Miraba's Journal: Any biotech/pharma people reading this?

At the company where I'm working, staff positions get 19 days vacation during the year, plus the last 10 work days of December, plus 6 federal holidays. This applies to people who are just starting.

Is this normal? 19 days is somewhat mind-boggling. I remember that Harvard offers 14 days to start, and that seemed like an awful lot.