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Thanks to the relentless procession of "Renovation" shows on TV in the last decade a significant portion of my annual leave time has been spent doing things to my property that my wife saw on TV...
...I fucking hate renovation shows of all kinds. :mad:
I currently get 43 leave days a year. :)
I work in 'academia', GGT. Similar to education, I guess. But not in the States.
7 days off? That's not even two weeks :(Quote:
Originally Posted by GGT
I have 20 days, so 4 weeks. Which is the legal minimum. But I have more than a week over-time that I could get back.
I get zero days, but 8% extra pay, since I have a zero-hour contract anyway.
The problem isn't that people don't get offered vacation days here, the problem is that in our workaholic culture people refuse to take their vacation days, or just want double pay by working and taking a payout for their vacation days.
If this were a Family Feud question, masturbation would be the #1 answer.
:haha:
Hence why I brought a new build house with no soul/character. :D:up:Quote:
Originally Posted by termite
Having said that, I spent my birthday and 14 days unpacking, putting flat packs together and drilling various holes for blinds/curtains and finally doing the garden.
I also get 26 days annual leave, which 4 are already tied up for the Christmas break by default. I also get 'Banked hours' so any hours I work outside of my contracted hours I can take off when I want. I also finish at 1:30pm on a Friday, but do sometimes have to work till much later depending on workload.
When I was at Lotus I used to work from 8:30am till 4:40pm Mon-Thursday and then finished at 12:30 on a Friday. I miss those hours. :sour:
I get 25 days a year, but I also work on a somewhat different schedule which effectively means that every 4th week I am off. (28 day cycle, 19 days in Amsterdam, 9 days in Istanbul).
During the 9 days in Istanbul I do as little as I can get away with.
1. Pot Noodles.
2. A good computer game.
3. An extensive collection of pornography.
You still single Gogo?
He's married, which means points 2/3 is well out of the question. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Spawnie
Speaking of vacations, has anyone visited Singapore? If so, what was your visit like?
More likely point 1 is out of the question if the wonderful gogobongomiss has her way :o
Head out to the vinyards on Long Island...they'll love yer Beetle.
That's exactly the reason our nanny government enforces 4 weeks of holidays.Quote:
Originally Posted by littlelolligagged
I get 2 weeks off every 10 weeks (paid)
Before I was married and had a daughter, I used to sit in my pants for a week, drink beer, play video games and watch movies/porn.
Now, I sit in my pants for a week, drink beer, play video games and watch movies/porn.
I hate you
So far this has been splendid.
Biking. Mojitos. Apple picking. Drunkenly wandering around semi-industrial areas late at night. Going out to meals far more than I normally do. Saw Martha Marcy May Marlene. Got oysters.
I also pulled-out my old 35MM Nikon FE-2, bought 4 rolls of film and exposed it. The film processing is absurdly expensive, so I'm definitely not doing this again anytime soon. But the photos I got back were interesting. My manual focusing skills have gone to hell, but not too bad.
I just calculated my vacation time for the rest of the year. Looks like I will have 38 hours left on the 31st for use next year. A bit less than usual because I have stayed home a couple of days this year because I didn't feel like working.
Not to sidetrack horribly...but WHY? If I wanna work my ass off, why can't I?Quote:
Originally Posted by earthJoker
Mojitos :up:
Agreed.Quote:
Originally Posted by GGT
But to be in the spirit Dread, you should be drinking Long Island Ice Teas...yummy
I only take vacation days when they're about to expire. But I show those bastards trying to cram vacations down my throat - I spend most of my vacations working from home.Quote:
Originally Posted by Veldan Rath
Because you make all the other slackers look bad :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Veldan Rath
Pretty sad, when taking "earned" vacation days off can be held against the employee, or workers view vacation time that way. :( No wonder we have so many companies employing part-time or contract workers who don't "expect" any paid time off, when they feel Lucky enough to have the damn job.Quote:
Originally Posted by littlelolligagged
Also no surprise we had Unions forming on behalf of dog tired and over worked people, mostly working jobs with no benefits, over 40 hours a week, working in dangerous environments (coal miners, oil riggers, railroad or steel workers, lumberjacks) when that meant trading income for safety, just trying to get a fair shake.
If we submit more then 2 leave slips in a year, its an automatic disqualification from earning top marks during our review. Only thing that doesn't count against you is days taken with FMLA. We get 2 weeks a year, plus 2 floating holidays, and 2 weeks sick.
Wow your county is a hardass. I submitted leave slips all the time; took half days when I felt like crap or had errands to run. I used up alot during the pregnancy with all of my doctor visits, But we also accrued a ton of leave; sick and personal. I still had so much from when I didn't take vacation that my payout after I quit was pretty nice. I'm sure they'll have to scale back on that sort of thing eventually; people foam at the mouth when government employees get better benefits (for less pay though).
Cat and OG, you were county or public employees, right?
As a nurse in private employ, none of what you post pertains to my personal experiences. In fact, when I was younger, I was the kind of employee that pulled extra shifts for people calling in sick--with sick kids. I was always last in line for getting holidays off, like Thanksgiving or Christmas--because I didn't have kids.
Later, as a Clinical Manager, I'd have to fill in for nurses (and pretty much anyone on night shift) who'd call in sick ten minutes before their shift, or move other nurses around, because it was too late to call an outside agency to fill in the gaps. I spent twenty years doing that shit. Days, Evenings, Nights, Weekends, Holidays. OB/GYN, NICU, ER, CCU, ICU, med-surg, IV therapy, dietary, materials management, Social Services....damn I'm tired just remembering it. :mad:
Ya, GGT, one of my friends is a nurse and deals with that alot. Last Saturday she ended up working an extra shift, plus 2 hours after that because someone called in sick and another had car trouble. My cousin is also a nurse and she's always working it seems. I really feel for people in hospital employment. You really have to have a special personality and compassion (and patience) to do that line of work. I lack all three :(
My sister's job (in the science field) she gets alot of time off but ends up working major holidays because she is unmarried and no kids.
For what it's worth, before I got my government job I worked all holidays at my other private industry jobs, and sometimes came in for other sick people. Even sometimes at my government jobs I worked them if others had already requested vacation (I worked for an aquarium so we were open every day but Thanksgiving and Christmas, and my job was "behind the scenes" so someone had to do work even if the public wasn't there). Luckily I got overtime for holidays, so in the beginning I'd work them just to get the extra cash.
It wasn't until I moved up in position that I took more time off. However, some people who had been with the city for years had so much vacation (we could rollover a certain amount from previous years) that some people would take off weeks at a time. One guy I worked with didn't work a full 40 hour workweek the entire time I was at another city facility-2 years!
This is winding down nicely. Spent some time with family, went to a museum, read through one book and then started Bonfire of the Vanities. Got to spend last night for the first time with a woman I met a few weeks ago.
Though I've noticed how my attachment to my real life begins to fray after about five days outside of work. For the first few days I had a very active plan for things. Then I started to wind-down and just saw movies and had lunches and dinners with people. Then I just started doing fuck-all. It really takes two weeks to totally compress, but this has been overall really pleasant and a good (plus cheap!) way to relax.
Now it's snowing outside in NY. Below are some photos (sans the ones with people/me) from this week, taken on my 1980s Nikon FE-2 35mm camera for practice. I haven't used the camera in years; my manual photo skills have really gone to hell.
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Nice pictures! Dread did you deface NY property?!?! ;)