To have taken all this time off?

[Binchicken]

I'm just having a bit of a flap and wonder if other will think i'm taking the piss with the amount of leave I have over christmas and new year.

Most of my colleagues are finishing on Friday and will be back on the 2nd. I've used a bit of my holiday allowance so that I finish on Thursday and come back on Monday the 7th.

My justification for this was I'll be travelling to scotland to spend that time with my family, I don't go abroad so I'm unlikely to use that holiday time during the rest of the year, and it ensures my flights to/from scotland will be relatively cheap compared to flying when most people are getting back to work.

I just felt like a bit of a prat when a colleague looked at the calendar and announced "wow look at how long Binchicken is off for, she might as well not come back!" (in a jokey way, but it made me wonder if people would think i'm taking the piss a bit.) :-/

Half of my office are taking off the exact same dates as you OP, don't worry! Some of them even have had a week longer! YANBU
We still make jokes about it in the office, but all taken with a pinch of salt!
My DP is staying here and working over xmas and people think he is a scrooge... but that is so he can take 6 weeks off in a row in May to go to thailand xD

I've worked 13 years at my company & every year I take a week off before Christmas. Every year colleagues tell me how lucky I am & every year I explain that I use my annual leave as I see fit.

I finished on Tuesday 18th and go back on 8th January, lots of people at my work place have simiu length of time off.

I manage my own workload and as long as work is completed within financial year nobody is bothered.

Also my dp is NHS and will work all of Xmas and New Year, our usual Childcare is closed over Xmas so I need to be home for the children.