I get stressed out when people have no concept of weeks. It's so ingrained in work, school, off term, childcare, vacation, booking of a cabin for example, traveling, planning, and so on.
Imagine americans thinking 6 months trial employment is weird, when they literally have UNPAID INTERNS, effectively doing the same thing but not getting paid. At all.
I've never been to a dinner party with so little light on the table that you can barely see what's on your plate. It must be his partner who likes the dark. 😅
I've eaten plenty of meals in low light enviroments but I would say that the most common thing is to turn the roof light off and keep other lights like in your windows, on your bookcase or standing lights on so that you don't completely blackout the room. Then the candles on the table is more for ambiance than actual lighting.
Not many Swedes know the numbers of the weeks. But as a planning tool and with a calendar you can talk about planning when to do certain things more easily.
disagree, literally all people knows week numbers, and how it affects everyday life: Sportlov is week 7, 8 or 9 depending on lovation, vcation is normally wk 29-32. But most importantly in worklife it is a given when following project progress, deliverables etc
Numbered weeks is the best invention! I work in Swedish school and we talk more about week numbers than of the dates. F.ex: "Can we book a meeting Thursday week 40?". I do not know anyone who keeps it that dark that you hardly can see your food. never heard of. I don't know what people he has dined with :)
It is incomprehensible that all countries do not use this week’s numbers. For example. Its always a week off for children in the spring. The leave is divided depending on which part of the country you live in, we have to balance the load because many people travel away. In the Stockholm area it is always v.9. it has been that way for at least 40 years. In the autumn there are school holidays v.44. It is easy to remember and easy to plan trips long in advance. Everyone knows that v.44 is a leave week and employers know that then families with children and their leave are prioritized. There are only advantages and no disadvantages. Not wanting it is like saying that names for days are unnecessary because we have dates.
I was just in Scotland for a week- lovely to back home and still be able to enjoy the Scottish accent in this channel 😀 Week numbers is used for scheduling att workplaces. It's not used in any other context really, as far as I know.
In the 70s I was working at a museum (in Sweden) with the first attempt to build a data base of the collections. Since memory is expensive and much more so back then, every character was counted. To save money date was shortened to year-week-day where 75161 means a monday in the middle of April 1975 (week 16). Museum people were maybe even more conservative than other people: Why should we use computers? Whats wrong with paper and pen? Shortenings where also an obstacle. But learning week numbers was the ultimate insult! Never! We worked for years to teach the staff. Often failed. In the 80s memory became cheaper and more user-friendly systems appeared. And today nobody wants to write labels by hand. And offices and schools finally adopted week numbers. But today I, myself, have to check at internet if I had know which week number it is now.
Week numbers are very practical for the professional part of life, like vacation e.t.c. Also the planing at a company often use week numbers. At week 42 this machine will stand still for service, or at week 28 this ggods will be delivered, a few examples. I'ts used when the pointed time is not a specifik day or month, but a week or several weeks.
Counting weeks is probably most common in the educational system. If you work as a teacher, the week number is more important than the dates. I know that I am free on Tuesday week 38. It doesn't matter what date it is because I am only keeping track of the weeks.
It's common in a lot of jobs especially project based ones. I work as an industrial/marine electrician and our planning has always been specified in weeks.
25 days vaction for a full time job is by law (and percent of that for part time). Usually 30 days for White collar and goverment jobs have from 30-35 days depending on your age (31 when you are 30 and 35 when you turn 40).
The probationary period is sometimes bargained away - or agreed to discard it. I think it is rare, but I have seen it. Another aspect most people do not think of is that the probationary period is also for the employee. It is rare that an employee on probation exercises this right, but I have done so once myself.
Week numbers are used also in business. If company order something and the delivery time is 5 weeks than yo just add the 5 weeks to the current week number and you know in what week to expect the delivery. Also useful in the time planing at house construction when dealing with many subcontractors.
Born and raised in Sweden, I don't get the week numbers at all, I hate when people reply with a week number in the job or privately, doesn't matter. The only practical use of weeknumbers is when both parties have a calendar and trying to book something.
