Is there a time of year that you cannot take off from work?

[LuvN~Travel]

I work at the Post Office. We schedule our leave weeks the December prior to the new year. However, we are not allowed to schedule leave for December. Now if the supervisor thinks a person can be let off, we can try thirty days in advance or if you have leave you have to use (use it or lose it type), then you can usually get leave. However, the supervisor usually won't let anymore clerks off than he would have for any other regular week.
Sure wish I could schedule some Disney time during the Christmas break.
Kim

 

[JVL1018]

My husband is an accountant, and at his previous job he used to not be able to take off Jan-April-ish. He works in commercial real estate accounting, so he doesn't do the taxes, but they had to get everything ready for the auditors.
They were usually done mid March though.

Now that isn't an issue at his new company, even though he's doing the same job, they do things differently.
However the properties he does the accounting for, everything must be done certain weeks each month without fail, and he doesn't get the up to date info he needs until that first day of those particular weeks, so he can't get it done earlier.
Consequently, he can't take off the first or third week of any month because he has to much to do.

 

[becjlek]

I can't take vacation time from the beginning of Oct. to the end of Nov.

 

[SandraVB79]

December.

It's the busiest month of the year for supermarkets, and because of that all personnel in the stores are needed in the stores. To need "differentiate" between people that work in the stores/ warehouse and the others (oh, I sound like Lost here, lol!) the employees at the headquarters can't take off either.

This implies that I can only go for a two-day DLP visit in December (I LOVE the Christmas-period over there!) or I have to wait until the first week of January until I can enjoy three days over there before they take the decorations off. (because of the increasing cost of the high-speed train between Brussels and DLP, it's getting too expensive to go for "just" two days. This year, we went the first weekend of January for three days)