[widebody911]

This anecdote doesn't help in your situation, but we were forced to take a week (5 days) of vacation time in April, and will have to take another 8 forced days in December. This is all of the vacation (and then some) that I accrue in a year. Ain't squat I can do about it. Then they wanted us to take more if we had it on the books. My boss actually went person-to-person trying to persuade people to commit to more days off (I'm sure that directive came down from his boss); when he got to me, I told him it wasn't possible - after the forced days, I had none left. He suggested I borrow against next years' accrual...

What pisses me off about it (other than effectively having no vacation time) is that it's just a bookkeeping trick to make the numbers look good.