I usually don't keep track which week it is except for when it's time for vacation. I think this might be more relevant for people with office jobs maybe and in the education system. I'm guessing since a lot of people take full weeks off for vacation it's easier to say the week you're off than days. Like, im on vacation week 28-32 for example.
This is exaggerated. We don't use week numbers that much, it's mostly when planning at work or planning our vacation. Outside of that we never use it. If you ask a random swede when week 18 or 43 is no one can tell you from the top of their head because it's outside the normal summer vacation weeks.
I'm grown up in Sweden and can't keep track of the weeks either.. For vacation there's great places in Sweden, however the weater is abit unstable. Like personally I went to Spain in January and South of France in July, to get some regular sun.
We use the week numbers when talking about vacation. The only way to for me to have some feeling for when they are is to know that there are 52 weeks so half way you have 26 = last week in june
I’m Swedish and I’m just as confused about week numbers as you. I know week one and 52 but that’s it. Whenever people start talking about week numbers I ask what date that is or which week in which month. You will actually need a calendar with week numbers to decipher this strange code.
I watch all your interesting and funny videos. As a Swede, it's fun to see your reactions :). Anyway, to be honest, I don't think there is that big of a difference between Swedes and Englishmen. Even less difference between Scots and Swedes. In fact, I think that Swedes, Norwegians, and Scots have quite similar culture and attitudes and humor. In fact, I even find that Scots and Swedes have more in common with each other than Swedes and Danes. I have traveled a lot in these countries and can see similarities and differences. However, Americans and Swedes are quite different, I would say.
Week numbers can't be a Swedish-only thing. There's a freaking function for calculating week numbers in Excel, LibreOffice Calc and all the other spreadsheet applications, and those functions let you set the rules for how to do that. That wouldn't be necessary if there was only one rule to follow. In Sweden week 1 is the first week of the year that has more days in the new year than in the previous year, that is at least four days in the new year. There are other ways to define week 1, so obviously they do it differently in some other countries, hence other counties use week numbers as well.
Regarding the 6 months probation at work. I believe it used to be less but employers wanted more time. There has been a push from employers to make it one year even.
Counting weeks makes much more sense that months and days.. You can always trust that the first day of week XX is a Monday, but the first day of June can be whatever. The swedish industry holiday or what you wanna call it in english is always weeks 28-31. And if you want to take 5 or 6 weeks it pretty much always includes those weeks anyway. It's also much easier for people working every other week or so to know that they always work odd or even weeks.
Easier to use dates since you always more or less know what date it is without looking out up, but not the week. If you know it's 7th of June and someone say they will go on vacation the 23rd of June it's easy to know exactly when. Also, the year always starts with the same date, but not always the same week which is the major flaw of that system.
Months and weeks aren’t aligned. February 7 may be an a Tuesday one year and a Friday another year. Obviously, counting weeks fixes this alignment problem, as there isn’t anything to align in the first place. Not that that’s really a nessecary feature for figuring out when to have your holiday, though.
In general, firing someone is a tough thing in Sweden. Companies must do their best to resolve issues is an employee is unruly or just doesn't fit well with the team by sending to extra courses or having workshops or even try to relocate the emploee somewhere else. The Unions (assuming the person is a member) will make sure to protect the person's interests. This is when the Trial Employment is a good thing. You work as a regular employee for up to 6 months and during this period the company can let you go without reason and with barely any notice, but you as the employee can also decide that the company was not good for you (bad coworkers, toxic environment, maybe the offices are not good quality and being there triggers your asthma). This can at most be 6 months after which the company must either let you go or employ you, but it can be negotiated to be lower or even remove it completely. Some senior Engineers or Software Developers that have to migrate and maybe even move to another continent can claim that it's a huge risk to sell their belongings back home and move everything and their kids over just to be let go after a few months (and then have to leave the country unless they can find another company in 3 months to sponsor their work permits so they can stay). So they leverage that they can show their value to the company and that they have been with other companies for years without issues (so they are probably not going to grope their co-workers) to have the company waive that Provanställning, or the company can agree to a shorter Provanställning and the recruit can move alone without their family for a period until everything is sorted. There are "loopholes" to the systems such as companies claiming there's just not enough work to keep everyone employed, but then there are rules to whom they can fire ("last in, first out" meaning whoever was most recently hired has to go first so the company cannot pick and choose who to fire).
