True but in reality they often will ask You don't have to answer it and they can't punish you for it On the other hand, I never felt I had to hide whatever was the reason I called in sick
@@YourMotherSucksCocksInHell It is true you get 1 year full payment and the second year 70 percent payment . And after that you get wia or iva or back to work when you ar not sick. We dont have to tell our boss what we have.
Yes there is a procedure to follow. Like the comment below or above me its 1 year full payment and 1 year 70% after that the company can activate a procedure to replace you to a job that you can actually handle or provide a education for you to move to a different job outside of the company. If you reject all that then the company is allowed to fire you after a set time.
In the Netherlands, if you're feeling unwell, we actually prefer that you don't come to work. It's not just about you needing rest; it's also about preventing the spread of illness to your coworkers. Staying home when you're sick is seen as responsible, not weak.
I would say that you're slightly exaggerating. It's currently flu season and plenty of people are still going to work when they have the flu. Mostly when people have service/care jobs with individual clients.
Yes. Here (I live in the US now) I have seen people with full-on sicknesses, Covid even, come into work, simply because (as Charlie mentioned) they do not want to lose their pay, let alone their job. Crazy. They come into work sniffing, sneezing, coughing and drooling, and, within no time, 80% of the workforce is sick.
Not totally agreeing with this, and flu and having a common cold are two different things. However things have changed since Covid. I am more aware of giving someone else bronchitis (just got better). In the old days I would not have bothered, but I actually wore a mask in the supermarket (christmas was coming up, not pleasant if I infect someone) and went out as soon as I could. But really some people call in sick too soon.
It's not just sick days for yourself though. My dad has ALS and I "buy" 2 weeks extra leave for taking care of him every year. Because it's care leave I can buy it at a reduced rate, it costs me around 30% only. The funny thing is first time I told any of my bosses or managers about my dad the first things the say are "Ow that's though", "What can we do to help?", "These are some things we can do to help.". I remember being in a factory in the US and mentioned my dad in a conversation to a manager, how I was proud of him still drawing in CAD and 3D printing even though he cannot move, the only thing the manager said was "Luckily it doesn't seem to impact your job performance.". I told him he could either apologize or fix his own problems from here on, he called my boss and my boss told him that if he didn't apologize within the day he'd arrange for me to come home right away!
The heated towelrack is isnt really a towelrack. It's part of the heating system and its first function is to heat the bathroom. Hanging, warming en drying towels are nice additional functionalities coming from smart design.
i would say heating the room is a nice addition because of just making it bigger . so instead of having a towel rack and radiator it works for both . but it's far from as efficient as a normal radiator .
No, it actually IS a towel rack. A normal radiator looks like a normal radiator and not like the towel rack radiator shown here. It's shape and design is specifically to function as a towel rack and you'll ONLY ever find those in the bathroom where your towels need a rack. Since they're actually kinda inefficient as a radiator compared to a normal radiator.
Wait. We have paid vacation, sick leave, temporary salary when out of job, a pension, maternity leave etc. because we pay taxes for those things. Part of that taxes we pay are national insurance premiums. employee insurance premiums. Because of this we can have paid vacation, sick leave, maternily leave, etc. The system made sure there's money for it. Even when we grumble because the amount of taxes we need to pay, we also know without those taxes they can't pay us. So yeah we have them because we pay those taxes. They can't fire us because we have a contract for a definite or indefinite period. Employees are also protected by law and being sick is not a reason to fire someone. You need a good reason or a complete file to put a person out of job.
Completely true. These "luxeries" aren't free. That said, as a dutch person, I do believe it is more a human right to have these things. Even if it means that you earn a bit less because of the higher tax rates.
It comes at a cost. But we are not big on showing off a hefty army. So taxes wise it’s all fine. The more money you make the more taxes you pay. Lower incomes get lot’s of benefit’s.
I live in a small town (11k people) in the rural part of the Netherlands, in fact i live on the outside of that town. There's a grocery store 300m away from me, the town centre is about 1.5km away and it has everything: several bakeries, two butchers, a specific cheese shop, 3 grocery stores. This is completely normal.
That's the funny thing. Americans say they don't have space for public areas. But the Netherlands is tiny. One of the densest countries in the world. If we can make space for people so should the usa be able to.
Well, they say they have no room but they do. It's a skill issue, which seems to also be the case for many of the things that the Netherlands have but the US does not. Like the cheese. They have milk, and that's all one needs to make some good and affordable cheese, but... apparently that's an issue for MANY countries not just the US. France and Switzerland have similar issues with making good cheese, they just can't get the hang of it for some reason.
@@darkfoxxbunyip wait what. Are you saying france and switserland can’t make good cheese??? Then why are both countries famous for their excellent cheeses. They are in the netherlands, at least. Maybe you’ve only ever tried the fake stuff…????
Since retirement in 2009, my Mexican wife and I live about 50% of the time split between The Netherlands, in a small town in the eastern part, and Mexico, in a small town at 90 minutes by car from Mexico City. In the summer we are Dutch and in the winter we're Mexican, because we both have dual citizenships, so we get the best of two very different worlds, including the things that would be considered luxuries in our respective adopted countries.
Hi, Dutchy here from The Netherlands. I love the videos of Eva and game upon your channel. It’s nice to see a foreigners view of my country and makes me appreciate it more and more. About the vacation days, as a Dutch employer you are obligated to give your employee a minimum off 2 weeks of at once, once a year. This because people need to rewind. The other days they have they can take spread over the year. It is very usual that people take three weeks off at once. And we all wish each other nice holidays, no jealousy there. I am an employer (have a small tax advice company with 4 employees). And I also convinced it is keeping my employees healthy and happier and therefore more productive when they take time off from time to time. I really hope this will change for you in America. A company can’t exist without there employees, they are the once that make it possible to make money, you should appreciate that as employer.
The build in fridges are nice and all, they're usually extremely small though. I personally went for a US type fridge, the once with two doors and an ice dispenser, which in the Netherlands is actually considered a luxury.
Have bought one of this one too, even where a family of three and need also a space to put my dogs raw feed in it too. Our fridge we can choose what part is extra freezer if needed. It’s a luxury for sure but makes my live so much easier. We have a second fridge in the garage to have the cold beverages. And if needed extra space for family events.
In the Netherlands your boss is not allowed to ask what you have when you call in sick, well he can ask... but you dont have to answer. The only thing a boss can do is call the company doctor to check on you, so yea, bosses can be mad about you calling in sick, but it wont do any of the two a favour. Also Charlie in my opinion the biggest luxery we have is drinking water in the tap, shower, amd even flush oir toilets with it, its even a luxery for most countries in Europe, have a nice day
In the Netherlands, not only mothers get leave after the birth of a child, but fathers are also entitled to paid leave. This allows them to care for the baby together during the first 9 weeks after birth
Not only that, but imagine people in the US thinking getting sent to the Netherlands is PUNISHMENT. That is one weird alternate reality. Being Dutch, I am not sure if I feel offended or amused 😂. Writers likely never set foot here 😂
Dutchie here! I actually saw her video and thought 'yeah, that sounds about right...funny how these normal things stand out.' But now wachting your reaction made me realize just how lucky we are. Because i just swung by a grocery store after running some errands (cycling and walking). Now the Netherlands is nowhere near perfect, but not having maternity leave (im going to leave out 'paid', because that the fact that it would be unpaid, is just too crazy for me) or healthcare available for everybody...that's really insane. I really hope these basic needs will be taken care of for all of you too!!! But not holding my breath for that one... Thanks for re-appreciating where i live!!!
20:40: no you can’t do that, not even in the Netherlands. If you call in sick too many times (at my work that would be ‘three times in 12 months’, whether it’s just three separate days or three times one whole week) you have to see the company doctor who determines if you’re really sick. At each sick day, a law will come in effect (wet poortwachter). After three months of being sick, depending on your CAO (collective contract) you will receive 100% wages during your first year and 70% during your second year or 70% during two years (70% being the minimum (unless you’re faking it or the company doctor says there’s nothing wrong with you and than you will get nothing but a being fired). No one working in education, health/senior/childcare or law enforcement/fire department can or will call in ‘sick’ when they don’t feel ‘productive’. Too many shortages and all the work you leave behind has to be picked up by your colleagues. You just go to work, tell your colleagues you have a migraine and take the ‘not so demanding of attention’ work for everybody (cleaning, cooking, administration).
I all so heard that some companies have a waiting period of 1 or 2 days before your sick leave gets activated. BTW the company isn’t allowed to ask what’s wrong.
true, you just cannot just not show up. Being sick to often, requires a check by a doctor. And being sick to long, requires a plan on how and when to return. Never the less, one can feel at ease not being cancelled by being (truely) sick
Some jobs I had I could call in sick and get paid, others, especially through temp agencies the first three days were for your own expense. Just to make sure you were not trying to get yourself an elongated weekend. People still like to do that: call in sick on Friday or Monday. Personally I think some people are really quickly with calling in sick. Theres a lovely cure: paracetamol (Tylenol) will get you through the day. Really ill of very contagious...you stay at home. But I totally agree: calling in sick makes work harder for your colleagues.
Here in Slovenia, the protocol is as follows: when you get sick, you first notify the company, then you call your doctor, who opens your sick file and gives you a date when you will come for an examination, during the examination he prescribes medication, if necessary, orders you to be checked or determines when the sick leave will be completed. At the end of treatment, the doctor sends a form to the company via the Internet with information on the duration of sick leave. During the sick leave, the payment is approximately 70% of the normal salary
Those towelracks are a part of the heating system inside the house to warm up the bathroom which, due smart design, can also dry your towel at the same time. Also another thing that is common in most Dutch households is floor heating in most rooms (living room, kitchen, bathroom, toilet) which is also part of the internal heating system. And before people might suggest that floor heating is a luxury, there are some good reasons to have it. It not only helps preventing moist and fungus in your home, it also prevents rheumatism and arthritis (mostly in feet). Besides this, it also promotes walking without shoes inside the house, which make the floors less dirty.
