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1:15the fact that in the United States there is no payment for parental leave. will make many workers all over the world heartbroken. because all countries even the poorest countries in Africa guarantee an average of 14 weeks with 100% paid parental leave. and developed countries in Europe have an average of 52 weeks of 100% paid parental leave.
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If you can't run a business without exploiting your employees then you're not doing a great job as an entrepreneur. In other words: our unions did a great job for workers' rights and didn't have themselves conpromised. Workers unite!
It also helps that the German government sets rules for industrial action and calls for mediation committees between strikes or other measures. So in Germany labour disputes rarely escalate and are rather constructive than militant (like the miners strike in the UK in the 80s).
Great Job is even an understatement. We often forget that people in the past literally fought with their life on the line for that we call today our basic workers rights. Union Busting where Union Leaders were assaulted if not even assinated was a thing at one time.
@@TheTenguwarrior and unions are now only shadows of the past. They used to be much more powerful, before the Reagans, Thatchers, Blairs and Schröders came to power and started to crush down workers tilting the game in favor of the industrialists and capitalists. Reestablishing the power imbalances of pre WW2. There was a lot of cheap money flooding into the markets in the '80-'90 coming from Arab oil producers. Everyone thought they could do without their domestic work force. But people tend to forget, that Hitler was the consequence of this kind of capitalism. Workers flock to ultra nationalists movements such as the AfD when they can't unionize, hoping for protectionist measures while those national capitalists who can't compete on the global markets also support them.
German employers stay in business despite the employees having so much time off because it is a level playing field where employees at all companies get so much time of so one employer is not disadvantaged compared to their competitors.
@3:18 I am Dutch and worked for several internationally operating companies and er..... European plants are usually more efficient per head. You see, a normal human being can give their A-game for about 35 hours per week, and if they run up any deficit by working more it takes several days of rest to reset. Chronically overworked people work slower, create less quality, make more mistakes, are less motivated, and in general just produce less. Same by the way for people with untreated medical problems... So having more rested staff with easy access to good healthcare BENEFITS the employer. It is not a cost.
I've been to 17 countries, and I have 30 days paid vacation and a 35-hour week. I used to live and work in Oklahoma in the 90s and I enjoyed the slow and stress-free life there, but I still prefer the more intense and exciting life here in Germany. I miss the sunshine though ☺
When you talked about the window darkening things..It sounded like ROUladen, which is a common meat dish (a thin beef slice rolled up and filled with onions, pickeled cucumbers and bacon). But then I realised you mean Rollladen., because they actually roll up :D I don't know in how many countries I've been so far, mostly European. But definetly less than you
30 days of vacation. When working as a lecturer at university, I had to organize my vacation around teaching times. However, when not teaching or on company jobs, you hand in when you want to go on vacation and your employer tries to shift vacation times around so that some staff is always working. People with school kids for example have priority in summer time.
I've been to 18 countries. China, USA, Turkey, Cyprus, Greece, Hungary, Austria, Germany, Finland, England, Jersey (Channel Island), Belgium, Luxemburg, France, Italy, Monaco, Spain and Portugal. This year, as of today, I will be having vacation abroad four times. Mind you, I haven't planned anything yet after september.
I do social work and get 30 days of vaccination plus 4 extra days (Regenerationstage) for whatever reason. What most workers don't know: You have the right to get another 10 days every two years for "Bildungsurlaub" - days off to take part in an education-workshop somewhere... like hiking in the Alps, sailing in the Netherlands (at best) or just listening to some topic somewhere - but go to a pub afterwards.
About vacation: I'm a DH-student (Duale Hochschule, imagine a work contract for 3 years, but half of that time is spent in university and results in a fully valid bachelor) and I still get 30 vacation days a year. Only "limitation" is that I must take them during work phase and not during Uni phase
30 days of vacation, 39 hours over 5 days. fresh and healthy people work better. Rolladen are really nice in summer because the room stays cooler then without it. I visited 9 countries and one of them on an other continent.
Rollos exist in many different materials, and because the profiles are hollow, you can even add material to make them stronger or more insulating. Some versions are for an extra layer of home security filled with a cluster of 3 to 5 , 8mm steel bars, divided by spacers, and then the remaining space is filled with expanding foam. You cannot break throug with force and even with an angle grinder you have a hard time, because the bars inside start to roll around when a spinning disk is hitting them
I live in Germany (NRW) and I am working a minimum wage job and have 25 vacation days. I am kinda shocked now to know that i as a minimum wage worker have more vacation days than an average american if i got it right.
When my cousin from Canada visited, she found it confusing that to call a local number you just dialled the number, to call another town in Germany there would be one zero in the code and to call outside the country you dialled two zeroes and the country code. This was before people used mobile phones so much, of course.
haha, telephone numbers were one of the first things we talked about in one of our earliest videos after moving here! I can totally relate to this even with using mobile phones 😂
... which raises the question how the US telephone interchange devices knew if they have to connect to a distant or international device or to select a line in the neighbourhood.
I live in Berlin and in my company i startet with 28 days vacation. Now i have 31. 😁 The naked in sauna thing is not only for americans weird. The french wear bathing clothes in sauna too. So in this case french and americans are more similar than germans and french. Last week i went with a french friend to a german sauna, in the first moment he wouldn't go, then he dared and he liked it. I think being naked with other naked people is much less embarrassing, than being in T-Shirt and Shorts on a party where all others wear suits and evening dresses 🤔
I think in the south of Germany going to a Sauna is not for everybody very Common. I went to a Sauna twice in my life and was wrapped in a towel. And i would never be topless at the beach
Hey Donnie, welcome back, missed your videos. I and most of my employees had 30 days of vacation,, and yes, I was able to pay them and make a living as a business owner despite this. It makes me hungry when you are talking about the Rollläden, it sounds a little like (Rinder) Rouladen, which taste very good. 😊
I don't know exactly the answer to "thing 1", but my best shot is, giving your employees enough spare time to recover, they will work at a higher level instead of beeing drained constantly working at a minimum force all the time.
