jparx Posted October 24, 2016 Report Share Posted October 24, 2016 Had an unbelievably close shave with regards to booking off Glastonbury week. We've been waiting for a new online annual leave system to come in at work and we were told to save our requests until this was up and running. It kept getting delayed and delayed, but finally came in on Friday. I put my request in for leave over Glastonbury which was promptly accepted. Just came in to work this morning and there's a huge email about embargoed weeks which we cannot, under any circumstances, use our annual leave (barring a family death or somerhing). Upper management finalised the dates over the weekend. Glastonbury week is there, as one of our busiest weeks and a complete no go for annual leave! Last year it was no problem, but they are cracking down big time this year. Luckily though since mine was accepted before the email, I'm free to go!! Essentially if I had attempted to book my leave today rather than friday there's no chance I'd be on the Farm next year. Close shave! Anyone else have any stories like this? Or any past stories where leave has been denied? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quark Posted October 24, 2016 Report Share Posted October 24, 2016 Bloody hell you cut that fine! Mine's almost the opposite of that, so feeling mighty relieved! My plans for next year look like this: First 2 weeks of June - holiday with Mrs Q 2 days back in the office Week out for Glastonbury 3 weeks back in the office Week out for Benicassim As I'm only a couple of months into the new job I ran this past my boss, expecting at least a raised eyebrow. Response was "yeah fine, just draft up some handover notes for the team and give your stakeholders a heads up" Outstanding. This is the same new boss who spent the Tuesday after GF this year (only my second week in the job) laughing at the state I was in and then sent me home early. I like my boss. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jparx Posted October 24, 2016 Author Report Share Posted October 24, 2016 10 minutes ago, Quark said: Bloody hell you cut that fine! Mine's almost the opposite of that, so feeling mighty relieved! My plans for next year look like this: First 2 weeks of June - holiday with Mrs Q 2 days back in the office Week out for Glastonbury 3 weeks back in the office Week out for Benicassim As I'm only a couple of months into the new job I ran this past my boss, expecting at least a raised eyebrow. Response was "yeah fine, just draft up some handover notes for the team and give your stakeholders a heads up" Outstanding. This is the same new boss who spent the Tuesday after GF this year (only my second week in the job) laughing at the state I was in and then sent me home early. I like my boss. Your boss sounds like a keeper! I had a similar plan this year where I was essentially in the office for about 2 days out of a whole month! What with Glastonbury, then a holiday in Portugal in and around NOS Alive. Needless to say it was incredible. If you can somehow work it out, having 3-4 weeks of annual leave in one go is ace. Just leaves you slogging it out for the rest of the year! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
russycarps Posted October 24, 2016 Report Share Posted October 24, 2016 what are you going to do in 2019?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jparx Posted October 24, 2016 Author Report Share Posted October 24, 2016 4 minutes ago, russycarps said: what are you going to do in 2019?? Hopefully have a better job Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quark Posted October 24, 2016 Report Share Posted October 24, 2016 19 minutes ago, jparx said: Hopefully have a better job Are the busy weeks going to be forecasted year on year, or is that now set in stone for every year? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brettredmayne Posted October 24, 2016 Report Share Posted October 24, 2016 Had mine in since May as out system allows us to book 13 months in advance. Never want to take the chance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
incident Posted October 24, 2016 Report Share Posted October 24, 2016 Interesting. I'm pretty sure I work for the same institution as jparx and don't anticipate any problems. Leave requests for our area have always been and still are handled locally by the line management with no restrictions other than the expected "no more than X% off at the same time", and my boss knows better than to turn me down for the last week in June. Although in our part of the organisation, the last week in June is about as quiet as it gets probably because jparx and his crew are doing all the work.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FuzzyDunlop Posted October 24, 2016 Report Share Posted October 24, 2016 Our place is murder. Our leave is available a year in advance. So June 2017 becomes available on 1st June 2016. We can see how many people have booked the time, so you know where you stand. In short, this year I had to book 2017 festival before 2016 had happened. I hate counting my chickens over anything, but if I'd have attempted to book it on October after securing my ticket - I'd be as fucked as a Nal weather report. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shuttlep Posted October 24, 2016 Report Share Posted October 24, 2016 rushes off to book next years annual aleave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RossTC Posted October 24, 2016 Report Share Posted October 24, 2016 Booked mine the Monday after T day, felt bloody good! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DareToDibble Posted October 24, 2016 Report Share Posted October 24, 2016 Luckily for me the 2017 leave was opened up the week after T Day. I was straight in there, first to book it off so all good. I don't like the idea of tempting fate by booking it off before I got my tickets. I can't begin to imagine how painful it must be to then have to cancel the leave as I never got tickets! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMDS Posted October 24, 2016 Report Share Posted October 24, 2016 Sick days is your back up. I'll be putting mine in after xmas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H.M.V Posted October 24, 2016 Report Share Posted October 24, 2016 Booked mine I'm July cos it's easier to cancel my leave than get it if other people are off. I think it's tempting faith more risking not getting the time off and besides if I didn't get glasto tickets last place I'd want to be is at work so would split somewhere nice on holiday instead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jparx Posted October 24, 2016 Author Report Share Posted October 24, 2016 44 minutes ago, incident said: Interesting. I'm pretty sure I work for the same institution as jparx and don't anticipate any problems. Leave requests for our area have always been and still are handled locally by the line management with no restrictions other than the expected "no more than X% off at the same time", and my boss knows better than to turn me down for the last week in June. Although in our part of the organisation, the last week in June is about as quiet as it gets probably because jparx and his crew are doing all the work.. Intriguing 51 minutes ago, Quark said: Are the busy weeks going to be forecasted year on year, or is that now set in stone for every year? Well it's a University so it's the same each year. They just seem to be more keen on enforcing it this year! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FestiZebra Posted October 24, 2016 Report Share Posted October 24, 2016 I'm starting a new job soon, this whole "holidays booked before start date must be honoured" is true.. right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Nal Posted October 24, 2016 Report Share Posted October 24, 2016 1 minute ago, FestiZebra said: I'm starting a new job soon, this whole "holidays booked before start date must be honoured" is true.. right? You don't want to work for anyone who wouldn't honour that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackarmy Posted October 24, 2016 Report Share Posted October 24, 2016 26 minutes ago, The Nal said: You don't want to work for anyone who wouldn't honour that. My thoughts exactly. If Glastonbury is that important to you, then you really do want to find an employer who is understanding of that... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gmb1992 Posted October 24, 2016 Report Share Posted October 24, 2016 Put mine in during Glasto this year, I couldn't take not being there so it gave me a tiny bit of hope Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeyT Posted October 24, 2016 Report Share Posted October 24, 2016 It's an unwritten rule in my place that no one else is to book holiday over the Glastonbury period apart from me. Thankfully as the boss of the team coupled with the fact none of my staff are interested in the festival I've never suffered with an issue. We have an online system but I never book in the days until I've secured tickets. Always book those bad boys in first thing on the Monday though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giantkatestacks Posted October 24, 2016 Report Share Posted October 24, 2016 Thankfully I am the manager and our office is very laid back - it is completely dead in August with almost no-one in. It isn't work that normally presents a problem but things like weddings etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woffy Posted October 24, 2016 Report Share Posted October 24, 2016 10 minutes ago, JoeyT said: It's an unwritten rule in my place that no one else is to book holiday over the Glastonbury period apart from me. Thankfully as the boss of the team coupled with the fact none of my staff are interested in the festival I've never suffered with an issue. We have an online system but I never book in the days until I've secured tickets. Always book those bad boys in first thing on the Monday though! Christ! They put you in charge, Joey?! They obviously haven't read about your lost wandering exploits on here!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomViolence Posted October 24, 2016 Report Share Posted October 24, 2016 I can't book it off until next year and as always my manager made a comment about me booking tickets before asking for the time off... shouldn't be a problem though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quark Posted October 24, 2016 Report Share Posted October 24, 2016 On a more general note, I refuse to refer to it annual leave unless I'm objectively told to do so. It's holiday. I'm taking some holiday. "annual leave" sounds so bloody sterile, like holiday just sounds far too rampantly fun to be used in a work context. And it's a rant at office terminology, not you @jparx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pauladam Posted October 24, 2016 Report Share Posted October 24, 2016 Mine all booked straight after securing tickets - I actually have a work colleague that's going as well - thankfully we have an understanding manager Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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