I miss the weird inappropriateness of my old job giving us the National Day of Prayer off. (Actually, although I really like freelancing, I do miss paid time off in general.)

I’m off from the 19th all the way to the 4th. I only get paid for three of those days, though.

Christmas eve is usually a 6 hour day, I think, but that's not official policy it's just what generally happens.

We get the day after thanksgiving, and usually two days at Christmas, depends on what day of the week it lands, and likewise where other things like 4th of July land.

I usually get the day after Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve off, as well as the 31st, but that’s academia for you.

I haven't heard whether I'm supposed to work after hours tonight and if so how late (or doing what, exactly). Although another department said there's something someone in my department could do after 7, so maybe that's a clue? My company supposedly highly values communication but we are not actually good at it.

My white collar job is technically in retail, so we only get actual Thanksgiving and actual Christmas as company holidays, but most folks who aren't directly dealing with customers take them off as PTO. Back when I was working in media, we got the day after Thanksgiving and three days in whatever week Christmas was (Christmas, Boxing Day, and whatever day before or after that would turn it into a 5-day weekend).

They'll send me a note if they think they won't need me. Well, I'll just stay online and not really work until someone tells me to do something, I guess.

Timelies all!

Worked a full day today. Wasn't a holiday here anyhow. (We have had to explain to the people making the orders that no one would be available tomorrow to process samples, especially not one that will be at least 6 hours apart)

I switched my company to an unlimited vacation policy about two years ago. If I can't trust my employees to make educated decisions and work with me on something like vacation time, then I can't trust them in the business decisions they need to make.

The practical way we manage it is that folks place a vacation time request and any request up to two weeks is checked against the overall project schedule and if there are no conflicts, then it is approved. We work as a team to make sure that projects are covered and handoffs are handled as needed.

My thinking is that if folks can't handle doing this is a responsible way, then I probably actually have a much larger problem to deal with and some sort of draconian set of rules around vacation time is just treating a symptom, not the real issue.