As a Swede, I've never gotten used to the week number thing either. And I'm old. It's a thing for sure, but I have no clue when someone tells me "week 37" or whatever, just tell me the month etc dangnabit. I know week 1 is the first week of the year, and week 52 (or 53) is the last week, any other I have to look it up. I think the dining light thing isn't universally swedish, I'd object if it's not a romantic setting. I like things bright if it's in the daytime.
Born and raised Swede and my parents and sister are driving me nuts with these low light dinner time and i feel the same way, like. God damn, i wanna see what i'm eating! 😅
Never ever just one candle, you must be able to see the food. Mysigt/cozy fore sure we do, but I have never been at a dinner with just one candle, that is an odd one even for Sweden.
It is pratical, more than months even, You have to learn to count to 52, 53 sometimes when week 52 ends before december 28. It is more locical than imperial standards, that is wierd as heck, only 3 countries use it.
Anxiety induced brightness or pitch black with a candle 😂 hilariuos I think most commonly you turn off the lights in the rooms connected to the dining area and if it is dark outside you have both candles and other small lights lit in the room.
Week numbering is mainly an administrary tool, it's much easier to see if many employees are off for vacation at the same time, so the boss can desuade more people from taking vacation at that time. Ordinary workers usually don't really like or use Week numbers. For Vacation destinations, it really depends, but Thailand is fairly popular, it used to be Mallorca and Ibiza but I think it's fallen out of style (except for small groups of people). But we go everywhere, Australia, China, Japan, USA, all over Europe. And of course within Sweden, Hiking, Sailing, or just taking a road trip with a Caravan. A Provanställning is up to 6 months, but can be shorter, or not used at all. Turning the lights off is a Women thing, I've never been in a situation where a man does that.
I just started to watch, but respond: Hell yes the number of the week is important!!! We pretty much ASK each other when we're uncertain: "-Excuse me, Im sorry... But - is it 36 or 37 now? Im sorry, lost after the vacation..." It's actually true... And in my job (as in many Swedish jobs) you have to label your job with the week - not the date... Thanx for sharing 🙏 Love from Sweden 💖
well you can fire people a different way to circumvent rules, you can call it "arbetsbrist", which is roughly translated to not having enough to do to fulfill your position. This is more common than you might think. Also, they can promote layoffs by moving the company to a location uncomfortably far away, or even sell the company and relocate workers into jobs they're not really that suited for (unions will press agains this) but it does happen.
Trust in what you eat! Or who made it, rather! 😂 ...this turning down the light-thing, is not familiar to me! Rather having 1 thousand small candles everywhere (wintertime).
Counting in weeks originally comes from the business and organisation sector in Sweden. And gradually has leaked into the public private world. But... counting in weeks is rather irritating for normal people....
I am swedish, I wouldnt say its that good (week numbers) its probably more confusing than beneficial for most people. Since one has to look it it up on the phone anyways to check what weeek 29 is for instance...you dont really know the weeks by heart hehe.
The only reason companies use weeks is to clarify how long time the employee gets week 31,,32,33, 34 and 38 are obviously 5 weeks. You could say Aug 1 - Aug 28th for ex but some employees will stay at home Aug 29th and say Hey my vacation is in August....the entire month and the company will say oh nooo the government gave you 4 weeks not 4.5 , losers
As a Swede, i can confirm. When it's time for dinner, especially at weekends, we always turn down the lights and only have some candlelights on the table. Sometimes it's so dark that you should have brought a headlamp 😄
The week counting thing is actually insane, I swear to god. When people start listing off the weeks they are going on vacation and you ask them what dates those are, they have no clue! It's a completelty useless system, what is the point of telling someone you have week 34-38 off if you dont even know when that is, except for in relation to other peoples weeks? I think its dumb af, none would say they are going to a consert week 44, or traveling to Rome in week 8. Fellow swedes, abandon this and just tell me the date.
