My vacation almost starts. Next Monday, my stand-by duty ends at 08:00 and my vacation starts. We have a quite good fringe benefit package so I will be able to take off for four weeks, with extra days to spare. I value this very much. Although I like my job, I like the free time even more. In The Netherlands we have a complicated scheme in which employers and employees came to a mutual agreement about 20 years ago. The weekly working hours were reduced, both parties took their share of the costs, and the resulting spare hours were to be used to employ more people. This is called ATV and can be translated to 'Labour Time Reduction'. In some industries, like the one I'm working in, this was impossible to put into practice so that time has been put back. That means that effectively, I'm using a part of my pay to buy extra free time. Resulting in 52 days a year. Oh yeah!
Take care,
The Quartermaster.
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