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Personally speaking, I find anything longer than 10 days in one place and boredom sets in.
Booking Holidays at work.
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Personally speaking, I find anything longer than 10 days in one place and boredom sets in.
who says you have to stay in 1 place?
The best vacations are where you travel across a country spending a 2-6 days at each place, moving on whenever you are satisfied and staying longer anywhere you love.
By your logic a 100 million pound yacht is not a luxury for a billionaire who earned his money, or getting a super car or Lear jet at the company transport because that was part of the contract.
Besides which, you are the one going on about luxuries. I merely said the OP should be thankful for a paid vacation, just like he should be thankful for a job in the first place considering the unemployment rate ATM.
And therefore,by your logic, clean drinking water, basic food and medicine are luxuries.
However, there is a clear difference in the context of a defined luxury good, such as a Supercar or Lear jet and the basic remuneration within ones contract, as there is between basic needs and luxury items.
In fact, if you look back over what we have both said, it was you who stated that paid vacation is a luxury, not I.
And the job market is immaterial, if the OP has a job it is probably by his own merit and hardwork, he needn't be thankful for it, he earned it.
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OP, that's pretty standard I'm afraid. 10 days (2 weeks) is fine, but they'll get funny with you if you try and book more than that.
OK, this is just semantics. I just want to point out though that fresh drinking water is a luxury to a great many people
But not to many others. Which is the essence of the point being made here, as magnolia also said.
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No, in general taking 3 weeks off it isn't really. At our place you can take up to three weeks off in one go without going through any more than the usual approvals process.
I took three weeks off last year, I'll do the same next year (I'm not going away this year so don't need to take a big block off). I will put in a leave request for it as soon as I can in January when our leave year starts when the time off will be in October so plenty of notice. In fact I had two management changes last year between booking the leave and taking it.
The main reason our place don't want you to take more than that in one go is that they don't want you to have to spend the rest of the year with no breaks ... but you can get agreement if necessary.
Depends on a few things I would have thought;
The type of business you work in
The size of the company
Your position / responsibilities
Whether other people on your floor / area also have the same days off
Particularly important days that no-one can have off (e.g. inspection / audits) on the days you have requested.
The type of business you work in
The size of the company
Your position / responsibilities
Whether other people on your floor / area also have the same days off
Particularly important days that no-one can have off (e.g. inspection / audits) on the days you have requested.
At my place of work ( esso ), ive got the week starting 16 sept off, then back in for a week, then off again from 30th sept for another week. I asked for the middle week off and was told no, as that would be more than 2 weeks out of nthe business.
Regarding Xmas, nobody is allowed any time off after the first week of December. We also open 24 hours including xmas day and new year so id be grateful for any time off over xmas
Regarding Xmas, nobody is allowed any time off after the first week of December. We also open 24 hours including xmas day and new year so id be grateful for any time off over xmas
As a team leader, it's a matter of ensuring there is cover in place and that service doesn't suffer.
As long as that's met I don't mind authorising leave.
Another consideration though is if someone uses up a lot of leave in one go they might get burned out later in the year and go sick, hence why a lot of places insist you spread your leave out a bit.
Another concern is if a whole team then start booking long periods of, it can cause mayhem operationally so it's by execption the rather than generally allowed.
As long as that's met I don't mind authorising leave.
Another consideration though is if someone uses up a lot of leave in one go they might get burned out later in the year and go sick, hence why a lot of places insist you spread your leave out a bit.
Another concern is if a whole team then start booking long periods of, it can cause mayhem operationally so it's by execption the rather than generally allowed.
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That's one of the reasons I like long holidays, so you don't have to stay in one place. For example we'rd doing 2 weeks over Christmas and it's a tight squeeze, we'vs had to chop a lot of places we want to go because there just isn't enough time. 3 weeks on the other hand gives you far more options.
As it normally takes a day to get somewhere else it's infeasable to go to more go to one, and at a real squeeze two if they're close if you're just doing a week.
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Apprentice. I'm not supposed to do work without a Journeyman (Supervisor) on site and we work at different places daily.
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Quite. If the current local government department I work in just let everyone go off at once we'd have to tell everyone in the my city "Sorry but between the dates of x and y we will be unable to offer any customer service whatsoever".
I'm sure the residents of where I live would totally understand that [/sarcasm]
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I take any denied holiday as a compliment, it means they can't function without me. I was described today by my boss' boss as a "single point of failure" (as in if I left they'd be screwed).
Something I'll remember when it comes to negotiating a pay rise in the future.
Depends of what you do and whether you have any USPs (arrgh, can't believe I used that term). If your job is just data entry, there's no reason why they can't get a temp in to cover an extended break. Hence my points above, if your employer thinks they can't do without you for as prolonged period, it's a good thing.
Something I'll remember when it comes to negotiating a pay rise in the future.
Jesus, I can't think of anyone where I work that could be lost for 8 weeks on the trot that couldn't just be lost permanently
Depends of what you do and whether you have any USPs (arrgh, can't believe I used that term). If your job is just data entry, there's no reason why they can't get a temp in to cover an extended break. Hence my points above, if your employer thinks they can't do without you for as prolonged period, it's a good thing.
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Jesus, I can't think of anyone where I work that could be lost for 8 weeks on the trot that couldn't just be lost permanently
Extended breaks can be remarkable indicators of just how useful someone isn't!
Lol. I actually enjoy it me. Yes towards the end it does drag on. But to be with family, on holiday, days out etc.... It's an awesome feeling knowing that you won't be in work for a very long time...
I'm the only person who does this in my work place. Hence why they don't mind.