Quote Originally Posted by Vickii View Post
Tell your manager that you don’t know how you want to spend your vacation yet but your plans should become clear in February. As you are last priority it doesn’t matter when you take it as long as others don’t already have. You’d be very lucky to guess the date xD.
Yes, I'd be very lucky to hit it on the head.

Just to share a little more about how we are doing vacation. We have a couple of initial selection rounds. During these rounds people are limited to how much time they can pick and it's done by seniority. After these initial rounds, it is basically first come first serve for the remaining open days. Due to limits on how many can be off, weekends are usually all gone once that, first come first serve time opens. So basically, my best chance to get any particular time off is during this initial period when people are limited on how much they can take. I can always cancel any picks I make or take any open days once this period is over.

Based on what I'm seeing here, I'll probably use one of my week selections in September or October depending on what's open, and I'll also use my individual days' selection to try and get as many weekends in those months as possible. Besides the week around Labor Day, weekdays in September and October tend to be pretty open so that's a plus.