luvnlifelady
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Post by luvnlifelady on Mar 15, 2019 17:01:26 GMT
I know that teachers are somewhat limited during the school year but I was also wondering if others are limited based on season or different factors for their job?
My guy works at a restaurant that is primarily known for their comfort food. I would think that is more a fall and winter type of thing but maybe not. He gets three weeks of vacation a year but it is limited to only one week in the summer.
It’s a bit of a bummer because we plan to go back to California and probably need at least a week for that so that will shut down his vacation for the rest of summer.
I was hoping to have my adult kids out here and do some road trip type of thing but that may have to wait. Their prime availability is summer so that makes it a little challenging to plan. Also winter weather can be a factor in when we can take road trips. We will figure it out though.
I have also recently gotten into contact with a couple of cousins and we are trying to figure out a place for a get together which may mean Chicago and I would like to have him along although it’s not overly critical.
Is your vacation time seasonally limited?
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Post by disneypal on Mar 15, 2019 17:03:22 GMT
As an accountant, we have cannot take off during our year end process - basically the months of June - August, which of course is when everyone wants off because the kids are out of school. It is a pain but we are told that when we are hired.
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Post by mustlovecats on Mar 15, 2019 17:05:07 GMT
I’ve had lots of jobs with seasonal restrictions. Retail you can’t really take off from thanksgiving to Christmas, lots of offices have busy seasons, medical and dental they don’t want you to take off during back to school because there is a lot of demand.
Before I was a teacher I worked in retail and then as a receptionist and I did have to work with the demand of the business to choose my time off.
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Post by katlady on Mar 15, 2019 17:05:44 GMT
At my Company, it depends on the group you are in. The Accounting group can’t take vacation at the end of the year and into the first couple of weeks of the new year. The Budgeting group is pretty much out of luck the first two months of the year. Other groups are busy in summer. So there is no Company wide policy.
I remember one lady whose wedding anniversary was around Dec 30th and she was never allowed the day off because she was in accounting.
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anaterra
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Post by anaterra on Mar 15, 2019 17:09:50 GMT
I work on a production line... I have 5 weeks of vacation... I can take it anytime.. I can call in the morning and say taking a vacation day today... it's always ok...
We don't really have a busy season
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Post by mrssmith on Mar 15, 2019 17:13:40 GMT
We are not officially limited, but there are a lot of early September deadlines, so I try not to be gone then. I am more limited because my kids are in grade school, so vacations are typically when they have breaks.
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Post by sassyangel on Mar 15, 2019 17:18:28 GMT
Yes. We have vacation freeze over Thanksgiving to after New Years, cause it’s our busiest time.  |
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Post by littlemama on Mar 15, 2019 17:18:52 GMT
I cant take off the last 2 weeks of the year and I have other restrictions related to audit- that occurs in the winter when I dont want to take time off anyway though
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Post by Zee on Mar 15, 2019 17:31:32 GMT
We are not allowed to request time off from Christmas Eve to NYD and cannot request those holidays off. Other than that, no.
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Post by padresfan619 on Mar 15, 2019 17:48:31 GMT
There isn’t an official policy but it is generally frowned upon to ask for time off between early November through Christmas. We are an online retail store and are given the week between Christmas and New Years off as a thank you for our hard work during the holiday shopping season.
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Post by bc2ca on Mar 15, 2019 17:53:55 GMT
I worked for a company that blocked time off into quarters and you couldn't take more than a week off outside your block. If your holiday block was Jan-March, you needed to take the bulk of your vacation during that time. The blocks shifted annually, so every 4 years you had the Jul-Sep block.
A girlfriend in banking isn't able to take more than a week in the summer. Her husband is a teacher.
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Post by jeremysgirl on Mar 15, 2019 17:54:18 GMT
I am an accountant and I can't take time off between Sept 15th and Dec 1st. Our fiscal year end is Sept 30th.
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Post by oliquig on Mar 15, 2019 17:54:55 GMT
Me no, but my bff if a hairstylist and they are not allowed to take off between Nov 15-Dec 31.
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Post by chaosisapony on Mar 15, 2019 18:15:11 GMT
Yes. While there's no official policy it's frowned upon to request time off in June. A day here or there is fine, but a week long vacation would not be approved.
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Post by busy on Mar 15, 2019 18:17:08 GMT
We have unlimited vacation and our only limitation is that it not be more than two weeks at a time, without management approval.
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smartypants71
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Post by smartypants71 on Mar 15, 2019 18:17:38 GMT
While I have unlimited vacation, it is not easy for me to take time off during certain weeks in the month. I work in FP&A, and cannot take off the 2nd week (financial reporting) and 4th weeks (month end close).
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smartypants71
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Post by smartypants71 on Mar 15, 2019 18:19:17 GMT
We have unlimited vacation and our only limitation is that it not be more than two weeks at a time, without management approval. Are you in Europe? The reason I ask is that I work for a British company and we have unlimited vacation. I don't believe it's commonplace in the US. |
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Post by maryannscraps on Mar 15, 2019 18:19:38 GMT
My husband has a manufacturing firm and they shut down the production lines twice a year -- the week of Christmas and the week of the fourth of July. Production workers are required to take vacation for those two weeks.
