I work with offices in Finland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Germany. As frustrated as I get not being able to progress work for a whole month I think I'm mostly just jealous. Sounds incredible.
It’s nice but also very frustrating to live there because if you need emergency house repairs it’s like 5x the price and if you need to go the bank their hours are 11:30 to 12:30 obviously this isn’t the case in large cities but in smaller towns it can be very hard to get things done
@@henriksyrrist8806 not true, it doesn't make it any more expensive to repair anything while people are on holiday, you just can't get anyone to do it, and if you want them to do it "now" you'll most likely be paying for their service a bit more, but you can always just use another provider for same service and get it for the normal price.
@@FaceFish9 if you have the luxury of living in a large place where there are multiple building services but in my home town there are 3 contracting companies total and all of them raise their hourly rate for the summer significantly sometimes it’s 100 or 200% higher during the summer
@@dragonmaster5185 so far the (few) snakes (we have seen) had been outside the huussi but wasps have bad habit to make nests inside but luckily so far not inside the toilet itself 😅
In the UK we have paid holidays, 28 days plus 8 public holidays. Our staff often take three weeks off for long-haul holidays, cruises etc. I think the US is the country with one of the worst PTO.
Norway basically does this too. We do not shut down entirely. An entire office filled with like 200 people normally might have something like 5-30 people max during certain weeks of the summer.
Hahaha. All that oil you been selling it's going to warm you up. It's going to be pleasant in September as well... you guys are going to win anyway dammit!
@@frictionhitch No, because we're reliant on the gulf stream for most of our heat. And when the ice caps melt it is predicted to screw up the stream, which would mean we end up in an ice age up here after the initial heat. That heat incidentally is in the process of decimating a lot of our food supply. Our crops and wildlife aren't evolved to deal with the heat.
@@rupsjenooitgenoeg804 Yep. In the U.S. the only people who have ever been off a month are 1) unemployed, 2) under dire medical treatment, or 3) school teachers (this is going to get me attacked lol).
I lived and worked in London for a decade. This pain was very real every summer when trying to get anything done with the Finnish offices or freelancers even. Finland just ceases to exist for a month and it is incomprehensible in the UK context. 😂 (And in the UK, the longest break I was ever able to get from work was two weeks... 😥)
At this point management should consider it natural law, and plan accordingly. In July that tiny spot near Russia where the lakes are? Simply moves to another plane of existence, Dungeons and Dragons style
@Kvarkki The reason for it? The Finnish summer (the time when nothing is covered in ice and snow) lasts for couple of months. The rest of the year, roughly 8-10 months, there is pitch black, cold and wet, even colder and wet or snow. So being there in the UK HQ, warm and cozy year around where the windows don't even need double glazing.. Snow is nice little tricle for a few weeks... It's easy to say to "spread the vacations". In Finland, there are two months when the vacation makes any sense...
@@alaric_ You WOULD need double glazing - it's just that some of the buildings are listed and can't have those adjustments made to them. And many of them are managed by property owners who are able to get the houses rented out even if they are leaky and cold in the winter. I have slept in bed with four blankets on in London because I was freezing. The UK would also need a robust energy policy where double glazing was required by law in every house regardless of their age. It hurt my soul to know that the gas heating was on (intermittently) in the winter, but all of the heat escaped in moments. Not to mention that the radiator placement was inefficient in the houses I lived in: it was on the opposite wall to the window, not under it, so the warm air never even circulated properly. The amount of energy the UK must waste every winter is astonishing to think about. The cold is also different in the UK than in Finland. Partly because of the housing, partly because of the humidity. It is easier to tolerate -30C in Finland than 5C in the UK.
One place I worked we had a big project with our Danish and our Italian office. Nothing happened in July. The Danes were on holiday. When we came back, Italy just closed down. Nothing gets done in Italy in August.
Here in Spain, everyone takes August off (July is tourist season) and go out to their villages where their grandparents live, and just spend their time there
@@notsure1405 Forgive me if I am incorrect but most of the time salary means no overtime pay right? If so I am really sorry man. That would not fly here in the Netherlands.
Month off in the summer, but then there is one week for ski vacation too :) And lets not forget 12,5 days of 'pekkaset' for personal time off when needed, and of course 4-11 days of national holidays (depends on the year if the land on business days or not)
Vellkåmm to all the Nordic countries.😂❤ Hug from Norway, from me who is going to my cabin on an island later this week without electricity, and I can't wait!!!
