Thanks to all the leave being used for the wedding and honeymoon, we have no time off between the middle of July and Christmas. (Well, one day for Guido's birthday - handily that's a Friday
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Well yes. I have a very clear picture in my head of us standing in the middle of the stunning, "desolate" landscape in our cagoules, water dripping off our noses. And I'm safe in the knowledge that at least it will be a cultural experience for Guido. Same as earlier this year - April I think it was - when we went for a picnic at Withernsea and sat huddled against the freezing wind. It's important that I provide him with these educational lessons in British life.
The very first work I ever edited was some student work filmed at Bamburgh Castle. I'm hoping I can work past my memories of appallingly white balanced shots, terrible wind noise and shaky close-ups of lumps of rock in people's hands.
I hope your mini vacation went well, and that you had fun despite the rain. :) Everything you mentioned sounds like fun!
I'm still astonished you can take any time off at all. I know we've talked about the amount of vacation time before, but it still seems incredible to me. R only got a week off (unpaid) for our wedding, and we haven't really taken any vacation time since then. (We're trying to get a week off in September, but we'll see if that happens.) It just seems like everyone in the UK gets wonderful amounts of vacation time. I know that's probably not true, but it just seems like it.
We did have fun, thanks. Ridiculously foggy though, which somewhat scuppered the spectacular views...
As for UK amounts of holiday time... we're actually the poor man of Europe. The EU minimum is 5.6 weeks which, assuming a 5 day working week, is 28 days. The UK allows for that to include bank/public holidays at the employer's discretion - we have 8 of those in England (it's 9 in Scotland). So the de facto leave minimum is 20 days. But in other parts of the EU they observe the 28 days and then add their innumerable bank holidays on top! (We're at the bottom of the table on those too
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I'm sorry you have less holiday time than the rest of the UK, but the idea of getting 28 days off, even including public holidays, is utterly incredible to me. The most vacation time I've ever gotten was one week a year (I could take more time off, but it was unpaid, and only if my supervisor agreed), and that was in Japan.
Were you not working in a school in Japan? Or do they go to school 52 weeks a year there?
How does it work with public holidays in the US? I know that if you want them all off, you basically have to be a public sector worker, but how is it if you're just an ordinary private sector worker? From what I gather you have 7 "official" holidays - does everyone get all of those off? And then it's just the other... dozen or however many it is, are those the ones which are less widely observed? 'cos the stereotype over here is that Americans have loads of public holidays, but I don't know how many of them the average person would actually get off
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The very first work I ever edited was some student work filmed at Bamburgh Castle. I'm hoping I can work past my memories of appallingly white balanced shots, terrible wind noise and shaky close-ups of lumps of rock in people's hands.
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I'm still astonished you can take any time off at all. I know we've talked about the amount of vacation time before, but it still seems incredible to me. R only got a week off (unpaid) for our wedding, and we haven't really taken any vacation time since then. (We're trying to get a week off in September, but we'll see if that happens.) It just seems like everyone in the UK gets wonderful amounts of vacation time. I know that's probably not true, but it just seems like it.
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As for UK amounts of holiday time... we're actually the poor man of Europe. The EU minimum is 5.6 weeks which, assuming a 5 day working week, is 28 days. The UK allows for that to include bank/public holidays at the employer's discretion - we have 8 of those in England (it's 9 in Scotland). So the de facto leave minimum is 20 days. But in other parts of the EU they observe the 28 days and then add their innumerable bank holidays on top! (We're at the bottom of the table on those too ( ... )
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How does it work with public holidays in the US? I know that if you want them all off, you basically have to be a public sector worker, but how is it if you're just an ordinary private sector worker? From what I gather you have 7 "official" holidays - does everyone get all of those off? And then it's just the other... dozen or however many it is, are those the ones which are less widely observed? 'cos the stereotype over here is that Americans have loads of public holidays, but I don't know how many of them the average person would actually get off ( ... )
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