People who say a week vacation is too long are fucking nuts and programmed like sheep by American capitalism

A week isnt too long. It's not enough.
Check it!!
The first day of your week off is a travel day. So that's wrecked.
The first two or three days youre still wound up and and most likely, sleeping and sitting off the exhaustion of work. So know you're aa third to just under half before you can really utilize the vacation. Then on the flip, the last day or two days you're feelkng the dread sink back in and you're also starting to get things prepped and packed to return home. The last day of your time off is also a travel day. So thats also wrecked.

That means in the best case scenario you have two maybe three days of actually decompression and relaxation. That's nothing.

A week is not enough, two weeks is minimum and really we should all be able to take 3 to 4 weeks off and it ahould be normalized.

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dancingtongue · 80-89, M

And you forgot the re-entry mess you have to clean up when you return to work. I seldom took a vacation of less than four weeks, but my employer -- at that time, at least -- allowed us to bank vacation time and the nature of the job was such that some years there was no way I could take any vacation. What you outlined is absolutely true; in my case, I always returned to pretty much civil war between my staff and my boss, chaos, and in one case an absolute public disaster. Shorter vacation on my part would not have totally avoided any of that; he only needed a few hours. When people asked what my job was, I usually said "glue. I hold things together".

I survived in between with weekends away, unreachable. Long, three-day ones if I could manage the time off. Not thoroughly decompressing, relaxing, but let off enough steam to keep the boiler from exploding. We would throw a hibachi in the trunk with a picnic basket and cooler full of food, and go hide somewhere off the beaten track for a couple of nights.