I'm here now. And I'm loving it! We had to park the car a 25 minute walk away from the cabin. 😍 And carry all our stuff. Please go listen to and watch the song "The Cabin" by the norwegian duo Ylvis ( yep, the "what does the fox say" dong- guys). They explain the concept "Hytte".
Idk where are you from, but in Poland end of June, whole July and whole August are summer break at schools, so basically everyone who has school aged kids and wants some family holiday, takes off work in these months, depending on your job / industry there may be strong preference towards July or August, too. This may explain Sweden, Finnland or Bulgaria as well, idk about their school year schedules.
My wife’s part Finnish and if you remind her of that during July, you’re near a lake and trees. Last week we by surprise went to the forest between Lake Sammamish and Lake Washington
@@Krush3r66I don't knwo who liked your comment but they seem mean but then, even though disliking it seems more accurate to the content, it's mean to you. Not your faul after all so I wrote this comment instead. Sorry for wasting your time like that, but I feel like I'm starting to get why my doctor says I stress to much about nothing, so thank you for helping me I guess?
@@HallwiedasEcho I feel like it's more so acknowledging that America is pretty fucked up at the moment. I don't want to get too political but recently in America it feels like the people don't have that much control with Congressmen wanting to raise the age to vote, corporate lobbyists taking priority over the people they are supposed to represent, and the Supreme Court aligning with parties and not being impartial. Note: (This applies to both parties so I don't want to get rage replies how I'm favoring one side over the other.)
Working at a public office in Sweden, this is just as true for us as for our eastern neighbours. I'm not taking a vacation, but in an office of some 300+ people, there's maybe 5-10 of us actually working this month.
Our cottage has solar panels so we have enough energy for a small fridge and phones. And although we don't have water toilet, the toilet we have is clean. Cottage in the woods on lake shore is must for Finnish summer. Now excuse me, I'm going fishing ❤
I think the closest thing we have in the Philippines is the 2nd half of December. We always rush to finish everything before Dec. 15 because managers disappear and regular staff left behind have no will to work as well.
Love working with the Scandis. When they are on holiday I also get to have a pseudo-holiday. Love watching videos and working out on the boss' time, while reporting that progress can only be made until the team is back in September.
Makes sense. They live in inhospitable freezing hell for most of the year and they'd be truely damned if they're going to spend the nicest month of the year indoors
No, it doesn't. We have that in Germany and other European countries, so you are wrong about assuming freezing hell to be the reason. The reason is called "Having human rights" Olivia. And those include being allowed to go on summer vacation. But you as a grown up don't get payed vacation from June to August in a row. That is just for pupils and their school summer vacation. Are you telling me you have never heard of the concept of holidays/vacation? Don't think so.
I guess this must be what it’s like for internationals working with South Africans during December…😂 the entire December is considered a party month and most companies take a month off from a week or two into Dec - Jan
Me: People collect the holiday days and use them afterward. Not everyone is off during summer, but most commonly, if the holiday season: everyone will be off. I laugh at this so badly, hyvää kesää
I just feel bad for you americans as i have heared that ya'll have really long school days. I'm on the ninth grade and have 5 hours of school every day, and i get 1,5hours of that 5 hours as break time.
Okay that ending got me but also - what?? How ace would it be to live somewhere where everyone takes a month off together? You’d all be able to like…actually do stuff together… Why does my heart hurt…
I used to take my holiday in June and then enjoy the peace and quiet in the office in July when most others were absent. Freelancer now, so things are different.
I tried telling some friends parents this in high school, and they all bawlked at me and laughed saying "that can't possibly be true because then nothing would get done! What about the doctors? What about grocery store clerks? Can you not buy anything fir a whole month? Oh that's ridiculous, you must be mistaken, not everything can be believed on the internet" kinda lost respect for a lot of my friends parents after that and suddenly realized why all my friends were depressed and anxious of bad grades.
In Denmark we have something called industrial holiday. 3 weeks every summer. You have 6 weeks paid vaccination pr year. Education is free, doctors and hospitals are free, free dentist til you are 18. You get financial support when you go to university, and a lot of other stuff. And that is why the tax is so high.
