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One red flag is this: does a company zealously track every hour of vacation time but not even give you a place to log overtime? These two things should be treated with equal importance because they are fundamentally the same measurement. If they expect you to take precisely 2 weeks of vacation a year then be sure to reward them by doing precisely 8 hours of work each day. If they have leniency in vacation, reward them with some leniency in when you are willing to handle emergency situations.



I nearly lost it once when an employer asked me to start deducting vacation time for some appointments. My answer was a shouted, "No, I work late for you and you call me up on the weekends and make me spend half of my day looking at phony database problems. If I have to deduct time for an appointment I will find another job."

The topic was never brought up again.


or four weeks' vacation in a jurisdiction with humane labour practices


I agree that 28 days is reasonable while 14 isn't really.

But if we start calling 14 "inhumane", then we are in danger of losing our grip on what what inhumanity is. Which is to lose our grip on our moral compass.


"inhumane relative to the developed world", then.


I'd rather lose my grip in that direction than in the other


Overtime? For software engineers? Where?




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