I am envious of people who can resist themselves to keep their vacation time saved until the end of the year because I always use them in summers because I am more of a summer vacation person. Do you like to get your vacation during summer or winters?

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I use most of mine during the summer since that's when my kids are off school. They're off school now for the holidays too, obviously, but I only have so much PTO available each year, and it's easier for me to use it during the summers. I've got a few days off between Christmas and New Year's too, but not as much as I'd like.

I guess a lot of people like summer vacations since you carry just a few clothes and weather is more enjoyable.

My job is really busy in the winter and they always make us feel like crap if we take time off during the busy season. So I prefer to take mine in the off-season, particularly in spring and fall. Summer is just too hot and too crowded to do much traveling.

You are right. There are always alot of people everywhere whereever you go. But I find fall a littlw cold too where I live so I prefer summer.

I love taking my PTO during off seasons. It’s the best time for me and the prices of flights & hotels are lower. I wish I can take off at the end of the year but those weeks are blocked off due to the high demand of products being sold from my company.

Trust me, you are better off. On more than one occasion, I lost vacation time because I didn't get it in before the holiday blackout, and they wouldn't let me carry it over (and on other occasions, I had to get special permission from HR to keep from losing my time off and taking it in the new year). Second of all, if you are a summer person, enjoy your time off in the summer, when you will enjoy it more.

With the special permission, they did allow me to carry over whatever I earned that year (when I left, I had 6 weeks' vacation time saved up), and the special carry-over was because they had me open a new store, and there just wasn't any opportunity to use it.

It was the same when I lost vacation time, too. There, we didn't have ANY carry-over, and we had opened a new store. I took a week off right before the store opened, but just didn't have any time to take the other week. The other manager and I ended up just "burning" the time off (taking it, but working anyway) because that way, at least we got more labour hours for the new store.

I’m envious of people who get vacation time. Those of us who work not quite full time in retail don’t get such a perk.

Ohh thats sad. I remember working for mcdonald's and get zero vacation time and it sucked.

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