Nope, full on British mustard is the best and clears the nose at the same time!
Happy Easter Everyone
That’s cos in USA the public holidays aren’t allowed to be religious, but just secular. (I think that’s right‽)
I have no plan 
happy easter everyone! 
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Of all those dates, only 8 are for England/Wales, those holidays for northern Ireland/Scotland are observed in those countries.
Most employees in the UK, don’t get those days as extra to their legal allowance, and companies don’t have to separate them either.
I was lucky in the call center, as we had our legal requirement, plus the bank holidays, which have us an extra week n a bits worth of holiday. If you were wise, you could book around a BH, and only use a little of your holiday allowance.
Eg… Add 2 days to the Easter weekend, gave you 6 days off, and 2 three day weeks. Cost… 2 days allowance! lol
The average UK holiday entitlement including public holidays is 33.5 days
The average American worker receives 10 days of paid vacation per year.
when I was in UK I was on 35 days, now in USA on 15 days.
However USA are paid on average more which is the primary reason I’m currently in USA.
When you combine cost of living with income to get “how rich do you feel” metric then UK is towards the lower hald and Switzerland top.
Not sure where you got the 33 ½ days from?
This is what you actually get…
All workers have, from the first day of employment, the right to 5.6 weeks’ paid holiday per year. You can work out how many days off you should get by multiplying the number of days you work each week by 5.6. Employers are allowed to include the eight UK bank holidays within your statutoryholiday entitlement. … I was lucky as in my call center every 3 years you got 1 extra days holiday.
A week is considered YOUR week… So 5 or 6 days. For 98% it’s 5 days with 2 days off per 7 day week. If.you do the generic 9-5 Mon to Fri, it’s considered the best.thats what the vast majority of office workers do.
For most in retail or factory work, it’s usually a day in the week and a Saturday OR Sunday off. Plus shift work or unsociable hours (starting before 8am, or finishing after 8pm).
Retail work, is hard work for a very different reason. Youre usually treated like shit by both management and customers, and both expect the impossible. Retail work has a very high attrition rate because of this. One thing that had improved (and where retail was terrible for being worst paid) is the basic wage, which I think is £8.?? An hour. Still only around 270 a week take home (although I think the recent change in.personal allowance (the amount.you earn before paying tax) has improved take home pay).
Take into consideration that over a.months wages will go on gas/electric bills, another months wages on council tax (tax for living.in a house/flat etc). 20% TAX ON EVERYTHING YOU BUY.
It’s quite expensive to live n work in the UK. A standard 3 bed semi detached house is approx £250k (obs some places dearer n some cheaper)
May not be obvious on your device but I put links to all my sources.
The last link divides the cost of living into the wages to calculate how relatively rich you feel, and so you see for example UK is about 2/3rds the feeling of wealth of USA. So if you read my post again and look at the mathematics.
As to the reasons why and what can be done about it, well, given this is a technology forum, I’d say it is obvious, embracing technology and advanced science. USA is a one-off, it has not had an internal war in its borders for well over a century so was able to exploit the gaps formed as other countries imploded, but if you exclude USA, look at say Germany vs UK who both were decimated poor at end of WWII, the Germans better embraced socialism, manufacturing and technology, seeing it as an investment area. That same investment in science and manufacturing is what is making China, such as with Anker, growing so rapidly.
Happy Easter!! Yay! So much candy in those pics!
YNWA!!! I really hope they win the Premier this year. I’m from Mexico but move to the states a few years ago. When the Mexican team I cheered for was relegated to the lower division it was hard to follow them. And then one day I saw Xabi Alonso send a beautiful pass to Gerrard and Scored a awesome goal from outside the area and I couldn’t help becoming a fan.
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I get 29 days leave (to use how I like) + 8 bank holidays and if I accrue enough time I could have 2 extra flexi days a month so potentially only work 10 months of the year 
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Hi @tugar32 that was a great squad back then. Xabi is an amazing player. Istanbul 2005 one of the best games of football ever.
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happy easter everyone!
But bear in mind the standard of living (income divided by cost of living) is about 1/3rd higher in USA.
The trick I use is my meager 15 days / year is I fly in to visit UK around time of one of the USA holidays and make a couple of long weekends out of it, last year I visited UK around USA President’s Day (using that day to fly out of UK), around Independence Day (on that day I was in Lake District) and around Labor Day when I was in Yorkshire Dales camping. Last trip I was almost going to head into your Wales but weather fought be back and went to Oxford instead.
If you plan far ahead the cost of flying is $350 - $200 so when you add higher USA salaries it makes sense, until retirement age.
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What a beautiful life I have being retired.
No need counting days of vacations.
And saving money as we don’t need to take these
when school’s holidays are and all prices for tickets are going up usually.
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Happy Easter everyone. 
Happy easter!
Christmas is the opposite of a Jewish holiday…
Christmas is the celebration of the birth of Christ (hence the name). Jewish people are completely against Jesus, and always have been. If Jewish people endorsed/worshipped him, and his teachings, they would be Christians.
Christmas is a Christian holiday through and through.
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I meant that Happy Hanukkah tends to be a common phrase in USA around the “holiday season”.
Yes I know these differently sourced cultural traditions follow at slightly different times for major different reasons but often “happy holidays” is “happy Hanukkah” as a way to effectively say “enjoy the time with your family / loved ones” around the same time of year. It’s a common phrase I hear in US eastcoast.
Out here in California, tech community, strong Indian presence, the Diwali celebration of the myth of light over darkness is more obviously celebrated than the Jewish holiday, much more apparent music / food / family.
Historically the most factual of these is the Jewish one as its based in historic facts of a known event, the sacking of the Jewish temple in 2nd century. However, the government having a common national holiday, where more people have a little extra freedom to travel and be together, is a social good. Easter is similar benefit in UK.
I reckon the Australians have it perfect, they have the state-mandated national holiday in summer time when more options exist to be off work, than the northern hemisphere where Xmas tradition is effective a hijacking of pagan winter solstice traditions, as the Romans affected Europe’s traditions significant around the 3rd-4th centuries. Odd how history bleeds into the present. 
By the way, in UK, they are having a very good Bank Holiday weekend.
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