I work in healthcare in the Netherlands and as a guy I got 15 weeks time off payed when my wife birthed our son. And we're actually encouraged to take them all and spend time with the baby:)
Smiled at her "Doei" en laughed at your "Tot ziens". A nice unexpected dutch touch. Thanks for the video. Its really interesting to hear how things go over there in America and your point of view of it.
the headache thing could be because of lack of ventilation as you said you keep your windows shut in these cold times but that also causes the air in your house to become ''polluted'' you might want to try airing out your home 15 minutes a day if your house is bigger try it twice a day+ it also helps with the ease of your house getting heated up again.
Though to be honest, if you open all windows and doors at the same time, usually 5 minutes is sufficient. That way most of the heat, which is in the walls and furniture, is still inside
4:28 _"I started watching in this show there's only two episodes out now, it's on Hulu through the Disney app because like Hulu and Disney's connected now and the show's called "Going Dutch" and it's about this Army person mil.. maybe he's in the marines, army, navy? I'm not sure but he's a some sort of branch of military and he's being punished by.. they sent him to this fictional military base in the Netherlands that is supposed to be pronounced "Stropes dorf" but in the show they call it "Stroops Dorf"."_ Even for a fictional town name "Stroopsdorf" is not a normal/generic Dutch name, it would be more likely a German, Swiss or Austrian town. It would be have been different if the 'f' was a 'p', so "Stroopsdorp" instead of "Stroopsdorf". "Dorp" (Dutch) and "Dorf" (German) have the same meaning, and is translated to "village" or "town" in English.
7:11 _"... or even European and watching this I don't think you understand what kind of a flex this is in America to say that you went to Paris, a whole other country for the weekend. We don't do that in America."_ Cause americans don't go to other neighboring countries like Mexico or Canada for the weekend?
@@Rudi_Wolff yeah, didn't quite get that either... Depending on where they live (as the US is a 'bit' bigger then the Netherlands), you'd say they go to either country
@@Rudi_Wolff Maybe if they live really up north or really down south, but... isn't it an incredibly long train ride (if available), a very long car ride or a pretty long flight if you're from somewhere in the center of the US?
When I cycle home from work 2 miles I pass 2 AH supermarkets. And when I'm at home and if I still want to go to the supermarket I still have the choice between the Jumbo and the Lidl on a 1/2 mile of my house that I usually do running. Spakenburg, still has a supermarket but it is not on my route and that in a village with 22000 inhabitants.
When I am sick I don't have to explain my boss what I have. That is none of his business. He can have it checked by sending a doctor to my house and the only thing the doctor is allowed to tell my boss is, if I am sick or not. The doctor is also allowed to tell my boss how long he predicts that I will be sick. So, when I have the flue and most likely I will be working in a week then the doctor is allowed to tell that I will probably at work the next week, but he can't tell my boss if I have the flue. Especially if you are not more often sick then normal, then a boss will not check on you. Why would they? Keep in mind that bosses here have trouble finding qualified employees. If they have somebody who is doing his job properly then they do whatever they can to keep that person.
Supermarkets, or normal shops are within 15 min on a bike, or even on walking distance... When you live on a farm, within 20 min by car, and there will be shops that drive around with a van coming to your door..
According to sick days here in the Netherlands, it's great for the the employees, but it takes an enormous toll and risk on the smaller companies... To have to pay the sick employees two years, can actually bankrupt these smaller companies. It's not only glitter here in the Netherlands...
Hi @ItsCharlieVest she lives in Utrecht, which is in the middle of the Netherlands, 30 minutes drive from Amsterdam, and a 1 hour and 15 minutes drive from Belgium (Antwerp) for instance, so in Netherlands that is a big drive everyday. You obviously know Netherlands from what i hear you say, nice, many Americans can not point it out on a world map, which i get because in the Netherlands, it is such a small country, we are much more internationally minded, we are very dependend on the rest of the world, also for vacations for instance, if we want to go to mountains, it an 10 hour drive to Swiss or Austria, we dont have mountains in flat Holland
My husband is Dutch. The reason why everything is so accessible and readily available is Netherlands is quite a small country and dotted with “villages” made up of a condensed population of varying sizes.
Well we also build pretty much exclusively mixed use. You can put a mall in the middle of a neighborhood. That, more than the size of the country, is what makes that difference
Not just that. The dutch will demand a supermarket, elementary school and a doctors office at walking distance. In the big cities especially. In villages and rural areas they may be further away bc the population is less dense. In rural areas it may even be the case that you need a car bc trains and buses don’t come everywhere.
Why does US companies think it is a good idea to have a sick person come in to work, and make the rest of the workers sick too? Productivity Will be down even if people are physically at work. And as a customer I don’t want to have my food prepared by a sick person or have to interact with other sick work staff.
Those windows have a 3rd “setting” halfway between the two she showed. It will barely open, just a tiny bit for some airflow. A lot of people don’t know this setting because it’s not very visible. You don’t see the window being open
i'm sorry to hear you don't have health insurance . whenever i need to see a doctor it's just so normal to just go . i don't have social benefits , but the cost for seeing a doctor is only 4 euro .
i can be sick for 1 day 3 times a year without doctor's note and still get paid for that day . for longer periods of being sick we need to go to the doctor for a note but i'll lose 1 day of pay . the other days i'll get 60% of my daily wage .
I think the built-in fridge kinda is THE standard in the Netherlands and it is the external fridge that is fancy (because they can't be built in due to non-standard sizes and all kinds of gadgets on the doors). My gf for example has a vintage 50s looking fridge which can't be built in but looks really fancy.
The towel warmer is.not common in every Dutch household. Maybe in more expensive ones, but the average rental house doesn't have it. We do have heaters where you can put your towel on. Same goes for the build in fridge. Of you buy a lot hen you can opt it, but most people I know have separate fridges
Can't remember a single house I lived it that had an separate fridge. Maybe when I was young in my parents house, but that was in the 70's /early 80's. Might be more common in the West where the area alotted for the kitchen is smaller?
The town she is in, is Utrecht. Right in the middle. Especially infrastructure wise. Still, 'near Belgium'. The scale of the country means that within a 1½hr drive one can be in Belgium. Or Germany.
I hated it when I lived in the US that you didn't have supermarkets within 5 mins walk of your home. Where I live mine is less than 2 mins all from my house and is open till 23.00 here in the UK. My ex was off sick for 2 yrs twice then a 3rd time for 6 months. He was fully paid the whole time. He was a police officer. My youngest daughter had a migraine the other day and her boss was so kind and worried she asked if she could do anything to help. It's so normalised in the UK and Europe.
Netherlands guy speaking: I live in a village with around 4000 people. the next village is like 3 miles away and has about the same number of inhabitants. The then next village is another 5 miles. Each village has a supermarket(grocerystore). In all larger places villages/cities grocery stores are like max 4 minutes by car away. Usually in average more like 7 minute walk away. But remember we are not talking about supermarkets with parking lots the size of a small village. It is all very local and small (compared to USA sizes). However all groceries are available in many different brands in all these shops.
Having a 6k people village with only two supermarkets is absolute wild to me. Over here there would be atleast 4-5 supermarkets in such a town and that is not counting bakeries ofcourse and then there are the local markets
I live in a 10k village (everything is walking distance, because Dutch live in smaller area's. So that means houses are also smaller and streets narower and therefor cars are smaller) and we have 4 supermarkets, one biologic supermarket, 4 elementary schools, 1 middle school, a swimmingpool, a movietheatre, a cityhall, several shops for clothes, 2 bakeries, a fishshop, a cheeseshop, 3 flowershops, a library, of course healthcare providers such as doctors, dentists, fysiotherapists and so on, we have several gyms, churches and so on. And we have fresh bread, fresh fruits and vegetables in every supermarket. By fresh I mean fresh. Plucked from the land that morning. To me it is so normal, I just learned it isn't for you.
Funny how "an American fridge" is looked upon as kind of a luxury here (because its so big it does not fit most kitchens) and the reverse is true also 🙂
haha, yes, the American fridge (especially with ice and 2 doors) is luxury here. It fit's in no normal Dutch lay out (everything is smaller, because we have many people and not much land. So we've to built housing efficient)
@@fennie024 And even then its more energy efficient to get 2 regular fridges/freezers instead of that large American one. its also easier and cheaper to replace 1 broken fridge than a huge massive unit, that won't be sold anymore by the time it breaks, and the new one being slightly smaller or larger, so it doesn't properly fit. 2 build in fridges solve this, since it uses standard sizing
OK, l might get some flak saying this, but when you look closely at two door American fridges, especially the kind with the ice(water) dispensers, you'll notice how little internal space they actually have... l once wanted to buy one, but that really was a deal breaker. I like my plane old Dutch fridge better 😂
@@peterkroon8856Depends on the model I guess. My mother in law in Florida has a huge 'American fridge'. It fits so many giant Costco items, it's crazy
regarding to the sick days and maternity leave: Holland is a pretty a social country with the rules she explained, in scandinavian countries (Sweden, Denmark, Norway) it is much more extended and even more "luxury"
I am American living in Netherlands for 10 years. There are positives and negatives about both countries. The US does have parks but there are also so many open spaces of nature it suplements for park areas. Also the US has so much wildlife you can see in nature, bears, mountain lions, deer, buffalo,moose, sharks, whales etc. In NL you never even see a squirrel. NL does have great health care, work/life balance and a healthier life style. Its important to remember that no place is utopia but enjoy the benefits of what ever country you live in.
I see Squirrels quite often, and I live next to the Sallandse heuvelrug, where apparantly is some wildlife. Never see anything there though. There once was a pheasant in our garden somehow though. I think you might live somewhere more urban/west? Further I do agree with you. We do have some wildlife, especially taken into account the waddeneilanden, but it's not even close to the USA. Also with flora.