Week 1 is the first week with a Wednesday in the year (so might start in the preceding year). Sometimes 52 in a year, sometimes 53. No-one has a clue. Totally useless concept.
The week numbers again.. its a great thing! At first.. week 28-32.. its industrial vacation period, moste heavy industries closes! And its like this, if one is a suplier to those big companyes one close at the same time! Moste banks, and lawyers to! Then we do have schools, that have vacations, february vacation, easter Vacation, midsummer vaccation and end of shool celebration, start of school attendante.. its this its those weeks.. its on those weeks schools are closed.. you need to be at home as a parent! As a parent one need to and like to know wich weeks I need to be at home.. and ones HR department and/or your boss need to know wich weeks you gonna be absent so they can plan! Its this its not weird at all.. everybody need to know wich week/weeks, to fly to Spain, Thailand.. or fly/drive to a ski resort.. and you have to negotiate weeks with colleges and your boss! Its still this.. one have to book ones vacations at least 6 months befor to get a ticket!
Why does the guy ask if counting weeks only is done in Sweden or not? He said that theese things are uniquely Swedish. Oh, an exaggeration by TH-camrs yet again.
"We don't number our weeks" is just weird to say. There's 52 weeks in a year (53 every 6 or so years, google it) =They're already numbered! We don't KNOW exactly when each numbered week is, but given that week 1 is in the beginning of a year, 52 at the and and therefor 26 in the middle we just guesstimate whatever time period someone is talking to refering to weeks.
I’ve lived in Sweden 35+ years and have no idea when week 35 is.. ☺️ I hate the ”anställningstrygghet” people who have worked in the same company get lazy because it is “last in fist out”… I just adapt my sight so I can have it dark and see without a problem, if I have it very light I will get blinded. ☺️ I don’t like that they can advertise 0% alcohol drinks, they changed that.. But now you can also scam people in Sweden and get away with it as long as they pay taxes..
I get stressed out when people have no concept of weeks. It's so ingrained in work, school, off term, childcare, vacation, booking of a cabin for example, traveling, planning, and so on.
Dude im 32 year old swede who dont know weeks. I just check the calender in the phone if needed tho.
Imagine americans thinking 6 months trial employment is weird, when they literally have UNPAID INTERNS, effectively doing the same thing but not getting paid. At all.
I've never been to a dinner party with so little light on the table that you can barely see what's on your plate. It must be his partner who likes the dark. 😅
It’s convenient if your date is less … attractive.
I've eaten plenty of meals in low light enviroments but I would say that the most common thing is to turn the roof light off and keep other lights like in your windows, on your bookcase or standing lights on so that you don't completely blackout the room. Then the candles on the table is more for ambiance than actual lighting.
At my work, we have a 4 week rolling schedule, hence, if asked whether I can attend Friday week 41, I can say that my shift ends at 19.30
Not many Swedes know the numbers of the weeks. But as a planning tool and with a calendar you can talk about planning when to do certain things more easily.
disagree, literally all people knows week numbers, and how it affects everyday life: Sportlov is week 7, 8 or 9 depending on lovation, vcation is normally wk 29-32. But most importantly in worklife it is a given when following project progress, deliverables etc
I'm Swede and I dont keep track of the week numbers. Every time someone talks about week numbers I have to look in a calendar. I work in an office.
Numbered weeks is the best invention! I work in Swedish school and we talk more about week numbers than of the dates. F.ex: "Can we book a meeting Thursday week 40?".
