Vacation feels good

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Today is my first day on Vacation. I'm out of the office, or more suitably offline from Zoom calls, for the remainder of the year. Last week I gave the notice to everyone that I was out of the office and would be unreachable for the end of the year, so make your inquiries now. Well, they didn't.

Today, I'm watching my email notifications on my work laptop ping relentlessly. I'm not answering one of them. All of them, that I've looked at so far, are things I brought up before I left and no one, especially the ones responsible, wanted to address. Now, the crap is hitting the fan. I do not feel an ounce of regret about it.

Sometimes you have to let them fail miserably to get the point across.

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The same thing happened to me when I retired. They had eight long months notice that I was going and didn't hire a replacement. Some of the guys still have my personal e-mail and keep asking for help. I have an automated reply to them that says "I'm sorry, you have reached an inbox that doesn't give a poop". :rolf:
 
I'm with you man, no better feeling. When we go on vacation I go deep: I leave my computer and phone at home. I warn people in advance and set up my out of office responder to make it clear they ain't gonna hear back from me before a certain date. Yeah, great feeling.
 
Far Rider said:
The same thing happened to me when I retired. They had eight long months notice that I was going and didn't hire a replacement. Some of the guys still have my personal e-mail and keep asking for help. I have an automated reply to them that says "I'm sorry, you have reached an inbox that doesn't give a :poo:". :rolf:
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My wife gave her work a year's notice that she was quitting and moving on. They didn't train anyone until a week before she left, then they had only scheduled the new Manager for two days with my wife before she left. Some places, just don't have two brain cells between a dozen managers.
 
I do system design for my company so I still want to help the sales guys land new jobs. I have no problem answering their questions about a design I made for them so they can sell it. But for the jobs that are approved by the client and moving forward, that's a different story.

The one going on this week, I told the Project Manager when the client accepted two weeks ago, that A) We need time to set up the equipment and test them out since they are brand new and have features we've never used before, and B) He needs to set up some training time with the manufacturers to go over the equipment. He didn't listen, didn't prepare, and now even the manufacturers are sending emails like, "hey guys, are you going to ask for help or what?!"

Not my job, not my problem.
 
eSGEe said:
vacation I vaguely remember those -- havent had one since 2007
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yep went on an Alaskan inner passage cruise -- was a great time --
I had vacation "built up" at my last job-- took it in a lump payment when they laid me and 1/2 their workforce off.
Current company owner said "you should have some vacation do to you"--- I just looked at him with a blank stare till he changed the subject.....
Truly been so long I really would NOT know HOW to "relax" -- the concept escapes me if Im not doing 3-4 things at a time -- there is gonna be some mischief ...........issues....bar fights......and bail $ WILL BE REQUIRED ........its just best for the country that I stay BUSY ----

SEE all them "Florida man" stories were because the guy had FREE TIME !!!!!!!!
 
Ghostman said:
Today is my first day on Vacation. I'm out of the office, or more suitably offline from Zoom calls, for the remainder of the year. Last week I gave the notice to everyone that I was out of the office and would be unreachable for the end of the year, so make your inquiries now. Well, they didn't.

Today, I'm watching my email notifications on my work laptop ping relentlessly. I'm not answering one of them. All of them, that I've looked at so far, are things I brought up before I left and no one, especially the ones responsible, wanted to address. Now, the crap is hitting the fan. I do not feel an ounce of regret about it.

Sometimes you have to let them fail miserably to get the point across.

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Amen my friend! I got to go in tomorrow and then im off til January 4th. They wanted me to work while everyone else was off but piss on that, i didnt take a vacation this year for obvious reasons and so im going out for the rest of the year. Play guitar, play with the kids and eat cookies and get fatter, YAY!

Last time i DID take a vacation which was last year, i literally blocked all calls except from the boss and that was only to turn in hours for the week before and tell him i was gone. I didnt answer a damn call the whole time down at the beach and stayed boozed half the time lol
 
Had a coworker several years ago that I didn’t have much respect for. Good thing he was service manager and not my boss since I was in parts. The only semi-smart thing he said to me was “do not have your work email forwarded to your phone or home computer. When you inevitably read it in the evening or weekend, it’ll be a problem.”

I also did not give my cell phone number to customers. Personal phone not a store phone.
 
iblive said:
Had a coworker several years ago that I didn’t have much respect for. Good thing he was service manager and not my boss since I was in parts. The only semi-smart thing he said to me was “do not have your work email forwarded to your phone or home computer. When you inevitably read it in the evening or weekend, it’ll be a problem.”

I also did not give my cell phone number to customers. Personal phone not a store phone.
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and THIS is the crux....................of working from a home office----
4 am .....email; PING, er whats that --- and Im working
10 pm on Sunday ---- etc etc etc
 
After I accepted my first real "career" job, I realized that I was spending a lot of off hours at home working. So, after that job ended, I made a decision to never bring work home. Each time I left the job, I forced myself to forget the day's problems and focus on home life. That made my home life way less stressful and it helped a lot.

Now, after doing that for almost 20 years, it's been a challenge to focus on work at home. Funny thing is, it only took about a month to finally get my head in the game to work from home. I untrained myself pretty quickly.

But, the one caveat that I've discovered is that I only do about a solid 15 hours of work a week to do my job. Scary, but also nice since I don't have to sit in my office at work for the rest of the time wasting the minutes away.

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