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<blockquote data-quote="Average at Best" data-source="post: 323310" data-attributes="member: 14548"><p>I agree with you UPS Lifer, but there are some positions that make taking time off next to impossible. I used to work in the Accounting Department. Accounting is, among other things, responsible for the monthly closing of the cost books (making sure the expenses that hit the district for the month are correct and in the right places) and the annual budget planning process. </p><p> </p><p>Now, the monthly cost close takes up the first two weeks of each month, so 26 of your weeks are already blocked from vacation. Then, the annual budgeting process is done on a quarterly basis and takes another two weeks, so that's another 8 weeks gone. Then there's peak season, so the entire month of December and the last two weeks of November are gone. In the end, out of 52 weeks, you have 14 weeks to choose from.</p><p> </p><p>However, your manager and controller pick their vacations first, and they block you.</p><p> </p><p>Then, corporate changes their original planning schedule, so the weeks you THOUGHT were available for vacation are actually planning periods. Now you have to come in.</p><p> </p><p>Before you know it, it is the end of October, you have three weeks of vacation that you haven't taken yet....</p><p> </p><p>Your controller isn't going to FORCE you to take time off, because he got to be a controller by not taking his own vacations as a sup. In his mind, giving up personal time is dues to pay to move up.</p><p> </p><p>Again, not saying I disagree with you, but there are some departments where it's nearly impossible to finangle regular time off. And true, one needs some spine to go to HR when the problem persists, but that's tough too when the Controller and HR manager go bass fishing every weekend... <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/FeltTip/wink.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":wink2:" title="Wink :wink2:" data-shortname=":wink2:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Average at Best, post: 323310, member: 14548"] I agree with you UPS Lifer, but there are some positions that make taking time off next to impossible. I used to work in the Accounting Department. Accounting is, among other things, responsible for the monthly closing of the cost books (making sure the expenses that hit the district for the month are correct and in the right places) and the annual budget planning process. Now, the monthly cost close takes up the first two weeks of each month, so 26 of your weeks are already blocked from vacation. Then, the annual budgeting process is done on a quarterly basis and takes another two weeks, so that's another 8 weeks gone. Then there's peak season, so the entire month of December and the last two weeks of November are gone. In the end, out of 52 weeks, you have 14 weeks to choose from. However, your manager and controller pick their vacations first, and they block you. Then, corporate changes their original planning schedule, so the weeks you THOUGHT were available for vacation are actually planning periods. Now you have to come in. Before you know it, it is the end of October, you have three weeks of vacation that you haven't taken yet.... Your controller isn't going to FORCE you to take time off, because he got to be a controller by not taking his own vacations as a sup. In his mind, giving up personal time is dues to pay to move up. Again, not saying I disagree with you, but there are some departments where it's nearly impossible to finangle regular time off. And true, one needs some spine to go to HR when the problem persists, but that's tough too when the Controller and HR manager go bass fishing every weekend... :wink2: [/QUOTE]
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