@ I just asked my Dutch gf if there are wolves in NL and she said, Nee!. So we googled it and found that there are a few wolves but only since 2015. Now around 50 to 100 in population. Again, this does not compare to wild life in the US which has around 20,000 wolves. This is not a competition. The Netherlands has other things which make it a great place to live.
I live in an apartment building and when I go outside of the building I can see the nearest supermarket across the street from me. If I want, I can take the shopping cart home with my groceries (and bring it back of course). There's another supermarket about a 5 minute walk away from me. In the EU there's a minimum of 20 days as she says, but in the Netherlands a company is legally required to give you 2 consecutive weeks once per year as well.
15:08 there are glasses that protect your eyes from the blue light (similar to the night setting on a phone) if you are using the pc for a long time that light could give you a headache . I hope this will help😁
Bro. In Bulgaria (part of Europe and EU) you get 2 YEARS PAID parental leave as a mother. 1st year is full salary, 2nd year is minimum wage salary cover. Some even take 3rd year as unpaid leave if they are rich enough but have an understanding good work place. The whatever-leave policy in the US is just one huge finger to the people.
Where i live there are 3 supermarkts in a 5 minute walk. There is also a bakery, buther, cheese shop, greengrocer and 2 drugstores. I once worked in a city with a big supermarkt next to the station. You can buy special glasses for when you sit behind the computer or laptop. Your headache will be gone
I live about 30kms from Antwerp and drive from my home in the Netherlands to a suburb of Antwerp to buy fuel as it is a lot cheaper there. As well, going to other countries my wife said we were going for a drive so I said OK....we finished up in luxembourg, stayed for a little bit, walked over into Germany for a visit then drove back to the Netherlands.
That is criminal, if you would go broke because you were picked up by an ambulance, and had to be helped in a hospital, the Hospital owners would go to jail, if they would try that, blackmailing sick people is a serious crime.. Sick leave is as long as you are sick, and you get paid naturally.. it would be a crime if they fire you..
Had a big surgery 2 years ago. Only paid for parking and my Eigen risico that costs up to 385 euro’s a year. When I told my boss I wanted to come back to work she said I should take it easy and fully recover first. She urged met to stay away for 6 weeks. So I just went to visit one in a while and have coffee with my coworkers.
The government gives tax cuts to estates who open (part of) their land to the public. Some of these properties also are free from tax when they are sold and the properties might get grants for maintenance. Still far above my budget, but way better than loads of trespassers will be shot signs 😂
Greener cities also have the function of being cooler in the summer as trees will block out the sun from hitting the roads and pavements. This leads to a cooler environment and a more pleasant area to reside in, whether it's for living, working or just hanging out. Also your car being under a tree will cause it to be less hot inside, even if the downside will be that your car might get dirty a lot faster depending on what trees you plant. A similar idea would be done with canals, a city with canals would be cooler in the summer then one that has only roads. On the flip side, in winter you have trees that make it a lot more appealing just like summer, but in heavy snow fall they might need help to loose all that weight or they will snap. For canals, well they could be insanely handy for ice skating, sledding and over all having a lot of fun during winter.
12:15 The Netherlands that's been showed in videos most of the times is either Amsterdam or Utrecht. There are many more cities like these but there's also a very different Netherlands with polders, rural areas, newer towns, etc.
4:00 in most supermarkets its bake-off, the majority is done in like a industrial bakery but to keep it fresh the actual baking is done in the supermarket
I had a supermarket 200 meters away from my apartment but it burnt down two years ago. They built a replacement temporary supermarket less than a kilometer away and are in the process of rebuilding the old one. It is genuinely a luxury! Even more so because there's also at least three other supermarkets of other brands within a 5 minute cycle away from me.
The long distances are generally a much bigger problem in the USA than in Europe, particulaly in north-west Europe. So no wonder you can jump on a train in Netherlands and be in Paris 4 hours later. Both Netherlands and Belgium are quite small countries, when talking about the area. Belgium has 10 million inhabitants, but the area is ruffly equilavent to that of my home province in Sweden with som hundred thousands inhabitants. It´s mostly forests. Mile after mile, with occasionally a little red house can be seen between the trees. I have to drive 10 km (ca 6 miles) to a village to get to the nearest grocery store. If I want some booze, I have to drive 25 km to a small town. In other words: In some parts of Europe the long distances are the same problem as in the USA.
Where I live, 60k people and 14 supermarkets What that number leaves out are all the bakeries, greengrocers, butchers and specialty stores. The actual number is much much much higher.
@@obud3777 why? I live in a Dutch village and we have 5 supermarkets plus a Hema and a huge Sligro (whole sale hall for business owners with everything from food to office furniture and clothes).
we live in a small village and have to go to a bigger village for the GP, a supermarket, a bakery, a butcher and a delicatessen and that is a trip of at least 10 minutes. Just last year a very small shop opened and it is run by volunteers. It can get products from the supermarket in the next village and they bring it at your home if you order for more than € 25. But for clothing and other things you have to go to a bigger town or city at least 20 to 30 minutes away by car. O, and there is one bus in the morning and one in the afternoon. No transport. But yeah, that’s living in the middle of nowhere. And I am sure lots of villages in our province in the North of the Netherlands have the same minimal facilities.
Where I work in Belgium we have 20 vacation days as standard, then 15 work time reduction days (contract of 38 hours/week but working 40 so extra hours are converted to vacation), 1 seniority day per 5 years working there, and starting at age of 50 we get 1 extra every 5 years we get older. And we can buy extra days with our end of year bonus.
A lot of small small villages in the Netherlands don't have a supermarket. They either never did or no longer have one. But everywhere else you can find lots of them.
@@Pasunsoprano not always. It’s possible you have to drive a bit more. You really need a car to get everything you need. Even a school is not a given in all the villages. We try to keep them open, but if you have less than about 60 students it’s a struggle.
12:15, Oh... yes... I understand you. Your reference to Amsterdam clued me in. Your are referring to absolute garbage, all-around, which is exactly like Amsterdam. 🤣
I follow a number of urban-design channels (like Not Just Bike and Active Towns) and there I learned the reason cities in the Netherlands are trying to put in more of the green stuff is mostly about improving the city's ability to deal with heavy rain, aswell as cooling down the city (more treefoliage preventing the rays from the sun to directly reach the asphalt, heat it up and then have the heat reflected upwards = lower temp outside on the street level)
Here in the Netherlands, my boss will actually sit me down to make me take leave whenever I don't take enough time for myself or work to much. I've been given a few extra days off without asking because they noticed I didn't write some hours I spend in the weekend to save a project or help out a customer. In the end everyone is happy. I get some extra time off, they get a motivated worker who'll go the extra mile if need be.
9:00 about those bathroom towel warmers... The whole perspective is different. I believe in the US most houses have air-conditioning. It both cools and heats a place. In the netherlands we have central heating. Meaning a special boiler that heats the water that is transported via pipes to so called radiators in most rooms/spaces. This is a closed system. A bathroom would have such a radiator. Now, since free wallspace is limited in bathrooms, people designed these type of radiators that are placed vertically instead of horizontal. And a little later someone came up with the idea of making them with tubes instead of a plate. Now you can hang your towels on it. We don't call them towel heaters, we call them designer radiator. If you consider them a radiator, it is not as luxurious as you thought anymore ;) Radiators are a bare necessity. It is our heating system.
About ‘calling in sick’ in NL: The law states that the first two sick days are unpaid. This is to prevent people from calling jn sick without actually being sick. However many employers choose to pay those first two sick days too. So, it is important to read the employment contract (or if applicable, the collect bargaining agreement) to avoid nasty surprises.
Hello, In the Netherlands the legal rules are : Minium number of paid holiday is 4 times your work week hours on your contract. (On the end, you are able to take 4 weeks leave). And the maximum hours you can move to next year is equal to one working week. That prevents you for not taking enough free time. People are not made to work, but to have fun and make there money to live.
fresh donuts and bagels, prepared and just put in the oven. you misunderstand what fresh is. all those use frozen ones to bake them. you have no idea what a bakery is.
I've lived and worked in the Netherlands and France and in both countries it's pretty much the same with regards to sick days. If you're sick, you're not working. Especially if you have something contagious, wouldn't want you to come in and spread it among your colleagues! About a year and a half ago, I had a burnout... I didn't work at all for a full month, then slowly started increasing my work hours, taking almost a year to get back up to full work weeks. And all that time, I had my full salary paid. In fact, there's national insurance in place for employers that covers 70% of the wages they need to continue to pay to sick workers, so some employers only pay sick workers 70% of their wages since that's what's covered, but most continue paying 100%, or, like my employer, 70% when you're sick during your first year of working there, 100% once you've passed the 1 year mark.
Not everyone in the netherlands have a build in refridgerator. Because if you rent a house, you need agreement from them to rebuild your kitchen, which cost quiet a lot. And not everyone has a house they bought. The healthcare is getting more and more expensive in the netherlands. Dentist and physical therapy was in healthcare but in basic not anymore. Germany is better. Netherlands is getting more expensive with groceries and taxes. Call in sick is possible in the netherlands, but the nagging from your employer as well. It ain't so great as it was.
Hi Charlie, Eva lives in Utrecht, i believe. In the middle of the country. I guess everywhere in the Netherlands is close to belgium 1,5 hours, germany 1 hour, france 3 hours, spain (6 hours), poland, austria (8 hours), italy 10 hours 😂
Absolutely...been very curious from the beginning...what life is like in rural Indiana. From shopping to kids going to school...a day out of the life of Charlie...😊
Here in the Netherlands, in many companies they will actually encourage you to take up enough leave. Because they realize that people need time to recharge and that in the end, giving them the opportunity will in fact increase productivity.
