to think I can get by without childcare in August because work is quiet?

It's so depressing, isn't it?

We have a woman with a job she enjoys, flexibility, a great manager, the ability to save money on childcare and who takes annual leave to spend time by herself, and she's slammed. Sounds like the fucking dream to me.

I’m finding the number of women clearly unhappy about a woman making work work for her, with a flexible, understanding manager, and who takes care of herself while not neglecting her children or her job a pretty unpleasant read.

Jealously and envy are always ugly.

Unless you're her manager, then whether she could or should be "using her time differently" is absolutely none of your business.

I wouldn't share my industry either if I was the OP, it would just invite a whole load more bitching from people who think they know the ins and outs of everyone's job.

After you’ve had a rest before during the summer holiday, whilst your DH takes them away.

Abd a month off paid, just you know looking after yore DC, why would you need a rest from that? It’s just parenting.

I've been away from this thread for about 24 hours - has OP given us any insight into what she does yet/what her industry is?

To all those people saying 'not all businesses are the same, maybe it's fine in OP's industry and this is what is expected'.... yes maybe it is, but until she tells us the bare minimum about what kind of work she does, it's extremely hard to judge whether she could or should be using her time differently.

Well, not quite.

You make a role redundant by looking at whether that role is needed in your new Op Model. One of the criteria for deciding whether it is needed is likely to be demand/productivity.

Equally, if that role translates to a position with several incumbents, productivity of the incumbents might well pop up in the selection criteria for redundancies.

However, OP has already explained that she is confident that there are unlikely to be redundancies and that she wouldn’t be likely to be at risk.

So if there are several people doing the same job one of their roles will be redundant. You choose between them if you want to lose one role.

That is not how redundancies work. You make a role redundant, not pick the person you think is slacking off. That would be a performance management issue, not a reason for redundancy.

Carry on trying to put the fear onto OP though.

We also have zero contact with the client. We just get the job info, the only contact is the boss.

If boss says no work it’s no work. We have nothing else to do.

How my weeks been every day.

Message boss. Any work today?
boss, Nope enjoy your day, you know what it’s like this time of year.

In fact my boss will be in America as of Monday for four weeks he is so sure of it being dead. Twiddling his thumbs by a pool.

Regarding my contract it states I will be given exact jobs and can even reject them if I deem them not appropriate.

I will basically live on retainer in down times to fix fuck ups. Our clients want everything tip top 0% failure for times like August and Christmas so work triple in the lead up to have back ups of back ups in place. If something falls between the gaps and a oh shit comes though there are four of us, but only one of us will have that particular job still leaving three sitting on our thumbs. So we just make sure between ourselves not all of us are on holiday at once.

Come September will we start preparing for new to be ready for keys dates again. Mandy will have job one, I’ll have job two, Kerry job three and Amanda job four. When I’ve finished my job I’ll be on job five and so on. We don’t share.

Or maybe it's because two of her managers are already off and she wasn't allowed to be as well?

Because she doesn't need to.

I wouldn't waste my annual leave either.

Id still like to know the job and industry

Why aren’t you taking a/l in August to look after DC, instead of “getting a proper break” when they go back to school?

I think it's a bit cheeky as why not just take leave in August to ring fence spending time with your kids?
If your manager is OK with it then it's no one else's business but I think for most people if they are employed full time they are actually expected to work7-8 hours a day not 2 hours a day and be out at the park, zoo etc
Tbh I'm a bit jealous!!!

I have read all the updates, including the fact that you've told your manager which doesn't change my point.

If there are redundancies they may prefer to keep the person who doesn't have their children at home all day in the holidays. And the person who takes their annual leave at slacker times of the year.

Many people don't know that redundancies are in the pipeline, this is normal in most companies and organisations. It may or may not be your manager that would make the redundancy decisions, more likely to be a professional HR person who specialises in this field. Just because your organisation is doing well it doesn't mean that re-structuring won't happen, indeed the most successful organisations keep a watching brief on their structures and don't rest on their laurels. Neither do the best employees.

Pmsl

you won’t take holiday for your kids but then once back at school want to take a week off

just seems strange