Am an immigrant in Spain
- Woke up with alarm
- Went to office
- No beer at lunch T_T
- At least went to get a massage in the evening
- Will play Baldur’s Gate 3 with friends online now
American in the Netherlands: Woke up at 9 without my alarm, had coffee and a joint. No work today because I got put on burnout leave.
12: Had lunch, scheduled some appointments.
2pm: rode to supermarket and then the beach to have some champagne, joints, and make some music on my portable groovebox. I’ll be here till sunset.Might stop at my local pub for a beer and dinner afterwards.
No friends because NL is lonely as hell((
But yes, life is much better in Europe, even in the Netherlands ( I just personally don’t really care for it)
American here wtf is burnout leave? How long can you take the leave?
Look up “Kur” in Gemany. A stressed out worker may utilize it every 4 years. The US labor laws and fucking medieval.
It exist here too. Just its when you get pipped and didn’t line up a new job.
Fuckin pipped, man :(
You hate to see it :(((
You go to the doctor, they say you are suffering burnout and prescribe you working less, potentially also therapy, and you get sick leave for the time you can’t work. How long depends on what the doctor says, but potentially quite long. You can’t be fired during that time except after a very long time (i.e. that you should be on permanent disability benefit instead) and the company making all possible efforts at other suitable arrangements.
LOL fellow American also bamboozled by this concept. “Burnout leave” to us is when you finally snap and quit, cutting off your healthcare and income all in one go.
Hope you have multiple “streams of income” and “side hustles” if nothing else is “lined up”!
For the majority of us burnout isn’t a pathology, it’s the most American state of being. 😂
Up to 2 years, apparently. It was a huge shock to me too; I’m still coming to grips with it? Honestly, I didn’t want to take it but my boss strongly urged me to talk to the company doc and here we are.
I’m still working, just reduced hours.
Take care of yourself bro. I’ve been there. A few months off helped tremendously. And it seems we share similar interests. No reason to be lonely. Hit me up with a message if you’d be keen to hang out over some joints.
It’s a good thing that you take it, as long as you don’t make the classic mistake of forgetting why you’re on leave (and risk ending up in a “don’t do anything productive” depression).
Wishing you a good recovery!
America North (Canada) here. Labour laws relatively similar. Is it bad I’ve been conditioned that my immediate response is “bitch leave”. I work in IT. I’ve been burnt out twice in my career second time actually getting a doctor’s note to get removed off on call for an app. Never once did I think of leave. I didn’t know that was a thing outside of the more ambiguous “stress leave” which is maybe what they’re referring to?
Anyways. I’m jelly.
what groove box?
NL rules, dude.
What?? How can I get in on this???
That’s being a tourist.
Otherwise, who is making and serving the drinks and lunch?
The comment above yours probably
Foreign students working parttime
Hello Canada my old friend.
My day so far in Germany: wake up without alarm at 3:30, have coffee and smoke a joint with my husband (it’s his day off), eat cold vegetable Maultaschen (my beloved) for breakfast, walk to my job at the bakery for my 5:00 shift, run around sweating all day until my shift ends at 13:00, walk home, decompress, and eat the rest of the Maultaschen.
In an hour or two, my husband and I will go sit on the riverbank a couple blocks away, smoke a few joints, and he’ll play the banjo (very uncommon here) while I read until we want to have dinner. Then we’ll make open faced sandwiches for dinner (very common here), and try to get to bed by 20-21.
I like how basically every culture has dumplings & they’re all delicious. if there are grain and egg to make pasta cooking stuff in a little pasta pocket is obviously the next step.
a life without children…how I miss thee 😭
Give them away
Children are our most valuable resource! Sell them, /s
I live in the US. too many pedophiles for that to be safe.
Your children will move out faster than you think.
Children can afford to move out?
I wish, but I doubt it.
What is an open faced sandwich? Like a slice of bread with toppings?
Exactly, just a sandwich with only one piece of bread. It’s probably the most common dinner here, because people traditionally had big meals at lunch, but that’s slowly changing
Does maultaschen mean mouth pockets?