Nice video, nice down-to-earth commentary. I really like your content! I think as a Dutchman, I do need to add some context. We have it better regulated than anyone else in terms of care, leave, sick leave, disability benefits, than any country. What needs to be mentioned, in my opinion, is that this does need to be paid for by ourselves. The Netherlands is at the top as a tax-country. We Dutch sometimes pay taxes 2 or 3 and maybe 4 times in our lives on the self-earned money, which was already taxed when we earned it. That is one of the reasons, why this is possible. Translated with DeepL from Dutch
In Belgium you pay like 120$ to have a basic government hospital insurance, you still pay a little surcharge from the hospital bill. If you take a private insurance on top of that it's like 300$ (price depending on the age you start your contact), with this you don't pay anything. My company pays this for me, my wife and all my children. When I retire I can take over the contract. Even people with no money or insurance will get medical treatment in my country.
2:15 Where I live we have in walking distance (5 to 30 minutes walking) 3 Albert Hein, 1 Lidl, 3 Jumbo and in cycling distance an Aldi and at least another Jumbo, AH and Lidl. All are supermarkets, so that is 7 in walking distance and another four easy to reach with a bicycle. 8:50 towel dryer like shown is fancy to us too. Most can't afford it. 9:31 those windows.... They are pretty expensive I think as they are double glass windows. I do see them a lot in offices, but not a lot in homes. They are gaining in popularity though. 11:58 Parks are a must in our country as we love nature. Each city has a mandatory amount of space that *has* to be filled with green. If a city has too few parks they get fined for it. And I mean large city fines.
18:10 You'll be surprised to hear that, at the place I work, which is a company specialized for sence related impaired and disabled people (for example, I have sight problems), I actually hear my boss ask my employees to 'please take some days off' oncd in a while, which is the opposite of how employers seem to treat their people in the US, according to your story. A lot of my colleagues tend to save their amount of time off they are allowed to spend and are reminded to use their time off. We can take 100 working hours of leave to the next year, but that is a maximum, and it is ruled that you can't just be paid for the leftovers instead, without a very good reason. You can only save more time off if you plan a pretty long vacation (let's say a 6 weeks vacation in Australia, for example) and notify the boss long before you actually go (a whole year before doing that would be normal in that case, I think). It's not really perfectly comparable to employers in regular companies, though.
For all those who think you cannot get fired whilst sick in The Netherlands, that statement is incorrect. The law prohibits an employer from firing a person FOR BEING sick. It does, however, not protect the employee from getting fired at all. One can still be fired whilst sick for many reasons, but they do often need to be pre-approved by the UWV and/or a judge. A person can still get fired for theft or discrimination, especially if employer was already building a case file; but also for non-coöperation (refusing to rebuilt hours after a doctor says the employee could). An employee who is sick can still get fired during a reorganisation (but the pay will continue through the UWV), and an employee on a temporary contract can still be let go without reason when the contract naturally comes to an end.
regarding the Belgians who work in the Netherlands, yes - Rotterdam is just over an hour's train ride from Antwerp, and lots of Belgians work in The Hague 4 days per week, Eindhoven and Tilburg are quite close....
Going to the supermarket is at most a minute walk for me. I live in the same street as one. Really convenient if you forgot the Salami for a pizza or milk for lunch.
I was surprised an American living in the States knew that Belgium was south of The Netherlands. Good for you and keep expanding your knowledge of the world
On sickdays: mijn man is wiskunde docent en kreeg januari 2024 een burn-out door een conflict met zijn leidinggevende. Het eerste jaar heeft hij gewoon 100% van zijn loon doorbetaald gekregen. Van de arts hoefde hij ook niet te gaan werken in een ander beroep. Nu, in het tweede jaar dat hij ziek is, krijgt hij 70% van zijn salaris door betaald. Zijn school moet actief meewerken aan het helpen naar een nieuwe baan op een andere school. Maar omdat banen in het onderwijs pas in april beschikbaar komen word er nog niet echt druk op hem uitgeoefend om iets anders te gaan zoeken. Er zou zelfs geen genoegen genomen worden door de uitkerende instantie als hij een baan zou accepteren die minder dan de 70% die hij nu krijgt betaald
In the Netherlands the boss can only legally refuse holiday leave like once (or perhaps twice) a year and only for serious reasons. Like all your colleagues also having that week off or some big organisational change is implemented during your holidays.
There are actually small towns in provinces like Friesland in the Netherlands that don't have a nearby supermarket. An aunt of mine lives in one of those towns there. But in a town where I live in North-Brabant (another province of the Netherlands. Despite it's name, it's in the south of the Netherlands), there are in total 4 supermakts, and all 4 are different brands. There's the Aldi, the Lidl, the Albertheijn and the Jumbo.
Yes the supermarket in the Netherlands are close. i have 1: 2 streets from my home and 1: 2 min walk and 1: 5 min with the bike and 1: 10 min with the bike. all different supermarket in one village.
I am a dutchy living in the middle of the country and Flemish and german people work at the same company as I do. They have 1 - 2,5h driving, it’s normal to do so. And in my neighborhood there’s 3 or more actual parks and almost every other residential street has a dedicated playground. ‘Affordable’, €180,- per month for health insurance; this is just one, others for car insurance, furniture/house insurance. It adds up. But vacations here are only applauded for; like, don’t use too much holiday-hours cause you have a certain amount to spend, I have with the standard of 160, which is 4 weeks in the summer my company is shut down; I have about 80-120 actual hours which I can use throughout the whole year. Well at the company I work at, if you’re sick 3x within a year; you get a meeting to check up if there’s something wrong, or if they can help you.
about sickleave. You CAN take off as much sickleave as you need, BUT you are also usually the first to be let go when the company has to make cuts. It can not litterally be the reason for being fired, but usually anyone knows whats up...
Here in the Netherlands, some bosses can also react very unpleasantly when you are ill. I used to work at an elderly care facility. I had a broken nose, a concussion and was very confused. Unfortunately I did not have a permanent contract yet I had to come to work or she threatened to fire me. In the end, I was taken home by a colleague because I was with a patient (me as a nurse) but I thought it was my grandma 🤣. In the end I wasn't fired. You have legal aid here, so you can always call on it if you are in the right, but a company (or someone else) is doing you an injustice.
Nature is very important to Dutch people. We actually have greens on school roofs etc, trees along the sides of the roads, you can get a green roof for your shed, etc, if it's strong enough. I think it's a good thing. We have a LOT of rainfall, so it's basically a necessity not to flood our streets. There's also a new rule i think since last year that says you need to keep your garden at least 30% green (for newly built homes), so no concrete or tiles there.
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About calling in sick... over here in the Netherlands your boss/manager isn't even legally allowed to ask what is the medical problem :)
Also very true! 👍👍
Obviously not only in the Netherlands
they do it anyway, then i tell them it's sickness, see you in few days
True but in reality they often will ask
You don't have to answer it and they can't punish you for it
On the other hand, I never felt I had to hide whatever was the reason I called in sick
They do ask...
And here in the Netherlands (and in most European countries I asume) is it forbidden by law to fire someone who is sick.
Not true.
@@YourMotherSucksCocksInHell Yes it is true, even in Czech Republic
True
@@YourMotherSucksCocksInHell It is true you get 1 year full payment and the second year 70 percent payment . And after that you get wia or iva or back to work when you ar not sick. We dont have to tell our boss what we have.
Yes there is a procedure to follow. Like the comment below or above me its 1 year full payment and 1 year 70% after that the company can activate a procedure to replace you to a job that you can actually handle or provide a education for you to move to a different job outside of the company. If you reject all that then the company is allowed to fire you after a set time.
In the Netherlands, if you're feeling unwell, we actually prefer that you don't come to work. It's not just about you needing rest; it's also about preventing the spread of illness to your coworkers. Staying home when you're sick is seen as responsible, not weak.
And its because people are not efficient when ill
I would say that you're slightly exaggerating. It's currently flu season and plenty of people are still going to work when they have the flu. Mostly when people have service/care jobs with individual clients.
Yes. Here (I live in the US now) I have seen people with full-on sicknesses, Covid even, come into work, simply because (as Charlie mentioned) they do not want to lose their pay, let alone their job. Crazy. They come into work sniffing, sneezing, coughing and drooling, and, within no time, 80% of the workforce is sick.
Not totally agreeing with this, and flu and having a common cold are two different things.
However things have changed since Covid.
I am more aware of giving someone else bronchitis (just got better). In the old days I would not have bothered, but I actually wore a mask in the supermarket (christmas was coming up, not pleasant if I infect someone) and went out as soon as I could.
But really some people call in sick too soon.
Idd. Loop je de hele tijd te rochelen en proesten, lekker thuis blijven en niet de rest ook aansteken.
It's not just sick days for yourself though. My dad has ALS and I "buy" 2 weeks extra leave for taking care of him every year. Because it's care leave I can buy it at a reduced rate, it costs me around 30% only.
The funny thing is first time I told any of my bosses or managers about my dad the first things the say are "Ow that's though", "What can we do to help?", "These are some things we can do to help.".
I remember being in a factory in the US and mentioned my dad in a conversation to a manager, how I was proud of him still drawing in CAD and 3D printing even though he cannot move, the only thing the manager said was "Luckily it doesn't seem to impact your job performance.". I told him he could either apologize or fix his own problems from here on, he called my boss and my boss told him that if he didn't apologize within the day he'd arrange for me to come home right away!
Damn right. What an ass.
You dont buy those. Everyone get's those when needed. Provided by the government. 2 weeks max. Your employer has to request it for you.
The heated towelrack is isnt really a towelrack. It's part of the heating system and its first function is to heat the bathroom. Hanging, warming en drying towels are nice additional functionalities coming from smart design.
oh cool
i would say heating the room is a nice addition because of just making it bigger . so instead of having a towel rack and radiator it works for both . but it's far from as efficient as a normal radiator .
@@ItsCharlieVest She lives in Utrecht ..
