Does your work offer trips abroad?

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Bassmansam

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Just scrolling through linkedin and it i've seen a number of people that work in recruitment posting about trips to places like Ibiza lately. Is this just something that happens in recruitment or is it more widespread?

I've never had the pleasure of working for a company that pays for you to abroad for the weekend but it seems like a nice perk.
 
Not my work, besides site visits in another branch, but obviously I shoot weddings too and have been abroad in quite a few places and honestly, most of the time its literally Airport - Hotel - work - back to hotel - airport.

There is rarely any free days where you are alone and free to be "on holiday", when i went to another country to shoot a wedding I try to get there 2 days before just in case of flight delay and then leave home the immediate day after so you can imagine I would be home before I am even over the jetlag (if going to the States).

A friend of mine is constantly flying between LA and London (and many other European cities) as he works in television, even he says the novelty wore off fast, it's just airport, hotel, conference, hotel, back on the plane. Sure, he gets to travel in business class and his hotel budget are generous, but it's not really a way to see the world since you are never far from your hotel room or conference room. If you are lucky, you get half a day or 1 day free, but it's often quite a long way to go for that half a day of alone time to be on holiday. The best perk is all the airmiles and airline status he accumulated so when he goes on person trips, it helps in all the free upgrades.

I just shot a wedding in Italy, landed in Rome, the most of saw of Rome was the Roma Terminal in the center, I got a photo of the McDonald's outside there, didn't even drive past the Colosseum in the taxi.
 
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offer? no. we are (hugely) encouraged to go to conferences which are often in some incredible places. my colleague went to one in Mexico a number of months back . in a 5* hotel just down the road from where I had my honeymoon as it happens.
it would have killed me, at such an amazing place being stuck in a conference room for 90% of it before having to come home.

he did say he had 30 mins each morning for a quick swim but that was it

if you specifically mean a work jolly however then sadly it's a no. they have relaxed a bit but back in the day we were not even allowed to take a few days holiday covering the extra nights at our own expense. which seemed unnesseserily cruel to me.
 
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Everyone where I work is encouraged to go to the shows around the world.
I did Interior Expo in Hamburg this year, someone else is going to Dubai next month. If no one else wants to go I'll do Hamburg again next year.
 
Wife's company does an award thing every year and the winners get a free week away, I think this year they went to Mexico.
Which sounds lovely but to be honest I'm not sure I'd want a week away with work colleagues somewhere like that, I already spend almost more time with them than my family :cry:
 
Oh yes, training too!!! 6 months training and then 6 months in a hot and sandy country. We're also recruiting:









RAF Recruitment | Recruitment Centres | Royal Air Force

Our recruitment centres are staffed with a friendly team who are ready to answer your questions and provide advice about which roles could suit you best.
recruitment.raf.mod.uk recruitment.raf.mod.uk
 
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As a paid holiday at the weekend you mean? No. But I do usually go to a couple of conventions every year. One in Amsterdam and one in Vegas. The latter I join up with a trip to LA to see my boss/department so it has dual purpose. I work in film so we all know how to enjoy these things, vendors take us out to plush dinners etc., there's always loads of drinks/events every evening to choose from. A couple of times we even got a booth at some massive club in Vegas with our own waitress, all the glitzy bottles of liquor etc. Not my thing, but a fun experience. In Amsterdam we always try to take some time off as a team, and do a boat trip or something. The convention is over the weekend so it seems fair.

Other than that I travel to films we have in production. Or to visit vendors who are working on our productions. Oslo, Barcelona, Paris a couple of times. It varies, it's a nice amount of travel. (i.e. not too much, so it still feels like a treat).

I can see why higher-ups always travel in absolute luxury. When it becomes a chore you just want everything laid on and easy for you. Hence the chauffeurs, 5* hotels, business/first class flights.
 
Bassmansam said:
Just scrolling through linkedin and it i've seen a number of people that work in recruitment posting about trips to places like Ibiza lately. Is this just something that happens in recruitment or is it more widespread?
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Was it Haigh Associates? They put out a total cringe video of them taking their top revenue earners on a private jet to Ibiza a few years back.
 
I went to Newcastle for a week with work. Some of us should hopefully be going to Head Office just outside London either later this year or early next year but again that'll likely be onto the plane, off at the airport and a taxi to the office and then potentially not even an overnight stay and back to the airport.
 
Recruitment agencies are special on linked in. They live in some alternative reality where having parties on a Friday and showing how proud and special they are and sending random emails to unsuspecting people is really really hard work. Then of course how important mental health is every 25mins.
 
Nope, but reminds me years ago I used to have a job traveling around Europe every week going to clients offices, going through all their invoices manually finding ones they could claim tax back on.

Usually a team of 2-4 of us. Went to Paris, Brussels, Madrid, Dublin, Amsterdam, just to name a few (plenty more), but best one was going to Bratislava for a whole week, about 10 of us as we had a lot of stuff to go through, IIRC client was Nestle. €1 pints were the norm there..

Travel + accomodation always paid (nothing fancy) as well as a daily supplement for food/drink. Off course after the office work, we were always going out drinking etc, had a lot of fun exploring all the different places, even though I had visited most already. Was always exciting opening the envelope every week to find out what the destination for the following week would be.

As fun as it was always travelling, it got pretty tiring, did it for 6 months.
 
ivrytwr3 said:
Oh yes, training too!!! 6 months training and then 6 months in a hot and sandy country. We're also recruiting:









RAF Recruitment | Recruitment Centres | Royal Air Force

Our recruitment centres are staffed with a friendly team who are ready to answer your questions and provide advice about which roles could suit you best.
recruitment.raf.mod.uk recruitment.raf.mod.uk
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Im a 6foot6 biologically assigned male at birth cis white male that identifies as a 125cm 15 year old Japanese schoolgirl.

Can i fly Typhoons or do i not fit in the cockpit?

You giant racistphobe.
 
We’ve got a quite highly dispersed workforce (90% remote) so foreign trips are quite common for a lot of our staff, not just senior folks. 1,000 people in 19 countries I think. So for example our European Christmas party is in Athens this year for a week. Despite 300 of 500 EMEA based staff being in the UK, it turns out it’s cheaper to do a week in Greece for everyone than London. Similar situation in North America where all our Canadian and US colleagues are in fact going to Mexico for the festivities.
 
Went to Manila for a while with an old company I worked for - to deliver training to our NOC - was 7 day work weeks, but then I got to take the team on an all expense paid 'team building' retreat for the final weekend. Also arranged me my flights back a couple of weeks later so that I could travel around a bit of SE Asia on the cheap.
 
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