Only 2 working days left for me in 2022. Half of today will be at a holiday party and tomorrow will be spent in shutting down everything before the break. So, all the work for the year is pretty much done. Looking forward to 2 weeks of break.
@parag Wow! I didn't know anyone else in the private sector who gets that long of a break. Good for you. Honestly, we all need it and should get it.
@pratik Our whole R&D (except of course some critical people who are running clinical trials and such) shuts down for the week from Christmas to New Year. I have 5 days, actually 6, of unused vacation that will be wasted if I don't use it. Hence, one extra week tagged on to my break. People in private sector in US take their work too seriously. They think if they take a break the company will fall apart which most definitely is not true. And idiot CEOs help them create that myth by sleeping at the factories and other such nonsense.
@parag unless you are the boss aren’t you in fear of stunting the growth of your career if you’re not working 24/7? When Elon Musk was demanding Twitter employees commit to 24/7 I was thinking to myself, why would you agree to that? I hope most will be out the door on their own if not pushed. At any rate. I think the work ethic promoted in the USA is a kind of enslavement. We really should find a new paradigm.
@mbkriegh I think it probably depends on the kind of work you do. I am in research - early drug discovery. I don't have to meet any sales or manufacturing quotas and such. We have soft deadlines. If I am running some experiments that need 24/7 attention, I do that but, that doesn't happen 365 days of the year and definitely not around holidays because I can plan it. We definitely need a work ethic reset and not reward musk like behavior.
@parag my wife was a neonatal intensive care nurse (retired now) and her working conditions were poor from my point of view. 12 hour shifts with rarely more than 20 minutes for lunch and sometimes not even that. I used to get so angry on her behalf. Management was bad enough on that score but there was a doctor/nurse professional mentality that you have to suck it up “for your patients” and if you didn’t you were weak. I can’t imagine that didn’t lead to patient care mistakes along the way. More than would otherwise be.
@mbkriegh Yeah! It is hard to work like that in the healthcare field. I feel bad for them especially doctors and nurses working in ER and in ICUs. People are depending on them to save lives no matter how tired they might be. I am so glad that I didn't choose to go to medical school when many people around me at that time were pressuring me to do so.