His comment seems fairly self explanatory, to me. If you have five things to do every day and you do five things every day, you keep up. If you have five things to do every day and you don't do them for ten days, you have 55 things to do on the eleventh day.
But most americans seem to have two weeks of vacation each year, if your reasoning is correct, then every american would get two weeks behind each year.
Except, it doesn't work like that, right? In our profession, you don't have a steady workload, sometime you need to do more, sometimes you need to do less. You have colleagues that can cover for you when you are not at work.
There's this weird-ass mentality in the US that you shouldn't be paid when you're not at work, but that's just the wrong way of thinking about it. If I have five weeks of paid vacation and a week of holidays, then the company pays me my yearly salary for 46 weeks of labour.
If the company expects me to do more than 46 weeks of labour in a year, it's doing something wrong. That is not the deal, and if there's more work that needs to be done, then they either have to convince me to work overtime, or hire more employees.
