American wage-cuck/-slave here.
Never in my working life over the last 18 years have I taken vacation during various jobs, a few I held for a year and two.
Because I'm a wageslave robot (Czech word for slave, ironically enough), I fear repercussion and/or reprimand such as refusal to promote me just because I ask to take a vacation, at busy retail stores and restaurants.
Even though they may praise me for being a hard-working employee that is an asset to their companies, since I happen to resemble the German-American (I'm a mutt but mostly look like a German), I am fearful that if I take vacation, I would feel bored and not know what to do with my free time for a week or even two if I accumulate vacation days for a second employment year without taking a vacation after a year.
It's true that there are American bosses who think drone bees, like me, do not need to take a vacation for a long time.
I have never heard of the state or federal labor law that suggest vacation time as the right or privilege. Vacation time is left up to each employer to determine the policy. The employers can flat-out deny vacation time to any employee below manager position, if that's to their preference to work the wage slaves to exhaustion that could lead to turnover.
Fear of reprimand for asking to take a vacation, even after a year of working hard and being consistent and having to kiss ass all the time, might be a standard in America.
There is such thing as "American work ethics," when really it means we are the goyim who must work hard and long to appease Israel and the corporate bosses, top to mid-level and assistant.
America is the ultimate goyim slave for corrupt federal, state, municipal and city governments, as well as appeasing Israel with billions of dollars in endless monetary support.
At least Germany, however cucked, mandates weeks of vacation time by law for the employed people, this making it the most efficient Western economic producer in the world.