crazy holiday policy?

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sangie595 wrote: »

I'm sure there something flawed in my logic here, but...

You are allowed a maximum of two weeks leave, ten working days. You don't want to fly abroad. And you wish to take this time to maximise your time with your son. Presumably your son is at school? So has two weeks at Christmas, two weeks at Easter, six weeks in the summer, and a weeks half term inbetween all these? Why can't you maximise your time with your son across the year and still stay within the two weeks policy? If you had two weeks in the summer, a week at Christmas, a week each for two half terms - that's five full weeks. Which must be a big chunk out of your leave entitlement?

TELLIT01 wrote: »

To maximise time with his son he would actually be better to take the holiday in one week periods each time. That way he get 9 days with him each time, a total of 45 days assuming 5 weeks holiday. By taking 2 weeks at a time he is actually reducing the time with his son by 4 days per year.

You're both assuming that splitting up the time in different ways is acceptable to the child's mother, and practical.

Given the OP talks of his son coming to stay, specifically over summer, and doesn't mention other times, there's a strong possibility that the son doesn't live locally. In which case one staying-over visit during the year may be all that can be arranged.

Kynthia

The policy is very common, however as you have found out they do allow exceptions. So put in a request and explain why you'd like to be considered an exception. Generally managers are human and respind to good reason as long as it doesn't disrupt the business or cause bad feeling among colleagues.