J: Yeah, but some companies like ours don't really pay overtime... they give you extra vacation hours instead. If you add up all the vacation time and comp hours I have, I have a lot of time.

P: When I was working for a company in Germany they had super short work weeks and very liberal overtime rules.

Paula解釋說，comp是compensation的簡寫，其實(shí)就是overtime加班，有些公司不發(fā)加班費(fèi)，而是把員工加班的時(shí)間折合成假期，補(bǔ)償給員工。另外，歐洲和美國的情況也有很大的區(qū)別，Paula說，她以前曾經(jīng)在德國的一家公司工作過，they had super short work weeks and very liberal overtime rules. 那家公司不僅工作時(shí)間短，而且加班的規(guī)定也very liberal，很松。

J: I have to say I'm looking forward to my long vacation. I think you need at least three or four weeks of doing nothing before you can truly relax.

W: I thought you said you had months and months of vacation time available. Why are you only taking five weeks off?

J: Five weeks was the best I could negotiate with my boss. She says she knows I've earned the time, but she begged me not to take more than five weeks.

P: Five weeks should be long enough! Who knows? Maybe you'll get bored and come back early!

J: (laugh) I doubt it.

Jerry雖然有好幾月的假期，但老板最多只讓他休五個(gè)星期， 看來他一定是很能干。Paula開玩笑說，五個(gè)星期也足夠了，搞不好用不了五個(gè)星期Jerry就覺得實(shí)在無聊，提前回來上班了呢！

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