ELI5: Why do American employers give such a small amount of paid vacation time?

I also worked in warehouse management. That's how I know you're not a very good warehouse manager. I started as a temp. I got a lot of phone calls asking me to go to a place I'd never been within four hours. A lot. Then when I had a permanent job, I made a lot of those phone calls. A lot. I do not suggest anyone could temp in a warehouse and "magically" know how to do their jobs. I suggest that no magic is needed. I suggest that many warehouse jobs are so easy that the trained monkeys who work there can train the temp monkeys in minutes. "Put the boxes on a pallet, Monkey. Then stretch wrap the pallet. Then put the pallet in N-16/3." Do temp monkeys need more time to do this? Sure. They also cost less than the monkeys who went on strike, so I don't mind getting a few more, or keeping them late. That's why business operations are not disrupted. See, in order to beleive your wacky story, I would have to beleive that seasonal businesses don't actually do this every day. Like UPS, USPS, retail, alcohol, and so on. Those businesses have not been disrupted even though they use tens of thousands of temps who, you seem to think, can't accomplish anything. When Microsoft wants to ship 20,000,000 copies of Windows on optical media, whom do you think packages, labels, and ships those? The regular Microsoft packaging, labeling, and shipping personnel? No, they don't have regular personnel. They only do such work for a month or two every couple of years. According to you, it can't be done. But I'll bet you're using Windows now. I'll tell you how they do it. Temps. They can get 1000 temps within four hours. And they do. Many of these jobs are low skill and a temp can be trained to do them in minutes. Are they slow until they memorize bin locations? A little. But Microsoft isn't out of business, is it. You may not have heard, but they actually make a profit. I'll bet the reason you "used to" be a management monkey is that you suck at it. You're not a smart monkey, and your attitude sucks. I fired lots of monkeys like you. And replaced them with temps.

Your tantrum about low-skill workers not being worth less makes me giggle. How much were you paid as a monkey that manages? How much were the monkeys you managed paid? See? Worth less.

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