I do not know anyone who keeps it that dark that you hardly can see your food. never heard of. I don't know what people he has dined with :)
It is incomprehensible that all countries do not use this week’s numbers. For example. Its always a week off for children in the spring. The leave is divided depending on which part of the country you live in, we have to balance the load because many people travel away. In the Stockholm area it is always v.9. it has been that way for at least 40 years. In the autumn there are school holidays v.44. It is easy to remember and easy to plan trips long in advance. Everyone knows that v.44 is a leave week and employers know that then families with children and their leave are prioritized. There are only advantages and no disadvantages. Not wanting it is like saying that names for days are unnecessary because we have dates.
I was just in Scotland for a week- lovely to back home and still be able to enjoy the Scottish accent in this channel 😀
Week numbers is used for scheduling att workplaces. It's not used in any other context really, as far as I know.
In the 70s I was working at a museum (in Sweden) with the first attempt to build a data base of the collections. Since memory is expensive and much more so back then, every character was counted. To save money date was shortened to year-week-day where 75161 means a monday in the middle of April 1975 (week 16). Museum people were maybe even more conservative than other people: Why should we use computers? Whats wrong with paper and pen? Shortenings where also an obstacle. But learning week numbers was the ultimate insult! Never! We worked for years to teach the staff. Often failed. In the 80s memory became cheaper and more user-friendly systems appeared. And today nobody wants to write labels by hand. And offices and schools finally adopted week numbers. But today I, myself, have to check at internet if I had know which week number it is now.
Week numbers are very practical for the professional part of life, like vacation e.t.c. Also the planing at a company often use week numbers. At week 42 this machine will stand still for service, or at week 28 this ggods will be delivered, a few examples. I'ts used when the pointed time is not a specifik day or month, but a week or several weeks.
Counting weeks is probably most common in the educational system. If you work as a teacher, the week number is more important than the dates. I know that I am free on Tuesday week 38. It doesn't matter what date it is because I am only keeping track of the weeks.
Very common in health care also. Some companies works also on weeks
yea its handy for schools and office jobs. also easier for kids to keep track of.
It's common in a lot of jobs especially project based ones.
I work as an industrial/marine electrician and our planning has always been specified in weeks.
25 days vaction for a full time job is by law (and percent of that for part time). Usually 30 days for White collar and goverment jobs have from 30-35 days depending on your age (31 when you are 30 and 35 when you turn 40).
The probationary period is sometimes bargained away - or agreed to discard it. I think it is rare, but I have seen it.
Another aspect most people do not think of is that the probationary period is also for the employee. It is rare that an employee on probation exercises this right, but I have done so once myself.
Week numbers are used also in business. If company order something and the delivery time is 5 weeks than yo just add the 5 weeks to the current week number and you know in what week to expect the delivery. Also useful in the time planing at house construction when dealing with many subcontractors.
Only times I've eaten in darkness and with only with candles would be when the power suddenly was off at the summer house/cottage.
Born and raised in Sweden, I don't get the week numbers at all, I hate when people reply with a week number in the job or privately, doesn't matter. The only practical use of weeknumbers is when both parties have a calendar and trying to book something.
I usually don't keep track which week it is except for when it's time for vacation. I think this might be more relevant for people with office jobs maybe and in the education system. I'm guessing since a lot of people take full weeks off for vacation it's easier to say the week you're off than days. Like, im on vacation week 28-32 for example.
This is exaggerated. We don't use week numbers that much, it's mostly when planning at work or planning our vacation. Outside of that we never use it.
If you ask a random swede when week 18 or 43 is no one can tell you from the top of their head because it's outside the normal summer vacation weeks.
I'm grown up in Sweden and can't keep track of the weeks either..
For vacation there's great places in Sweden, however the weater is abit unstable.
Like personally I went to Spain in January and South of France in July, to get some regular sun.
We use the week numbers when talking about vacation. The only way to for me to have some feeling for when they are is to know that there are 52 weeks so half way you have 26 = last week in june
We don't always have full control of weeks in Sweden. So I even have it displayed on my swart watch...
I’m Swedish and I’m just as confused about week numbers as you. I know week one and 52 but that’s it. Whenever people start talking about week numbers I ask what date that is or which week in which month. You will actually need a calendar with week numbers to decipher this strange code.
I watch all your interesting and funny videos. As a Swede, it's fun to see your reactions :).