So true dude, im actually in my tent at our family cottage rn. We just have just enought electricity to charge our phones and to run our fridge. And we have outside toilet inside too... no water toilet😊👺
Omg! Seeing this few days after my dad (also named Matti) started his 1 month summerholiday from his corporate job... I feel like there is someone having this conversation about my dad....
I'm not Finnish but if I worked for someone who said "can you get this done, like, by yesterday" I would also fuck off to a cabin in the woods with no electricity for as long as possible. FFS I already want to do that.
At least in Sweden, industries have a set month in the summer where they close down everything (industrisemester), but in other companies there's usually a rotation to have someone present every week of the summer (it's me this summer as I took my vacation in may like a weirdo 😂), but yes most activity slows down considerably at most companies are low on staff.
Our head office is in Switzerland. Vast majority of the devs were off for all of last week with many taking the whole month. Gotta say I like that system
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Nothing better than staying in a summer cottage in the middle of nowhere though. When my wonderful Finnish host grandparents took me to theirs last summer I literally cried because the beauty of that place completely overwhelmed me 😅.
As an American working my current job, in the past year I took two sick days and nearly got written up for both, had to beg for a day off to watch over my stepmother after her surgery and when I asked for three days off after working 12 hrs a day for 4 months straight my boss simply laughed at me. I think I'm a masochist because somehow I still love my job.
France does this. Everyone goes on holiday for 2-4 weeks in either July or August. Some (around half of) companies and businesses actually close for a month. The most bizarre thing Ive seen is an ice cream parlour closed in a tourist destination during the month of July...
I'm required by law to have at least 4 weeks holiday plus public holidays here in Norwat. But most companies have even more; I'm required to have at least 5 weeks holiday per year, and at least 3 of them needs to in July; in addition we all have mandatory holiday between Christmas and new year; and the whole easter week. Last year I had to take a "surprise" week off in December because I had forgotten to use all my weeks.
In Finland, in all workplaces, not all employees are on vacation in the same month, but only some are on vacation. But if there are not so many employees at the workplace that there would be replacements during a certain holiday season, then all the employees are on vacation, e.g. during the summer vacation. And for the cottage you can get (if you have the money) an additional device for the outdoor toilet so that you don't have to shovel excrement.
Entire mill towns in the north of england used to do something similar. All the mills and engineering businesses shut for 2 weeks, all the maintenance would get done and everyone else would go on holiday. The different towns had different weeks. And the school hols were made to match. So Bolton hols was the last week of June and first week of July and hols abroad were way cheaper!!! Downside, you'd have to come back in school and Christmas and Easter hols were just a week each. All stopped now as the mills have all gone and the schools had to conform to a standard timetable. So all the parents lost out on cheaper hols.
August in spain! In my job only office has August as holiday, and the rest of us works in shifts (and holidays are in shifts to, in fact im starting my 20 days in a couple of days, (and still have a 15 day holidays an summer time, I'm sorry for you...)) and its like, so weird, knowing that everything its paralyzed for a whole month (and then when they start to take the timing again, its Christmas!)
August for Italy, nearly all the factories and truckers stop work for 3-4 weeks, I can't speak for southern Italy, but the north does this. I think it's a great idea!
I'm taking a very short summer vacation this year. Only 3 weeks in the forest with the mosquitos. I'll have to find something fun to do with my 3 remaining vacation weeks this winter. Hmmm, the forest just isn't the same without mosquitoes though.....
🇩🇰 here, have a friend, who worked a call centre in Barcelona, they couldn't explain to the manager's, that in 🇩🇰 Friday ends at 12.00. they just put the phone to the ear and pretended to call
In the south wales it was once common to have ‘miners holidays’ where all the coal mines shut down for two weeks. Everyone on holiday at the same time and defend on seaside towns for holidays.
yeah, our entire R&D department ground to a halt for 2 months every summer due to large parts of it beeing based in sweden. Some colleagues from there explained to me that they don't get more than a months or two of nice weather each year, so they all take all of their vacation in that time.
within the country it does kinda work...if everybody is off...then nobody is frustrated by people not being there...like in a lot of countries where it's spread...the time that projects sometimes get delayed because the period that somebody important isn't there is longer than when everyone would be off at the same time...
