On 2013-04-12 12:55:54, Justin Richards wrote:

>> In general, I'd say if you can't take a vacation that you want to
>> take, you either haven't planned far enough ahead, or your boss is
>> incapable of properly managing his business (of course for my values
>> of "properly managing"), or he/she is too greedy.=20
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>> It's always possible to take a vacation; it's more a matter of
>> priorities and sticking to what's agreed upon than of it being
>> possible or not.=20
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> This is definitely one of "those" areas the admins will be watching. =20

Maybe... OTOH, if we can write "In a small company you can't take a
vacation if there's work that needs to be done", the issue seems to be
game :)

> Some get only 1 week a year to see their families.  They dont have the
> luxury to plan ahead.

It seems you are saying that getting only 1 week a year means it's not
possible to plan ahead. If so, I don't understand why; to me it seems
that the two issues (how much vacation, being able to plan the vacation
date ahead of time) are not too closely related. (A reasonable person
could even correlate them inversely: for someone who gets 6 weeks of
vacation a year it is generally less of a "suffering" to shift a few
days at the last minute than for someone who only gets a few days.)

In any case, this doesn't contradict what I wrote -- I consider it in
full alignment, even considering that someone may only get 1 week a year
and is not allowed to plan this "vacation" ahead of time.

In every place I have worked so far (almost exclusively small companies,
almost always as contractor), reasonable vacation planning was possible.
(Unpaid vacation, of course, but that's a different issue.)

I just noticed that I used "reasonable" twice here... that probably
tells something :)

Gerhard
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