[lbo-talk] Terror in America

[Wendy Lyon]

On 8/20/06, Jean-Christophe Helary <fusion at mx6.tiki.ne.jp> wrote:
>
>  From my experience in France, things are a little different. If you
> go to Paris from the 14th of July to the 15th of August you'll find a
> lot of small shops just closed. For offices, it is just similar, the
> run very slow, with probably half the staffing.

Well, that doesn't happen here.  People stagger their holidays and
rarely take the full four weeks at once: it's normal to take, say, two
weeks at some point during the summer, a week at Christmas or in the
spring and use the remaining days as sort of "floating" holidays.

Some offices do shut down between Christmas and New Year's, but in my
experience that is the *cause* of people taking a week's holidays at
that time, not the *effect*.