Dandruff treatment leave: About nine out of 10 people are plagued by dandruff problems. A common cause of embarrassment at work and beyond, dandruff can be quite a bummer. And trying to prevent those white flakes from coming back can take up a good deal of your time. A day’s leave becomes absolutely necessary if you don’t want to distract people during an important meeting with snowflakes floating out of your head. Think of all that wasted time.

Plan a vacation leave: Don’t holidays stress you out? All those options — you can go backpacking, skiing, sailing, scuba diving, camping, trekking or snorkelling. You can go to a luxury spa, eco-resort or take a cruise. You can travel by train, no-frills airline, or fly first class. You can go to the mountains, beach or jungle… And then, there is all that money you see getting drained out of your bank account. Stress, stress, stress! Time to take a day off to just plan your week off!

Toilet train my pet leave: Your new puppy or kitten can take up to nine weeks to settle down! Can you imagine the destruction they can wreak in the meantime? We recommend toilet-training bootcamp. You can keep your home safe and fresh for life by taking three days off now. And if there can be maternity leave and paternity leave, pet owners’ leave seems a fair proposition.

Clean up my house leave: This one is especially for those with a six-day work-week — the ones who don’t have a weekend but enjoy what is more like a workpause. To expect them to devote half of their one precious day to clean up their homes is truly unfair. So once-a-month half days can be offered to employees for spring cleaning (but not only in spring — summer, winter and monsoon are just as messy).

Disastrous haircut/eyebrow job leave: All of us go through bad hair days but a new hairdo gone disastrously wrong can be traumatic for even the most daring fashion independent. And what might be worse is having one eyebrow accidentally lopped off your face by your errant beautician (and yes, this applies to the men too, so don’t squawk on about equal opportunity). There’s always a fix for a bad haircut or a messy perm but it’s never a quick and easy one. You need time to feel at home in your new look, and to master the art of pencilling in that missing brow.

In a foul mood leave: Your neighbour’s dog won’t stop howling, KKR is getting knocked out of the IPL, your contestant got booted off Indian Idol, your wife wants you to fix the water tap and your boss won’t take no for an answer. You know you’re about to blow. The last thing you want is to get into an ugly squabble with your colleagues because you cannot bring yourself to breathe. Leave during such circumstances is a must. A day should do it.

Count my money leave: You have been working hard. Or pretending to work as hard as you can. Either way, if you are on the wrong side of 30 — or getting there — we are sure (or we hope) that you have done some saving. If not in a bank account or in mutual funds, in loose change. That pesky stuff gets everywhere. This can be half a day’s leave to take stock of the money you have been hoarding in your pockets, on your dressing table, in your sock drawer. Have you heard of the term penny wise, pound foolish? Perish the thought.

Party before and after effects leave: Though the before party leave need not be considered by companies that give clean up the house leave, the party after leave should be mandated by law. Then we could all say Thank God It’s Tuesday, or Wednesday, or any other day not followed by a scheduled weekly off. If you don’t see the virtue of this, we can only assume you haven’t wasted your precious day off nursing a hangover. And then we must deduce that you aren’t spending your time nearly as well as you should. Which sounds like another reason for a holiday.

JLT leave: The litmus test of the employer with soul (and employee with nerve). Boss: “Why are you on leave today?” Employee: “Just Like That.” Boss: “Cool. See you tomorrow.”