Q1: 30 days vacation. 38,5 h week, I am in our work council Q2: 16 countrys: Spain, France, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemburg, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria, Czech Republic, Poland, Denmark, Greece, Egypt, Tunisa, Dominican Republic. From the 16 states only Saxonie and Saarland is missing :)
30 days payed vacation. 13 countries (Italy, France, Switzerland, Austria, Spain, Portugal, Czech Republic, The Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemburg, Andorra, England, the US).
The funny thing is im from munich and in munich you dont have to separate plastics and aluminum from the normal trash - basicly just paper and glass you put in the containers. So there are machines that can sort it out, they are just not everywere so they force other areas to sort this stuff out instead of putting these machines everywhere
I can choose annually between 30 +2 (2 for addiotional on call duty), 36 + 2 or 42 +2 vacation days. Less vacation days results in the equivalent amount of additional salary. Visited countries? Sweden, Austria, Netherlands, Denmark, Italy, France, Portugal, USA, UK, most of them at least twice.
Vacation time? Not me, I live in the US since 42 years, self employed, and retired as of last July. I used to take about 2 month a year, one month of that with friends in Germany. So, my German lady friend retired this month, but this was her gig: She worked as a small town doctor's assistant, special qualifications, so they depended on her. She worked 4 days a week, got all the 'religious' holidays off, catholic Bavaria has a lot of those. She had to work a lot of overtime, which was some days 13 hour days but she was not paid for it. Instead, she got double her overtime as paid vacation days. So, basically, she worked 120 days out of the year, and the rest was paid vacation. Since she loves to travel, she has been to some amazing places.
I get 30 days PTO plus any overtime - althoug I get a stern talking to, if the overtime reaches more than a week equivalent. I'm used to 40 hour work weeks and my new job has 35... so I tend to reach the limit easily. You can also get Rolladen in a reinforced aluminium design - particularly helpful, if you live in regions with lots of hail and where the hail balls get huge. It's way lighter than wooden ones and easier to maintain. I've been to 12 countries so far... if you count a short working visit to Liechtenstein
Companies in Germany stay in Business, because they keep there employees and save time spend in "reeducate" someone new. Also the experience you have staying in a company for longer makes you more efficient.
Well, my aunt did have Rollladen on her windows in a Chicago suburb. But she said she only got them because her husband was a builder and they had to pay about four times as much as they would have paid in Germany (thirty or forty years ago when they built the house). Only 16 with 32 days of paid vacation and a 35 hour week.
RQOTW: This one is tricky as I visited the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia (and different parts that are now sovereign states) while they still existed and not since they fell apart so I will give you 2 numbers - 18/22 I was always self-employed in a family company with up to 10 employees. And we gave all of our employees 30 vacation days.
Rolladen = Shutters in English. I also missed my shutters last year when I was in NJ. I barely slept the first week I was there. I have been to 27 countries and lived in 6.
I'm Dutch and I have been to all West European countries and to Greece; Czechoslovakia (1992) and East Germany (DDR 1966). I worked for half an year in Switzerland and Portugal. I spend 1 year as conscript in the Dutch army for NATO in barracks in Seedorf (North of Germany) and I worked ~15 years in Brussels Belgium for Eurocontrol (European FAA). Outside Europe I spend say ~1 month in Saudi Arabia; Paraguay; the East of the USA in Baltimore-Washington and in California in Los Angelos-San Diego and I did a 1-day trip to Tijuana in Mexico. I retired with my Dominican wife to her country on 1-1-11.
I've visited 20 countries, when living in Europe it is not particularly difficult. Though, I still remember the time before the EU, when one had to have a visa to enter a foreign country. Not to mention the iron curtain era (we couldn't have our passports at home and needed to apply for a permission to leave our homeland Poland).
Man, ya, I can't imagine what that would have been like traveling now. We still have a lot of American friends and family that ask us what border crossing is like between EU countries because that is still what they imagine, but then we just tell them, "imagine you are driving from Oklahoma into Texas...and that's pretty much what it's like" 😅
@@PassportTwo After Brexit one can experience that when going to the UK. Besides Romania still isn't in Schengen, so you need to show your passport to the customs officer.
@@PassportTwo I visited about 18 countries, most of them in the EU, overseas USA (3 times), Canada (2 times), Brasil (with a short trip to Paraguay and Argentina) and Vietnam. My next overseas-journey will be the south of India, probably in 2025.
@@joannajaworska0000 same for Switzerland. Although The last time I went there I was on a night train from Berlin and they just collected our passports before we went to sleep and returned them to us in the morning so it really wasn’t that big of a deal. Although Switzerland is not in the EU and technically has hard borders I think because it’s surrounded by EU countries they’re a little more chill about it.
Surprised that nobody's yet pointed out that recycling is handled differently in different parts of Germany, esp the way you are charged (or not) for certain operations.
Its the same in Austria. Or better said it was the same. The local regions did not want to come to a common sense so „the federales“ took over and ordered a national solution to recycling and Mülltrennung (don‘t know how that would sound in English).
I'm from Austria and get 25 regular vacation days. And of course the time I work overtime needs to to be "reverted" by taking extra time off as Zeitausgleich so that at the end of the year there aren't more than 30 hours overtime left to take with me into the next year. And even though I don't earn that much, I'd much rather use the extra days than get the overtime paid off. So now I have another long weekend this week ;) Random Question: Germany, Italy, France, Greece, Egypt, Spain, England, Ireland, Croatia, South Korea. So in total 10 :)
Never had less than 30 days holidays. Plus the public and christian holidays. And paid sick leave extra not like it often is in the USA. Germany is high in productivity. The holidays might be a reason for that?
I am not really a big traveller...but so far (not counting transit countriy) I covered Belgium, France, Portugal, Spain, Denmark, Italy, Sweden, Great Britain, Poland, Malta, Greece, the Netherlands and the USA.
