If you really want a pay rise do this...

mumbles_one

wotsthat wrote: »

People have spent hours trying to do so - there seems to be a broad (understatement) consensus that you are talking cr*p.

If you get 20 days holiday a year you get 20 days holiday a year. Take them when you want and even visit planet Earth if you get chance but you cannot turn 20 days into 21 no matter when you take them.

I'm guessing your reply will be along the lines of "but what about the strategy - it works"

what I am trying to do is reduce the number of months worked between holidays from 11 months to 10 months

Dave101t

i think your very funny, exactly the prime candidate to demonstrate hits for brains.
sorry, dyslexic!
hows the selling your own tap water business going? or the tax fraud?

redcard

mumbles, I have another scheme.

How about working 2 jobs, 1 in the UK and 1 in Germany? Most companies have offices over Europe, just have to sort out some sort of jobshare with a German. Don't worry about that part.

Now, here's how you gain. You work the morning in the UK, fly to Germany about 12. Probably arrive there about 3. You ready to start work? HELL NO! You ain't had lunch yet.

Take an hour for lunch, maybe another hour working then it's time to pack up.

Fly home in time for tea. Repeat for the rest of the week.

Now, if my sums are correct, you'll have work 5 days, you'll have gained 10 hours due to time zone differences and stuff (I would probably claim this as holiday. They'll never know, after all, how can they prove it???).

Once you're in Germany, you should be working towards a relocation to Tokyo.

So a year or two down the line, you'll be working minus 4 hours per day, you'll be claiming about 60 hours of holiday each week, you'll have a gazillion air miles.

You can retire in 2016 and just spent the next 50 years flying Virgin Galactic.

mumbles_one

mumbles_one wrote: »

Lets suppose you only get 1 day per year holiday and you plan to stay with that company for 60 years .
what is the best strategy to take the one day per year???
is it best to take your day on 31/12 every year ???
or is it better to take your day earlier every year???
by about 6 days earlier would be my guess.
What's your guess???

please read

wotsthat

what I am trying to do is reduce the number of months worked between holidays from 11 months to 10 months

Mumbles, I've got to go and have my medicine now. Can I just say you're great and I look forward to meeting you again last week.

Dave101t

not really a pay rise tho, is it?

mumbles_one

Dave101t wrote: »

not really a pay rise tho, is it?

Its an improvement to your employment contract which improves your conditions and is the same as a pay rise. You work less days between holidays than others . This is equivalent to a pay rise

JimmyTheWig

mumbles_one wrote: »

I am using the 1 day example to try and get the idea through .

read the strategy and comment please

Have read the strategy and commented.

Will comment no further until you establish exactly what it is that the strategy is trying to achieve.

geordie_joe

mumbles_one wrote: »

You work less days between holidays than others .

But it still takes you a year to accrue them, so you are not getting anything extra.

mumbles_one wrote: »

This is equivalent to a pay rise

No it's not, you get paid the same for a holiday as you do for a normal days work. All you are doing is taking your paid days off at different times.

If you always got paid on a Friday, then persuaded the pay office to pay you on a Thursday, would you be any richer?

redcard

mumbles_one wrote: »

Its an improvement to your employment contract which improves your conditions and is the same as a pay rise. You work less days between holidays than others . This is equivalent to a pay rise

Getting close?

The whole thread is already at the finish line, but you're busy doing this