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No fixed amount, no one mentioned PAID holidays. Either that or Less than 1 week which is what I used to take.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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I get 2 personal days. 20 vacation days and 12 sick days. Since I am an employee of the University for over 10 years. Every 5 years adds another 5 vacation days up to 30 (I believe). This does not count the nearly 2 weeks we get off for Christmas break and also the other holidays (Thanksgiving, labor day ... ) we get.
With all that said. I take less than 3 sick days per year (I have accumulated over 80) and less than 2 weeks of vacation days also. Mainly because I generally always have a lot of work to accomplish..
John
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Where my SO works the days she gets are all in the same pool while I have 3 different categories of days + the company holidays.
John
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I took "holiday" to mean the same as "vacation" I believe the Brits use that term and I see this often being that I do a lot of forum/email list communication around the world.
John
modified on Monday, May 11, 2009 9:57 AM
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Collin Jasnoch wrote: Anyways, due to this differences in 'wording' and looking at the results, my guess is that those that put 2 weeks or less (including 1 week) took the terminology to mean company/government wide holidays. All those above viewed it differently.
That is why I was asking. I put in less than 5 weeks but depending on the wording for me it could be from 2 to 7 weeks.
Collin Jasnoch wrote: For example Presidents day is not usually recognized by companies but is recognized by government employees.
We do not get off for Presidents day, however we do get the Friday off in spring break instead which is a few weeks later.
[EDIT]Outside of that we get only the most important government recognized holidays. [/EDIT]
John
modified on Monday, May 11, 2009 10:14 AM
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Collin Jasnoch wrote: Holiday would be the days that everyone at your "work" gets off...
That is exactly what I would infer as well. However, the question says "not counting public / statutory", which I took to mean they are asking how many days you get to take off. We call that "leave" or less commonly "PTO" here. "Holidays" are taken to mean the days the company gives a day off (either at its discretion such as religious holidays, or statutory such as Independence Day).
The quality of the wording and options on the poll continues to plummet. 
Cheers,
Vikram. Current activities:
Films: The classic Pink Panther series
TV series: Friends, season 3
Books: Liar's Poker, by Michael Lewis.
Carpe Diem.
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Do they have any open positions? I could do with vacation / sick days like that!
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They also have a good retirement plan (after 3 years they match your ira contribution at 150%) but do not pay great to start. However my boss is pretty good about raises so I am pretty happy about that and also we have good job security as long as there is work in medical imaging / cancer research.
John
modified on Tuesday, May 12, 2009 7:15 AM
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Of course I am supposed to be using it soliciting more work and attending conferences and such but hey, that isn't real work anyway.
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So what do I vote? "Not employed"? Or "over 6 weeks"?
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Since I'm a geezer, and have been here forever, I get four weeks of vacation a year. We also get ten paid holidays a year.
Due to the economy, we get some extra special time off this year.
During the July 4th holiday, the plant will be shut down, meaning that we are required to reserve three days of vacation for that week.
We're also required to take an unpaid week of 'furlough' some time before the end of the year  The hourly folks are allowed to spread it out across all of their paychecks between now and then. Us overpaid salaried types get to take home half a paycheck at some point; the accounting for the IRS doesn't let them split it up.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Gary Wheeler wrote: we get some extra special time off this year.
yeah, same here.
i'm on "vacation" from mid-July until ... until i find a new job.
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Trust me, I realize I've got it good, comparatively speaking. I know too many folks who are in dire straits (or will be soon) due to your variant of 'extra special time off'.
The idea of having to hunt for a new job scares the crap out of me. I'm 47 years old and at the top of the pay scale for my area. My primary background is C++, Windows, and near real-time process control applications. I've been doing C#/.NET/WPF for about six months now, so that experience is effectively meaningless, resume-wise.
My chances of replicating my current salary and benefits in this area any time soon are minimal. The few jobs that are available seem to all be entry-level (<5 years) or short-term contract positions. Most of the jobs are defense contracting, which I loathe, having done it before.
Good luck finding a new job ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif) .
Software Zen: delete this;
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6 months is a Senior Developer these days :p
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Based on that metric, I'm positively Jurassic.
Software Zen: delete this;
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It may be worse than you think; nearly all the jobs I see require ASP.net (some require VB!) so my four years of writing Windows Services in C# aren't getting my foot in the door.
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All too true. I have no web application and minimal data base experience, which is what most of the job boards seem to want. While I could become proficient at it in fairly short order, I can't imagine most companies wanting to wait. This is expecially true when there is so much cheap web-development labor out there.
Software Zen: delete this;
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You make me feel lucky that I am at the bottom of the pay scale. I guess I have less lose.
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To tell you how much of a geezer I am, the first thing I thought of when I saw your nick 'PDPKid', I thought of this[^]  .
Software Zen: delete this;
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Time to get a new job. That's accounts to slavery in my books.
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Norm .net wrote: me to get a new job. That's accounts to slavery in my books
I bet most of them are independent contractors - that's hardly slavery 
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Nemanja Trifunovic wrote: I bet most of them are independent contractors
I am a freelancer and I voted for 4 weeks or less.  (summer, Christmas and some other time accounts to over 3 weeks for me, not counting the public / statutory holidays).
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