How much vacation do you get in your job?
Me, I get four weeks.
Do you get made to feel guilty for taking vacation?
I am due to start a vacation on Wednesday for 16 days. My parents and my inlaws are descending upon us. It will be like Meet The Fockers but unfunny. neutral
I will not be out of state but for a three day foray to Yellowstone. I daren't tell anyone at work that I will be home for most of these days because they will call me to come into work.
I have lost the weekend that I normally don't work because I was made to feel guilty about taking the vacation. Many calls saying "it's been hard to find cover for your vacation but if you could do this weekend" etc. So now I am working seven nights in a row ending on Tuesday. I already feel knackered.
There was a memo that went round a few months ago saying if we did not pick up vacant shifts where I work that we would not be eligible for the highest ranking in the evaluation scheme (ie, you will not be eligible for a good raise)
Anyhow, I realize that most people on the board are likely salaried and don't deal with this particular problem but are you pressured to work when you don't want to and are you made feel guilty for taking vacation? Do you work whilst on vacation?
Came across this website;
http//www.timeday.org/
Know how you feel di evil but finally (after working here for 18 years)I have been able to stop the guilt and I just take the time when I need it and ignore everyone elses comments.
I usually do as you are and let everyone beleive we are out of state and unable to be reached.
The fiasco after last years mammoth hurricane evacuation is what made me decide I had no loyalty to anyone one at my job. We tried to leave like everyone else but as Mick was needed up until the last minute we were stuck in traffic and as I was recovering from surgery six hours in the truck and only just out of our area made the decision for us to return and sit it out. After the hurricane was over I was contacteed to open up the county lab and I gladly did this and worked all weekend and through the Monday running environmental bacteria tests so hospitals, plants etc could get their water supply back online. I was the only one available as everyone else was out of town and officially all county offices were closed until the Tuesday. Some people didn't return until the end of that week and everyone was paid a regular wage. I questioned this as I needed overtime having worked the weekend and worked during an official holiday but was told no overtime allowed evil
Eventually one of the local cities in the area actually spoke to the commisioners court about how the county lab had helped get everything up and running again and I was finally given overtime.......only it was comp. time not money roll so that's when I decided to start the "you give me the time I'll use it when I want" attitude mrgreen
I think it's horrible that you're made to feel so guilty for taking time that's owed to you evil I've only ever worked as a teacher here so haven't experienced such demands (school vacations are set) - although I've continuously been asked to work summer programs and always politely declined!
Definitely a case to be answered there Diane - I guess the perfomance rating is the carrot/axe dangled above you to "enourage" you to comply.
Are you in a union? I am in SEIU, mostly by default (you either join and pay the dues or you pay the dues anyway under a 'Fair Share' system) and I know they have been working in my area to take on more members who work in looking after old people and children and it's opened a right can of worms.
I took a couple of weeks off to watch the World Cup and offered to cover emergencies remotely during that time. Usually it was just replying back to e-mails or stupid stuff like changing passwords that came up.
I also asked for a week off very soon for when my sister and her husband come out to visit and that is the week everyone goes back to school but I didn't feel guilty as I've put myself out many times in the past few years, including going in unpaid to fix problems at night for the newspaper production people.
Not sure how much vacation I get a year - they seem to disguise it quite well but I was surprised that I took 2 weeks already and am about to take my third and will still have about five days left - that's almost on the same page as UK holiday.
I get 10 days, thats it and it sucks.
It means that I pretty much have to save it all up for a trip home.
What makes it worse is all of my friends calling me up from home telling me about their six weeks holiday they get a year.
I guess we all made our decisions and comprimises, but its is the one thing that I do feel really differs between here and the UK.
I've only been in this job for 8 months, I get 1 week after 6 months and then 2 after a year. Will be burning off the week before January in odd days. The 2 I plan to use well next year on a trip home. Don't know how my boss will react when I put in my request, but he seems to be the one driving for flexibility and freedom within the office so I think it will be ok.
For my first 6 years here I received 10 days, which is pitiful.
Where I am now I receive 27 days, which is a bit more like it. And when my adoption is finished I will have 3 weeks paid adoption leave.
Ive had jobs with paid vacation and jobs with out .
hourly paid .. with benefits and most times in the uk you get more vac in the package, set hours per week set vaction time usually increasing with longativity any extra hours worked is overtime , time of for doctor /dentist etc is non paid leave .
IN management.. on salary with decent benefits but not really fixed hours can be first in and last out on any working day .( sometimes applies to days off ) casual (as and when ) tiime of for doctor / dentist /sickness etc is with no loss of income
On comm ... no set vac you take what you need when you can but of course there is no pay ..in times of good cash flow work ,and take time of during the low season.
time of for doctors visits etc can be covered with no loss of income byscheduling appts
there is the good and bad in all three system of renumeration/ vacation bepending on what you have as priority .
I haven't worked any job here that has had anypaid vacation time.
One because Iwas classed as independant contractor.
The other was because I was part time, which I figure was a big cop out. The company didn't even allow part timers to attend the Christmas Party event. There were times I came in to cover for others, did several jobs that others should have been doing but no one liked so ignored them, stayed many many times longer than my "hours".
Eventually told them to shove it when they wouldn't give me the full time job that someone had retired from that I had been covering for a year or so.
Now looking to find a full time job before New Year.