NationStates Jolt Archive

For the workers here (students kind of don't count for this, sorry) - how much vacation are you entitled to each year? How much vacation do you believe you should be entitled to? How much vacation do you believe people really need each year?

I don't get any vacation until June, assuming I keep my current job. Then they give me a week, which I don't even know if I wll use. If i want time off, I ask for it unpaid, take the financial hit, and try to make it up later if necessary. And I only take it off a few days at a time, having not taken more than four days off in a row since college with one exception - the week my fiancee's stepdad died. And I hardly consider that a vacation.

Paid vacation in no way entices me to a job. I don't want it and I don't need it. This is about the one anti-worker stance I have. I am for raising the minimum wage, for unions, for keeping tighter tabs on CEOs, for better unemployment benefits, for a living wage, for a progressive income tax, etc. I am against paid vacation. Paid sick time, sure. No one should be punished by their employer for being sick, especially when people get sick at work. But people getting paid to go overseas for pleasure is a bunch of horse manure.

I'd die without my vacation time.

It's kinda weird where I work, though, because vacation/sick/personal days are all lumped together. Which, of course, results in a lot of people coming to work when they're sick, working inefficiently on those days and getting other people sick, only to save up their vacation time. In short: A BAD POLICY.

For the workers here (students kind of don't count for this, sorry) - how much vacation are you entitled to each year? How much vacation do you believe you should be entitled to? How much vacation do you believe people really need each year?

I don't get any vacation until June, assuming I keep my current job. Then they give me a week, which I don't even know if I wll use. If i want time off, I ask for it unpaid, take the financial hit, and try to make it up later if necessary. And I only take it off a few days at a time, having not taken more than four days off in a row since college with one exception - the week my fiancee's stepdad died. And I hardly consider that a vacation.

Paid vacation in no way entices me to a job. I don't want it and I don't need it. This is about the one anti-worker stance I have. I am for raising the minimum wage, for unions, for keeping tighter tabs on CEOs, for better unemployment benefits, for a living wage, for a progressive income tax, etc. I am against paid vacation. Paid sick time, sure. No one should be punished by their employer for being sick, especially when people get sick at work. But people getting paid to go overseas for pleasure is a bunch of horse manure.
I'm a teacher, so 2 month + if you count summer, winter, spring, etc...

I work part-time...
Just felt like posting. PC +1 and all that.

I'm both, do I count? ^.^

I'm both, do I count? ^.^

I guess so...I was for a while, so yes.

Sick days and "vacation" days must not be lumped together. They are separate where I work, but if people have enough sick hours, they can call off for whatever reason they damn well feel like, and not only are they not penalized for it, but they get paid for that day (provided they are full-time...our part-timers don't get sick pay.) They must be kept separate, in that no employee should ever be penalized if they have a valid doctor's note, and should be entitled to sick pay if they have it, but at no point should vacation time be awarded to anyone. For teachers, it's a bit different because of how the school year works, but then again, I can't imagine two months off.

I worked for seven years at one company and never got more than two weeks paid vacation per year. That sucked.