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It really depends on the company. Where my husband works, he can take off as much time as he wants as long as he makes up the hours missed of his paid vacation (salary). He is off usually one long weekend (Thursday or Friday through Monday) per month, plus a week or two once or twice during the year. His first long weekend was the second week after he started! His boss is fine with it.
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Really? Where in the world do you work where you cannot take a week off of vacation? Even low-end menial labor jobs get a week or two of vacation every year. I've been in the work force for 25 years now and have never once worked anywhere that you couldn't take a week off. In fact, time away is often *encouraged*!
To the OP - you will probably get pro-rated vacation for the rest of the year. So when hired you were probably told you'd get 2 weeks of vacation or Paid Time Off annually. Since you were hired mid-year your company will pro-rate that amount so you'll only get roughly 1/2 of that.
That is true. I recently took a week, but a co-worker is on her 2nd vacation of 3 weeks, and one of my people just returned from a 2 week vacation, while another was also away, for one week. After 9 years I am getting 7 weeks a year, and we can only accumulate 12 weeks, anything over that gets applied to our pay. True, much of the work sits and we often come back to a pile of work, but we are encouraged to take time of to get "refreshed."
This depends on what you already have planned before you took the job. For example, If you have a 2 week long vacation with the family planned for next month, then tell them you have this time reserved and see how they handle it.
I know someone who had some stupid golf event planned the same week they started a new job and needed time off, and they let him have it. Golf, so stupid. I would have fired him for asking, but that's me.
I agree, if you already had a vacation planned and needed time off, this should have been discussed before accepting the job. Therefore you would know if they would honor it or not. Every employer is different. Some may make you wait a year, others could careless. I've been at my current job 10 months and I've taken 3 weeks off. The difference is its a small company and the owner doesn't care; however, I also don't get paid for the time off. As far as just wanting time off that wasn't planned, ask. I still think you should have known the vacation policy though before you took the job!
Like others said, it depends on the org and their policy, and your supervisor. My org has a 3 month probationary period where time off is not allowed. Unless it is a special circumstance where I would make an exception but time off for leisure is a no.
That hasn't been my experience at all. If I take a whole week off, I would be coming back to ALOT of work. So, much that I wouldn't be able to catch up by month end.
That hasn't been my experience at all. If I take a whole week off, I would be coming back to ALOT of work. So, much that I wouldn't be able to catch up by month end.
Your company lets you take a week off. It seems that employers do let people take it off.
That hasn't been my experience at all. If I take a whole week off, I would be coming back to ALOT of work. So, much that I wouldn't be able to catch up by month end.
That's unfortunate. Without knowing all the circumstances, a good bet is this is a symptom that of either a company/department isn't managed very effectively or management is unreasonable in their staffing levels or you need to figure out a way to delegate some tasks to be taken care of when you're gone.
I tell prospective employers at the interview stage that I've booked a prepaid vacation on 'X' date( even if I really haven't at the time) so that there are no vacation request surprises after I start. I've usually never had a problem.
Working a year without time off is nuts. That's the period of time getting used to the company, your coworkers, your role and you'll need some vacation along the way.
Every professional job I've had, I've been able to take a whole week off and even two. I currently have 4 weeks and I'm taking one week off starting next week. I still have to take a 2 week break for this year (it's required by the company for some employees to help prevent fraud).
To answer the OP's question, you will probably get pro-rated vacation for the rest of the year like a previous poster said. Read your handbook or rules or whatever it's called.
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