In Austria there is 5 weeks paid annual leave as the legal minimum, besides 13 public holidays, and other important issues which entitles you to get a paid leave, like maternal leave, appearing in court (as juror, witness or defendant), appointments in hospitals, at doctors or public offices, and most commonly because of sickness, which can last for months, e.g. after an accident.
@4:08 Exactly, and whereas Americans only know the song Funky Beep Beep from The Prodigy, it is Funky Shit from The Prodigy over here. 😊 @9:41 That is why LPG conversions are so popular. You can fill up for about half the price.
How many countries have I visited: Austria/Spain/Tunisia/Netherlands/France/UK/US/Ireland/Greece/Poland - Ten ... most of them (8) in Europe. And I haven't even been to Italy, THE German travel destination in the 50s and even in the 70s and 90s. And Spain was Madrid and Barelona, not Mallorca. Wanted to visit Japan - but March 2020 was not the right time ... the tour was cancelled. Still on my bucket list - that and Italy
You can’t compare the work ethic in the US and Germany. Germans are working 8 hours a day and in general have 30 days paid vacation + the public holidays while Americans (pretend) being busy 24/7. If Americans would stop telling everybody at work how busy they are and working instead I think they would probably safe about 10% of the time at work. Skipping the social intro in E-mails would probably account for another 5%. It is mainly about efficiency and off course also the wages are lower in Germany which is pretty much compensated by lower cost of living and health care.
To your American friends: Rolladen are not proof for any weather. Ours got actually damaged by a hailstorm. After it was repaired we asked, what could be done in case of a hailstorm... the repairer told us: pull them up? it needs a lot more to damage that glass...
I have 30 days till end of january. Since I'll be 50 this month, I get 32 days vacation per year. With the 10 days of public holidays here in Berlin, I have 42 days of vacation. Paid.
Random answer: Austria, Hungary, Romania, Croatia, Italy, France, Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Greece, Turkey, Spain, Brasil, Argentina. So 16, if I counted correctly and didn't forget any. Of course without transit countries.
38 days vacation, but that included the week between Christmas and new year. And christmas day and some other days when the work is closed. That means I can take 30 days free when I ever I want.
Since you say you are 'germanized' and have so many German and European viewers, could you maybe explain some of the cultural differences from the American perspective? You mentioned nudity again and I still don't get why Americans have such an issue with that.
I work in a 4-day/30-hrs-week and have 24 days vacation time + 2 days I can use for personal education, if I want to; and I have been to 17 countries so far :)
Regarding the Rolladen (rolling shutters) - if you search the net or UA-cam, you find them advertised for hurricane protection in the US, but regulation of light or temperature for the house is mostly not mentioned. Here is a video about DIYing them - where you have to open/close them from the outside with a crank... ua-cam.com/video/fSxjehBuc58/v-deo.html Countries I visited: 10 to 12, difficult to say with former Yougoslavia.
As a German now living in the PNW I'm missing certain things from the homeland. Traveled with a backpack around the world for 4 years and been to 41 countries.
I visited 4 countries but 5 if we include that I live in Germany. I was in the netherlands, France, Italy and Denmark. I don't remember much of Denmark no more but of the other countries. I had been 6 times to the Netherlands as of now, but 5 times was just day-trips and yes you can do a day-trip from Germany to Amsterdam if you drive very early and start from the border in Germany. The only time I stayed for longer was a 5 day trip to a island as a class trip in 8th grade. France was when I was around 8 years old and we had to visit the family of my uncle's wife since when they married not all of them could come to Germany and so they re-did the party a 2nd time.
I have 36 vacation days a year. But I have to work on Saturday. I have a free day in the middle of the week. Don’t forget the general free work days like „Feiertage“ and Sundays.
always a great pleasure to watch your phenomenal videos! thanks a lot. to answer your final question: 42 countries (and i could tell you wonderful experiences, if you'd wish to know); i also have relatives who live in ca. and pa, as well as in nova scotia, canada. in your video you asked us german viewers how it works with so many time, days, off (vacation) being employed. well, the answer is quite simple: perfect. why? because, work-life-balance is very important to be efficient when working. i give you an example. when i was employed in the largest bank of america at that time, jpm, american colleagues were much more productive with german contracts than others who were just working for a short period of time coming from the us (with their american) contract. simply, the time off is so important to "fill your battery". as well as maternity leave for your wife. when she returns back into her job, it will be breathtaking how relaxed it is for her and their colleagues who missed her. your kid is then a year old, maybe walks already, explores things and stuff - but it is not a baby anymore. so, your wife is happy when your kid is not totally a little baby.
Yes, some expressions of surprise made by your visitors were shared by mine when I arrived with them on taking up a four-yr contract in Germany. Probably our biggest shocks, however, were that gymnasium facilities for sports and IT were so much poorer than at home in E Africa. Broadband speeds generally are the poorest we've seen in Europe too. Overall, the experience was a good one, but none of the boys are left tempted to apply for a German university.
It really depends on the universities. They usually don't care for sport equipment, if they aren't a Sporthochschule. The same goes for IT equipment. If they don't offer IT related classes, they won't invest that much in IT. Internet speed is very region based and also based on what tech they use. Buildings with cable TV get up to 1Gbit/s - the same as glass fibre. Sadly, there are enough regions with old DSL tech that are limited to 100 Mbit or even wayyy less than that. All in all, Universities are free and therefore don't have the billion dollar budgets of US universities. In the end, the difficulty is quite a bit higher in Germany, because we very rarely have more than a couple multiple choice questions in a test with the rest being free text. Feli from Germany compared her experience between her University in Bavaria and the one in Cincinnatty, she went to for a few years. According to her, the required quality of extra assignments wouldn't even let a German professor accept it. And she said, the multiple choice tests were easier than anything she did for her A levels... If you pay for university, they want you to make it, because success draws in more paying customers.
im shocked that the windows we have arent normal everywhere, its the most normal thing in the world! actually everything of thing 4 is like it should be really really common for me im german and i still dont completely know where to put things, here is why: where i am supposed to put that trash: gelbe tonne me not knowing what the heck that is because i live in a village: WHERE!? secret question answer: 2, italy (for vacation) and ukraine (visiting grandma)
Recycling is very confusing. Even some Germans aren't always sure which trash comes in which trashcan. Some things that are always done false and how you do it right: Pizzaboxes normally are Restmüll, because food is smeared on them. Kronkorken are Plastic, because the Gelbetonne/-sack is for plastic rapping and aluminum.