I work with offices in Finland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Germany. As frustrated as I get not being able to progress work for a whole month I think I'm mostly just jealous. Sounds incredible.
It’s nice but also very frustrating to live there because if you need emergency house repairs it’s like 5x the price and if you need to go the bank their hours are 11:30 to 12:30 obviously this isn’t the case in large cities but in smaller towns it can be very hard to get things done
I’d be happy just not working 6 days a week
@@henriksyrrist8806I've never heard services costing extra during the holiday season...
@@henriksyrrist8806 not true, it doesn't make it any more expensive to repair anything while people are on holiday, you just can't get anyone to do it, and if you want them to do it "now" you'll most likely be paying for their service a bit more, but you can always just use another provider for same service and get it for the normal price.
@@FaceFish9 if you have the luxury of living in a large place where there are multiple building services but in my home town there are 3 contracting companies total and all of them raise their hourly rate for the summer significantly sometimes it’s 100 or 200% higher during the summer
the best part of the huussi is that its covered in spiders, flies, bees and mosquitoes
You have bees? We only have wasps, mosquitoes and sometimes even snakes😅
@@jamesedexin the toilet?
@@dragonmaster5185 so far the (few) snakes (we have seen) had been outside the huussi but wasps have bad habit to make nests inside but luckily so far not inside the toilet itself 😅
We have those guys and lil lizards ( sisiliskoja :D )
@@larakoskinen3825 havent seen any of those in years
As a Swede I would confirm this but I'm on Holidays until mid August and have no internet in my summer cottage
Okay, I'll ignore this post them because it doesn't exist. :)
"have no internet in my summer cottage"
Not officialy that is **wink wink**
Hahahahha yeah same! And there’s no running water either so the only way to clean yourself is in the freezing sea! The joys of summer cottages
@@Soph_isticatedDuck The sea is not freezing this time of year.
We know that because it makes a splashy sound when you hit it with a hammer.
@@JensNyborg hahahaha I am exaggerating a bit, I’m just very sensitive to temperature. I’ve definitely swam in colder water :)
Europeans: *enjoy life*
Brits and Americans: *surprised pikachu face*
Profile pic checks out!😂
In the UK we have paid holidays, 28 days plus 8 public holidays. Our staff often take three weeks off for long-haul holidays, cruises etc. I think the US is the country with one of the worst PTO.
It's great to be the guy who is not on a holiday in July. It's so calm.
Except for us who work at the popular holiday areas :(
Working in IT specialist on july. I work probably like 20h per week now and chill the rest
by then its already fall tho
You should come to America! None of us ever go on holiday! 😂
@@myleskgallagher I might, I have six weeks per year (paid).
Norway basically does this too. We do not shut down entirely. An entire office filled with like 200 people normally might have something like 5-30 people max during certain weeks of the summer.
Hahaha. All that oil you been selling it's going to warm you up. It's going to be pleasant in September as well... you guys are going to win anyway dammit!
Currently been alone in the office for three weeks straight, we're normally 100 people 😮💨
@@frictionhitch No, because we're reliant on the gulf stream for most of our heat. And when the ice caps melt it is predicted to screw up the stream, which would mean we end up in an ice age up here after the initial heat.
That heat incidentally is in the process of decimating a lot of our food supply. Our crops and wildlife aren't evolved to deal with the heat.
At least most shopping places, restaurants are still open in summer. In Easter week on the other hand ....
in finland is depends on the company as well. plenty of places close completely for july, but a lot of places also rotate summer hols.
Literally never even considered the fact that this might be seen as a weird thing 😂😂😂
Especially for US, for Europeans less so
I mean if in my country the sound didn't go down the entirety of July I wouldn't wanna work either.
Come to the US where Amazon workers are lucky to get bathroom breaks while Jeff Bozos flies his Dong-Rocket.
@@rupsjenooitgenoeg804 Yep. In the U.S. the only people who have ever been off a month are 1) unemployed, 2) under dire medical treatment, or 3) school teachers (this is going to get me attacked lol).
