Lise wrote:
I heard a funny thing at work today. Because of the coming Olympics, they're shutting down campus for two weeks. They are STRONGLY urging us to use our vacation for the two weeks that they're closing. They can't do that, right? I mean, force us to take our vacation during the Olympics? That would be outrageous!
I wouldn't mind if they would pay us the two weeks on top of our vacation but they won't and yet they're asking us if we could use our vacation for that. Unfair.
If I was told that I had to take vacation, I would (with or without pay). I'd rather come back to a job than no job. I have heard of companies telling their staff to take their vacations since there isn't much to do instead of laying them off. I think that companies try to keep their good employees for as long as possible.