The social benefits ( for a lack of a better term) an employer is required to give are there for a simple reason: A healthy employee that isn't overworked, has enough downtime and doesn't have to worry that they can be fired on a whim, will most likely be more efficient than someone that is working while sick, constantly worrying about the baby, etc ... And some of it is just basic common sense
3:35 since I have a pass that says my grade of handicap-percentage I get allways 30 days (acording to laws for handicaped people) if I'm not mistaken when I apply to a company who offers less holidays to employes but most companies I saw on the web when looking for a job who stated how much they give it seems like that all people get 30 days in many companies, I forgot if there is a special bonus for people with the special pass for handicaped people when a company allready gives 30 days aka. IDK if you than get more days than the others even tho they also have 30 days but yeah ... never worked in a job before where I noticed how many days everyone specificaly has so I can't say much about it for now.
As to your question: I have visited 33 countries. Many of them in Europe, but I‘ve also been to the USA, Canada, Ecuador, China, Indonesia, Egypt, Marocco, Russia, Turkey, … I‘d like to visit Australia some day and I I‘d like to have a boat trip on the Amazonas.
There are also older ones made from wood. - And I've had some Rollläden destroyed by hail or storm, but the windows stayed intact, so they did their duty. ;)
So much time has passed without anybody asking me random questions. I am happy, you are back! So, apart from the Federal Republic of Germany and the GDR (which eventually has been absorbed by the former), I was surprised to discover, I already have visited 16 countries. + Andorra + Austria + Belgium + Denmark + France + Great Britain + Italy + Luxembourg + Mexico + Netherlands + Portugal + Spain + Sweden + Switzerland + Turkey + United States of America
34 countries so far. #35 is scheduled for this year. And then there was a brief visit to East Germany in September 1989, two months before the fall of the wall.
Um den Mythos Urlaubstage in Deutschland mal bissel zu entwirren. Im Durchschnitt startet man mit 2 Urlaubstagen pro Monat also 24 Tagen im Jahr, dies steigert sich dann durch Betriebszugehörigkeit. Luft ist immer nach oben und unten, je nach Art der Beschäftigung. Gesetzeslage sieht jedenfalls 24 Urlaubstage "im Schnitt" vor.
As always a wonderfully informative video. For me, I have visited around 14 countries and lived in 5 of them. Still on my Bucketlist is a country in Africa and one from Oceania, then I have been on each of the inhabited Continents. But who knows, maybe I actually will one day go to antarctica. 😂
So, I`ve been to France, Spain, Belgium, Austria, GB, Poland, Italy, Netherlands, Hungary, Denmark, Sweden, Luxembourg, Croatia, Bosnia and Slovenia (last three as Yugoslavia).
That is an interesting question. I count 20 different countries I've visited, not counting Germany, where I live. Since there are quite a few that I visited more than once, I am surprised at how much time I seem to spend outside Germany.
i have 30 days. and the concept is, the more well rested an employee is, the better they perform in their job. the company has NO interest to invest so much money into someone, just to make them burn out edit: oh....and i was probably in ~25 countries, but 90% of that were business trips
Well, as a senior UA-cam watcher these narrated differences are well known. What would have made it so much more interesting was if it had been shown by actual people experiencing it. Like candid camera or just with an open lens.
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1:15the fact that in the United States there is no payment for parental leave. will make many workers all over the world heartbroken. because all countries even the poorest countries in Africa guarantee an average of 14 weeks with 100% paid parental leave. and developed countries in Europe have an average of 52 weeks of 100% paid parental leave.
first of all the answer to the closing random question: 9 - Spain, France, Italy, Austria, the Netherlands, the UK, the US, Thailand, Denmark, plus an emergency landing in Delhi/India on the flight back from Thailand...this year, we will add Ireland to the list
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If you can't run a business without exploiting your employees then you're not doing a great job as an entrepreneur. In other words: our unions did a great job for workers' rights and didn't have themselves conpromised. Workers unite!
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As Robert Bosch said: "I do not pay high wages because I am rich but I am rich because I pay high wages."
It also helps that the German government sets rules for industrial action and calls for mediation committees between strikes or other measures. So in Germany labour disputes rarely escalate and are rather constructive than militant (like the miners strike in the UK in the 80s).
Great Job is even an understatement. We often forget that people in the past literally fought with their life on the line for that we call today our basic workers rights. Union Busting where Union Leaders were assaulted if not even assinated was a thing at one time.
@@TheTenguwarrior and unions are now only shadows of the past. They used to be much more powerful, before the Reagans, Thatchers, Blairs and Schröders came to power and started to crush down workers tilting the game in favor of the industrialists and capitalists. Reestablishing the power imbalances of pre WW2. There was a lot of cheap money flooding into the markets in the '80-'90 coming from Arab oil producers. Everyone thought they could do without their domestic work force. But people tend to forget, that Hitler was the consequence of this kind of capitalism. Workers flock to ultra nationalists movements such as the AfD when they can't unionize, hoping for protectionist measures while those national capitalists who can't compete on the global markets also support them.
German employers stay in business despite the employees having so much time off because it is a level playing field where employees at all companies get so much time of so one employer is not disadvantaged compared to their competitors.
@3:18 I am Dutch and worked for several internationally operating companies and er..... European plants are usually more efficient per head.
You see, a normal human being can give their A-game for about 35 hours per week, and if they run up any deficit by working more it takes several days of rest to reset. Chronically overworked people work slower, create less quality, make more mistakes, are less motivated, and in general just produce less. Same by the way for people with untreated medical problems...
So having more rested staff with easy access to good healthcare BENEFITS the employer. It is not a cost.