Anyway, to be honest, I don't think there is that big of a difference between Swedes and Englishmen. Even less difference between Scots and Swedes. In fact, I think that Swedes, Norwegians, and Scots have quite similar culture and attitudes and humor.
In fact, I even find that Scots and Swedes have more in common with each other than Swedes and Danes. I have traveled a lot in these countries and can see similarities and differences. However, Americans and Swedes are quite different, I would say.
Week numbers can't be a Swedish-only thing. There's a freaking function for calculating week numbers in Excel, LibreOffice Calc and all the other spreadsheet applications, and those functions let you set the rules for how to do that. That wouldn't be necessary if there was only one rule to follow. In Sweden week 1 is the first week of the year that has more days in the new year than in the previous year, that is at least four days in the new year. There are other ways to define week 1, so obviously they do it differently in some other countries, hence other counties use week numbers as well.
A candle lit dinner is romantic, but a single candle seems a bit too dark, just adding 1 or 3 makes a big difference.
Regarding the 6 months probation at work. I believe it used to be less but employers wanted more time. There has been a push from employers to make it one year even.
Counting weeks makes much more sense that months and days.. You can always trust that the first day of week XX is a Monday, but the first day of June can be whatever. The swedish industry holiday or what you wanna call it in english is always weeks 28-31. And if you want to take 5 or 6 weeks it pretty much always includes those weeks anyway. It's also much easier for people working every other week or so to know that they always work odd or even weeks.
Easier to use dates since you always more or less know what date it is without looking out up, but not the week. If you know it's 7th of June and someone say they will go on vacation the 23rd of June it's easy to know exactly when.
Also, the year always starts with the same date, but not always the same week which is the major flaw of that system.
@@calleflygare746 sure but i always know what week it is as we only plan by weeks at work.
We have the week number thing in finland as well
Months and weeks aren’t aligned. February 7 may be an a Tuesday one year and a Friday another year.
Obviously, counting weeks fixes this alignment problem, as there isn’t anything to align in the first place.
Not that that’s really a nessecary feature for figuring out when to have your holiday, though.
6 months are the maxium trail-period, but unless you have good arguments/leverage, the employeer going to protect them selfs by using the maximum.
Week is a good resolution to plan things.
Don't see the point. Days are an even better resolution, like we used before.
@@herrbonk3635 Before? Before what?
@@jonasthemovie Before "everybody" started talking about week numbers, of course.
I'm from sweden and I hate talking about number of weeks. I always ask okay what date and month is that?
About eating dinner...and just candles....that doesnt happen very often. It is not a rule or something that everybody does.
Exactly, it's more for when you have visits or dates.
It is very effective. Cant believe so many dont get why.
In general, firing someone is a tough thing in Sweden. Companies must do their best to resolve issues is an employee is unruly or just doesn't fit well with the team by sending to extra courses or having workshops or even try to relocate the emploee somewhere else. The Unions (assuming the person is a member) will make sure to protect the person's interests.
This is when the Trial Employment is a good thing. You work as a regular employee for up to 6 months and during this period the company can let you go without reason and with barely any notice, but you as the employee can also decide that the company was not good for you (bad coworkers, toxic environment, maybe the offices are not good quality and being there triggers your asthma). This can at most be 6 months after which the company must either let you go or employ you, but it can be negotiated to be lower or even remove it completely.
Some senior Engineers or Software Developers that have to migrate and maybe even move to another continent can claim that it's a huge risk to sell their belongings back home and move everything and their kids over just to be let go after a few months (and then have to leave the country unless they can find another company in 3 months to sponsor their work permits so they can stay). So they leverage that they can show their value to the company and that they have been with other companies for years without issues (so they are probably not going to grope their co-workers) to have the company waive that Provanställning, or the company can agree to a shorter Provanställning and the recruit can move alone without their family for a period until everything is sorted.
There are "loopholes" to the systems such as companies claiming there's just not enough work to keep everyone employed, but then there are rules to whom they can fire ("last in, first out" meaning whoever was most recently hired has to go first so the company cannot pick and choose who to fire).