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Post by busy on Mar 15, 2019 18:27:39 GMT
We have unlimited vacation and our only limitation is that it not be more than two weeks at a time, without management approval. Are you in Europe? The reason I ask is that I work for a British company and we have unlimited vacation. I don't believe it's commonplace in the US. No, I'm in the US. Unlimited vacation is pretty common in tech, but it's not as great as it sounds. Research bears out that employees at companies with unlimited policies take less vacation, on average, than employees at companies with defined leave policies. My company is actually great about it and we don't have the weird politics around "I don't know how much is OK to take, I don't want to look lazy so I'm going to take very little" that is the big problem with unlimited policies. That said... I used to have five weeks annually when I was at the bank and I took all of it. Now I have unlimited and take far less. But I also don't "take vacation" for long weekends or personal days. I can do my entire job from my phone and iPad, so if I'm taking a four day weekend or a day for personal stuff, I'll have those two things with me and will address anything significant that comes up (often nothing) but don't report it as vacation. If I'm taking a full week or longer, I put that down as vacation (but I still have my stuff with me, just in case). I also am a remote worker and have a ton of schedule flexibility, so while I may not count as many days as vacation as I used to, I get plenty of time off. |
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Post by papersilly on Mar 15, 2019 18:33:34 GMT
Yes. Can't go during spring tax season and early fall tax season.
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Post by paget on Mar 15, 2019 19:54:50 GMT
I can take vacation any time I want. It’s also nice to be someplace where people expect that you are going to use your sick and vacation time and it’s totally fine.
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Post by tommygirl on Mar 15, 2019 19:55:30 GMT
I work in a pediatric medical office. There is no blackout period but it is frowned upon to take vacation in winter and the last 2 weeks before public school starts. We are always super busy during those times.
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Post by gmcwife1 on Mar 15, 2019 20:08:12 GMT
Yes, we have fourth quarter restrictions. We are in health insurance and most plans renew January 1st so we are really busy putting plans together for January renewals.
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Post by cmpeter on Mar 15, 2019 21:17:43 GMT
I mange an online site, so I wouldn’t take vacation on Black Friday, cyber Monday or the few days leading up to our “order by this date to receive by Christmas” date. It’s just to hectic and crazy. Other than that, I have some projects I need to work around, but not any specific time periods.
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Post by julie5 on Mar 15, 2019 21:26:45 GMT
My husband always took vacation in February because that’s when the trade show is but this year they went to Vegas and we stayed home for several reasons. A) I didn’t like Vegas the first time I went and I certainly didn’t enjoy enough for the kids to come this time b) my middle dd is an ho or student and can’t miss much school and c) we no longer get the trip comped because we don’t buy enough, so if I’m paying for it, I’m going where I want when I want. We take a mini vacay in May and September-weekend trips that are comped by the companies we buy from. Philly and Florida. Plenty to do. And yes someone will say the Grand Canyon is great for the kids to see but to get there from Vegas we spent $1000 for just the two of us to take a helicopter ride. To take the kids for $2000, we drive a camper and actually stay there for more than one hour for a little extra money.
ETA rereading my post-I realize we do NOT HAVE to take our time at any specific time. We just used to choose to do so and now we don’t. We sell tools. There’s no real down time except right after Christmas. Everyone’s too broke to buy anything.
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Post by kelly8875 on Mar 15, 2019 21:30:10 GMT
It’s hard for me to take extra days off around Christmas and New Years. Our fiscal year end is 12/31, and I’m I charge of all the financials for our company. Now that my kids are older teens, it’s not as big of a deal, but when they were little I wanted more time at home with them to enjoy Christmas and I couldn’t. Now they have other things they want to be doing, so it doesn’t hurt as much to have to work.
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Post by workingclassdog on Mar 15, 2019 21:32:45 GMT
My old job in accounting.. no vacations (for the most part) from middle of Jan to April 15. There were a few small exceptions but otherwise no vacations in that time period.
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Post by AussieMeg on Mar 15, 2019 21:41:01 GMT
Kind of..... Our busiest time of year is November and December. There used to be a blanket rule in my department that no-one could take time off in December. That has now changed, but definitely only one person at a time is allowed leave in December. Funnily enough, a few years ago the company mandated an office closure from approx 19th December to 2nd January for all office staff, which with the public holidays ends up being about 6 days of leave. My department is exempt because we are still really busy right up to 24th December.
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Post by scrappington on Mar 15, 2019 21:48:24 GMT
Ours is May to Sept no vacation. We are in construction.
We shut down. Between Christmas and New years. Apparently if you aren't me you can take vacation anytime you want (except summer) unless your me. I had to fight to get two days off.
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Post by angie3dpea on Mar 15, 2019 21:50:53 GMT
I have a blackout period from Christmas - Jan 8 which means no PTO at all.
We have limited PTO for Dec and Jan in addition to the blackout period.
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