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debtfreewannabe321

Oo nice two weeks off. Hope tomorrow morning goes swiftly so you can get into holiday mode!

SandyShores

Enjoy your two weeks Kajikita.  I always say the first week is when I'm winding down and then the second week is when I start to truly relax.  I think if I ever managed a 3 week break again, when I got back to work I'd have completely forgotten how to do my job.

Watty1

Wishing you a joyful 2 weeks.

skint_spice

Hope today flies by!

beanielou

By the time you read this you will be on holiday. Happy holidays. 

Brie

Welcome to 2 weeks of freedom!! 

It was one of the mixed blessing of working in the finance industry that you HAD to take a full 2 weeks off every year.  No one was WFH or had laptops so if you were fiddling the books whomever was doing your role while you were away were likely to notice (unless they were involved of course).  Don't think I've ever worked at a firm where there wasn't some embezzling going on in one form or another.  Generally fairly minor but it does add up.  

redofromstart

Happy holidays KK!

greenbee

Brie said:

Welcome to 2 weeks of freedom!! 

It was one of the mixed blessing of working in the finance industry that you HAD to take a full 2 weeks off every year.  No one was WFH or had laptops so if you were fiddling the books whomever was doing your role while you were away were likely to notice (unless they were involved of course).  Don't think I've ever worked at a firm where there wasn't some embezzling going on in one form or another.  Generally fairly minor but it does add up.  

That's an interesting justification for it! 

I had a boss who made me take a two week break years ago - I hadn't been taking proper holidays since I'd been promoted as I didn't have any staff (lots of contractors/matrix team work but no one who could do my work) and he made clear that he felt it was important to have a proper break. He was right. So I'm busy nagging my US-based team to take proper holidays - none of them have taken 2 weeks since graduating! Having said that, since working for this employer, I haven't taken two weeks off, and last time I took a week one of my stakeholders was fired (not before time) and my team had to cope with it... which they did, but it was quite confusing reading my mailbox when I got back!

Enjoy the break KK  

Brie

greenbee said:

Brie said:

It was one of the mixed blessing of working in the finance industry that you HAD to take a full 2 weeks off every year.  No one was WFH or had laptops so if you were fiddling the books whomever was doing your role while you were away were likely to notice (unless they were involved of course).  Don't think I've ever worked at a firm where there wasn't some embezzling going on in one form or another.  Generally fairly minor but it does add up.  

That's an interesting justification for it! 

I had a boss who made me take a two week break years ago - I hadn't been taking proper holidays since I'd been promoted as I didn't have any staff (lots of contractors/matrix team work but no one who could do my work) and he made clear that he felt it was important to have a proper break. He was right. So I'm busy nagging my US-based team to take proper holidays - none of them have taken 2 weeks since graduating! 

Do your American colleagues get more than 2 weeks holiday?  The majority don't so taking the full year's holiday in one go might be a bit of an issue.  

The 2 week thing in finance is down to Nick Leeson's derivative trading trickery that caused Barings bank to collapse.  Because there weren't enough controls in place he was hiding dubious trades that escalated into millions lost and caused tremors throughout the international finance.

(best explanation I ever heard of a derivative trading crash is to imagine your local pub let people buy their drinks on credit.  So no one is paying for drinks which means the pub is short of money and so the pub sells their "tick" book as an asset to an investor.  The investor bundles this up with lots of other tick books they have bought and then trades this on the financial markets as a derivative, an asset based on underlying assets.  Because it is based on alcoholics not paying for their booze there's actually no real value underlying the investment and it crashes leaving everyone unhappy except the drunks and the pubs.)

Twolabsandacat

Happy holidays KK