of it at a time.

  • GBU_28@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    This is a very real thing for tech teams with European members. They just peace out.