Allegedly they were invented by some catholic monks who had some juicy meat on hand which they weren’t allowed to eat on that day (friday I think) so they hid the meat from gods eyes by wrapping it in dough. Foolproof plan me thinks
Can’t go wrong with meat stuffed into a starch (bread, potatoes, rice, etc)
You say that, what about corndogs! It’s not the corn’s fault they are toxic though, well, not principally the corn’s fault.
That said I would eat 12 corn dogs right now with a bucket of ketchup and another of spicy mustard.
It must have been the same guy who classified beavers as fish so they aren’t really meat.
Yes, literally translated it does. Maul is a bit on the vulgar side these days, you’d say Mund instead. For animals often Maul is still used. And if you tell someone to shut up you tell them Halt’s Maul (hold your mouth)
Trap pockets.
Yup! But ruder, more like maw pockets
But why though? Why would anyone call them that?
I guess in English we have stupid names for foods too.
Their other name is Herrgottbescheißerle, or (roughly translated) lord god bullshitters, because they are said to have originated in Swabia as a way for people to eat meat during lent, because the meat was fully encased in dough, and therefore god wouldn’t see people eating it. I don’t know if that’s really true, but it’s a good story and a funny name.
Which is funnier because OP said theirs is vegetarian.
Yeah, I wanted to specify because I didn’t cook them and I don’t know if that’s safe for the meat ones. It’s moderate gremlin behavior, but I eat them straight out of the packet and they’re still bomb. I prefer the taste of them fried with onions, but not enough that it’s worth doing too often. Plus, they’re perfect nutritional macros for me as they are. People also eat them in broth, sometimes with vegetables, but I always find they’re kind of inconvenient to eat as a soup.
They are safe raw. Maultaschen are filled with “Brät” which is coocked or fried (gebraten). At least the traditional ones. And the normal Bürger Maultaschen do as well. You might find some variety thats raw but i doubt it for any you find in the store.
I think the more common translation is feed bags (the things you can tie in front of a horse’s mouth)
Ok this makes a lot more sense as a translation.
this comment made me hungry 😅
this is Southern Europe maxxing
This hits hard…
I woke up early today (without an alarm) because I had to bring my dog to a chiropractor at noon.
So I had a cup of coffee and a pipe, watching the morning dew dry up
It’s one of 3 days off this week, and that’s only because I sacrificed one additional day off to fake an extra shift on Friday. It pays double though, because of union regulations, even though I’d have taken it for regular pay anyway.
The only difference is, that I don’t have friends to meet up with, mostly because I don’t want to, and that I’m not in a drinking mode yet, but sounds like I could pick that up at some point
I had to bring my dog to a chiropractor
?
Just a small adjustment to his stiff neck issue that he picked up a few months ago
Chiropraction is a scam
It might as well be a masseur, I know at least some people who don’t make the difference. I agree though, about chiropractor being scam
I don’t know. It’s an authorized profession over here, and prices are regulated by the government.
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I’m the same way fortune tellers are, but sometimes they pick up some uncertified psychiatry to assist.
Today I reached 5/5 already at 13h
The reason we Brits voted to leave the EU was because we couldn’t tolerate having to see friends any more.
Mads is so fucking hot.
That’s my exact plan for Saturday.
Same, except that I think I’ll make a cake for said friends to eat after drinks. Saturdays are the best.
Sounds more like alcoholism to me!
ITT: peaceful cottages in the woods with bread walls, cake roofs, and sugar windows
maxxing
Taxing, faxing, relaxing; why do people put the extra X in there? indolence?
Bro’s out-of-the-loopmaxxing
You always go one extra when going hard.
why do people put the extra X in there? indolence?
My best guess is it’s become a sort of linguistic meme, poking fun at incels who’d ramble on about things like “looks-maxxing”.
Or maybe it’s a combo of that and “min-maxing” from gaming communities. The extra X makes it more maximum. LOL
Taxing, faxing, relaxing…
"…Shootin’ b-ball…
When a couple a’ guys, who were up to no good…
Started making trouble in the neighborhood…"
–Prince William Smith of Bel Air
Meanwhile the rest of us are speedrunning stress before noon 😭
Woke up without an alarm, drank two cups of coffee, rode my bike to the train, took the train, rode my bike to work, am now drinking coffee while waiting for my shift to start. Thats my finnish day so far
