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[asianmattdog]

Ehh, I could care less about it this year. Only reasons why? 1, I'll be working all throughout it...  2, i'll probably be busier than hell working during it (thanks pizza industry... ) and 3, Its the Patriots and Falcons, two teams I could probs care less about, and I consider myself a hardcore NFL band wagoner. For example, Bears sucked this year, Chiefs were good, I was a Chiefs fan this year.

[Unknown98]

There sure is a lot more activity from the F-16s this week because of the super bowl Every 10 minutes they speed by it seems like.

You going to at least tailgate it?

We might do something at my house but Im not going anywhere near the stadium. God knows how much they're charging for parking, seeing as the cheapest tickets are over $2000 for the game. My dad won't even be here, he's been away dealing w/ family stuff for almost a month now, which sucks but it is what it is I guess.

But, I don't have to work on  game day for the first time in a few years

[Carde]

I always love working on holidays and such, extra pay is always nice and I don't really care.

[asianmattdog]

Wtf is holiday pay? My company don't think of such as important. Its like "oh, thanks for fricken working New Years Day, where we had the only open Starbucks in this side of the town and there's a whole bunch of hungry hippos here for pizza. Here's an extra 50 cents per hour as our pity change"...  

[Unknown98]

Super Bowl doesn't count as a holiday even if we did get holiday pay


Only time we get holiday pay is if we volunteer to work on Thanksgiving. They close down on christmas day, and oddly enough Easter... I guess it is a "Good 'Ole Family Owned", Texas company lol.

[Carde]

For us it is 100% extra pay working on Christmas etc etc. Even better if they fall on a Sunday you get 200% extra

Also if you normally work on a holiday day and do not want to work (they cannot force you) you still get full pay.

[Unknown98]

Yeah the US kinda sucks when it comes to paid time off. Most companies will only give you 1-2 weeks of paid vacation each year when you start. I hear other countries they give you something like 6 weeks.

Also I just realized I'm going to have to implement some kind of DST detection/converter into my timezone formula. This just got a lot more complicated lol.

[Carde]

Law here mandates a minimum of 4 weeks of paid vacation and also vacation money (which is rarely used for vacations...). Most companies give more than that easily.

Vacations are very important when people travel specially abroad they get exposed to new cultures and this in turn creates understanding. There is a very simple reason why many of the middle class and above are more welcoming to stranger than the lower class citizens who simply cannot afford to go on vacation to foreign nations.

Alas the world is in a bad place and it continues to get worse with the rich getting richer and the poor get poorer.

[Unknown98]

Seriously though I wish the US had laws like that. The company I just quit, only gave 1 week paid vacation. Then if you stayed with them for 5 years, it got bumped up to 2 weeks. Stay a god awful 16 years, and then they'd give you 4 weeks.

[Carde]

IKEA aint to bad, but they are getting greedy and want to cut our compensation for late hours and weekend work, lucky it was voted away massively, but ever since no new agreement has been made or even nogiciations stated again so we are loosing out on pay raises and such atm.

Still we do have the 'tack' program (tack = thanks in Swedish) which means in all nations, but the Netherlands once you have been part of the company for 5 Financial years (I got screwed that way, started 2 months after the start of the FY) you get X amount put into your pension fund op top of the normal stuff. It is a profit sharing program. Nice thing for us Dutch folk is that the law here does not permit it, so we just get the choice to leave it on a savings account or have it paid out directly (after the government takes half of course).

For retail places to work at it sure aint the worst and the company is healthy so unlikely to just go bankrupt and supportive of staff offering legal council for free to those affected by Trump's Muslim ban for example. Really I will never agree with all they do (their tax structure is highly morally questionable) but overall I do like what they do and how they operate. Now if only they would stop turning down the quality on the products....