Vacation revisited

Yesterday afternoon LegendaarinenSymppis sends me an email saying that I may indeed have unpaid vacation, preferably in June-July. My original request was for late September and early October.

I ask her whether "preferably" means "only", and she tells me that I am not entitled to any vacation anyway if I don't have it written in the contract, and yes, only June and July.

Now, I know that the employer decides on vacation, but so far employers have been rather flexible. Also, I specifically told the NiceBoss who was interviewing me that a) I would like a normal-sized unpaid vacation this year, and b) I normally divide summer vacations between spring and fall, is it going to be a problem? She said it was no problem as long as the customer is informed sufficiently in advance, but I guess everything is a problem where LegendaarinenSymppis is involved.

The other employees have told me that so far people who wantedvacations in fall have gotten them. Now I found a employee info where they say pretty much what the NiceBoss said, dated 5.4. I guess the "vacations only in June-July" rule only exists for those whom LegendaarinenSymppis hates.

But she was absolutely right about the "get everything in writing"thing.