re: Taking vacation after starting a new job.

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Most places won’t let you take vacation for the first 6 months.

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Eh. I don't know that this is true.

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If you take care of your employees, your employees will take care of you. Think about if you paid for a trip already and started a new job. Wouldn't you want your new employer to not make you cancel it.

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yeah but it's on the new guy to communicate that when being hired.

i do agree that you have to take care of your guys though.

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I don't think it's the hires responsibility to mention it during the interview process if they are granted enough hours to cover the vacation once hired.

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I disagree. It could create some bad blood. I would likely wait until I had received an offer though.

Why do you give a frick about what other people are doing? If you don’t like your job, go find a new one.

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We've had quite a few new hires in the past few months and all of them had vacations scheduled with their former employer. They all requested off and still took their vacations. One guy was here for two weeks and took a week vacation. Our boss wasn't too thrilled about it but didn't want to deny them.

What's the OT say about this?

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Was this discussed in the interviews?

It's not uncommon for someone already have a trip planned that they can not or do not want to cancel. However it should be discussed and agreed upon (or told to the employee that they are hired they won't be able to take the time off that soon) The the person interviewing for the job can make the decision on whether or not they want to pursuit the job.

If you're unemployed and interviewing for a job and bring up about need time off shortly after your hired for a vacation then yea that's kind of a dummy move and suspect.

ETA: I should add, your new employer should not be obligated to pay you for that time off if it's their policy to work a certain time before accruing vacation time either and you should not expect them to pay you for that time off.

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I had a planned vacation before I came to my current job. It wasn't anything spectacular and my wife and I agreed that it would be in bad taste to ask about it during the interview process so we just rescheduled it six months later

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yeah you definitly gotta weigh it. if it's a multi-thousand dollar trip to somewhere exotic, it's likely worth bringing up. if it's four day trip to Delta Downs, well...maybe just drop the trip until later.

Known vacation needs should be discussed at interview, that's just common courtesy. That courtesy is typically reciprocated by the company/boss, matter of fact I cannot ever recall a single time I personally did not ever hire someone for that nor have I ever heard of that happening

Flip side, if we're talking about 1 or 2 days like a Friday or a Monday to make a long weekend for something that popped up then that should not be an issue if you are hired on with PTO to start.

People's lives shouldn't revolve around work, if you have PTO you can and should take it, but if you are just accruing PTO then a boss has every right to deny your time off request or fire you for taking off more PTO than you have

I would have a set amount of time they need to work before they get like a paid vacation.

It's the same with any benefits really.

I did this with the job i took 5 years ago.
i had a hunting trip that was planned a year in advance and i was going on it no matter what. If they had a problem with that then i simply wouldn't take the job. They were the ones that wanted me and i had said i could wait to start after the trip or whatever they'd like. SO i started the job, worked for two weeks and then had my 6 day vacation. They gave me 5 weeks vacation when i started anyways.


Now had i been a new hire right out of college, or starting in a role with a new company that's outside of what my past experience is really in, then no i wouldnt' tell them i'm taking vacation right when i start.




I'll say this regarding vacation. If you don't want want me to take vacation, then don't give me the time off to take. ANd it doesn't matter what i'm taking off for. It's none of your damn business. If you're goign to give me 5 weeks, i'm likely going to try to take 4-5 weeks off. And i say that as someone who has 5 weeks of vacation and i really only take a full weeks worth maybe twice a year.
We all need time off, and i wish in America we were more laid back like the rest of the world is when it comes to work/vacation.
one of my European counterparts literally took off from December 4th to January 8th this year, which i think is ridiculous. 2 weeks is the absolute most anyone shoudl ever take at one time.