As a Swede, I've never gotten used to the week number thing either. And I'm old.
It's a thing for sure, but I have no clue when someone tells me "week 37" or whatever, just tell me the month etc dangnabit.
I know week 1 is the first week of the year, and week 52 (or 53) is the last week, any other I have to look it up.
I think the dining light thing isn't universally swedish, I'd object if it's not a romantic setting.
I like things bright if it's in the daytime.
Born and raised Swede and my parents and sister are driving me nuts with these low light dinner time and i feel the same way, like. God damn, i wanna see what i'm eating! 😅
Never ever just one candle, you must be able to see the food. Mysigt/cozy fore sure we do, but I have never been at a dinner with just one candle, that is an odd one even for Sweden.
I love cosy candlelight meals
Swedish and I like to see my food! Cosy is nice but many Swedes take it to an extreme level. 😂
It is pratical, more than months even, You have to learn to count to 52, 53 sometimes when week 52 ends before december 28.
It is more locical than imperial standards, that is wierd as heck, only 3 countries use it.
Anxiety induced brightness or pitch black with a candle 😂 hilariuos
I think most commonly you turn off the lights in the rooms connected to the dining area and if it is dark outside you have both candles and other small lights lit in the room.
Week numbering is mainly an administrary tool, it's much easier to see if many employees are off for vacation at the same time, so the boss can desuade more people from taking vacation at that time. Ordinary workers usually don't really like or use Week numbers.
For Vacation destinations, it really depends, but Thailand is fairly popular, it used to be Mallorca and Ibiza but I think it's fallen out of style (except for small groups of people).
But we go everywhere, Australia, China, Japan, USA, all over Europe. And of course within Sweden, Hiking, Sailing, or just taking a road trip with a Caravan.
A Provanställning is up to 6 months, but can be shorter, or not used at all.
Turning the lights off is a Women thing, I've never been in a situation where a man does that.
I always turn lights off. Darkness is so much nicer than light. My daughters always turn on every light and i go after them and turn them off.
I just started to watch, but respond:
Hell yes the number of the week is important!!!
We pretty much ASK each other when we're uncertain: "-Excuse me, Im sorry... But - is it 36 or 37 now? Im sorry, lost after the vacation..."
It's actually true... And in my job (as in many Swedish jobs) you have to label your job with the week - not the date...
Thanx for sharing 🙏
Love from Sweden 💖
Even to a Swedish person it's weird to count weeks. I always have to look it up on the internet.
If parents are divorced the kids normally live with one parent even week numbers and odd weeks with the other. It makes planning easier.
People with blue eyes are often more sensitive to bright lights. Might have to do something about liking the darkness more than those with brown eyes.
Not correct, I have brown eyes and my husband have blue eyes. He want's bright lights everywhere and always 🤣
@@eh-modo You must be very attractive then ;)
Week is the planing in my work.
Back in school I always kept track of week 11 and week 44 because they are weeks off XD
well you can fire people a different way to circumvent rules, you can call it "arbetsbrist", which is roughly translated to not having enough to do to fulfill your position. This is more common than you might think. Also, they can promote layoffs by moving the company to a location uncomfortably far away, or even sell the company and relocate workers into jobs they're not really that suited for (unions will press agains this) but it does happen.
Trust in what you eat! Or who made it, rather! 😂
...this turning down the light-thing, is not familiar to me! Rather having 1 thousand small candles everywhere (wintertime).
Its the same in Norway😁
Retired, holiday year around no mather what week it is : )
So Shaun Maloney is born in Malaysia and moves to Scotland. You are born in Scotland and moves to Malaysia. Universe equilibrium!
I think it's like that all over the Nordics. But don't know for sure.
I thought the week thing was international.. 😂
I'm Swedish and hate the week thing too. I have no clue what week it is ever.
Do you instead know the exact date?
Same😂 Everytime I’m like: “Yeah yeah, just give me the dates” lmao
If only the calendar app displays the week numbers.
