Keep reading about everyone calling off and taking vacation days. My older bosses never really bought in to my call offs when hunting season rolled around. I hated guessing on the rut dates because vacation days had to be put in wks in advance. Whenever I would see deer laying all over the roadways everymorning, I always ended up with a bad case of the $hips the following day. Be honest, how many of you do this.

I don't do it as I can hunt evenings after work and I take the month of Nov. off.

welll life is sortaaaaa easy for me right now. i was working 3 days a week till i paid off my books. now im down to 2 days a week. BUT i do goto college full time so lifes kinda a jugling act..factor in atleast 20+hrs hunting a week and im cutting into sleeping time by the time i study and such..but im getting it all done..i have however requested days off and told them it was for school hey..what they dont know dont hurt them..and if i tag my buck before then it WILL be used for school..i got projects..volunteer hours etc i gota get done..got time but if i get my tag on a buck early itll be a sigh of relief though its not effecting my school so far...

hey it actually HELPED. thought of what to do a MAJOR project on sitting on stand..couldnt help but to notice OBVIOUS signs of previous logging. hey! perfect project...and i can do the field work for it after the hunts while im there..and hunting motivates me to get my school work done early and good so i have time to hunt..if i got work to get done i WONT hunt..

Pretty easy for me, my bboss's are hunters so I just tell them I'm taking off a day or will be in late/off early. Pretty nice!
Brandon

I don't do it. I either put my vacation down, like in March, for that years deer season, or I go to work. If I am home, I am sick. If I call in sick, I am sick, and I mean full blown. I go to work with colds , sinus trouble, and all that stuff all the time. It sucks, but that is just the way I am, I would feel too guilty.

Lucky for me, I have a government job as a contractor for the Air Force......I can use my sick leave for any reason at all, as long as I give 30 minutes notice before my shift starts at 7:15 am.....Of course, by that time, I'll have already been on stand for an hour and a half....

My boss is a hunter and he knows what it's like this time of year. He is more of a rifle hunter so he takes those weeks off himself.

I'm so stressed and over worked you would have no idea. I do set my own schedule in away based on what is need to close biz. I did tell the main culprits of my busy schedule, I'm not traveling next week, I'm hunting. This is only the beginning. The rut will follow soon. I figured I was looking for a job when I found this one and I will be looking for a job when I find the next one.

My bosses know that I am a hunter, but they know that I take my job seriously as well. I dont call in, but I do schedule some vacation time the end of Oct. They know why, and they give me some leway with my schedule in November also, but I dont take advantage of it (not much anyway). I gave up a free turkey hunting trip to Kansas a couple years ago because of inventory and they respected and remember that. I am an assistant manager at Wal-Mart.

we are allowed up to 3 days in a row and only get marked as 1 absence. so i always schedual vacation for the last week of the season (2nd week of november) and i let them know ahead of time that i am taking a 3 day absence allong with my vacation. My groupleader is a big time bowhunter so he understands. any days i call in before that i dont give them a reason (they already know)