I've been to 17 countries, and I have 30 days paid vacation and a 35-hour week. I used to live and work in Oklahoma in the 90s and I enjoyed the slow and stress-free life there, but I still prefer the more intense and exciting life here in Germany. I miss the sunshine though ☺
A more intense and exciting life in Germany? Are we talking about the same Germany? I always thought the US is more intense and exciting.
Glad to see you back, Donnie! Hope Aubrey and baby boy are doing well.
When you talked about the window darkening things..It sounded like ROUladen, which is a common meat dish (a thin beef slice rolled up and filled with onions, pickeled cucumbers and bacon). But then I realised you mean Rollladen., because they actually roll up :D I don't know in how many countries I've been so far, mostly European. But definetly less than you
30 days of vacation. When working as a lecturer at university, I had to organize my vacation around teaching times. However, when not teaching or on company jobs, you hand in when you want to go on vacation and your employer tries to shift vacation times around so that some staff is always working. People with school kids for example have priority in summer time.
I have 26 days off a year.
I have been to Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands and spain. So just 4 outside of germany.
I get 35 days of vacation a year. 30 is the normal starting point in my company and I get 5 extra days because of my handicapped status
I've been to 18 countries. China, USA, Turkey, Cyprus, Greece, Hungary, Austria, Germany, Finland, England, Jersey (Channel Island), Belgium, Luxemburg, France, Italy, Monaco, Spain and Portugal. This year, as of today, I will be having vacation abroad four times. Mind you, I haven't planned anything yet after september.
I do social work and get 30 days of vaccination plus 4 extra days (Regenerationstage) for whatever reason. What most workers don't know: You have the right to get another 10 days every two years for "Bildungsurlaub" - days off to take part in an education-workshop somewhere... like hiking in the Alps, sailing in the Netherlands (at best) or just listening to some topic somewhere - but go to a pub afterwards.
About vacation: I'm a DH-student (Duale Hochschule, imagine a work contract for 3 years, but half of that time is spent in university and results in a fully valid bachelor) and I still get 30 vacation days a year. Only "limitation" is that I must take them during work phase and not during Uni phase
30 days of vacation, 39 hours over 5 days. fresh and healthy people work better.
Rolladen are really nice in summer because the room stays cooler then without it.
I visited 9 countries and one of them on an other continent.
Welcome back and happy new year! 🙂
Your emphasis on "Rolladen" confused me for a moment. I first thought of "Rouladen", a very tasty dish. Thanks for the good video 😁
Rollos exist in many different materials, and because the profiles are hollow, you can even add material to make them stronger or more insulating. Some versions are for an extra layer of home security filled with a cluster of 3 to 5 , 8mm steel bars, divided by spacers, and then the remaining space is filled with expanding foam. You cannot break throug with force and even with an angle grinder you have a hard time, because the bars inside start to roll around when a spinning disk is hitting them
I live in Germany (NRW) and I am working a minimum wage job and have 25 vacation days. I am kinda shocked now to know that i as a minimum wage worker have more vacation days than an average american if i got it right.
Die amerikanischen Arbeitnehmer haben gesetzlich keinen Anspruch auf bezahlten Urlaub!
Minimum wage worker and regular worker have the same rights, at least in this point
I have 30 days off plus 4 extra, when the company is completely closed for all. I visited ca 20 countries, most of them more than twice.
I have worked 21 years in Germany, and every year had 30 days off (starting from year 1) plus public holidays.
When my cousin from Canada visited, she found it confusing that to call a local number you just dialled the number, to call another town in Germany there would be one zero in the code and to call outside the country you dialled two zeroes and the country code. This was before people used mobile phones so much, of course.
haha, telephone numbers were one of the first things we talked about in one of our earliest videos after moving here! I can totally relate to this even with using mobile phones 😂
... which raises the question how the US telephone interchange devices knew if they have to connect to a distant or international device or to select a line in the neighbourhood.
... and do You know how these zero or zeros are officially called in german?
Verkehrsausscheidungsziffer
that's quite a mouth full ...
wo ist das Problem🤷♂...Speicher aller Rufnummern mit der Ländervorwahl und du machst dir da nie wieder ein Kopf drüber😉
good d to have you back. :) hope you had a great time with your family
We had an amazing time with our family! Thanks so much 😊 Hope you had a great start to your new year!
I live in Berlin and in my company i startet with 28 days vacation. Now i have 31. 😁 The naked in sauna thing is not only for americans weird. The french wear bathing clothes in sauna too. So in this case french and americans are more similar than germans and french. Last week i went with a french friend to a german sauna, in the first moment he wouldn't go, then he dared and he liked it. I think being naked with other naked people is much less embarrassing, than being in T-Shirt and Shorts on a party where all others wear suits and evening dresses 🤔
I think in the south of Germany going to a Sauna is not for everybody very Common. I went to a Sauna twice in my life and was wrapped in a towel. And i would never be topless at the beach
Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, France, Ireland, UK, Spain, Serbia, Czech Republic, Denmark, USA, Australia, so: 13 countries in total.
Hey Donnie, welcome back, missed your videos. I and most of my employees had 30 days of vacation,, and yes, I was able to pay them and make a living as a business owner despite this. It makes me hungry when you are talking about the Rollläden, it sounds a little like (Rinder) Rouladen, which taste very good. 😊
I don't know exactly the answer to "thing 1", but my best shot is, giving your employees enough spare time to recover, they will work at a higher level instead of beeing drained constantly working at a minimum force all the time.
Rolladen for your windowa, Rouladen(s) are food. Very interesting outlooks. Keep it up!
In dialects this is often the same:-)
Q1: 30 days vacation. 38,5 h week, I am in our work council
Q2: 16 countrys: Spain, France, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemburg, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria, Czech Republic, Poland, Denmark, Greece, Egypt, Tunisa, Dominican Republic. From the 16 states only Saxonie and Saarland is missing :)
7 Countrys - Swiss,Austria,France,Netherlands,GDR,Tunesia,Luxemburg
30 days payed vacation. 13 countries (Italy, France, Switzerland, Austria, Spain, Portugal, Czech Republic, The Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemburg, Andorra, England, the US).
