...And, since we sold the four-poster, I've nothing to tie him to!... THAT is far more information than I needed.
When I worked for Bentley they came up with a rule that any vacations and comp days that weren't used by the end of the year would be lost.
So I started taking every Friday off to use up my accrued days. This went on for months and I was still fielding the highest number of calls in the department every week. When promotion time came around it went to some asslicking kid who had stolen a load of my work and claimed it as his own.