Category: Vacation

A man who resigned from his job after his boss refused to honor an agreed number of vacation days is being cheered online.

Posting to Reddit’s r/antiwork forum, user u/obdx2 shared screenshots of a conversation with his former manager.

“So I’ve given you 10 paid days off this year and you get 7 a year,” the manager wrote. “Are you going to make up the missed hours tomorrow or should I adjust your pay.”

The poster replied: “I was under the impression I had two weeks of paid vacation. When we last discussed my salary a few years ago, that’s what I was told.”

The manager stuck to their guns, replying: “My notes say 7 paid days leave.”

PTO is not a legal requirement

Research conducted by employment support service Zippia found that the average American worker gets 10 paid vacation days a year in the private sector. However, employers

KIAWAH ISLAND — He came. Hey man. Hey biked. He played. And now, President Joe Biden’s South Carolina summer vacation is nearly over.

After a few quiet days on Kiawah Island, Biden will leave the serenity of the Lowcountry behind on Aug. 16, making his way back to Washington to sign the Inflation Reduction Act into law, the White House announced.

Air traffic over Charleston will be restricted around lunchtime Aug. 16, starting at 11:15 am and ending at 12:45 pm, according to an advisory from the Federal Aviation Administration.

But first lady Jill Biden will remain in the Palmetto State a while longer.

On the day she was set to return to Washington with her husband on Aug. 16, Jill Biden tested positive for COVID-19 and was experiencing “mild symptoms,” the White House announced.

She has been prescribed the antiviral drug Paxlovid and will isolate at the vacation home

A few years ago, a childhood friend asked to use my vacation home for a solo long weekend. I said yes without hesitation. I trusted her. When the date arrived, however, her social media feed filled with photos of her and two coworkers lounging in my living room.

“I’m not as uptight as you are and didn’t think it would be a big deal” was her slightly insulting response when I questioned her about the additional guests. She left behind dirty sheets and towels but not an apology or a thank-you note.

I realize it’s a privilege to have a home to lend, and I happily hand off my keys multiple times per year without issue. But that situation gave me pause and had me questioning good houseguest etiquette.

Home-sharing platforms such as Airbnb and Vrbo have made short-term rentals (STRs) more popular than ever, with the accompanying horror stories

A parent who wants to take their son on a family vacation in September at the start of the school semester because it’s “too expensive” at other times of the year has been criticized by users on Mumsnet, a UK-based online forum.

A survey of 1,126 US adults conducted in August 2021 by the American Automobile Association showed that just over half (55 percent) of American adults were planning a vacation of at least one overnight stay before the end of 2022.

In a post shared on Mumsnet’s Am I Being Unreasonable (AIBU) forum under the username Sleepregressionqueen, the parent said they needed to “unfortunately” take their family vacation in September “as otherwise it’s just [too] expensive.”

in a later post, the parent said “ideally I wouldn’t take him either, but we haven’t been on holiday since 2019! We’re all desperate for one.”

The user said there is “not much

DETROIT LAKES — Angelina Pederson has been waiting a lifetime to work at WE Fest. This year, her dream came true as the 18-year-old celebrated her birthday on Friday, Aug. 5. Now, rumor has it, the fun may lead to an even more memorable birthday weekend.

The 2022 Detroit Lakes High School graduate said when some of the festival’s management learned that it was her birthday, they pulled strings and invited her to go backstage Friday, before headliner Miranda Lambert performed. The singer has been one of Pederson’s favorites since she took the country music scene by storm in the early 2000s.

Whether the backstage invite comes to fruition or not, Pederson was thankful that she and her mother, Sara Pederson, were hired to work WE Fest. She has heard many stories of past employees having fun working the country festival. Other big draws to work the event included the