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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This just isn't true. Maybe in your field it is common, but most decent work environments don't shite on employees by rule. Hiring and training is expensive. The challenge really is if the employer accrues vacation time, there's no way a new employee really has it banked early on...

You can't really schedule around a job search. Some companies may hire you on the spot, while others drag the process out for months.

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I carry over the max every year and take every single hour of the 6 weeks I get.

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You're lucky that you still "get vacation". Many places are moving to the "unlimited vacation" model.

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How can you both carry over and use the max?

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maybe only allowed to carry over a week? carrying over a week still allows them to use 6 weeks a year...but not first year but yeh i am confused also

If the new employer agrees to it during the interview/hiring process, then it is what it is.

I took a week off from the job I have now over 20 years ago after I’ve been with him a month for vacation that had already been planned

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Yeah, but you're probably not the only person being interviewed so you're taking a risk bringing it up.

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If a company is worried that one person is going to take a vacation early in their job that they don't have, that company has deep issues.

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Many places are moving to the "unlimited vacation" model.

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I mean once you get to certain roles and levels, that's pretty much what it is anyway, but yes i've heard of this model. I'm sure my European company will be going to this soon as well.

I work from home. I don't officially take off for 3 hours b/c i left to go get my kid from school and bring him to an appointment. I don't officially take off half a day when i leave early at 1 on a friday. Now if things were busy and i couldn't afford to leave early that day, then i simply wouldn't, and i've missed appointments for my kids b/c thigns popped up. When you have a boss that respects you and knows you are getting the job done, then most aren't going to give a shite about you taking a few hours off during normal working hours. It's not like you get paid overtime when you're doing work at 9pm on friday night, or at 6am on a sunday morning.

Do your work, have good results, and you'll have freedom to do whatever you want.
Basically, be a professional. We all understand we have shite going on in our lives, from dealing with kids issues, or even parent issues if they are elderly and sick. As long as it doesn't affect your work, then it shouldn't matter, adn if that means having to get work done during weird hours, then so be it. That's what being a professional is.

Doesn't happen often, but someone usually lets me know if they have something planned before we hire them. As for me, I have never done it and don't expect I ever will.

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Most places won’t let you take vacation for the first 6 months. I cancelled going to Austin for the 2019 lsu-Texas game when I first hired on because I didn’t want to be that guy that takes off the first weekend he’s scheduled to work.

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I dont know ur exact circumstances- and i was at that game, it was incredible- but wouldnt it have made more sense to , when you get hired and are discussing your start date- if you had just said “Yeah im able to start on ____ (the Tuesday after that LSU/Texas game weekend)? Ive never started a job where it wasnt discussed what day/week id be available to start work, that would be feasible for myself and for the employer .

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Lol frick that. I'd fire them just like the veteran in the other thread

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Remind me to never ever work with/for you. If someone mentions this in the interview process that this was already planned and they hire you anyway, that's the boss's/interviewer's decision/problem. Life isn't all about work you know. frick that bull shite.

Not on my watch