How you use your Vacation Time at work??
 

So with summer coming up, I have 2 weeks(10days) vacation and 5 personal days... I would like to be on the water as much as possible like most of you. But just curious how you guys would spend your vacation time. Like splitting it up to have every Friday off in June, July and august... or do the regular week off? For me it would be 2 weeks off then. My fiance and I have no plans going anywhere exotic or any extend stay because our honeymoon wont be til next April and my vacation time re-charges in February.

So how would you guys use the vacation time? Summer comes and goes so fast!!!

If you have no planned vacations... take the fridays off. I would.

Just my .02

Must be nice having 2+ weeks off a year

Vacations, HA, must be nice, all I get is long weekends.... Actually, good for you, And I would also do the 3 day weekend thing, since that is all I have had in the last 4-5 years! :(

Thats what I do. Every other week i take either friday or thursday friday off. For example, week 1: Friday off, week 2(no vacation) week 3: Thursday and Friday week 4: nothing, week 5: Friday week 6 : thursday friday. Also on July 4th and memorial day we have 2 days weekdays off so I take 3 PTO days... so thursday friday is holiday, i take monday-wednesday and i technically get a 10 day stretch for taking 3 days off. I get 25 PTO days a year though............

Wow... 25?? thats nice!

But also I can figure... if its going to be a crappy weekend weather I can always just scratch off that Friday and just work and put that vacat day to an Thursday or something. Well... I suppose Ill be turning my vacation time today then! Come on Summer!!!

I get 4 weeks a year and leverage most of that time for long weekends at the lake or a full week when family comes into town. Nothing better than using that time to enjoy the water!

Fridays and Mondays off here during the summer. I have 21 days this year and they only let us use vacation from april/may-ish until late August/early September. This is our off season when we rebuild our factory that will run 24/7 from the start of harvest till we slice the last sugar beet.

I get 33 days a yr and usually try to take A week off at Memorial Day, long weekends for the 4th and Labor Day, with as many Fridays or Mondays mixed in when I can. That usually gives me enough time for in-laws and my family over Thanksgiving and Christmas.

I take two weeks off right before Labor Day every year. Spend half of it in Orlando (Disney) then the other half on a cruise (this year the second half is at Atlantis in Nassau). Then we return just in tim for Labor Day weekend. Nice to just get away for 2 weeks and forget the daily BS. But man at the end of that two week it is tuff to get back into the swing of things..

get 4 weeks plus 2 weeks sick. Probably actually sick maybe once or twice a year, use probably another 5-7 days for doctors visits, and days where I just need to get stuff done, summer I dont use them, because getting caught out on the boat, sick, etc would be a bad idea, small community here.

I dont normally take whole weeks off for the summer, I use whole weeks for real vacations normally. But I typically take days on fridays monday, around holidays etc to extend a weekend. If you look at the calender and plan it out you can maximize it, ie this year if you take friday off after the 4th, you get 4 days off for the price of 1. I usually do things like that.

But our leave doesnt go away every year, you have to rack up 6 weeks worth, so some years there is no necessity to just burn it.

I left my old job which actually required me (by law) to take a two week vacation (consecutive days) without access to e-mail. I always planned it around the Key West races! All told I would get about 30 days PTO, although I don’t think I ever used my full allocation of vaca days ever in my career.
My recommendation is that if you are planning on sticking around local to use the boat, take a couple Friday’s off and stretch your weekends. If you are planning to get away, take the week. Not sure what kind of job you have, but for me, it always seemed like I was never able to get away from work if I took 1 day off. I was still on e-mail, phone, etc. However, when you get into the 3-4 day range and beyond, and you know someone else has to cover for you, you’re able to start to separate yourself a little more (at least I was). That’s where you really start to decompress.

I dont know your job but Im almost positive they wont take kindly to "oh hey, tomorrows nice can i schedule a PTO day?" or "hey, tomorrow not nice take my PTO day off". That usually messes up HR's things which you wouldnt want on your sh*t list.

I have over 400 hrs time off. Damn chit builds up faster than I can use it and only been there 11 yrs.

The wife and I take every fri off starting Memorial weekend, thru No 1st. Head to lake Thur at 4:30 after work. Usually toss full week or 2 off during mid summer and just stay at lake all week.

Been doing this for yrs and love it. Life is good working for a University. It's all about the benefits. Not uncommon to go in to work in morning, and decide an hour later, this an't working. I'm outta here! We prefer to use our time every Fri, all summer long and make it a 3 day weekend every weekend vs taking it all at once. Makes the work weeks shorter so we have a better attitude toward work (no work burn out)