Wow. I don't think I said that at all. That's the way the ups system is set up. I take my turn to pick my vacations when it is my turn in seniority. I always tried to take 1 week in March, one in October and the rest in the summer. The system sucked when I was a new employee, but got better the longer I stayed. Working somewhere 38 years has it's benefits. When a junior employee came to me and asked me to swap weeks with him because he had a family function, I did it because I had nothing in particular planned that week. I passed on spring break weeks after I was eligible for them simply so a junior guy below me with kids might take them. Seniority is about the only thing going for you where I worked. You want me to give it up because a younger driver is entitled more than me? Wow. Just wow.
"When I was able to get those weeks, finally, I didn't. I wanted to let younger drivers get them if they could. That's the way seniority works."
Sorry but that's exactly what I got from the last sentence of your comment.
Again, no where have I ever said you shouldn't take the weeks you want and give them to a less tenured person. What I'm talking about it people purposely hogging all the prime vacation because they somehow feel like less tenured people don't deserve to have a week off with their family.
All the high seniority guys at my station never had to miss a summer vacation with their kids because they joined the company at the right time and we all able to get at least one week off a summer, when their kids were young. Now that their kids are out of the house and have lives of their own, they take all the summer vacation they can just because they can, preventing young guys with young families from getting anything before October, at which point, their kids are back in school. It's this mentality of I got mine so screw everyone else that has made this company a joke. Instead of looking at the greater good, we only have people looking out for themselves.
I'm no martyr but if I can effect some sort of change, great. Maybe if I only take a week or two in the summer and leave something for younger guys, they'll remember that and do the same when they're in the position I'm in. Eventually, hopefully, the system becomes such that people think of everyone and everyone gets a fair shake. It certainly isn't that way now.