@@billys.3258 politicians too? idk but in the uk they get massive summer holidays :s
I lived and worked in London for a decade. This pain was very real every summer when trying to get anything done with the Finnish offices or freelancers even. Finland just ceases to exist for a month and it is incomprehensible in the UK context. 😂 (And in the UK, the longest break I was ever able to get from work was two weeks... 😥)
it feels good to be finnish 😎
My job goes dark for "only" 2 weeks, but the weeks around that are also very quiet as people are also on holidays before or after those weeks
At this point management should consider it natural law, and plan accordingly. In July that tiny spot near Russia where the lakes are? Simply moves to another plane of existence, Dungeons and Dragons style
@Kvarkki The reason for it? The Finnish summer (the time when nothing is covered in ice and snow) lasts for couple of months. The rest of the year, roughly 8-10 months, there is pitch black, cold and wet, even colder and wet or snow.
So being there in the UK HQ, warm and cozy year around where the windows don't even need double glazing.. Snow is nice little tricle for a few weeks... It's easy to say to "spread the vacations". In Finland, there are two months when the vacation makes any sense...
@@alaric_ You WOULD need double glazing - it's just that some of the buildings are listed and can't have those adjustments made to them. And many of them are managed by property owners who are able to get the houses rented out even if they are leaky and cold in the winter. I have slept in bed with four blankets on in London because I was freezing.
The UK would also need a robust energy policy where double glazing was required by law in every house regardless of their age. It hurt my soul to know that the gas heating was on (intermittently) in the winter, but all of the heat escaped in moments. Not to mention that the radiator placement was inefficient in the houses I lived in: it was on the opposite wall to the window, not under it, so the warm air never even circulated properly. The amount of energy the UK must waste every winter is astonishing to think about.
The cold is also different in the UK than in Finland. Partly because of the housing, partly because of the humidity. It is easier to tolerate -30C in Finland than 5C in the UK.
One place I worked we had a big project with our Danish and our Italian office. Nothing happened in July. The Danes were on holiday. When we came back, Italy just closed down. Nothing gets done in Italy in August.
Here in Spain, everyone takes August off (July is tourist season) and go out to their villages where their grandparents live, and just spend their time there
American here.
This last week, i worked 7 days in a row.
I was scheduled off 2 but was called in for meetings..
Most weeks are like this.
@@notsure1405 Sucks man. Please tell it is at the very least paid overtime. What state do you live in? It must make a difference where you live.
@@grumbeard im salary in Texas
@@notsure1405 Forgive me if I am incorrect but most of the time salary means no overtime pay right? If so I am really sorry man. That would not fly here in the Netherlands.
@@grumbeard thank you for the empathy.
Month off in the summer, but then there is one week for ski vacation too :) And lets not forget 12,5 days of 'pekkaset' for personal time off when needed, and of course 4-11 days of national holidays (depends on the year if the land on business days or not)
Don't you also have 800 days mat/paternal leave?
@@simonhenry7867Yup, that is per parent, and they can share them among each other however they want.
Holy hell...I'm jealous.
in Canada if the holidays land on the weekend then usually the Monday is considered a holiday
Vellkåmm to all the Nordic countries.😂❤ Hug from Norway, from me who is going to my cabin on an island later this week without electricity, and I can't wait!!!
I'm here now. And I'm loving it! We had to park the car a 25 minute walk away from the cabin. 😍 And carry all our stuff. Please go listen to and watch the song "The Cabin" by the norwegian duo Ylvis ( yep, the "what does the fox say" dong- guys). They explain the concept "Hytte".
Honestly when you walk into that cabin in the woods.
It *FEELS* so natural
Not just Finland. The Swedes vanish as well. The Poles and Bulgarians vanish at about the same time.
'Vanish' 🤣🤣🤣
In Poland it is usually for 2 weeks in July or August and maybe some extra days here and there for long weekends :)
@@MaraMara89 we learned not to schedule projects for that period 😆
Idk where are you from, but in Poland end of June, whole July and whole August are summer break at schools, so basically everyone who has school aged kids and wants some family holiday, takes off work in these months, depending on your job / industry there may be strong preference towards July or August, too. This may explain Sweden, Finnland or Bulgaria as well, idk about their school year schedules.
Bulgarians generally can take a week off at a time... We just take a week off every summer month...
Since we don't have light for the most of the year we gotta get some compensation on summer ;)
Swede here relating to this during my ongoing 7 week summer vacation...
