Feel annoyed we can’t go on another holiday this year

[Lifestooshort1542]

We usually do 2 abroad holidays a year one week each and 3 uk short breaks aswell.
This year we have come away abroad for 11 nights with the idea that if we came longer that would be our abroad holiday this year.
We have our 3 uk breaks booked this year too.
Well it’s nearing the end of our abroad holiday and I’m the type of person who’s always got to have something booked to look forward to (holidays are our thing we don’t spend money on anything else) so I’m now starting to get that holiday blues sad feeling of we are heading home in a few days and where usually we would be back in August we won’t be back until April again next year.

AIBU for thinking that waiting a year after an abroad family holiday is hard? Or do I need a reality check and look forward to our abroad holiday this time next year and we will do 11-14 nights again.

Financially we can afford to go in August this year but hubby works for his parents business and when I broached the subject to his mum that we may do a sneaky week in August she promptly informed me that he didn’t have any holiday days left (in fact he is already over his allowance of holidays with the breaks we’ve got booked in the uk this year)
I said well he can take a weeks unpaid and she said it’s not about the time off we’ve got a business to run and work to do.
So that annoyed me 😂

AIBU?

This. LOL

I haven't been able to afford a holiday for years. OP sounds like a spoiled brat.

1. In my line of work, I don't know anyone who has a soft afterglow of a holiday for more than72 hours. We all slap aa new one in the work calendar as soon as we're back and before the 72 hour afterglow fades

2. I don't go away in the UK - it's so expensive compared with going overseas!

Some people are hard pushed to even afford a day out locally, let alone a foreign holiday.

Bloody hell. Sounds like your life is pretty dreamy - why can't you invest your emotional energy in enjoying your amazing life outside of holidays? If this is the biggest of your worries then TBH you don't NEED multiple holidays. If I had that much cash I'd have one great holiday with the family a year and go to the theatre loads instead.

I already have 2 holidays planned with a friend and 2 spa trips with her. I just have to suck it up.

My poor heart bleeds for you.

Neither situation is remotely comparable.

Closer would be, "I have 4 children and feel so sad that I can't have a 5th, it's so unfair!" or "We are looking at buying houses and the one I like is £850k but our budget is £750k, I'm so hard done by."

In both of those situation, the poster would be dragged.

Not because they have more than most other people, but because they are greedy and demanding more rather than making the most of their very good situation.

In my case, as I tried to imply up thread, it isn't the cost of OP going away so much but the utter disregard she has of the impact it has on others. If you work in a job with others, and keep going off whether paid or not, you are going to affect the ones left behind.

And I doubt very much that "normal" employees of the business i.e. not the owner's son, would be allowed to take loads of extra time off whether paid or not just for yet another holiday. Doesn't give a great example to employees does it, that the bosses son gets away with taking the piss all the time.

A very entitled attitude IMO!

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Nope not a spoiled brat just someone who has worked hard for what they have and enjoy the benefits of that 😄

What a load of bull 💩

Oh and the rest of us are just sitting around relaxing?

Your husband works for the business his family owns, he's a nepo baby.

What hard job do you do, which enables you to take as many weeks off as you like?

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OP says up thread she's a locum pharmacist, so I'm assuming she only takes the contracts she wants. Pretty well paid job, so won't miss out much on the unpaid leave, plus of course is partially dependant on other people having time off & needing cover!

I wonder if she's ever looked into the pay, terms & conditions of an NHS pharmacist? Or any employed pharmacist for that matter. They need to obey their employer's rules on annual leave. Plus when they DO take their leave, the employer has to pay through the nose to temporarily fill the role with someone like the OP (their pay, plus the agency cut, so likely up to 40-50% more than the staff member costs per day).

What's BS about this? It's a good idea.

Lots and lots of people work hard and don't have five holidays a year. Lots don't get any holidays at all.

Not getting into the OP bashing but maybe think about you get the holiday blues much? Can you plan a few weekend things to look forward to? I used to live for my holidays but once I did more fun exciting stuff at weekends I started enjoying day to day life more.

Agreed. The situation @Lanzarotelady proposed was where a poster hasn't been away in years as her husband is too depressed to go. He has suggested the poster go without him. Not bull at all. We are not all glued to our partner's and it's ok to holiday without them

Give over! We all work hard! I hate this arrogance of wealthy people, believing they've got what they've got because they work hard, rather than recognise their privilege! So many people work hard and still earn peanuts

Work hard, play hard, I get that.

But why come onto an internet forum and be such a tone deaf and pompous arsehole?

If you had genuine intentions at the start they've all gone south, right. You're as unlikeable as you are unrelatable. Sadly.

Give your head a wobble darling.

Why not just change one of the UK breaks to an overseas one for this year. That’s what I’d do!

This is me lol I'm some people

@Lifestooshort1542fellow spoilt brat here as well. At least we knowledge it 😂