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Comment by puppymaster

6 days ago

I laughed and cried at this comment. It's so uncannily EU. Just spent 18 months landing an EU enterprise contract. Signed today and sent it back and got an automated message 'sorry will be on vacation til end of July...' This is the fourth vacation emails I got since corresponding with this contact window for the past 1 year.

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throw1234567891  6 days ago

Yes, we have more vacation in the EU than people in the US.

  • falcor84  5 days ago

    It's absolutely possible for individual employees to have generous vacations, while at the same time maintaining a continuously staffed support function.

  • JumpCrisscross  5 days ago

    Eh, Europe has some great service cultures. (There was a recent comment citing an article contrasting its furniture and tech industries I’m having trouble finding.)

    European tech’s service culture is just distinctly and notoriously terrible, even within Europe.

  • roysting  6 days ago

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    • bilekas  6 days ago

      > It’s a common disgusting mentality wide spread across Europe.

      Yeah it's such a disgusting mentality to appreciate a work life balance and not have work be your entire world. Such a horrible existence.

      Anyway, I'm off on holidays now, enjoy!

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    • embedding-shape  6 days ago

      > narcissism and selfishness that is utterly indifferent to the needs of others

      This has to be rage bait right? What kind of hellscape do you live in where other humans taking vacation and wanting that to be respected is selfish? And how do you not realize the irony in what you're complaining about? Do you never take a vacation where you actually disconnect from your work?

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    • jdiff  6 days ago

      Is this a joke you're attempting? You're raging out about someone else being so narcissistic for not letting you continue on with your whole entire life because they took a vacation?

embedding-shape  6 days ago

How is people having reasonable work place environments related to shit customer support and companies trying to optimize for reducing costs? Seems highly unrelated.