#12

“It’s been, five days since you went to work…”

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#13

every monday or friday off in the lead up to christmas

#14

Yes, this is an important question. And have you (@tkc) already booked your Christmas leave?

Too many variables to comment at the moment.

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#15

If you didn’t use this for a proper holiday though, then do the weekend thing

#16

my holidays are January till January, and I already have the following dates booked as holiday

20/21 November
30 Nov/4 December
Off for Christmas from the 18th December through to the New Year

#17

Bloody hell, check out Barry Holidays here.

I’d probably carry it over if I could. But if not, I’d take a couple more long weekends.

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#18

Depends if you’re wanting to go away. A week if you are, single days if you’re not.

#19

its only cause I did nothing over summer or have any cause to use them really so I just took a lot over Christmas and still got a lot left over!

i cant carry them over either :frowning:

#20

leaning towards this. probs cant afford to go away as the 2 holidays I have are for London/Amsterdam so I reckon single days is the key

#21

I would never use holiday at work. Imho, that defeats the purpose of holiday.

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#22

Single weeks off don’t do anything for me, come back feeling worse as it flies by so quick, but random days off are always refreshing, makes the whole week feel better. Wednesdays are the optimal day to take

#23

What sort of sick wrongness is this?! Fridays are the day when nobody does any work anyway. A leave Monday is the treat that keeps on giving.

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#24

Took a day off on Monday, went for a drink on Tuesday, took another day off on Wednesday and then Thursday and Friday and went back to a load of shit to do a day early on Sunday.

#25

Craig David… first draft… etc etc

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#26

Nah. Taking Monday off is a fanciful way of avoiding ‘having a Monday’ or similar. But taking Monday off just defers those Monday vibes to Tuesday. You can’t escape them - just gotta roll with it.

Plus taking Monday off is a surefire way of wasting a perfectly good day off. Because it’s Monday and you won’t want to do anything. Friday off is a wonderful thing.

That said it’s not without risk. I had a Friday off a couple of months ago and something at work which was supposed to be resolved earlier in the week had snowballed and I had to spend ALL DAY on that Friday working. That sucked. Boy oh boy did that suck.

#27

I took this Monday off. I spent it going to the garden centre and then a nice few hours watching the birds on the allotment. Then I went into work yesterday feeling like a superhero.

[Off sick today though]

#28

This is why Wednesday is the best, no back to work Monday feeling as it’s only 2 days til wednesday, weekend doesn’t drag either

#29

That’s the way to do it. Excellent work.

I had last Friday off - went into town to pick up some superb new clothes, then met a friend for lunch, then went home and recorded some music, cooked a cracking dinner and tanned a bottle of wine.

Felt like I’d had a weekend already and you know what Colin? The weekend hadn’t even begun. THAT is what I am talking about.

#30

I… sorry, you’ve lost me.

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#31

I have zero holiday days left until the start of April

I have had about 40 since this April

I want more dammit