No, it actually IS a towel rack. A normal radiator looks like a normal radiator and not like the towel rack radiator shown here. It's shape and design is specifically to function as a towel rack and you'll ONLY ever find those in the bathroom where your towels need a rack. Since they're actually kinda inefficient as a radiator compared to a normal radiator.
@@darkfoxxbunyip No it's not. It's a Designradiator.
Wait. We have paid vacation, sick leave, temporary salary when out of job, a pension, maternity leave etc. because we pay taxes for those things. Part of that taxes we pay are national insurance premiums. employee insurance premiums. Because of this we can have paid vacation, sick leave, maternily leave, etc. The system made sure there's money for it. Even when we grumble because the amount of taxes we need to pay, we also know without those taxes they can't pay us. So yeah we have them because we pay those taxes.
They can't fire us because we have a contract for a definite or indefinite period. Employees are also protected by law and being sick is not a reason to fire someone. You need a good reason or a complete file to put a person out of job.
Completely true. These "luxeries" aren't free. That said, as a dutch person, I do believe it is more a human right to have these things. Even if it means that you earn a bit less because of the higher tax rates.
Well. Ive been sick multiple times by my previous work and did get fired because of it. And it was actuallu serious. So... sucks for me ig
It comes at a cost. But we are not big on showing off a hefty army. So taxes wise it’s all fine. The more money you make the more taxes you pay. Lower incomes get lot’s of benefit’s.
I live in a small town (11k people) in the rural part of the Netherlands, in fact i live on the outside of that town. There's a grocery store 300m away from me, the town centre is about 1.5km away and it has everything: several bakeries, two butchers, a specific cheese shop, 3 grocery stores. This is completely normal.
yep die van mij is 900 meter lopen. dan woon je lekker zeg.. goed bezig.
Ik woon ook in een dorpje en er is een AH, Aldi en plus 15 minuten fietsen van mn huis af
Ik woonde in een dorp en de dichtstbijzijnde supermarkt is toch wel 8km ver hoor😅
That's the funny thing. Americans say they don't have space for public areas. But the Netherlands is tiny. One of the densest countries in the world. If we can make space for people so should the usa be able to.
Well, they say they have no room but they do. It's a skill issue, which seems to also be the case for many of the things that the Netherlands have but the US does not. Like the cheese. They have milk, and that's all one needs to make some good and affordable cheese, but... apparently that's an issue for MANY countries not just the US. France and Switzerland have similar issues with making good cheese, they just can't get the hang of it for some reason.
@@darkfoxxbunyip wait what. Are you saying france and switserland can’t make good cheese??? Then why are both countries famous for their excellent cheeses. They are in the netherlands, at least. Maybe you’ve only ever tried the fake stuff…????
@Peacefrogg Yes, I am saying that the cheeses that those countries are famous for aren't good cheeses.
@@darkfoxxbunyip not true btw that you only need milk. You need rennet, salt and sometimes mold. And craftsmanship and a good climate.
@@darkfoxxbunyip hi from Switzerland. Your last paragraph on French & Swiss cheeses : we don’t have any issues believe me
Since retirement in 2009, my Mexican wife and I live about 50% of the time split between The Netherlands, in a small town in the eastern part, and Mexico, in a small town at 90 minutes by car from Mexico City. In the summer we are Dutch and in the winter we're Mexican, because we both have dual citizenships, so we get the best of two very different worlds, including the things that would be considered luxuries in our respective adopted countries.
That is completely different from staying in Spain during the winter 😁👍🏻
That's actually beautiful 🇳🇱🇲🇽
Hi, Dutchy here from The Netherlands. I love the videos of Eva and game upon your channel. It’s nice to see a foreigners view of my country and makes me appreciate it more and more. About the vacation days, as a Dutch employer you are obligated to give your employee a minimum off 2 weeks of at once, once a year. This because people need to rewind. The other days they have they can take spread over the year. It is very usual that people take three weeks off at once. And we all wish each other nice holidays, no jealousy there. I am an employer (have a small tax advice company with 4 employees). And I also convinced it is keeping my employees healthy and happier and therefore more productive when they take time off from time to time. I really hope this will change for you in America. A company can’t exist without there employees, they are the once that make it possible to make money, you should appreciate that as employer.
Her name is Ava, not Eva ...
Important issue; health insurance here is not coupled to any employment situation. You still have it even when you're unemployed.
Great video, as always, Charlie! Thanks again for reacting to one of my vids! The views have skyrocketed since you did. So a BIG THANKS to you! 😃
wow nice man! glad to hear its doing good for you! keep it up
The build in fridges are nice and all, they're usually extremely small though. I personally went for a US type fridge, the once with two doors and an ice dispenser, which in the Netherlands is actually considered a luxury.
Have bought one of this one too, even where a family of three and need also a space to put my dogs raw feed in it too. Our fridge we can choose what part is extra freezer if needed. It’s a luxury for sure but makes my live so much easier. We have a second fridge in the garage to have the cold beverages. And if needed extra space for family events.
And she says they are common in cheap rentals as well, but I've never had a built in fridge in any of my rental homes🤷🏻♀️
She lives in Utrecht, in the center of the Netherlands
Yes, correct 👍
I heard her say that she lives in Amsterdam
Don;t think lot's of Belgian people work in Utrecht.. Most Belgian's work in the Eindhoven regio.
But is american
the map she showed of the supermarkets and picture of the park = AMS,
In the Netherlands your boss is not allowed to ask what you have when you call in sick, well he can ask... but you dont have to answer. The only thing a boss can do is call the company doctor to check on you, so yea, bosses can be mad about you calling in sick, but it wont do any of the two a favour.
Also Charlie in my opinion the biggest luxery we have is drinking water in the tap, shower, amd even flush oir toilets with it, its even a luxery for most countries in Europe, have a nice day
In the Netherlands, not only mothers get leave after the birth of a child, but fathers are also entitled to paid leave. This allows them to care for the baby together during the first 9 weeks after birth
It's a EU thing.
It is quite new. When my children were born it was 2 days.
@@xuser48 Yes, but it is not equal/ the same everywhere.
@@ewaja803 Agree, same here.
Ava knows, since she’s the non-birthing parent of their child.
We don't even say "dorf" that's German. It means village. Village in Dutch is "dorp".
Not only that, but imagine people in the US thinking getting sent to the Netherlands is PUNISHMENT. That is one weird alternate reality. Being Dutch, I am not sure if I feel offended or amused 😂. Writers likely never set foot here 😂
@@lordcucumber7772 They may feel like it's a punishment, but in reality, it's a blessing...
Dutchie here! I actually saw her video and thought 'yeah, that sounds about right...funny how these normal things stand out.'
But now wachting your reaction made me realize just how lucky we are. Because i just swung by a grocery store after running some errands (cycling and walking).
Now the Netherlands is nowhere near perfect, but not having maternity leave (im going to leave out 'paid', because that the fact that it would be unpaid, is just too crazy for me) or healthcare available for everybody...that's really insane.
I really hope these basic needs will be taken care of for all of you too!!! But not holding my breath for that one...
Thanks for re-appreciating where i live!!!
Ken je ItsSky? Heel fijne vlogs om je te helpen herinneren waarom je liever in Nederland woont dan in de VS😉
20:40: no you can’t do that, not even in the Netherlands. If you call in sick too many times (at my work that would be ‘three times in 12 months’, whether it’s just three separate days or three times one whole week) you have to see the company doctor who determines if you’re really sick. At each sick day, a law will come in effect (wet poortwachter). After three months of being sick, depending on your CAO (collective contract) you will receive 100% wages during your first year and 70% during your second year or 70% during two years (70% being the minimum (unless you’re faking it or the company doctor says there’s nothing wrong with you and than you will get nothing but a being fired).
No one working in education, health/senior/childcare or law enforcement/fire department can or will call in ‘sick’ when they don’t feel ‘productive’. Too many shortages and all the work you leave behind has to be picked up by your colleagues. You just go to work, tell your colleagues you have a migraine and take the ‘not so demanding of attention’ work for everybody (cleaning, cooking, administration).
I all so heard that some companies have a waiting period of 1 or 2 days before your sick leave gets activated. BTW the company isn’t allowed to ask what’s wrong.
true, you just cannot just not show up. Being sick to often, requires a check by a doctor. And being sick to long, requires a plan on how and when to return. Never the less, one can feel at ease not being cancelled by being (truely) sick
Some jobs I had I could call in sick and get paid, others, especially through temp agencies the first three days were for your own expense. Just to make sure you were not trying to get yourself an elongated weekend. People still like to do that: call in sick on Friday or Monday. Personally I think some people are really quickly with calling in sick. Theres a lovely cure: paracetamol (Tylenol) will get you through the day.
Really ill of very contagious...you stay at home.
But I totally agree: calling in sick makes work harder for your colleagues.
Yes, in any country there will be a limit on what bosses will tolerate. Losing a few days every month would generally be putting your job at risk.
Here in Slovenia, the protocol is as follows: when you get sick, you first notify the company, then you call your doctor, who opens your sick file and gives you a date when you will come for an examination, during the examination he prescribes medication, if necessary, orders you to be checked or determines when the sick leave will be completed. At the end of treatment, the doctor sends a form to the company via the Internet with information on the duration of sick leave. During the sick leave, the payment is approximately 70% of the normal salary
And if you get sick while on vacation you can call in sick and get your vacation days back.🎉
And No Guns allowed .
Just a good coversation .❤❤
Those towelracks are a part of the heating system inside the house to warm up the bathroom which, due smart design, can also dry your towel at the same time. Also another thing that is common in most Dutch households is floor heating in most rooms (living room, kitchen, bathroom, toilet) which is also part of the internal heating system.
And before people might suggest that floor heating is a luxury, there are some good reasons to have it. It not only helps preventing moist and fungus in your home, it also prevents rheumatism and arthritis (mostly in feet). Besides this, it also promotes walking without shoes inside the house, which make the floors less dirty.
