On Aug 5, 4:50 am, Declan Murphy <declan_mur...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On Aug 4, 3:02 am, "John W." <worthj1...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Aug 3, 8:05 am, B Anderson <b...@qld.com> wrote:> So now we have a glorious repeat of Golden Week coming up September,
> <snip>
> > > My office deals with many overseas clients and they basically freak out,
> > > thinking we are ignoring their calls and e-mails.
>
> > So... tell them you'll be out, that it's a national holiday, sorry,
> > and, if you have to... work.
>
> I would think it should be fairly easy to set an auto-responder to
> your email, put a message on your website, and edit the answering
> machine or voice mail?
>
> > > They get 2 weeks annual leave but I doubt they take even a week in any
> > > given year. I know someone whose summer holidays consist of two Fridays
> > > off in a row. WOW!! Really kicking back there, that sure makes up for
> > > the 14 hour days.
>
> > Way back when I knew of a guy that hadn't taken a day off in his 20
> > years with the company, and the company allowed him to roll that
> > vacation over from year to year. His goal was to accumulate enough
> > vacation so that he could retire 18 months early. I thought that
> > sounded like a good plan.
>
> Thats pretty uncommon, at least in my experience.
>
This was years ago, post bubble, and the guy was an executive so that
comes with it's own set of rulles. My best friend here in the US is
allowed to accumulate leave; it's really rare here, but he figured it
up that if he were to get ill he could take off almost an entire
school year.

John W.