Annual leave

kerryked

Beasty wrote: »

I blame Personnel, or is it Human Resources? Oops sorry, it's now Human Capital and their "business partners"....

Talent Acquisition and Management

Glenster

_Jamie_ wrote: »

I believe that poster is in Germany.

Oh no. Im stupid. I apologise.

I get 26 days annual leave to use as I please, 9 bank holidays, 1 good Friday and what ever number of days is needed to be off from the 23rd of December till the first day back in Jan (that's 4 days this year to have all xmas off excluding the bank holidays). So overall 40 days. Aside from getting the Christmas off not taken from my annual leave I don't think I'm that out of the ordinary for amount of days off in Ireland.

Kichote

Kallie Rhythmic Memento wrote: »

I get 26 days to use as I please, 9 bank holidays, 1 good Friday and what ever number of days is needed to be off from the 23rd of December till the first day back in Jan (that's 4 days this year to have all xmas off excluding the bank holidays). So overall 40 days. Aside from getting the Christmas off not taken from my holidays I don't think I'm that out of the ordinary for amount of holidays in Ireland.

The tiger is roaring for ya

El_Duderino 09

Kichote wrote:

When did this nonsense start? I don't think I've heard "annual leave" being used before the 2010s and if you were caught saying it in the 80's or 90's you'd probably get a bating. Can anyone shed a bit of light on the history of this term?

Yeah it's easy. When your colleague is going to the hospital to have his doctor tickle his prostate, he says he's taking a day annual leave.

It saves him telling you he's taking a holiday and then having to explain that he's not actually going on holiday blah blah.

It's annual leave and he can call it a holiday if he wants to tell you he's going on holiday.

Nothing to do with new fangled political correctness. It's old school privacy.

Kichote

El_Duderino 09 wrote: »

Yeah it's easy. When your colleague is going to the hospital to have his doctor tickle his prostate, he says he's taking a day annual leave.

It saves him telling you he's taking a holiday and then having to explain that he's not actually going on holiday blah blah.

It's annual leave and he can call it a holiday if he wants to tell you he's going on holiday.

Nothing to do with new fangled political correctness. It's old school privacy.

I just say I'm going cutting turf for the day if I'm going to the doctor for that reason. I even have a stash of pics of me cutting turf that I bring back as "proof"

El_Duderino 09

Kichote wrote:

I just say I'm going cutting turf for the day if I'm going to the doctor for that reason. I even have a stash of pics of me cutting turf that I bring back as "proof"

So you'd prefer if we all called them 'turf cutting days' rather than annual leave? Sounds like both words serve the same function

_Jamie_

Kallie Rhythmic Memento wrote: »

I get 26 days annual leave to use as I please, 9 bank holidays, 1 good Friday and what ever number of days is needed to be off from the 23rd of December till the first day back in Jan (that's 4 days this year to have all xmas off excluding the bank holidays). So overall 40 days. Aside from getting the Christmas off not taken from my annual leave I don't think I'm that out of the ordinary for amount of days off in Ireland.

Well, in the private sector, you'd need to factor in Christmas into those 26 days. Some private sector employees might get the 30 or so days you get excluding the bank hols and public hols but not many. I've worked in both the private and public sector. In the public sector, I got the amount you get currently. In the private sector, not a hope. Even 26 days would take a while to earn, never mind 30 or so.

Kichote

El_Duderino 09 wrote: »

So you'd prefer if we all called them 'turf cutting days' rather than annual leave? Sounds like both words serve the same function

It's a different activity for each time but it would be something from the past that I have actually done. Another day I might be going cutting turf but I'd be saying I'm going to the doctor. It's also vital to match the activity with the perceived amount of misery the colleagues are going through. If everyone is all "Yay!" and Fun I'm not going to spoil the mood by saying I'm going to the doctor for the afternoon. Similarly when everyone is being miserable for whatever reason I'm not going to say "screw you guys, I'm going island hopping on my shiny new powerboat with a bunch of fine women tomorrow"

Surreptitious

Why for the love of anything holy would anyone go to Ballybunion.

suicide_circus

Surreptitious wrote: »

Why for the love of anything holy would anyone go to Ballybunion.

Golf

Yourself isit

Kallie Rhythmic Memento wrote: »

I get 26 days annual leave to use as I please, 9 bank holidays, 1 good Friday and what ever number of days is needed to be off from the 23rd of December till the first day back in Jan (that's 4 days this year to have all xmas off excluding the bank holidays). So overall 40 days. Aside from getting the Christmas off not taken from my annual leave I don't think I'm that out of the ordinary for amount of days off in Ireland.

That's far from normal.

BraveDonut

Work for an American company. Its just easier to explain to them in terms that they understand.

Vacation = Going on your holidays
Holiday = Christmas, 4th of July, Thanksgiving, etc.
Annual Leave = Time off that is not one of the above