Everyone loves to get something for nothing, me included.
I would lie if I acted like one of these holier than thou people who only believes you should get money and be rewarded for slaving your butt off till you near drop dead.
The office I work at needed to have some emergency construction to meet the current building codes in my city. And because of this they gave us all the time off from work with full pay as if we were going to work! The amount of office construction that was needing to be done to meet the brand new building codes was going to take a little over a month. So this was a full month of full time work pay with having a vacation more or less! I actually took my family on a 1 week vacation to the islands during this time when I found out it was going to be happening. I have to really thank the state, the city and their new building codes for this! Also, I can thank the office construction people for taking their sweet time in doing the office renovations that needed to happen. From what I understand, they don’t work on weekends. So this possibly in total gave us an extra week off to make it be a full month! I consider myself to be very lucky to have had this happen. Because of the office construction, they are not even taking it off my paid vacation accumulation time I or the other employees have. Isn’t life grand?