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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] :) [quote=Anonymous]By my estimate I take about 80 days a year. They don't track it at my office. [/quote]

I had a good laugh - are you being serious?

My boss and co-workers are in NJ, I'm a one man show.  I work half my day from home (3 hrs), walk the dog, and go to the office from 11-2, then I'm off to pick up DC from school. I work part-time.

I have 200 hrs of vacation banked, we have unlimited sick, though I don't abuse this benefit.  I believe we also get a few personal days, but I only used personal leave once when our house flooded.[/quote]

I usually take 1 or 2 days a week as a work from home day - I'll work one of those days but the other I'll just check email in the morning, maybe work an hour or two, and then I'm pretty much done for the day. I figure half the time I end up working, half the time I don't. Call that 20 to 30 days a year off. It's also basically an unwritten rule that everyone gets a week for Christmas/New Years and a week for Thanksgiving, but no one calls it 'vacation' or books it as such, so that gets us to 40-50 days off. Then on top of that, I officially get 4 weeks, so add another 20 taking us to 60-70, throw in the various holidays and its something like 70 to 80. It probably sounds like I'm abusing the system, but its really just part of the culture of the firm. In an odd role reversal, working long hours is actually viewed as a sign that you are struggling to deliver the same results your peers can deliver in half the time - not as a sign of being a good employee.

The company expects results and is a pay for performance culture, so this only works if you are pulling your weight - I'm reasonably good at what I do and I'm able to make it work but I know other people who barely take any vacation and get the axe cause their work doesn't translate to dollars. Like you, my boss is also in another city, which makes this a lot easier. I do occasionally have to to remind myself how good I have things - I make about $200K a year and I know I could make $250K or something elsewhere but I'd be working 60+ hour weeks instead of 30. 
 
(Also, before people ask, I'm not a fed).[/quote]

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