Towelheaters😂 how do you make this up?? Thats just an radiator! It's just an extra convenience that it heats your towel.
I work in healthcare in the Netherlands and as a guy I got 15 weeks time off payed when my wife birthed our son. And we're actually encouraged to take them all and spend time with the baby:)
We live in Amersfoort, in the middle of the Netherlands, and my wife likes to go shopping in Antwerp-belgium or Keulen- Germany for a day.
Smiled at her "Doei" en laughed at your "Tot ziens". A nice unexpected dutch touch. Thanks for the video. Its really interesting to hear how things go over there in America and your point of view of it.
the headache thing could be because of lack of ventilation as you said you keep your windows shut in these cold times but that also causes the air in your house to become ''polluted'' you might want to try airing out your home 15 minutes a day if your house is bigger try it twice a day+ it also helps with the ease of your house getting heated up again.
Though to be honest, if you open all windows and doors at the same time, usually 5 minutes is sufficient.
That way most of the heat, which is in the walls and furniture, is still inside
Do check on your eyes, it may be that you might need glasses. If it is not that, yeah ventilation may be the issue
4:28 _"I started watching in this show there's only two episodes out now, it's on Hulu through the Disney app because like Hulu and Disney's connected now and the show's called "Going Dutch" and it's about this Army person mil.. maybe he's in the marines, army, navy? I'm not sure but he's a some sort of branch of military and he's being punished by.. they sent him to this fictional military base in the Netherlands that is supposed to be pronounced "Stropes dorf" but in the show they call it "Stroops Dorf"."_
Even for a fictional town name "Stroopsdorf" is not a normal/generic Dutch name, it would be more likely a German, Swiss or Austrian town.
It would be have been different if the 'f' was a 'p', so "Stroopsdorp" instead of "Stroopsdorf".
"Dorp" (Dutch) and "Dorf" (German) have the same meaning, and is translated to "village" or "town" in English.
7:11 _"... or even European and watching this I don't think you understand what kind of a flex this is in America to say that you went to Paris, a whole other country for the weekend. We don't do that in America."_
Cause americans don't go to other neighboring countries like Mexico or Canada for the weekend?
@@Rudi_Wolff yeah, didn't quite get that either... Depending on where they live (as the US is a 'bit' bigger then the Netherlands), you'd say they go to either country
@@Rudi_Wolff Maybe if they live really up north or really down south, but... isn't it an incredibly long train ride (if available), a very long car ride or a pretty long flight if you're from somewhere in the center of the US?
@@crazymonkeyVII maby you do not compair it to the usa as a whole but to singele states?
When I cycle home from work 2 miles I pass 2 AH supermarkets. And when I'm at home and if I still want to go to the supermarket I still have the choice between the Jumbo and the Lidl on a 1/2 mile of my house that I usually do running. Spakenburg, still has a supermarket but it is not on my route and that in a village with 22000 inhabitants.
When I am sick I don't have to explain my boss what I have. That is none of his business. He can have it checked by sending a doctor to my house and the only thing the doctor is allowed to tell my boss is, if I am sick or not. The doctor is also allowed to tell my boss how long he predicts that I will be sick. So, when I have the flue and most likely I will be working in a week then the doctor is allowed to tell that I will probably at work the next week, but he can't tell my boss if I have the flue. Especially if you are not more often sick then normal, then a boss will not check on you. Why would they? Keep in mind that bosses here have trouble finding qualified employees. If they have somebody who is doing his job properly then they do whatever they can to keep that person.
Supermarkets, or normal shops are within 15 min on a bike, or even on walking distance... When you live on a farm, within 20 min by car, and there will be shops that drive around with a van coming to your door..
According to sick days here in the Netherlands, it's great for the the employees, but it takes an enormous toll and risk on the smaller companies... To have to pay the sick employees two years, can actually bankrupt these smaller companies. It's not only glitter here in the Netherlands...
Employers can take an insurance against that risk. But most wont, because it's a chunck out of their income.
Hi @ItsCharlieVest she lives in Utrecht, which is in the middle of the Netherlands, 30 minutes drive from Amsterdam, and a 1 hour and 15 minutes drive from Belgium (Antwerp) for instance, so in Netherlands that is a big drive everyday. You obviously know Netherlands from what i hear you say, nice, many Americans can not point it out on a world map, which i get because in the Netherlands, it is such a small country, we are much more internationally minded, we are very dependend on the rest of the world, also for vacations for instance, if we want to go to mountains, it an 10 hour drive to Swiss or Austria, we dont have mountains in flat Holland
Maybe she works at a company with multiple offices and is the coworker she talks about working at an office close to the border
My husband is Dutch. The reason why everything is so accessible and readily available is Netherlands is quite a small country and dotted with “villages” made up of a condensed population of varying sizes.
the netherlands in far from condensed vs belgium lol
Well we also build pretty much exclusively mixed use. You can put a mall in the middle of a neighborhood. That, more than the size of the country, is what makes that difference
Not just that. The dutch will demand a supermarket, elementary school and a doctors office at walking distance. In the big cities especially. In villages and rural areas they may be further away bc the population is less dense. In rural areas it may even be the case that you need a car bc trains and buses don’t come everywhere.
@@Evolixeyes. If you plan to build a big neighbourhood of just housing and nothing else, you will not get a permit.
The reason is regulation. Better ask your husband.
Why does US companies think it is a good idea to have a sick person come in to work, and make the rest of the workers sick too? Productivity Will be down even if people are physically at work. And as a customer I don’t want to have my food prepared by a sick person or have to interact with other sick work staff.
Those windows have a 3rd “setting” halfway between the two she showed. It will barely open, just a tiny bit for some airflow. A lot of people don’t know this setting because it’s not very visible. You don’t see the window being open
Winter setting. I would have to adjust the pins to do that. Guess what? I am too lazy. : )
even small towns here have a park . and if they don't it's because there's a forest very close (open to the public)
i'm sorry to hear you don't have health insurance . whenever i need to see a doctor it's just so normal to just go . i don't have social benefits , but the cost for seeing a doctor is only 4 euro .
i can be sick for 1 day 3 times a year without doctor's note and still get paid for that day . for longer periods of being sick we need to go to the doctor for a note but i'll lose 1 day of pay . the other days i'll get 60% of my daily wage .
I think the built-in fridge kinda is THE standard in the Netherlands and it is the external fridge that is fancy (because they can't be built in due to non-standard sizes and all kinds of gadgets on the doors). My gf for example has a vintage 50s looking fridge which can't be built in but looks really fancy.
The towel warmer is.not common in every Dutch household. Maybe in more expensive ones, but the average rental house doesn't have it. We do have heaters where you can put your towel on. Same goes for the build in fridge. Of you buy a lot hen you can opt it, but most people I know have separate fridges
I installed one myself... Had it once and cant live without anymore 😂
Its more common in older homes i think
Can't remember a single house I lived it that had an separate fridge. Maybe when I was young in my parents house, but that was in the 70's /early 80's. Might be more common in the West where the area alotted for the kitchen is smaller?
The town she is in, is Utrecht. Right in the middle. Especially infrastructure wise.
Still, 'near Belgium'. The scale of the country means that within a 1½hr drive one can be in Belgium. Or Germany.
I hated it when I lived in the US that you didn't have supermarkets within 5 mins walk of your home. Where I live mine is less than 2 mins all from my house and is open till 23.00 here in the UK. My ex was off sick for 2 yrs twice then a 3rd time for 6 months. He was fully paid the whole time. He was a police officer. My youngest daughter had a migraine the other day and her boss was so kind and worried she asked if she could do anything to help. It's so normalised in the UK and Europe.
Netherlands guy speaking: I live in a village with around 4000 people. the next village is like 3 miles away and has about the same number of inhabitants. The then next village is another 5 miles. Each village has a supermarket(grocerystore). In all larger places villages/cities grocery stores are like max 4 minutes by car away. Usually in average more like 7 minute walk away. But remember we are not talking about supermarkets with parking lots the size of a small village. It is all very local and small (compared to USA sizes). However all groceries are available in many different brands in all these shops.
Having a 6k people village with only two supermarkets is absolute wild to me.
Over here there would be atleast 4-5 supermarkets in such a town and that is not counting bakeries ofcourse
and then there are the local markets
I live in a 10k village (everything is walking distance, because Dutch live in smaller area's. So that means houses are also smaller and streets narower and therefor cars are smaller) and we have 4 supermarkets, one biologic supermarket, 4 elementary schools, 1 middle school, a swimmingpool, a movietheatre, a cityhall, several shops for clothes, 2 bakeries, a fishshop, a cheeseshop, 3 flowershops, a library, of course healthcare providers such as doctors, dentists, fysiotherapists and so on, we have several gyms, churches and so on. And we have fresh bread, fresh fruits and vegetables in every supermarket. By fresh I mean fresh. Plucked from the land that morning. To me it is so normal, I just learned it isn't for you.
Why? It works totally fine. In my town there’s about 4.5K people and we have one supermarket (and an Aldi supermarket, but it’s pretty shit).
With all due respect, its not really 'normal' to go to Paris for the weekend. That's more for the upper middle class. However, it is easy.
Funny how "an American fridge" is looked upon as kind of a luxury here (because its so big it does not fit most kitchens) and the reverse is true also 🙂
haha, yes, the American fridge (especially with ice and 2 doors) is luxury here. It fit's in no normal Dutch lay out (everything is smaller, because we have many people and not much land. So we've to built housing efficient)
@@fennie024 And even then its more energy efficient to get 2 regular fridges/freezers instead of that large American one. its also easier and cheaper to replace 1 broken fridge than a huge massive unit, that won't be sold anymore by the time it breaks, and the new one being slightly smaller or larger, so it doesn't properly fit.
2 build in fridges solve this, since it uses standard sizing
If I had to drive an hour to do my groceries I'd probably also want a bigger fridge.