The funny thing is im from munich and in munich you dont have to separate plastics and aluminum from the normal trash - basicly just paper and glass you put in the containers. So there are machines that can sort it out, they are just not everywere so they force other areas to sort this stuff out instead of putting these machines everywhere
I can choose annually between 30 +2 (2 for addiotional on call duty), 36 + 2 or 42 +2 vacation days. Less vacation days results in the equivalent amount of additional salary.
Visited countries? Sweden, Austria, Netherlands, Denmark, Italy, France, Portugal, USA, UK, most of them at least twice.
Vacation time? Not me, I live in the US since 42 years, self employed, and retired as of last July. I used to take about 2 month a year, one month of that with friends in Germany. So, my German lady friend retired this month, but this was her gig: She worked as a small town doctor's assistant, special qualifications, so they depended on her. She worked 4 days a week, got all the 'religious' holidays off, catholic Bavaria has a lot of those. She had to work a lot of overtime, which was some days 13 hour days but she was not paid for it. Instead, she got double her overtime as paid vacation days. So, basically, she worked 120 days out of the year, and the rest was paid vacation. Since she loves to travel, she has been to some amazing places.
I get 30 days PTO plus any overtime - althoug I get a stern talking to, if the overtime reaches more than a week equivalent.
I'm used to 40 hour work weeks and my new job has 35... so I tend to reach the limit easily.
You can also get Rolladen in a reinforced aluminium design - particularly helpful, if you live in regions with lots of hail and where the hail balls get huge. It's way lighter than wooden ones and easier to maintain.
I've been to 12 countries so far... if you count a short working visit to Liechtenstein
16 countries for me: Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Czechia, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Turkey, Greece, Italy, San Marino and Vatican
I have visited 20+ Countries and looking forewared to more.
Plaid maturnity leave is normal outside the US. In Canada,1 year is normal. I have 7 weeks paid vacation.
Random Question: 7,5 (Austria, Switzerland, Italy, France, Netherlands, Denmark, Norway - and Bavaria ;-) )
Lol - nice 😂
Companies in Germany stay in Business, because they keep there employees and save time spend in "reeducate" someone new. Also the experience you have staying in a company for longer makes you more efficient.
Well, my aunt did have Rollladen on her windows in a Chicago suburb. But she said she only got them because her husband was a builder and they had to pay about four times as much as they would have paid in Germany (thirty or forty years ago when they built the house).
Only 16 with 32 days of paid vacation and a 35 hour week.
RQOTW: This one is tricky as I visited the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia (and different parts that are now sovereign states) while they still existed and not since they fell apart so I will give you 2 numbers - 18/22
I was always self-employed in a family company with up to 10 employees. And we gave all of our employees 30 vacation days.
Rolladen = Shutters in English. I also missed my shutters last year when I was in NJ. I barely slept the first week I was there.
I have been to 27 countries and lived in 6.
I'm Dutch and I have been to all West European countries and to Greece; Czechoslovakia (1992) and East Germany (DDR 1966). I worked for half an year in Switzerland and Portugal. I spend 1 year as conscript in the Dutch army for NATO in barracks in Seedorf (North of Germany) and I worked ~15 years in Brussels Belgium for Eurocontrol (European FAA). Outside Europe I spend say ~1 month in Saudi Arabia; Paraguay; the East of the USA in Baltimore-Washington and in California in Los Angelos-San Diego and I did a 1-day trip to Tijuana in Mexico. I retired with my Dominican wife to her country on 1-1-11.
How did the DDR/GDR feel to you?
I've visited 20 countries, when living in Europe it is not particularly difficult. Though, I still remember the time before the EU, when one had to have a visa to enter a foreign country. Not to mention the iron curtain era (we couldn't have our passports at home and needed to apply for a permission to leave our homeland Poland).
Man, ya, I can't imagine what that would have been like traveling now. We still have a lot of American friends and family that ask us what border crossing is like between EU countries because that is still what they imagine, but then we just tell them, "imagine you are driving from Oklahoma into Texas...and that's pretty much what it's like" 😅
@@PassportTwo After Brexit one can experience that when going to the UK. Besides Romania still isn't in Schengen, so you need to show your passport to the customs officer.
Bei mir sind es 34 Länder
@@PassportTwo I visited about 18 countries, most of them in the EU, overseas USA (3 times), Canada (2 times), Brasil (with a short trip to Paraguay and Argentina) and Vietnam. My next overseas-journey will be the south of India, probably in 2025.
@@joannajaworska0000 same for Switzerland. Although The last time I went there I was on a night train from Berlin and they just collected our passports before we went to sleep and returned them to us in the morning so it really wasn’t that big of a deal. Although Switzerland is not in the EU and technically has hard borders I think because it’s surrounded by EU countries they’re a little more chill about it.
Surprised that nobody's yet pointed out that recycling is handled differently in different parts of Germany, esp the way you are charged (or not) for certain operations.
Its the same in Austria. Or better said it was the same. The local regions did not want to come to a common sense so „the federales“ took over and ordered a national solution to recycling and Mülltrennung (don‘t know how that would sound in English).
I'm from Austria and get 25 regular vacation days. And of course the time I work overtime needs to to be "reverted" by taking extra time off as Zeitausgleich so that at the end of the year there aren't more than 30 hours overtime left to take with me into the next year. And even though I don't earn that much, I'd much rather use the extra days than get the overtime paid off. So now I have another long weekend this week ;)
Random Question: Germany, Italy, France, Greece, Egypt, Spain, England, Ireland, Croatia, South Korea. So in total 10 :)
Everybody and his dog seems to have Velux skylight windows with solar Rolladen nowadays, you can't survice the new summers without.
Never had less than 30 days holidays. Plus the public and christian holidays. And paid sick leave extra not like it often is in the USA. Germany is high in productivity. The holidays might be a reason for that?
I have 40 Days vacation. At my company I can choose between more money or more vacation a so called „Wahlmodell“ I took the vacation.
