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"Attendance" has nothing do do with using benefits like vacation time.
^This. I work in the finance field and we are required by law to take 1-2 weeks (consecutive) vacation every years. It's regulated and documented. There's additional vacation time on top of the mandatory time.
As a manager, neither of those impress me AT ALL. As someone else said it's what you do when you're supposed to be in the office that counts most, by far. What impresses me is employees who ask for time off with enough advance notice I can plan and coordinate to accommodate them, and don't ask for significant time off when either myself or or others on the team already have time off scheduled. I don't want people not taking time off and working themselves into the ground, that does nobody any good in the long run.
In my workplace, it would not impress anyone for someone to not use their vacation time.
This. I would not even acknowledge either situation in an annual review. Vacation is a benefit given to our employees, and if they choose to not take it, I think they're foolish. I certainly wouldn't pat them on the back in their annual review.
YMMV if you work for a horrific company or boss, of course.
Still even if an employee puts in a vacation request months in advance, there's no way to know if something will come up. So is it best to cancel last minute, or not schedule at all? Either way that dedication, dependability and reliability are good employee qualities.
If your planning a vacation that far ahead. You should be having a good sense or accuracy of your organizations slow periods.
If your new and your planning your first paid vacation you should really be having this conversation with your boss, supervisor, and or trusted senior colleague/mentor.
Your question shouldn't be posed as it is here either. It should be I am up for my first vacation when is a good time to make it for? When are we slow? Etc etc etc
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SNot everyone is "entitled" to vacation.
I loved this response. Who exactly isn't entitled to vacation? Barring people who didn't put in a full year. Which seems to be the norm.
Who isn't entitled and why?
I am not picking on you either. I really want to know your opinion on that.
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Must be a culture difference between SC and NYC. Here, we do what we must to meet any deadline.
I am from the tri state as well. This is a common mentality. It's a sickness really.
There are always deadlines, quotas, demanding clients etc. None of that is mission critical it's just business. In the event of mission critical which is so rare for most organizations to experience only a few times a decade. Go ahead and ask your boss. Do you need me to cancel vacation to see this through?
If yes, do it! That's cool but before you leave that conversation secure compensation for cancellation fees etc. Like another poster mentioned.
As far as I know there are no states with laws stating that employees MUST take a certain number of paid days off per year.
Not states, but in some cases, there are federal regulations mandating it - in banking and finance, people in certain positions are required to take 2 consecutive weeks of vacation every year, so that they cannot come up with schemes to embezzle money. By having someone else doing that job for the 2 weeks, that would be enough time for most criminal activity to come to light.
And honestly, even if you consider yourself indispensable, what better way to prove it than by demonstrating that things fall apart when you are gone? Of course, if that doesn't happen, it means you aren't indispensable - no one is, actually. If you got hit by a bus tomorrow, your employer would manage to keep going.
I was just wondering, which would look more impressive to an employer when review time comes around. An employee that goes the entire year without taking any vacation, or one that will schedule a vacation, but if projects are due during the time they are scheduled to be off will cancel plans and come in to work.
I think its depends on what is need on their job. At times when it needed canceling or more properly delaying vacations is common. Only the could careless does not look at the welfare of company as their future .
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