Yes, the Finnish are doing it the right way ❤
Aaah, the lovely Nordic holidays. Yes don’t call us in Juli 🇫🇮🇸🇪🇳🇴🇩🇰
I am at a lake house in Finland rn 😂
Do miss in-door plumbing though 😢
Tip: use an empty soda bottle and fill it in the lake. Easy bidet! Congrats, you have water closet!
My wife’s part Finnish and if you remind her of that during July, you’re near a lake and trees. Last week we by surprise went to the forest between Lake Sammamish and Lake Washington
Month is not enough! My 7 weeks start next week. My holiday also includes a cottage in the woods :D
I took all of 6 weeks last year in one go to travel. I came back a week early. Too much time. Just used the other week later.
Mean while here in America you'll be lucky to get more than 2 weeks
@@Krush3r66I don't knwo who liked your comment but they seem mean but then, even though disliking it seems more accurate to the content, it's mean to you. Not your faul after all so I wrote this comment instead. Sorry for wasting your time like that, but I feel like I'm starting to get why my doctor says I stress to much about nothing, so thank you for helping me I guess?
@@HallwiedasEcho I feel like it's more so acknowledging that America is pretty fucked up at the moment. I don't want to get too political but recently in America it feels like the people don't have that much control with Congressmen wanting to raise the age to vote, corporate lobbyists taking priority over the people they are supposed to represent, and the Supreme Court aligning with parties and not being impartial.
Note: (This applies to both parties so I don't want to get rage replies how I'm favoring one side over the other.)
@@Krush3r662 weeks? I get 48 hours, with this being a 12 hour shift, I get one week total out of the entire year.
Working at a public office in Sweden, this is just as true for us as for our eastern neighbours.
I'm not taking a vacation, but in an office of some 300+ people, there's maybe 5-10 of us actually working this month.
Norway is very similar, July is what we call "fellesferie" (can be translated as common holiday) where pretty much everyone is off work
Our cottage has solar panels so we have enough energy for a small fridge and phones. And although we don't have water toilet, the toilet we have is clean. Cottage in the woods on lake shore is must for Finnish summer. Now excuse me, I'm going fishing ❤
I think the closest thing we have in the Philippines is the 2nd half of December. We always rush to finish everything before Dec. 15 because managers disappear and regular staff left behind have no will to work as well.
Love working with the Scandis. When they are on holiday I also get to have a pseudo-holiday. Love watching videos and working out on the boss' time, while reporting that progress can only be made until the team is back in September.
Aaaah ihana loma
Right now its just me in the office, its super chill. Everyone else is on holiday.
People gotta enjoy that summer, it might be stormy autumn weather in August😁
Makes sense. They live in inhospitable freezing hell for most of the year and they'd be truely damned if they're going to spend the nicest month of the year indoors
Indeed! You don't want to meet us in November. It's a coulture shock for many, how we are running on emotionally restricted 'energy saving mode'.
The freezing hell is the best part of the year. I need summers off cause the heat draines me off energy, and I can't get anything done 🤷♀️
@@raapyna8544yeah, that's the exact month I've moved to Finland and I was shocked 😂😢
No, it doesn't. We have that in Germany and other European countries, so you are wrong about assuming freezing hell to be the reason. The reason is called "Having human rights" Olivia. And those include being allowed to go on summer vacation. But you as a grown up don't get payed vacation from June to August in a row. That is just for pupils and their school summer vacation. Are you telling me you have never heard of the concept of holidays/vacation? Don't think so.
I guess this must be what it’s like for internationals working with South Africans during December…😂 the entire December is considered a party month and most companies take a month off from a week or two into Dec - Jan
not me just casually scheduling meetings for October. bc it's summmmeeeerrr here in Europe and that's the next time everyone is available.
Me: People collect the holiday days and use them afterward. Not everyone is off during summer, but most commonly, if the holiday season: everyone will be off.
I laugh at this so badly, hyvää kesää
Americans: “Hey boss my daughter is dying in the hospital, do you think I could have a half day for the funeral?”
I just feel bad for you americans as i have heared that ya'll have really long school days. I'm on the ninth grade and have 5 hours of school every day, and i get 1,5hours of that 5 hours as break time.
Okay that ending got me but also - what?? How ace would it be to live somewhere where everyone takes a month off together? You’d all be able to like…actually do stuff together… Why does my heart hurt…
Yeah families plan and match their holidays together so they can go to mökki or relatives or abroad.
