Genesia said:

Cerebus said:

That long weekend advice is golden! Unfortunately, having been responsible for tracking vacation hours/sick time and/or scheduling at multiple companies I can tell you that it's often frowned upon and sometimes just not allowed. Particularly at places where vacation time needs to be scheduled ahead (from six months to a year at one place I worked) and multiple employees can't be gone at the same time (due to coverage issues). Honestly, it's my preferred way to use vacation time and personal days. But it can be huge headache for scheduling and personnel issues.

Yeah, here they "encourage" people to take most of their time in big chunks. I say fuck that. You want to talk scheduling nightmares? Four of the five writers in my group get five weeks of vacation. (We've all been with the company 20+ years.) Our bosses love it when we take it in short stretches - less chance of overlap that way. It does get tricky around holidays, so I don't always expect to get those times. And we all are willing to cover for each other, which helps.

Totally helps when you have several people who are willing to cover for each other. The worst is when there are two people who do the same job who are forced to cover each other's work load when one of them is out, and then they both want vacation a the same time.

I might have taken a five weeks of vacation over an eight week period in 2004.

Cerebus said:

Genesia said:

Cerebus said: Yeah, here they "encourage" people to take most of their time in big chunks. I say fuck that. You want to talk scheduling nightmares? Four of the five writers in my group get five weeks of vacation. (We've all been with the company 20+ years.) Our bosses love it when we take it in short stretches - less chance of overlap that way. It does get tricky around holidays, so I don't always expect to get those times. And we all are willing to cover for each other, which helps.

Totally helps when you have several people who are willing to cover for each other. The worst is when there are two people who do the same job who are forced to cover each other's work load when one of them is out, and then they both want vacation a the same time.

I might have taken a five weeks of vacation over an eight week period in 2004.

Oh, I so know about that kind of thing. When I worked in another division of the company a couple years ago, there were only two writers. And since the other writer was my supervisor, I was basically fucked (because she took full advantage of the fact ). It's one of the reasons I was glad to get back to where I am now - where there are more of us available to cover.