Nearly a quarter of American workers didn't take any of their vacation days this year
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🗓️ 23 October 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Has your house become a burden? Why not sell it us? Simple Quarters is a local Christian company that loves to assist people in difficult situations. |
| 0:08.0 | Wanda has been in real estate, I've been in construction. Probably we flipped about 40 houses. |
| 0:14.0 | I don't want to do it anymore. We're in our early 80s. Sometimes you have to give it up. |
| 0:19.0 | Gabe, he did a good job. |
| 0:20.0 | When I got the purchase agreement, and he did have things in there that was pertinent to me. James followed through what he said. Call Simple Quarters 317, 900 home. Okay, you sent me this story, and I thought of you. Oh. Nearly a quarter of American workers didn't take any of their vacation days this year. Oh, you'll love this. And I'm sure you won't mind me telling. So remember our boss sent out the letter that was like, hey, you got to start taking your vacation days because you can't take them all at the end of the year. And then I was like, well, my kid's off daycare for a bunch at the end of the year. I kind of need to take him at the end of the year. |
| 0:56.0 | I'll just take him at the end of the year and see what happens. |
| 1:08.0 | He calls me and he goes, look, I have a, David's so funny. He's so nice about everything. He goes, I think he said, I have a, I think he said a procedural question or something for you. And, oh, and I said, yes. because he goes, shut the door. |
| 1:09.5 | I said, oh, God, am I going down? Oh, no, is this it? |
| 1:10.9 | Oh, gosh, it's not even Thursday. |
| 1:12.3 | You're supposed to fire him out of Thursday. |
| 1:13.5 | He goes, hey, I and I said oh god am I going down oh no is this it oh gosh it's |
| 1:11.5 | not even Thursday you're supposed to fire him out a Thursday he was hey I thought I sent you guys |
| 1:15.1 | an email telling you can't take all your days off at the end of the year and I said well my |
| 1:18.8 | kids off daycare to blah blah blah you know whatever but yeah just every year and then he |
| 1:25.3 | starts like lobbying with me and David is so nice about everything. |
| 1:28.0 | He's like, well, you really like golf. |
| 1:30.0 | Maybe you should start taking them during the major golf tournaments. You know, you like, you like, instead of not working while you're on the clock. Yeah. I said, all right, I'll do it next year. I got to take them off this year, though, at the end of the year. But yes, I just, I like my job. |
| 1:43.9 | I don't, I don't like to have days off. |
| 1:47.5 | You're one of these... of the year. But yes, I just, I like my job. I don't, I don't like to have days off. |
| 1:47.3 | You're one of these 23% who don't take a single vacation day. |
| 1:51.9 | Is that a staggering statistic? A quarter of workers don't take a single vacation day. Talk about |
| 1:57.8 | burnout. Yeah. Take your days. That's what they're for. I mean, |
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