I am not really a big traveller...but so far (not counting transit countriy) I covered Belgium, France, Portugal, Spain, Denmark, Italy, Sweden, Great Britain, Poland, Malta, Greece, the Netherlands and the USA.
I never got less than 30 days paid vacation and I worked for 5 different companies so far.
In Austria there is 5 weeks paid annual leave as the legal minimum, besides 13 public holidays, and other important issues which entitles you to get a paid leave, like maternal leave, appearing in court (as juror, witness or defendant), appointments in hospitals, at doctors or public offices, and most commonly because of sickness, which can last for months, e.g. after an accident.
@4:08 Exactly, and whereas Americans only know the song Funky Beep Beep from The Prodigy, it is Funky Shit from The Prodigy over here. 😊
@9:41 That is why LPG conversions are so popular. You can fill up for about half the price.
How many countries have I visited:
Austria/Spain/Tunisia/Netherlands/France/UK/US/Ireland/Greece/Poland - Ten ... most of them (8) in Europe. And I haven't even been to Italy, THE German travel destination in the 50s and even in the 70s and 90s. And Spain was Madrid and Barelona, not Mallorca.
Wanted to visit Japan - but March 2020 was not the right time ... the tour was cancelled. Still on my bucket list - that and Italy
You can’t compare the work ethic in the US and Germany. Germans are working 8 hours a day and in general have 30 days paid vacation + the public holidays while Americans (pretend) being busy 24/7.
If Americans would stop telling everybody at work how busy they are and working instead I think they would probably safe about 10% of the time at work. Skipping the social intro in E-mails would probably account for another 5%.
It is mainly about efficiency and off course also the wages are lower in Germany which is pretty much compensated by lower cost of living and health care.
To your American friends: Rolladen are not proof for any weather.
Ours got actually damaged by a hailstorm.
After it was repaired we asked, what could be done in case of a hailstorm... the repairer told us: pull them up? it needs a lot more to damage that glass...
I have been to about 20 different countries, and Sweden and Germany are very alike about the topic you mentioned,
I have 30 days till end of january. Since I'll be 50 this month, I get 32 days vacation per year. With the 10 days of public holidays here in Berlin, I have 42 days of vacation. Paid.
That's an awesome amount of time off! 😃
20 countries
DDR, Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Switzerland, Lichtenstein, Austria, Czech Republic, Italy, Spain, Monaco, UK ( England/Scotland), Singapore, New Zealand, Canada, USA, Peru...
Random answer: Austria, Hungary, Romania, Croatia, Italy, France, Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Greece, Turkey, Spain, Brasil, Argentina. So 16, if I counted correctly and didn't forget any. Of course without transit countries.
38 days vacation, but that included the week between Christmas and new year.
And christmas day and some other days when the work is closed.
That means I can take 30 days free when I ever I want.
for me it is 7 weeks or 35 working days. 5 days more because of a disability I have.
3:30 Often you don't take all of your vacation all at once. Usually a few days here and there...
Since you say you are 'germanized' and have so many German and European viewers, could you maybe explain some of the cultural differences from the American perspective? You mentioned nudity again and I still don't get why Americans have such an issue with that.
I work in a 4-day/30-hrs-week and have 24 days vacation time + 2 days I can use for personal education, if I want to; and I have been to 17 countries so far :)
Regarding the Rolladen (rolling shutters) - if you search the net or UA-cam, you find them advertised for hurricane protection in the US, but regulation of light or temperature for the house is mostly not mentioned. Here is a video about DIYing them - where you have to open/close them from the outside with a crank... ua-cam.com/video/fSxjehBuc58/v-deo.html
Countries I visited: 10 to 12, difficult to say with former Yougoslavia.
I got 40 days paid vacation,and i visit about 25 Countrys, all Europe, Cuba , USA, etc
Considering the rather flimsy wooden framework houses a Rollladen wouldn't make much odds
the rollladen also are isolting the window in winter better. so iot heols you save some money
As a person with a disability you get even more free days (+ 6 days/year, when I remember correctly).
As a German now living in the PNW I'm missing certain things from the homeland. Traveled with a backpack around the world for 4 years and been to 41 countries.
I visited 4 countries but 5 if we include that I live in Germany. I was in the netherlands, France, Italy and Denmark. I don't remember much of Denmark no more but of the other countries. I had been 6 times to the Netherlands as of now, but 5 times was just day-trips and yes you can do a day-trip from Germany to Amsterdam if you drive very early and start from the border in Germany. The only time I stayed for longer was a 5 day trip to a island as a class trip in 8th grade. France was when I was around 8 years old and we had to visit the family of my uncle's wife since when they married not all of them could come to Germany and so they re-did the party a 2nd time.
I have 36 vacation days a year. But I have to work on Saturday. I have a free day in the middle of the week. Don’t forget the general free work days like „Feiertage“ and Sundays.
always a great pleasure to watch your phenomenal videos!
thanks a lot.
to answer your final question: 42 countries (and i could tell you wonderful experiences, if you'd wish to know); i also have relatives who live in ca. and pa, as well as in nova scotia, canada.
in your video you asked us german viewers how it works with so many time, days, off (vacation) being employed. well, the answer is quite simple: perfect. why? because, work-life-balance is very important to be efficient when working. i give you an example. when i was employed in the largest bank of america at that time, jpm, american colleagues were much more productive with german contracts than others who were just working for a short period of time coming from the us (with their american) contract.
simply, the time off is so important to "fill your battery". as well as maternity leave for your wife. when she returns back into her job, it will be breathtaking how relaxed it is for her and their colleagues who missed her. your kid is then a year old, maybe walks already, explores things and stuff - but it is not a baby anymore. so, your wife is happy when your kid is not totally a little baby.
I'm currently getting 24 vacation days a year, I did have 28 during my trianing/apprenticehsip at another company.
Yes, some expressions of surprise made by your visitors were shared by mine when I arrived with them on taking up a four-yr contract in Germany. Probably our biggest shocks, however, were that gymnasium facilities for sports and IT were so much poorer than at home in E Africa. Broadband speeds generally are the poorest we've seen in Europe too. Overall, the experience was a good one, but none of the boys are left tempted to apply for a German university.
