Summer Holidays

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Originally Posted by donKey jote

to be honest I use much of my summer vacation to relax by programing things for work that I don't have time to do otherwise :p

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Same here. Don't remember last time when I had a real vacation, with no work emails or calls.
The best part is that every time I take a vacation, on the first day the phone will ring more than on any other normal work day. :s

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Originally Posted by Big Ben

I have left 20 paid vacation days out of 22 a year. So vacation wise this has been a very slow year and so far I have nothing planned for the summer.

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I started the year with a backlog of 61 vacation days and after taking 3 weeks out for the upcoming month of August I still have 50 days left to the end of the year.
If all goes by plan I might be able to catch up with my vacation days in about 10 years or so! :laugh:

we're not allowed to carry over... any vacation backlog (prior extraordinary permission) must be taken until March of the following year :s

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Originally Posted by odykas

But my vacation plan spans 2-3 weeks, not 6

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it's 6 per year, and I'm not always able to take 5 in one go, like this year :)
As a matter of fact (pure coincidence ;) :andrea: ), I'll be meeting some colleagues who are coming over to Cheste for some tests end of July, so that's my excuse if my boss' boss realises and gives out to me about it :bandit:

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Originally Posted by donKey jote

we're not allowed to carry over... any vacation backlog (prior extraordinary permission) must be taken until March of the following year :s

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Fair enough.
We are allowed to have up to 3 years old vacation days, so this year I am using my 2011 vacation!

I've mostly managed to get work stuff out of my head for the last three weeks. Only small thoughts of the looming workload appear, but they get quickly suppressed back. :)
As a last act, tomorrow I'm taking a two day drive on smaller roads to visit friends, then to the family cabin for the weekend.

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Originally Posted by ioan

Same here. Don't remember last time when I had a real vacation, with no work emails or calls.
The best part is that every time I take a vacation, on the first day the phone will ring more than on any other normal work day. :s

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Yep. I have not had a real vacation this summer yet, just a couple of days off when I wanted. Of course, on those days I end up discussing work stuff on the phone for 2 hours anyway and sitting behind the laptop for the rest of the day :laugh: .

I would quite like to take a vacation and get away for 2-3 weeks in the autumn, but reality is that I just won't have the time for it.

It's too hot in the summer to be outside during the day. I'll stay in an air conditioned office and take time off in the fall.

This is where I spent a couple of days in an awesome natural reserve in my home country with my wife and son. http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/07/24/by6unyze.jpg
I'm having the best of times.
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/07/24/8u4ejesy.jpg

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Originally Posted by Gregor-y

It's too hot in the summer to be outside during the day. I'll stay in an air conditioned office and take time off in the fall.

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The main reason we do September vacations, in addition to the weather, is that all the kids are back in school and everything is much less crowded and a lot more pleasant to enjoy.