If only.
@@ravens_tale What date is it today? Don’t look.
@@jonasthemovieFriday the 13th 😂. I only know this because it was my birthday last Thursday
Counting in weeks originally comes from the business and organisation sector in Sweden. And gradually has leaked into the public private world. But... counting in weeks is rather irritating for normal people....
I am swedish, I wouldnt say its that good (week numbers) its probably more confusing than beneficial for most people. Since one has to look it it up on the phone anyways to check what weeek 29 is for instance...you dont really know the weeks by heart hehe.
Makes life easy...
Not really. I'm 59 now, and still not really used to it. I still think in terms of months.
Don't you have a calender?? The week number are there!
The only reason companies use weeks is to clarify how long time the employee gets week 31,,32,33, 34 and 38 are obviously 5 weeks. You could say Aug 1 - Aug 28th for ex but some employees will stay at home Aug 29th and say Hey my vacation is in August....the entire month and the company will say oh nooo the government gave you 4 weeks not 4.5 , losers
As a Swede, i can confirm. When it's time for dinner, especially at weekends, we always turn down the lights and only have some candlelights on the table. Sometimes it's so dark that you should have brought a headlamp 😄
That light-thing and not seeing the food... he for shure exaggerates.
I think hole Scandinavia has weeks I have never eat in a dark room and im 69 years old 😂
The week counting thing is actually insane, I swear to god. When people start listing off the weeks they are going on vacation and you ask them what dates those are, they have no clue! It's a completelty useless system, what is the point of telling someone you have week 34-38 off if you dont even know when that is, except for in relation to other peoples weeks? I think its dumb af, none would say they are going to a consert week 44, or traveling to Rome in week 8. Fellow swedes, abandon this and just tell me the date.
No, we dont eat our food in darkness. I think its just his girlfriend who like that.
Week 1 is the first week with a Wednesday in the year (so might start in the preceding year). Sometimes 52 in a year, sometimes 53. No-one has a clue. Totally useless concept.
The week numbers again.. its a great thing!
At first.. week 28-32.. its industrial vacation period, moste heavy industries closes!
And its like this, if one is a suplier to those big companyes one close at the same time!
Moste banks, and lawyers to!
Then we do have schools, that have vacations, february vacation, easter Vacation, midsummer vaccation and end of shool celebration, start of school attendante.. its this its those weeks.. its on those weeks schools are closed.. you need to be at home as a parent! As a parent one need to and like to know wich weeks I need to be at home.. and ones HR department and/or your boss need to know wich weeks you gonna be absent so they can plan!
Its this its not weird at all.. everybody need to know wich week/weeks, to fly to Spain, Thailand.. or fly/drive to a ski resort.. and you have to negotiate weeks with colleges and your boss!
Its still this.. one have to book ones vacations at least 6 months befor to get a ticket!
I think we are unique about this
I don’t like it , confusing
It’s for the employer make it more easy
In my mobile, all weeks has a number of
Why does the guy ask if counting weeks only is done in Sweden or not? He said that theese things are uniquely Swedish. Oh, an exaggeration by TH-camrs yet again.
We are counting weeks also in Finland especially when we mark our holidays.
I don´t like this Stefan-guy
Why..?
"We don't number our weeks" is just weird to say. There's 52 weeks in a year (53 every 6 or so years, google it) =They're already numbered! We don't KNOW exactly when each numbered week is, but given that week 1 is in the beginning of a year, 52 at the and and therefor 26 in the middle we just guesstimate whatever time period someone is talking to refering to weeks.
In work,we have something call swedisch model.try to read abaut’it
I’ve lived in Sweden 35+ years and have no idea when week 35 is.. ☺️
I hate the ”anställningstrygghet” people who have worked in the same company get lazy because it is “last in fist out”…
I just adapt my sight so I can have it dark and see without a problem, if I have it very light I will get blinded. ☺️
I don’t like that they can advertise 0% alcohol drinks, they changed that.. But now you can also scam people in Sweden and get away with it as long as they pay taxes..