It really depends on the universities. They usually don't care for sport equipment, if they aren't a Sporthochschule. The same goes for IT equipment. If they don't offer IT related classes, they won't invest that much in IT.
Internet speed is very region based and also based on what tech they use. Buildings with cable TV get up to 1Gbit/s - the same as glass fibre. Sadly, there are enough regions with old DSL tech that are limited to 100 Mbit or even wayyy less than that.
All in all, Universities are free and therefore don't have the billion dollar budgets of US universities.
In the end, the difficulty is quite a bit higher in Germany, because we very rarely have more than a couple multiple choice questions in a test with the rest being free text.
Feli from Germany compared her experience between her University in Bavaria and the one in Cincinnatty, she went to for a few years.
According to her, the required quality of extra assignments wouldn't even let a German professor accept it.
And she said, the multiple choice tests were easier than anything she did for her A levels...
If you pay for university, they want you to make it, because success draws in more paying customers.
im shocked that the windows we have arent normal everywhere, its the most normal thing in the world! actually everything of thing 4 is like it should be really really common for me
im german and i still dont completely know where to put things, here is why:
where i am supposed to put that trash: gelbe tonne
me not knowing what the heck that is because i live in a village: WHERE!?
secret question answer: 2, italy (for vacation) and ukraine (visiting grandma)
Recycling is very confusing. Even some Germans aren't always sure which trash comes in which trashcan.
Some things that are always done false and how you do it right:
Pizzaboxes normally are Restmüll, because food is smeared on them.
Kronkorken are Plastic, because the Gelbetonne/-sack is for plastic rapping and aluminum.
I visited approx. 22 countries so far... Most of Europe and Morocco and Turkey.
The social benefits ( for a lack of a better term) an employer is required to give are there for a simple reason: A healthy employee that isn't overworked, has enough downtime and doesn't have to worry that they can be fired on a whim, will most likely be more efficient than someone that is working while sick, constantly worrying about the baby, etc ... And some of it is just basic common sense
3:35 since I have a pass that says my grade of handicap-percentage I get allways 30 days (acording to laws for handicaped people) if I'm not mistaken when I apply to a company who offers less holidays to employes but most companies I saw on the web when looking for a job who stated how much they give it seems like that all people get 30 days in many companies, I forgot if there is a special bonus for people with the special pass for handicaped people when a company allready gives 30 days aka. IDK if you than get more days than the others even tho they also have 30 days but yeah ... never worked in a job before where I noticed how many days everyone specificaly has so I can't say much about it for now.
As to your question: I have visited 33 countries. Many of them in Europe, but I‘ve also been to the USA, Canada, Ecuador, China, Indonesia, Egypt, Marocco, Russia, Turkey, …
I‘d like to visit Australia some day and I I‘d like to have a boat trip on the Amazonas.
I've seen plenty of Rolläden that were smashed by hail. (Hagelschaden Rolladen)
There are metal ones, but I have never seen that in private housings.
There are also older ones made from wood. - And I've had some Rollläden destroyed by hail or storm, but the windows stayed intact, so they did their duty. ;)
So much time has passed without anybody asking me random questions. I am happy, you are back!
So, apart from the Federal Republic of Germany and the GDR (which eventually has been absorbed by the former), I was surprised to discover, I already have visited 16 countries.
+ Andorra
+ Austria
+ Belgium
+ Denmark
+ France
+ Great Britain
+ Italy
+ Luxembourg
+ Mexico
+ Netherlands
+ Portugal
+ Spain
+ Sweden
+ Switzerland
+ Turkey
+ United States of America
60 vacation days, 18 countries visited.
34 countries so far. #35 is scheduled for this year. And then there was a brief visit to East Germany in September 1989, two months before the fall of the wall.
I have 30 days, and i've been to 19 countries so far.
Um den Mythos Urlaubstage in Deutschland mal bissel zu entwirren. Im Durchschnitt startet man mit 2 Urlaubstagen pro Monat also 24 Tagen im Jahr, dies steigert sich dann durch Betriebszugehörigkeit. Luft ist immer nach oben und unten, je nach Art der Beschäftigung. Gesetzeslage sieht jedenfalls 24 Urlaubstage "im Schnitt" vor.
As always a wonderfully informative video.
For me, I have visited around 14 countries and lived in 5 of them.
Still on my Bucketlist is a country in Africa and one from Oceania, then I have been on each of the inhabited Continents. But who knows, maybe I actually will one day go to antarctica. 😂
4:40 It's so for the reason of going into a sauna. It more hygenic.
I'm still a teenager, but if you count the UK as seperate countrys, I've been to 13 + Germany.
I've been to 18 countries (all in europe) and i have 33 vacation days :)
So, I`ve been to France, Spain, Belgium, Austria, GB, Poland, Italy, Netherlands, Hungary, Denmark, Sweden, Luxembourg, Croatia, Bosnia and Slovenia (last three as Yugoslavia).
For that question of how many countries i have visited... well i have allready stoped counting it for a long time ago...
34 countries, 30 days of vacation + ~10 days public holiday
do you count revisits of countries that broke up? Because I visited both Czechoslovakia, and Czechia and Slovakia separately.
That's 3!!
That is an interesting question. I count 20 different countries I've visited, not counting Germany, where I live. Since there are quite a few that I visited more than once, I am surprised at how much time I seem to spend outside Germany.
I think I've been to 11 or 12 countries, depending on whether you want to count the "other Germany" that used to exist before 1989.
i have 30 days. and the concept is, the more well rested an employee is, the better they perform in their job. the company has NO interest to invest so much money into someone, just to make them burn out
edit: oh....and i was probably in ~25 countries, but 90% of that were business trips
Well, as a senior UA-cam watcher these narrated differences are well known. What would have made it so much more interesting was if it had been shown by actual people experiencing it. Like candid camera or just with an open lens.