OK, l might get some flak saying this, but when you look closely at two door American fridges, especially the kind with the ice(water) dispensers, you'll notice how little internal space they actually have... l once wanted to buy one, but that really was a deal breaker. I like my plane old Dutch fridge better 😂
@@peterkroon8856Depends on the model I guess. My mother in law in Florida has a huge 'American fridge'. It fits so many giant Costco items, it's crazy
regarding to the sick days and maternity leave: Holland is a pretty a social country with the rules she explained, in scandinavian countries (Sweden, Denmark, Norway) it is much more extended and even more "luxury"
I am American living in Netherlands for 10 years. There are positives and negatives about both countries. The US does have parks but there are also so many open spaces of nature it suplements for park areas. Also the US has so much wildlife you can see in nature, bears, mountain lions, deer, buffalo,moose, sharks, whales etc. In NL you never even see a squirrel. NL does have great health care, work/life balance and a healthier life style. Its important to remember that no place is utopia but enjoy the benefits of what ever country you live in.
I see squirrels daily. 1 mile from my home I can see deer, foxes, and many more. Plenty of birds etc.
I see Squirrels quite often, and I live next to the Sallandse heuvelrug, where apparantly is some wildlife. Never see anything there though. There once was a pheasant in our garden somehow though. I think you might live somewhere more urban/west?
Further I do agree with you. We do have some wildlife, especially taken into account the waddeneilanden, but it's not even close to the USA. Also with flora.
I used to live in Arnhem and saw foxes and squirrels frequently.. On the Veluwe, you can see them as well, along with boars, deers and wolves.
In the Netherlands we have otters, wolfs, wild highland cows, wild horses, boars, deer, hare, rabbit, foxes, badgers and many many squirrels etc etc.
@ I just asked my Dutch gf if there are wolves in NL and she said, Nee!. So we googled it and found that there are a few wolves but only since 2015. Now around 50 to 100 in population. Again, this does not compare to wild life in the US which has around 20,000 wolves. This is not a competition. The Netherlands has other things which make it a great place to live.
I live in an apartment building and when I go outside of the building I can see the nearest supermarket across the street from me. If I want, I can take the shopping cart home with my groceries (and bring it back of course). There's another supermarket about a 5 minute walk away from me. In the EU there's a minimum of 20 days as she says, but in the Netherlands a company is legally required to give you 2 consecutive weeks once per year as well.
15:08 there are glasses that protect your eyes from the blue light (similar to the night setting on a phone) if you are using the pc for a long time that light could give you a headache . I hope this will help😁
Bro. In Bulgaria (part of Europe and EU) you get 2 YEARS PAID parental leave as a mother. 1st year is full salary, 2nd year is minimum wage salary cover. Some even take 3rd year as unpaid leave if they are rich enough but have an understanding good work place. The whatever-leave policy in the US is just one huge finger to the people.
Where i live there are 3 supermarkts in a 5 minute walk. There is also a bakery, buther, cheese shop, greengrocer and 2 drugstores. I once worked in a city with a big supermarkt next to the station. You can buy special glasses for when you sit behind the computer or laptop. Your headache will be gone
I have clip ons for my regular glasses that reuce blue light too
I live about 30kms from Antwerp and drive from my home in the Netherlands to a suburb of Antwerp to buy fuel as it is a lot cheaper there. As well, going to other countries my wife said we were going for a drive so I said OK....we finished up in luxembourg, stayed for a little bit, walked over into Germany for a visit then drove back to the Netherlands.
That is criminal, if you would go broke because you were picked up by an ambulance, and had to be helped in a hospital, the Hospital owners would go to jail, if they would try that, blackmailing sick people is a serious crime.. Sick leave is as long as you are sick, and you get paid naturally.. it would be a crime if they fire you..
Had a big surgery 2 years ago. Only paid for parking and my Eigen risico that costs up to 385 euro’s a year. When I told my boss I wanted to come back to work she said I should take it easy and fully recover first. She urged met to stay away for 6 weeks. So I just went to visit one in a while and have coffee with my coworkers.
A lot of parks and forest in the Netherlands is also private owned but it's opened for the public to walk trough and enjoy
The government gives tax cuts to estates who open (part of) their land to the public. Some of these properties also are free from tax when they are sold and the properties might get grants for maintenance.
Still far above my budget, but way better than loads of trespassers will be shot signs 😂
Maybe get computer glasses Charlie. The ones with a blue filter.
Greener cities also have the function of being cooler in the summer as trees will block out the sun from hitting the roads and pavements. This leads to a cooler environment and a more pleasant area to reside in, whether it's for living, working or just hanging out. Also your car being under a tree will cause it to be less hot inside, even if the downside will be that your car might get dirty a lot faster depending on what trees you plant. A similar idea would be done with canals, a city with canals would be cooler in the summer then one that has only roads.
On the flip side, in winter you have trees that make it a lot more appealing just like summer, but in heavy snow fall they might need help to loose all that weight or they will snap. For canals, well they could be insanely handy for ice skating, sledding and over all having a lot of fun during winter.
12:15 The Netherlands that's been showed in videos most of the times is either Amsterdam or Utrecht. There are many more cities like these but there's also a very different Netherlands with polders, rural areas, newer towns, etc.
4:00 in most supermarkets its bake-off, the majority is done in like a industrial bakery but to keep it fresh the actual baking is done in the supermarket
When you hear it like this, I wonder why we here in the Netherlands call America the country of unlimited possibilities.
Only people with a sense of humor do that😂 everybody knows that's not true😊
I certainly don't, same as the american freedom
Do we?
I had a supermarket 200 meters away from my apartment but it burnt down two years ago. They built a replacement temporary supermarket less than a kilometer away and are in the process of rebuilding the old one. It is genuinely a luxury! Even more so because there's also at least three other supermarkets of other brands within a 5 minute cycle away from me.
The long distances are generally a much bigger problem in the USA than in Europe, particulaly in north-west Europe. So no wonder you can jump on a train in Netherlands and be in Paris 4 hours later. Both Netherlands and Belgium are quite small countries, when talking about the area. Belgium has 10 million inhabitants, but the area is ruffly equilavent to that of my home province in Sweden with som hundred thousands inhabitants. It´s mostly forests. Mile after mile, with occasionally a little red house can be seen between the trees. I have to drive 10 km (ca 6 miles) to a village to get to the nearest grocery store. If I want some booze, I have to drive 25 km to a small town. In other words: In some parts of Europe the long distances are the same problem as in the USA.
11,82 miljoen.
Where I live, 60k people and 14 supermarkets
What that number leaves out are all the bakeries, greengrocers, butchers and specialty stores. The actual number is much much much higher.
She lives in the City of Utrecht in the pruvince of UTRECHT
thanks
That’s the reason she thinks every neighborhood has a bakery and a supermarket, she has probably never seen a small Dutch village or a small Town.
@@obud3777 why? I live in a Dutch village and we have 5 supermarkets plus a Hema and a huge Sligro (whole sale hall for business owners with everything from food to office furniture and clothes).
@@Pasunsoprano There are no Sligro's in small villages!
we live in a small village and have to go to a bigger village for the GP, a supermarket, a bakery, a butcher and a delicatessen and that is a trip of at least 10 minutes. Just last year a very small shop opened and it is run by volunteers. It can get products from the supermarket in the next village and they bring it at your home if you order for more than € 25. But for clothing and other things you have to go to a bigger town or city at least 20 to 30 minutes away by car. O, and there is one bus in the morning and one in the afternoon. No transport. But yeah, that’s living in the middle of nowhere. And I am sure lots of villages in our province in the North of the Netherlands have the same minimal facilities.
Where I work in Belgium we have 20 vacation days as standard, then 15 work time reduction days (contract of 38 hours/week but working 40 so extra hours are converted to vacation), 1 seniority day per 5 years working there, and starting at age of 50 we get 1 extra every 5 years we get older. And we can buy extra days with our end of year bonus.
A lot of small small villages in the Netherlands don't have a supermarket. They either never did or no longer have one.
But everywhere else you can find lots of them.
When they are that small there's shops in the next village.
@@Pasunsoprano not always. It’s possible you have to drive a bit more. You really need a car to get everything you need. Even a school is not a given in all the villages. We try to keep them open, but if you have less than about 60 students it’s a struggle.
@@fionaalgera3391 Still not comparable to the distances most Americans have to travel by car to get to a supermarket.
Especially in the north
She lives in Utrecht, which also is a major transportation hub. But it's not difficult to take the train starting at other places as well.
12:15, Oh... yes... I understand you. Your reference to Amsterdam clued me in. Your are referring to absolute garbage, all-around, which is exactly like Amsterdam. 🤣
I follow a number of urban-design channels (like Not Just Bike and Active Towns) and there I learned the reason cities in the Netherlands are trying to put in more of the green stuff is mostly about improving the city's ability to deal with heavy rain, aswell as cooling down the city (more treefoliage preventing the rays from the sun to directly reach the asphalt, heat it up and then have the heat reflected upwards = lower temp outside on the street level)
Here in the Netherlands, my boss will actually sit me down to make me take leave whenever I don't take enough time for myself or work to much.
I've been given a few extra days off without asking because they noticed I didn't write some hours I spend in the weekend to save a project or help out a customer.
In the end everyone is happy. I get some extra time off, they get a motivated worker who'll go the extra mile if need be.
9:00 about those bathroom towel warmers...
The whole perspective is different. I believe in the US most houses have air-conditioning. It both cools and heats a place.
In the netherlands we have central heating. Meaning a special boiler that heats the water that is transported via pipes to so called radiators in most rooms/spaces. This is a closed system.
A bathroom would have such a radiator. Now, since free wallspace is limited in bathrooms, people designed these type of radiators that are placed vertically instead of horizontal.
And a little later someone came up with the idea of making them with tubes instead of a plate.
Now you can hang your towels on it.
We don't call them towel heaters, we call them designer radiator.
