Dutch government already implemented rules about this as apparently i'm not the only one that has quite a few vacation days (at least i'm gonna assume they didn't implement this specifically for me
). I'm (just) within the rules of the law, so frankly i feel the company has no business telling me i should make a plan for this. Lots of people were actually not happy with this law as they were saving for like half a year or a year of sabbatical, but that's now made impossible.
And i wish my wages would go up. Even if it was just with inflation. But i'm pretty sure that next week i'll be hearing that despite having done well, they find the same 'flaws' in me as pretty much every year and so there's no room for an increase in pay. Or they'll just throw it on the general tough market conditions.
I have 15 weeks and some change right now. But overall the amount hasn't changed much in the last few years. I accumulated quite a bit in my first few years. After that i pretty much use what i get during a year. So it's not like it's still increasing. Which it couldn't because of law anyway. If it did they'd have to pay it out to me like they did with corax. And frankly i'd rather take the days off. With summer holiday, taking off xmas/new years and a few days here and there the real surplus amount is about 10 weeks.
Also a fun fact is that my previous manager once refused me a day off because i didn't ask for it far enough in advance. Had to tell him he couldn't refuse it (after asking around) so in the end i did get my day off, but when we're gonna talk about this 'plan' this will be thrown back in their faces.
Not to mention i don't want to hear any more of this total BS of 'it's good to relax a bit and charge up from work' when on the other hand they want (read: expect) you to do courses in your own free time. I mean, if they don't want me to burn out they should first stop doing that. But that's not gonna happen.
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