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Chosing a time for a holiday is hard

I've never really worked in a job that is a regimented as the bus service. As a result, I've been told to reserve my holiday period for the coming year by tomorrow or I will be told when I can have my holidays. The thought of losing my free will to decide when I can or can't have a holiday has spurred me into action. After printing out a full year calendar from my Google Calendar, which is something I could only do once I'd enabled a Lab add-in for the calendar I might add, I broke out a trusty red pencil to mark up the calendar. But before I could do that I had to work out when the Public holidays were in 2011 in Victoria, and what rosters I could be on to ensure that I would be rostered on to work those days, because working on a Public holiday means Double & one half Pay and I could get a 24 hour pay/shift. Weird eh! To the calendar, I marked up the Public Holidays and cross checked them with my roster. It looks like I'm set to work most of them, so my ho...