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Minding Your Business: Vacation Days, Take Them!

Aired January 21, 2003 - 07:43   ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.


BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: We don't need us to tell you -- you don't need us to tell you, rather, that sick days are nothing to sneeze at. A question today: Should an employee use them or lose them?
I'd choose the former, I think, Andrew.

ANDY SERWER, "FORTUNE" MAGAZINE: Yes.

HEMMER: I think that's pretty obvious.

(CROSSTALK)

SERWER: But you know what? Most people don't.

HEMMER: Oh, is that right?

SERWER: Most people do not use their vacation days. That's what we're going to talk about.

HEMMER: There is the hook.

SERWER: That's right.

HEMMER: The markets off yesterday, coming back today and doing what?

SERWER: That's right, closed yesterday for Martin Luther King Day. Last week a bit of a retreat, but for the year, we are still up nicely.

HEMMER: OK.


Aired January 21, 2003 - 07:43   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: We don't need us to tell you -- you don't need us to tell you, rather, that sick days are nothing to sneeze at. A question today: Should an employee use them or lose them?
I'd choose the former, I think, Andrew.

ANDY SERWER, "FORTUNE" MAGAZINE: Yes.

HEMMER: I think that's pretty obvious.

(CROSSTALK)

SERWER: But you know what? Most people don't.

HEMMER: Oh, is that right?

SERWER: Most people do not use their vacation days. That's what we're going to talk about.

HEMMER: There is the hook.

SERWER: That's right.

HEMMER: The markets off yesterday, coming back today and doing what?

SERWER: That's right, closed yesterday for Martin Luther King Day. Last week a bit of a retreat, but for the year, we are still up nicely.

HEMMER: OK.