But who will make the billionaires richer if everyone is on holiday?😂
Much of our French office is out August. They still maintain coverage by staggering holiday start dates.
Lol, I just put all my tasks for the Nordics on hold until next month.
I used to take my holiday in June and then enjoy the peace and quiet in the office in July when most others were absent. Freelancer now, so things are different.
That would perfect, not only because of peace and quite but also because June is so much better, July is usually hotter and dryer and not as nice.
I tried telling some friends parents this in high school, and they all bawlked at me and laughed saying "that can't possibly be true because then nothing would get done! What about the doctors? What about grocery store clerks? Can you not buy anything fir a whole month? Oh that's ridiculous, you must be mistaken, not everything can be believed on the internet" kinda lost respect for a lot of my friends parents after that and suddenly realized why all my friends were depressed and anxious of bad grades.
This is also really common in Canada as well lol
Ah yes, 'going up to the lake.' Which lake? Doesn't matter, nobody cares. There's always a lake. THE lake.
if my summer consisted of blinking rapidly on July 10th and it being autumn again on the 11th I'd schedule all of july off too.
In Denmark we have something called industrial holiday.
3 weeks every summer.
You have 6 weeks paid vaccination pr year.
Education is free, doctors and hospitals are free, free dentist til you are 18.
You get financial support when you go to university, and a lot of other stuff. And that is why the tax is so high.
So true dude, im actually in my tent at our family cottage rn. We just have just enought electricity to charge our phones and to run our fridge. And we have outside toilet inside too... no water toilet😊👺
lemme quess a fire stove?
@@hupuman5193 ofc, only heat source at winter :")
@@larakoskinen3825 as it should be at the mökki i got no running water that's drinkable wich means even better of grid experience
@@hupuman5193 we have somehow running water, we just have to bring it from our house
@@larakoskinen3825 i get the water from a the summer water system that is paid via taxes
I’m half Finnish, all of July off sound wonderful 😂
Omg! Seeing this few days after my dad (also named Matti) started his 1 month summerholiday from his corporate job... I feel like there is someone having this conversation about my dad....
Bro missed the chance to say “you’ll have to Finnish this sketch for me”
I'm not Finnish but if I worked for someone who said "can you get this done, like, by yesterday" I would also fuck off to a cabin in the woods with no electricity for as long as possible. FFS I already want to do that.
Can't wait for my month off in October 😅
Oh me too. Whole July OFF FROM SLAVERY 😂
Hahha. It's even worse in Southern Europe where even shops close during August.
Happiest country in the world
At least in Sweden, industries have a set month in the summer where they close down everything (industrisemester), but in other companies there's usually a rotation to have someone present every week of the summer (it's me this summer as I took my vacation in may like a weirdo 😂), but yes most activity slows down considerably at most companies are low on staff.
Our head office is in Switzerland. Vast majority of the devs were off for all of last week with many taking the whole month. Gotta say I like that system
Hi! Im that one girl who saw you twice! Im blessed that i get to meet you! Once when i take picture whit you, you had yellow hoodie and adorable smile! And once in shopping center! Im so so glad i got to meet you❤
Nice to meet you 🙂
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Perfect holiday.
There is nothing like going in a holiday 'Matti style'!!!
I'm so envious
"I see lake and trees. Where am I going?"
Apparently he was a good person and went to the Finnish heaven.
Some countries it’s August, everyone is on holiday for like 3-4 weeks.
😂 Omg that was too funny! 😂😂 Love it! ❤️
Nothing better than staying in a summer cottage in the middle of nowhere though. When my wonderful Finnish host grandparents took me to theirs last summer I literally cried because the beauty of that place completely overwhelmed me 😅.
I want to live there ❤ my kind of people
thanks for making me laugh. i really appreciate that
As an American working my current job, in the past year I took two sick days and nearly got written up for both, had to beg for a day off to watch over my stepmother after her surgery and when I asked for three days off after working 12 hrs a day for 4 months straight my boss simply laughed at me. I think I'm a masochist because somehow I still love my job.
Its like this in Estonia too :)
Sweden too... not much chance to get hold of any government branches in July. Good luck.
Last bit got me.
Cries in "can I take an extra half an hour for lunch, boss" American
Working with Finns and yes they are just gone for an entire month. All the replacement staff is from other offices around the planet.
