Ahh... the joys of globalization

[iamwiz82]

"I come back from my holliday today, and I have a lot of trouble to manage... I don'tforget you, butyou'll have to wait (to the next week) Ok ?"

The message I just received from the IT manager overseas. All i wanted was from them to give me mermission to replicate Exchange folders. Obviously this monumental 2 minute task would interfer too much with his schedule. To top it off, of the 26 IT people in the office he leads 18 are on holiday. It seems that all of Europe shuts down in August.

HEHE, my title looks like another topic, i must have seen it an unconsciously did the same.

 

[Linflas]

Originally posted by: iamwiz82

"I come back from my holliday today, and I have a lot of trouble to manage... I don'tforget you, butyou'll have to wait (to the next week) Ok ?"

The message I just received from the IT manager overseas. All i wanted was from them to give me mermission to replicate Exchange folders. Obviously this monumental 2 minute task would interfer too much with his schedule. To top it off, of the 26 IT people in the office he leads 18 are on holiday. It seems that all of Europe shuts down in August.

HEHE, my title looks like another topic, i must have seen it an unconsciously did the same.

You know I sometimes wish we would get on that "take August off" plan here.:Q

 

[Czar]

happened here, a company of around 60-70 people, one week in August there were only about 30 people working in the building. Good week, little work to do

 

[Nemesis77]

While rest of Europe has vacation in August, in Finland it's July when people have their vacation. We have about 80 people working in this office. At one point we had 4 people in here (me included) :Q!

 

[iamwiz82]

what is up with month long vacations? I have heard stories of 2-3 hour lunches, too. People who have to go overseas for business always come back longing for the middle of the day off.

 

[Nemesis77]

Originally posted by: iamwiz82
I have heard stories of 2-3 hour lunches, too.

Not here. well, not for me at least. Most lunch-hours seem to last for about 30 minutes or so.

 

[iamwiz82]

Originally posted by: Nemesis77

Originally posted by: iamwiz82
I have heard stories of 2-3 hour lunches, too.

Not here. well, not for me at least. Most lunch-hours seem to last for about 30 minutes or so.

It was the French, mainly.

 

[Nemesis77]

Originally posted by: iamwiz82

Originally posted by: Nemesis77

Originally posted by: iamwiz82
I have heard stories of 2-3 hour lunches, too.

Not here. well, not for me at least. Most lunch-hours seem to last for about 30 minutes or so.

It was the French, mainly.

Well, the french are lazy bums so....

 

[freegeekss]

I just love my 40 working days of paid vacation

 

[rahvin]

There was a spot on The News Hour (PBS) about this. In the 50's Europe and the US took different paths. See as time goes on you can have increased salaries or choose to take some of those increases as vacation time. As was stated the divergence was the Euro's choose vacation, Americans choose the pay. This is why the US has seen no general increase in the number of vacation days since 1950 and the Euro's have seen slower salary growth.

It's just a difference in culture, they want 6 weeks off and we want higher wages.