Leading out day (holidays)

[islfor]

Does anyone know if we are allowed to take a day off for travelling to your holiday destination it will be a Saturday & im off for 2 weeks from the following monday ?

[shadow]

Depends if you have a half decent manager as the guy next to me got to do that.

[mandelsons_toenail]

i gave 9 months notice and still didnt get it. went sick

[jockstrapp]

i gave 9 months notice and still didnt get it. went sick

When will these dickheads that run this company realize that if we can't get holidays then going sick is the name of the game :cfo

[mandelsons_toenail]

I agree. I bought up with manager too that lapsing duties as we are in our office equals more leave for us , as we lapse 4 duties at present it should equal 4 more holiday spaces. He disagreed. prick.

strike now

[dannyboy]

we are told we have to book 2 weeks to get a saturday before your holiday even though you only need the 1 week off .they will not give anyone saturday before off .only hope is that somebody will swap with you.

[andy2007]

i gave 9 months notice and still didnt get it. went sick

When will these dickheads that run this company realize that if we can't get holidays then going sick is the name of the game :cfo

And it's attitudes like that, that make life so difficult for the genuinely ill!

[DGP1]

i gave 9 months notice and still didnt get it. went sick

When will these dickheads that run this company realize that if we can't get holidays then going sick is the name of the game :cfo

And it's attitudes like that, that make life so difficult for the genuinely ill!

But those attitudes are caused by a bullying, uncaring management, it's really not that difficult to give someone a single day off but they don't because that would mean using their brains a bit too much (BTW all leave has to taken at sometime so it makes no difference to their budgets).

[stokes11eg]

Ifi t's anything like our office--a few people ALWAYS seem to get extra time of for special days-- most others don't,and that's what causes the problems.

[DOM]

i gave 9 months notice and still didnt get it. went sick

When will these dickheads that run this company realize that if we can't get holidays then going sick is the name of the game :cfo

And it's attitudes like that, that make life so difficult for the genuinely ill!

But those attitudes are caused by a bullying, uncaring management, it's really not that difficult to give someone a single day off but they don't because that would mean using their brains a bit too much (BTW all leave has to taken at sometime so it makes no difference to their budgets).

It makes a difference to the budget if all the leave slots have been taken on that day, meaning overtime is needed to pay someone to cover you and not a reserve, unless the delivery is lapsed that is.

[pinstripe]

Surely the simplest thing to do would be to book the leading out day as a day's leave when you book the time off. You say you need 2 weeks and 1 day.
I've never heard of them before this, I book my holidays in advance and work around the dates I have chosen. Strangely I'm with RM on this one simply because, what is to stop someone from booking 2 weeks leave and then demanding an extra day, probably at short notice. We work for RM and unfortunately we are not that important to them, we constantly harp on about the 'bad' things they do, and rightly so, but here we are demanding what Crozier would call Spanish Practices.
I can only go on how things are in my office and we book our holidays from October for the following year, so there is plenty of time for you to book a holiday within the dates you choose.

[dannyboy]

in the summer we are not allowed to book one odd day. our odd days can only be taken in winter period so we cant put one before a weeks holiday to have a saturday before off

[andy2007]

in the summer we are not allowed to book one odd day. our odd days can only be taken in winter period so we cant put one before a weeks holiday to have a saturday before off

So far (admittedly I'm indoor) I've always been able to book 2 weeks and 1 day. Although it's harder to book just 1 day on it's own. If it's in a continuous block, they're taking the p**s, by refusing it IMHO.

[harmony]

if he says no ask him if its personal??????

[DGP1]

if he says no ask him if its personal??????

Is that not supposed to be 'Ask him if it's personnel'