If you consider them a radiator, it is not as luxurious as you thought anymore ;)
Radiators are a bare necessity. It is our heating system.
USA employer: people? what are they?
Also USA employer: Money? but I know that! ...here with those dollars...whoohoo!
About ‘calling in sick’ in NL: The law states that the first two sick days are unpaid. This is to prevent people from calling jn sick without actually being sick. However many employers choose to pay those first two sick days too. So, it is important to read the employment contract (or if applicable, the collect bargaining agreement) to avoid nasty surprises.
Oooh, it's an Ava video, we like Ava, good choice Charlie :D
Hello, In the Netherlands the legal rules are : Minium number of paid holiday is 4 times your work week hours on your contract. (On the end, you are able to take 4 weeks leave). And the maximum hours you can move to next year is equal to one working week. That prevents you for not taking enough free time. People are not made to work, but to have fun and make there money to live.
fresh donuts and bagels, prepared and just put in the oven. you misunderstand what fresh is. all those use frozen ones to bake them. you have no idea what a bakery is.
I've lived and worked in the Netherlands and France and in both countries it's pretty much the same with regards to sick days. If you're sick, you're not working. Especially if you have something contagious, wouldn't want you to come in and spread it among your colleagues!
About a year and a half ago, I had a burnout... I didn't work at all for a full month, then slowly started increasing my work hours, taking almost a year to get back up to full work weeks. And all that time, I had my full salary paid. In fact, there's national insurance in place for employers that covers 70% of the wages they need to continue to pay to sick workers, so some employers only pay sick workers 70% of their wages since that's what's covered, but most continue paying 100%, or, like my employer, 70% when you're sick during your first year of working there, 100% once you've passed the 1 year mark.
Not everyone in the netherlands have a build in refridgerator. Because if you rent a house, you need agreement from them to rebuild your kitchen, which cost quiet a lot. And not everyone has a house they bought. The healthcare is getting more and more expensive in the netherlands. Dentist and physical therapy was in healthcare but in basic not anymore. Germany is better.
Netherlands is getting more expensive with groceries and taxes. Call in sick is possible in the netherlands, but the nagging from your employer as well. It ain't so great as it was.
Exactly, in my life? I’ve never seen a rental house with a build in refrigerator. When there was the people did it themselves.
Hi Charlie, Eva lives in Utrecht, i believe. In the middle of the country. I guess everywhere in the Netherlands is close to belgium 1,5 hours, germany 1 hour, france 3 hours, spain (6 hours), poland, austria (8 hours), italy 10 hours 😂
You should make a vlog of you walking around your town, or a town nearby, show us what it's like, walking around.
Absolutely...been very curious from the beginning...what life is like in rural Indiana. From shopping to kids going to school...a day out of the life of Charlie...😊
Here in the Netherlands, in many companies they will actually encourage you to take up enough leave. Because they realize that people need time to recharge and that in the end, giving them the opportunity will in fact increase productivity.
Nice video, nice down-to-earth commentary. I really like your content!
I think as a Dutchman, I do need to add some context.
We have it better regulated than anyone else in terms of care, leave, sick leave, disability benefits, than any country.
What needs to be mentioned, in my opinion, is that this does need to be paid for by ourselves. The Netherlands is at the top as a tax-country.
We Dutch sometimes pay taxes 2 or 3 and maybe 4 times in our lives on the self-earned money, which was already taxed when we earned it.
That is one of the reasons, why this is possible.
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In Belgium you pay like 120$ to have a basic government hospital insurance, you still pay a little surcharge from the hospital bill.
If you take a private insurance on top of that it's like 300$ (price depending on the age you start your contact), with this you don't pay anything. My company pays this for me, my wife and all my children.
When I retire I can take over the contract.
Even people with no money or insurance will get medical treatment in my country.
2:15 Where I live we have in walking distance (5 to 30 minutes walking) 3 Albert Hein, 1 Lidl, 3 Jumbo and in cycling distance an Aldi and at least another Jumbo, AH and Lidl. All are supermarkets, so that is 7 in walking distance and another four easy to reach with a bicycle.
8:50 towel dryer like shown is fancy to us too. Most can't afford it.
9:31 those windows.... They are pretty expensive I think as they are double glass windows. I do see them a lot in offices, but not a lot in homes. They are gaining in popularity though.
11:58 Parks are a must in our country as we love nature. Each city has a mandatory amount of space that *has* to be filled with green. If a city has too few parks they get fined for it. And I mean large city fines.
18:10 You'll be surprised to hear that, at the place I work, which is a company specialized for sence related impaired and disabled people (for example, I have sight problems), I actually hear my boss ask my employees to 'please take some days off' oncd in a while, which is the opposite of how employers seem to treat their people in the US, according to your story. A lot of my colleagues tend to save their amount of time off they are allowed to spend and are reminded to use their time off. We can take 100 working hours of leave to the next year, but that is a maximum, and it is ruled that you can't just be paid for the leftovers instead, without a very good reason. You can only save more time off if you plan a pretty long vacation (let's say a 6 weeks vacation in Australia, for example) and notify the boss long before you actually go (a whole year before doing that would be normal in that case, I think).
It's not really perfectly comparable to employers in regular companies, though.
For all those who think you cannot get fired whilst sick in The Netherlands, that statement is incorrect. The law prohibits an employer from firing a person FOR BEING sick. It does, however, not protect the employee from getting fired at all. One can still be fired whilst sick for many reasons, but they do often need to be pre-approved by the UWV and/or a judge. A person can still get fired for theft or discrimination, especially if employer was already building a case file; but also for non-coöperation (refusing to rebuilt hours after a doctor says the employee could). An employee who is sick can still get fired during a reorganisation (but the pay will continue through the UWV), and an employee on a temporary contract can still be let go without reason when the contract naturally comes to an end.
My supermarket is a 3 min walk! Haha Greetings from: Rotterdam, Holland, EU, NATO/ OTAN!
regarding the Belgians who work in the Netherlands, yes - Rotterdam is just over an hour's train ride from Antwerp, and lots of Belgians work in The Hague 4 days per week, Eindhoven and Tilburg are quite close....
Going to the supermarket is at most a minute walk for me. I live in the same street as one. Really convenient if you forgot the Salami for a pizza or milk for lunch.
I was surprised an American living in the States knew that Belgium was south of The Netherlands. Good for you and keep expanding your knowledge of the world
On sickdays: mijn man is wiskunde docent en kreeg januari 2024 een burn-out door een conflict met zijn leidinggevende. Het eerste jaar heeft hij gewoon 100% van zijn loon doorbetaald gekregen. Van de arts hoefde hij ook niet te gaan werken in een ander beroep. Nu, in het tweede jaar dat hij ziek is, krijgt hij 70% van zijn salaris door betaald. Zijn school moet actief meewerken aan het helpen naar een nieuwe baan op een andere school. Maar omdat banen in het onderwijs pas in april beschikbaar komen word er nog niet echt druk op hem uitgeoefend om iets anders te gaan zoeken. Er zou zelfs geen genoegen genomen worden door de uitkerende instantie als hij een baan zou accepteren die minder dan de 70% die hij nu krijgt betaald
In the Netherlands the boss can only legally refuse holiday leave like once (or perhaps twice) a year and only for serious reasons. Like all your colleagues also having that week off or some big organisational change is implemented during your holidays.
I live in a rental apartment. There's no build in fridge or heated towel rack. I do have those windows that open both ways. ❣️
My balcony door is a window from floor to ceiling that also tilts open, I love it 😊
There are actually small towns in provinces like Friesland in the Netherlands that don't have a nearby supermarket. An aunt of mine lives in one of those towns there.
But in a town where I live in North-Brabant (another province of the Netherlands. Despite it's name, it's in the south of the Netherlands), there are in total 4 supermakts, and all 4 are different brands. There's the Aldi, the Lidl, the Albertheijn and the Jumbo.
Yes the supermarket in the Netherlands are close. i have 1: 2 streets from my home and 1: 2 min walk and 1: 5 min with the bike and 1: 10 min with the bike. all different supermarket
in one village.
Where i live i got 3 supermarkets at 3 minutes walking, Aldi, Lidl and Jumbo all in the same street.
I am a dutchy living in the middle of the country and Flemish and german people work at the same company as I do. They have 1 - 2,5h driving, it’s normal to do so.
And in my neighborhood there’s 3 or more actual parks and almost every other residential street has a dedicated playground.
‘Affordable’, €180,- per month for health insurance; this is just one, others for car insurance, furniture/house insurance. It adds up.
But vacations here are only applauded for; like, don’t use too much holiday-hours cause you have a certain amount to spend, I have with the standard of 160, which is 4 weeks in the summer my company is shut down; I have about 80-120 actual hours which I can use throughout the whole year.
Well at the company I work at, if you’re sick 3x within a year; you get a meeting to check up if there’s something wrong, or if they can help you.
about sickleave. You CAN take off as much sickleave as you need, BUT you are also usually the first to be let go when the company has to make cuts. It can not litterally be the reason for being fired, but usually anyone knows whats up...
Here in the Netherlands, some bosses can also react very unpleasantly when you are ill. I used to work at an elderly care facility. I had a broken nose, a concussion and was very confused. Unfortunately I did not have a permanent contract yet I had to come to work or she threatened to fire me. In the end, I was taken home by a colleague because I was with a patient (me as a nurse) but I thought it was my grandma 🤣. In the end I wasn't fired. You have legal aid here, so you can always call on it if you are in the right, but a company (or someone else) is doing you an injustice.
Nature is very important to Dutch people. We actually have greens on school roofs etc, trees along the sides of the roads, you can get a green roof for your shed, etc, if it's strong enough. I think it's a good thing. We have a LOT of rainfall, so it's basically a necessity not to flood our streets.
There's also a new rule i think since last year that says you need to keep your garden at least 30% green (for newly built homes), so no concrete or tiles there.