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Fucking immigrants from third world countries taking our jobs /s

[โ€“] miridius@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

The funny thing is that if you live in Europe and work for a US company, you also get the European perks. I really don't understand why more Americans don't move here

[โ€“] RedditIsDeddit@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (15 children)

If I got a job in Europe.. at this point, I'd just move to Europe.

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[โ€“] splendoruranium@infosec.pub 145 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

US applicant: "How many sick days do I get?"
German HR department: "I'm sorry what do you mean?"
US applicant: "How many days may I call in sick per year?"
German HR department: "Er... that depends on how often you get sick?!"
US applicant: "Wat."

[โ€“] Frostbeard@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I live in Norway and have 21 sick days. That means days that I can self report as sick. (Influenza and such) I can do this for three consecutive days I think. Then I have to get a physician to write a sick leave. For anything serious you have one year on sick leave before more long term solutions will have to be found. Sick days does not include doctors appointments (its their own quota) or home with sick child (10 days) Pregnancies are their own thing, but often you go on sick leave before birth because being pregnant while not an illness makes you feel ill. We have one year of paternity/maternity leave first three months are reserved for mother, then shares but both parents MUST take three months. (Can get around by company paying for the leave of the one supposed to go back to work.) Father gets two weeks just after birth to settle things at home.

Thanks for the input!

[โ€“] makyo@lemmy.world 63 points 3 days ago

This exact thing happened to my partner. Her rep was like, what is a 'Sick Day'?

[โ€“] ABetterTomorrow@lemm.ee 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Perks? You mean the way of life?

[โ€“] Dasus@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

Perks (US En) = basic (and not even always functioning) labour protection

Do You Work More Than A Medieval Peasant?

[โ€“] hellothere@sh.itjust.works 115 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Does anyone else find a bit odd to phrase basic labour rights as 'perks'?

[โ€“] Tja@programming.dev 48 points 3 days ago

Europeans probably. Americans be like ๐Ÿ˜ฒ

[โ€“] philpo@feddit.org 92 points 3 days ago

"nobody asked me questions during my maternity leave"

Yeah. Because it's the fricking law both in Germany as well as Austria. Her boss would be in hot water. 1800โ‚ฌ fine per case (means per question) up to 3600โ‚ฌ for repeat offenders. It does not change a thing if the mother offered it or not.

The Austrians are actually quite lenient with that. German law gives fines up to 30.000โ‚ฌ and in cases that are seen as endangerment of the child up to one year of prison.

We seriously do not fuck around with that here.

(The same goes for vacations)

[โ€“] Xerxos@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 days ago

I hope she finds the strength to leave the US and find a job and home outside of the US. The jobs in the USA are mostly exploitative - not surprising with the labor laws as weak as they are.

[โ€“] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 43 points 3 days ago

The US Labor Laws are complete shit. Period!

[โ€“] reksas@sopuli.xyz 46 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

us could have this too, if you had strong unions among other things.

[โ€“] tomi000@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (8 children)

You mean communism?

Edit: /s because it seems it wasnt obvious enough

[โ€“] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 8 points 2 days ago

Looking around at the current political environment, I'll take a little of that Communism, or at least the Socialist flavor.

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[โ€“] bitofarambler@crazypeople.online 58 points 3 days ago (8 children)

for any fluent English speakers out there, it's a very similar situation if you want to start teaching English abroad.

20-25 teaching hours a week, sign up bonuses, airfare reimbursement, at least a couple months of vacation per year, much lower cost of living in most countries, with maybe the field-specific benefit of thousands of job openings currently available.

Plus you get an adventure the whole time you're in another country, new experiences and new cultures.

Definitely why I never went back to the work culture in the US.

[โ€“] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Teaching here is a 20/20h for a fulltime job and you get around 90 days off, but you can't choose when to take em.

2 weeks off for the easter holidays, then 6 weeks of work, followed by another 2 weeks of holidays. Those start tomorrow officially, as Monday is a national holiday.
Are you tough enough to handle 6 whole weeks with only the weekends off?

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[โ€“] Klimaschutz@feddit.org 32 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

Sorry, my US Friends. We're just too left on working issues, mostly.

They don't understand what you said, you should have used the word woke

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[โ€“] Novocirab@feddit.org 23 points 3 days ago (3 children)

As an aside, it's always both a bit funny and bewildering how even the more reputable American media talk about Europe as if it were just one thing, so that, for instance, this article specifies it to Austria only several paragraphs into the text.

[โ€“] bennypr0fane@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What? Europe isn't a country?

Not yet. Seeing as things are going with the rise of the far right, probably not for quite a while.

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[โ€“] CAVOK@lemmy.world 20 points 3 days ago

Archive link: https://archive.is/tiaLg

Forgot, sorry.

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