People who don’t take annual leave and prefer to work?

Manxman_in_exile

wannabe_a_saver said:

Disappointing to see the assumption that living alone/being single means having no life outside work!!

From my experience I believe it's a reasonable assumption that the majority (not all) of people who live alone and are single and who spend all their time at work and don't take holidays, don't have much of a life outside work.  It's sort of true by definition - if you have an enjoyable life outside work why spend more time at work than you literally have to? Whether that is an active choice or outside their control I don't know.

And for those who could have a life outside work but have to work all the hours god sends either because they live a lifestyle they can't otherwise afford or because they just want more and more money, it's not really the OP's fault if the OP "inconveniences" them by choosing to take the holidays they are entitled to.

Torry_Quine

wannabe_a_saver said:

Disappointing to see the assumption that living alone/being single means having no life outside work!!

For many though that is the reality. 
Sad but true

Dakta

wannabe_a_saver said:

Disappointing to see the assumption that living alone/being single means having no life outside work!!

It's just the way society programs us to think IMO. Million dollar question is, what do you want from life, and are you getting it.

Potbellypig

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unforeseen said:

Yes, I don't particularly like taking holidays. I have the public holidays off as I have no option but take very little other holiday. Took none at all last year apart from PHs as I did the previous year. I don't get paid for the holidays I don't take. 

I’m just curious of this mindset. Why would you not want holidays? I just can’t fathom that tbh. I’d take even more holidays if I could even if it was unpaid. 

I haven't read all the comments but if it's flexibility you want then you should probably look to go self employed or contracting. You can be much more flexible with your working hours then.

68ComebackSpecial

Mickey666 said:

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Mickey666 said:

Deleted_User said:

Another thing that annoys me is that when you do take time off you can’t actually enjoy it because the money men as I like to call them are in working away and you know you’ll have a mountain of work to go in to. Same happens on a Monday morning, the same money men work all the hours god sends so they’re in over the weekend, takes half of Monday for me to catch up

Freedom of choice also requires a degree of tolerance from others. 
For all you know, 'the money men' might be annoyed that you don't also work all hours and the weekend.

It all boils down to the same old story and where your priorities lie. Work to live or live to work. 

Yes, of course.

But my point is that we should be able to accommodate both choices.

I've just read in the news today that the boss of Bet365 earned £469 MILLION this year . . . so I'm guessing she is a 'live to work' sort of person

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56594988

She's had a huge lake dug in her "garden" (with the an eye wateringly ugly sculpture in the centre) and also had a golf course constructed (I think 9 holes) during the last year, so she's got lots of leisure opportunities to look forward to.

AskAsk

ushjr said:

I've never understood why people feel the need to go to work to stop getting bored. I spent around 6 months unemployed last year with limited money and limited leisure options available but still managed to find plenty of things to do to occupy my time, all much more interesting than going to an office and sitting at a computer all day which really is boring.

it depends on whether you like your job and your colleagues or not.  i am on a career break at the moment and i don't want to go back to work but sometimes i do feel bored and miss working.  not the actual work itself but i miss the interaction with my colleagues and all the activities that we used to have at work.

i also felt important at work as i was a valued member of staff.  now i don't feel important at all 

Thrugelmir

Over time not taking holiday leave does take a negative impact on individuals. A good employer will ensure that people do take leave. I'd worry less about others and look for a new role. 

JustAnotherSaver

NaughtiusMaximus said:

JustAnotherSaver said:

route101 said:

strange to my co workers

Funny how everyone is different. I get asked after i take time off work where I've been. Many people take days at a time. To me that's a waste. As soon as you're off you're back in again and you don't get a suitable break from the place, so I take week blocks (usually).

And i'll say - nowhere really. Just stayed at home.

The look of confusion on their faces. What, so you didn't go anywhere?

No

Then what's the point in taking time off?

Well to not be here, basically.

I may go away on one of the weeks but generally just potter about the house doing jobs on the other weeks that i take that i can't be bothered doing at the end of a 60 hour week because i'm too knackered.

My setup will be foreign to many others. As i say, each to their own.

I think we've found one of your co-workers    :

Ditzy_Mitzy said:

For the single person who does not care to take holidays alone, leave is less useful.  One can go away with a friend, but that requires planning and expense.  It's only really viable to do that once a year or so.  
Otherwise one finds oneself in a bit of a bind: whilst one is on holiday, all one's friends are at work!  Taking time off to spend it alone, or sitting at home watching television, feels like a waste.  Taking the odd day off here and there is fine, sometimes necessary when it comes to appointments and so on, but a fortnight is hard to fill!  

Yes it seems you have

Like I said, it's funny how different people have such different outlooks. That person finds it hard to fill a fortnight themselves. I had 3 weeks furlough and could've had 3 months and it STILL wouldn't have been enough.

Literally the only reason I work is because I have to as I need cash, as we all do. I would happily give it up yesterday.

Nobody will ever persuade me that the mentality of workworkworkwork...die is a positive one.

I wake quote early. 5:00am, 5:30am and I don't even know what time i'm going to get home. It could be 6:00pm at the very very earliest, it could be 7:00pm, it could be 7:30pm and if i'm extremely extremely unlucky and have a god awful day then it could be 8:00pm. I get home, make and have tea, wash up, have a shower and i get what feels like a 10 second sit down before i have to go to bed and do it all over again.

And then there's the weekends - I get very few Saturday's off work per year. 10-14ish. So all in all I feel I get very little home life. I'm forever tired.

That'd be bad enough if i was on a great rate but my last P60 i hit about 26k-28k. I'd need to look at it to be sure but it's around that range.

I can amuse myself quite easily even if i'm off by myself and even if that was to be weeks or months at a time.

Work is not life to me. Life is life. Work is a necessary inconvenience.

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Doshwaster said:

Not taking holidays can sometimes be seen as suspicious. The employee may be up to something dodgy and doesn't want to take time off in case their activities are discovered. In the financial services sector, holidays are mandatory as part of anti-fraud measures. It can also be a sign of a micro-manager not trusting other staff or someone with stress problems.

Quite a lot of years ago now when I worked for an insurance underwriters, a high ranking member of staff fell foul of this. She hardly ever took time off. But one day she did. It happened to be that day that the bureau de change called to discuss some foreign currency the company had bought that they needed for some upcoming business trip. The trouble is, the person answering the phone knew nothing about it, nor did anyone else. So questions were asked. Turns out she was buying foreign currency as cash through the company, recording it as sundry expenses for overseas business trips, then changing it back and keeping it.

Thrugelmir

Beardybaldy said:

Doshwaster said:

Not taking holidays can sometimes be seen as suspicious. The employee may be up to something dodgy and doesn't want to take time off in case their activities are discovered. In the financial services sector, holidays are mandatory as part of anti-fraud measures. It can also be a sign of a micro-manager not trusting other staff or someone with stress problems.

Quite a lot of years ago now when I worked for an insurance underwriters, a high ranking member of staff fell foul of this. She hardly ever took time off. But one day she did. It happened to be that day that the bureau de change called to discuss some foreign currency the company had bought that they needed for some upcoming business trip. The trouble is, the person answering the phone knew nothing about it, nor did anyone else. So questions were asked. Turns out she was buying foreign currency as cash through the company, recording it as sundry expenses for overseas business trips, then changing it back and keeping it.

Recall once I was assigned to run the finance team at a clients. As the Finance Director had been suddenly rushed into hospital. Bottom line was he had been pilfering the petty cash to pay his ex wife's alimony. Foolish man had left a paying in book in his office drawer. That enabled me to piece the jigsaw together.