I致e been at current job for 9 months. I get two weeks vacation a year. I didn稚 take ANY days off and saved them so I could go down to north FL cave country and cave dive. Never been down there before.
As I知 a customs broker/do international shipping, my workload has to be covered while I知 off. My customs department coworker will do the vast majority of my workload. It痴 a coworker or two the import department who are freaking out. They have to take back stuff that they used to do, that I took over when I started. One customer actually told me I needed to cancel my vacation. She was serious. Threatened to call the owners of my small company to have them cancel my vacation. I told her that was a crazy idea and how would she like it if I called her boss to tell him a vacation of hers needed to be canceled. She shut up immediately. There痴 no reason for her to act like that. No massive amounts of stuff coming in. She痴 just used yo dealing with me and wants it to stay that way.
It tends to be slower over the holidays. A lot of customers are taking both the 23rd-24th off, not just the 24th. Some close for the entire week between Christmas and New Year痴.
This is the first time ever I致e taken a real vacation at the holidays and selfish twats want me to cancel? Screw that.