Would you buy extra vacation?

[alfred russel]

Benefits enrollment is ongoing. WHAT SHOULD I DO!!!???

(I'm buying an extra week, I'm just curious what others think)

[Martinus]

A bit of answer 3 and a bit of answer 4. I'm a workaholic. I have like 8 weeks of unused vacation.

[Zanza]

I've already got six weeks of per year and can take more days from overtime, so that I usually have between seven and eight weeks vacation per year anyway. So, no, I wouldn't buy more vacation time. That is sufficient.

If I only had three weeks vacation then hell yes, I would buy more vacation time.

[Zanza]

Is using buying vacation time the right perspective? Isn't it more of a case of not selling your free time to your employer for a salary?

[derspiess]

Is using buying vacation time the right perspective? Isn't it more of a case of not selling your free time to your employer for a salary?

That's just how most people here phrase it.  I love my vacay time & will take all I can get, but I don't wanna take a pay cut of any sort.  I get 6 weeks now which is enough as long as I don't burn through it too early in the year.

[alfred russel]

I get 6 weeks now which is enough as long as I don't burn through it too early in the year.

Wow. Are you sure you are in America?

Around here I'm lucky with 3 weeks (which is really sort of 4 when you count in personal days and floating holidays and make up days for holidays I have to work). My brother only gets 1 week.

[Berkut]

I get 4 weeks, and would buy another if I could.

[lustindarkness]

That reminds me, starting next May I start accumulating more leave, let's pull it up...

8 hours of leave per payperiod instead of 6. 26 days per year instead of 20.

[The Brain]

I don't need more vacation. When would I find the time to use it?

[Maximus]

If my budget could support what I wanted to do that week, then yes.

[derspiess]

I get 6 weeks now which is enough as long as I don't burn through it too early in the year.

Wow. Are you sure you are in America?

Around here I'm lucky with 3 weeks (which is really sort of 4 when you count in personal days and floating holidays and make up days for holidays I have to work). My brother only gets 1 week.

I've been with the same company for 9.5 years.  It's the least they owe me.

[crazy canuck]

Buying the week seems like a no brainer to me.  But the better option is to negotiate more paid holiday time.

[Josephus]

I would if I needed it. Right now I get six weeks or so, and don't even get to take more than three. but yeah, if I was one of those who only got two weeks, and felt i could use the break, and didn't need the money, then yeah.

Or do what CC said.

[CountDeMoney]

Benefits enrollment is ongoing. WHAT SHOULD I DO!!!???

(I'm buying an extra week, I'm just curious what others think)

What is it costing?  I've seen selling back unused vacation time for cash at 50% value (which I thought was kind of silly, but when you're paid for shit anyway...) but not buying vacation.

[CountDeMoney]

I've been with the same company for 9.5 years.  It's the least they owe me.

Do you get into a new vacation bracket at 10 years?

I used to get 5 a year for the first two and then 6 in year three, plus you could carry over 2 weeks max from the previous year into the new one.