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LibDemAlways Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 08:47 AM
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49. I once worked at a job where you didn't get a single
minute of vacation until you'd been there an entire year. And then, it was only 5 days. You didn't get 10 days until you'd been there 10 years. Of course those rules only applied to the peons. The bosses just took vacation time whenever they felt like it. One heartless SOB wouldn't give one of the underlings Dec. 26 off so that she could have an extra day to return from visiting family at Christmas. He declared "No vacation time over the holidays." He, of course, was gone the entire week between Christmas and New Years on a ski outing.

And, for the most part, Americans just take it without a lot of complaining because they need the lousy job with the equally lousy benefits.

People in enlightened countries expect their government to look out for them. In this country what few protections we have are courtesy of the government. The private sector doesn't give a shit.
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