France does this. Everyone goes on holiday for 2-4 weeks in either July or August. Some (around half of) companies and businesses actually close for a month. The most bizarre thing Ive seen is an ice cream parlour closed in a tourist destination during the month of July...
I'm required by law to have at least 4 weeks holiday plus public holidays here in Norwat. But most companies have even more; I'm required to have at least 5 weeks holiday per year, and at least 3 of them needs to in July; in addition we all have mandatory holiday between Christmas and new year; and the whole easter week.
Last year I had to take a "surprise" week off in December because I had forgotten to use all my weeks.
Lol, love that ending! :-)
In Finland, in all workplaces, not all employees are on vacation in the same month, but only some are on vacation.
But if there are not so many employees at the workplace that there would be replacements during a certain holiday season, then all the employees are on vacation, e.g. during the summer vacation.
And for the cottage you can get (if you have the money) an additional device for the outdoor toilet so that you don't have to shovel excrement.
almost like there’s more to life then just working. no wonder these countries that have longer work vacations are rated as happier places to live!
The plot twist in the end got me :D
Summer in Finland is really great. Especially when it falls on a weekend.
Can confirm this is what we're up to
I lived in Belgium in the early 90 and the whole of August shuts down!
Entire mill towns in the north of england used to do something similar. All the mills and engineering businesses shut for 2 weeks, all the maintenance would get done and everyone else would go on holiday. The different towns had different weeks. And the school hols were made to match. So Bolton hols was the last week of June and first week of July and hols abroad were way cheaper!!! Downside, you'd have to come back in school and Christmas and Easter hols were just a week each. All stopped now as the mills have all gone and the schools had to conform to a standard timetable. So all the parents lost out on cheaper hols.
This is so true. I have friends in Finland and they let me know beforehand that they will not be available for a month and not to worry.
August in spain! In my job only office has August as holiday, and the rest of us works in shifts (and holidays are in shifts to, in fact im starting my 20 days in a couple of days, (and still have a 15 day holidays an summer time, I'm sorry for you...)) and its like, so weird, knowing that everything its paralyzed for a whole month (and then when they start to take the timing again, its Christmas!)
I'm Finnish, and although it's not summer holidays, it's just holidays I'm in our cottige rn watching this video in the light of a candle.
August for Italy, nearly all the factories and truckers stop work for 3-4 weeks, I can't speak for southern Italy, but the north does this. I think it's a great idea!
You forgot to mention the 10 000 mosquitos (i dont know how to spell)
This sounds great.
Finnish folks KNOW how to relax, during holiday season...Many families own a, kessämökki & a sauna!
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so true, that it's ridiculous 😂 every place is close
I'm taking a very short summer vacation this year. Only 3 weeks in the forest with the mosquitos.
I'll have to find something fun to do with my 3 remaining vacation weeks this winter. Hmmm, the forest just isn't the same without mosquitoes though.....
🇩🇰 here, have a friend, who worked a call centre in Barcelona, they couldn't explain to the manager's, that in 🇩🇰 Friday ends at 12.00. they just put the phone to the ear and pretended to call
In Germany it’s all of august 😄
In the south wales it was once common to have ‘miners holidays’ where all the coal mines shut down for two weeks. Everyone on holiday at the same time and defend on seaside towns for holidays.
yeah, our entire R&D department ground to a halt for 2 months every summer due to large parts of it beeing based in sweden. Some colleagues from there explained to me that they don't get more than a months or two of nice weather each year, so they all take all of their vacation in that time.
within the country it does kinda work...if everybody is off...then nobody is frustrated by people not being there...like in a lot of countries where it's spread...the time that projects sometimes get delayed because the period that somebody important isn't there is longer than when everyone would be off at the same time...
For people in school
Summer break is 2 month's
If your working in a job
You have 1 month
cheers from austria, my month breaks are nice
LOL this was my week this week
Could have gone with the "I'm not feeling so good, I think I need a vacation" but I see a lake and trees is pretty good too.
The cottages feel like five star hotel rooms
Enjoy a project with Finnish and Italian offices - one is basically dead a whole month in July the other in August 😅
You're hilarious 😂😂😂
Hah haa, kaikki on lomalla.
Kind of like August in Croatia for many office-related jobs. Make sure you get everything done or wait until September.