American things

i eat sugar pumpkins

my wife roasts the seeds after carving them for halloween but the rest gets chucked out. one of my cats will sometimes eat the pulp but other years isn't interested at all. he's obviously a pumpkin connoisseur.

My dog ate one I'd carved once.

These are the best pumpkins

https://www.rareseeds.com/winter-luxury-pie-pumpkin/

jelly

Referring to women as 'guys'.

I worked with electronic hardware and software engineers for a decade. They called electronic components and software modules "guys". I have little doubt that civil engineers call the high tensile strength fasteners in highway bridges and ten story steel skeleton buildings "guys".

111. levi's

called matthew's now iirc

112. bible jokes

113. Baby showers.

^^ Murican things that really caught on elsewhere iirc

114. hard shell taco night!

Grumble. Have to use an API (served by a British company!) and the fucking wankers are using US date formats. WTF is wrong with these people. Anyone not using YYYY-MM-DD to represent date values in datasets should be sent to the gulag.

cosine

https://i.imgur.com/VxXSKhU.png

Cool Whip

The belief that 7 vacation days and 3 sick days a year is not only reasonable but very generous.

nilla wafers for dipping in the cool whip

“a meet cute”

The belief that 7 vacation days and 3 sick days a year is not only reasonable but very generous.

yeah i really can't get my head around how little time off americans get

my public sector job here in the uk gives me 31 holiday days plus public holidays time off between xmas and new year ffs

public holidays and time off, that should say

Flexidays?

don't mind if i do, cheers

Jaysus that's better than us

Wait how many flexidays

often thought that the US approach to acceptable amounts of paid leave points to the real sickness at the heart of the country

it's not a set number of flexidays as such, more that we can claim back in lieu time that we work outside office hours, which generally adds up to an extra handful of days' worth of hours each year

nv otm tho, the perpetual nose-to-the-grindstone american attitude to leave (and maternity leave especially) seems appalling to me

and the widespread practice of unused sick days being available as extra vacation days, leading to people coming into work sick all the goddamn time

i mean the concept of having an allocation of sick days to begin with is fairly cro-magnon tbh

Look away now Americans, but I often find I have more holidays than I know what to do with.

I have a somewhat decent helping of vacation days but I can’t bring myself to travel more than a couple times a year. If I had 31 days a year I’d just take every other Friday off.

i am in the situation of having to use 1.5 vacation days before the end of this month or else i lose them. i mean, i think i will not struggle to find a way to take the time off but it's not a rare occurrence in the UK to have this "problem"

Tell me about it.

yeah i too am familar with this 'my diamond shoes are too tight' problem

Switch to gold shoes, they’re heavier but they’re more flexible

Oh

Oh lol no I mean *Flexi*days

18 fyi

yeah i really can't get my head around how little time off americans get

my public sector job here in the uk gives me 31 holiday days plus public holidays time off between xmas and new year ffs

― War, Famine, Pestilence, Death, Umami (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, March 7, 2018 6:06 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

probably fair to compare to similar us jobs

i don't know the exact details, but just from her casually mentioning it, i know someone who works for the city (of los angeles) and she can rack up 3-4 weeks of vacation time in just a few months plus she gets a week of sick days, but possibly even more, and she basically works 4 days a week

the private sector is where things get bad for US workers

on another note, i know union jobs don't have paid time off or employer-covered healthcare, but they get paid decently as a trade off (like $60-$80/hour, but i'm sure it depends on the trade)

"Liquour", "gasoline"

often thought that the US approach to acceptable amounts of paid leave points to the real sickness at the heart of the country

― Under the influence of the Ranters (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, March 7, 2018 8:24 AM (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

mix this in with the fear of being fired 'at will' with zero safety net to catch you if that happens, then sprinkle in an unhealthy dose of youre a shit employee for taking any time off at all and youre probably spot on.

i worked for ibm in australia where i recieved 4 weeks of vacation (usable from my first day) with the option of buying another 4 weeks. I also got 365 sick days every two years (at 100% pay) in case i got cancer or something long termish.

Its been a rough transition to put it mildly.

365 sick days every two years (at 100% pay)

w...w...whaaaa???

yeah ibm is famous for that, the rest of us get 8 or maybe 12 per year

Is this if you get certified sick you get 50% pay, essentially

This is all because you people allowed communists to hold jobs and vote

Darragh if I was sick for 18 months I wouldnt get paid for 6 of those months but the other 12 would be paid at 100%. Weirdly the system never seemed to get abused but the odd thought of a fakey dr certificate and a second job to double my income may have crossed my mind. It almost seems like treating employees with respect results in those employees being respectful. Crazy.

Weirdly the system never seemed to get abused

i've wondered if it's like when we had tiny internet caps (10gb/mth) we'd squeeze out every last gig, but when internet plans grew to >1tb/limitless we stopped worrying

115. pallid, yellow eggs with extra-fragile shells

get you some good farm eggs

milk duds which i love much more than is warranted

Cataloging all the different state license plates you see on road trips

80% of people on a domestic US flight ordering dry ginger ale