Cancel holiday? I dont think so

[AtW]

Poor dedication - in this climate you should be more concerned how to keep your job and build up war chest rather than go on holiday.

[psychocandy]

Aren't I forgiven for newbie questions yet ?

[Mich the Tester]

Easy.

Psychocandy; I will do it but on my conditions. Firstly, you reimburse my holiday costs AND pay for an upgrade to first class for my flights when I do go. Secondly, you pay me 300% of my normal rate for the time I spend doing this work. Thirdly, you then extend my contract with a 20% rate rise for another year.

Clientco; oh no we can't do that!

Psychocandy; then it obviously isn't very important. Bye bye, I'm off on holiday, I'm not taking my mobile but I'll send a postcard.

[Mich the Tester]

Poor dedication - in this climate you should be more concerned how to keep your job and build up war chest rather than go on holiday.

If enough people concentrated on having a life instead of panicking about self fulfilling prophecies we wouldn't be heading straight into a crisis.

[mudskipper]

Offer a sub.

[AtW]

If enough people concentrated on having a life instead of panicking about self fulfilling prophecies we wouldn't be heading straight into a crisis.

No, but we'd still be living in stone age.

[Durbs]

If enough people concentrated on having a life instead of panicking about self fulfilling prophecies we wouldn't be heading straight into a crisis.

Sadly, i've worked with people who wouldn't think twice about cancelling a family holiday if the job required it.

if I were given the choice between retaining a contract and taking my kids on a booked holiday that they were looking forward to then i'd be straight down Boots to get the factor 50.

[Sysman]

I did it once as a permie and never again.

I was supposed to be getting met off the boat on a Greek island by a Scandinavian beauty (cor she were fit!), but had to cancel.

Then the bosses quibbled about me claiming the 10% I lost by cancelling the holiday.

The job that needed doing was fixing some customer screen layouts that a software upgrade had mucked up, Stupid gits didn't have any pre-upgrade backups so fixing the upgrade software didn't help and I had to resort to a hex editor.

Gnash, Wail. Grinding of teeth. Never again.

[MarillionFan]

I try to ensure that I never book holiday during the contract time and only after the renewal date. As clientco keeps giving me 3 monthers, when it gets to the end they go 'Oh we'd like to extend you for 3 months come in next week', to whit I point out I have a holiday.

I moved one once, otherwise tough.

[d000hg]

Offer a sub.

Great idea, bring in a new person for a critical phase of the thing you've been working on.