GlueBall, you clearly didn't read my post properly. Try reading it again carefully next time. I can understand you being so bitter about snatching that Christmas leave from the juniors as you probably had years of purgatory not getting that Christmas leave when you were a junior. What a horrible way to make Christmas leave (or any other leave) decisions. There are much fairer ways that ensure that people can work their way through their careers without building up the levels of bitterness that lead to the "tyranny of the seniors". A captain's a captain's captain. What's this 'junior' and 'senior' nonsense. If the nice work and the not-so-nice work was shared out equally then everyone gets through all of their career without building up this resentment that leads to these antiquated medieval 'pecking order' ladders that are known as 'seniority lists'.
It is good to hear Count von Altibar's comment that seniority lists are on their way out. About time!