And if you're in high tech, that sometimes means that you're working from 1600km down the road, rather than at work.
I will admit that I have some stuff that I would rather come in and spend 10 minutes on a day, rather than spend half a day when I get back, cranking two weeks of reports in one big slog. And since mail.app and Excel for MacOS X do a much better and quicker job of importing and playing with the data than the Windows stuff I use at work, I can actually crank *faster*.
And I'll check email--especially with the EQ yesterday, I'm on the 6th floor of a building that's on rockers, and that I have 22 intently staring goalies on my office wall--well, I wanted to make sure that Andy Moog didn't spend the holidays staring close-up to my office rug.
So, there are things I will volunteer to do when I'm not "here", so to speak. I've even called into meetings in past vacations, but that usually means that it's really important, and someone has gone to the trouble to ask me, and to set up a time that's good for me.
But then there are people who refuse to honour that I'm on vacation, and schedule in stuff and demand for me to be there, or else they'll do something *really* stupid and asinine. Gee, too bad-those requests get ignored, or if it's someone who has a history of "oh, I set up a meeting and she didn't show, so that meant I could do what I want", well, those get the special gilded dip and the email goes to my Director (who *is* at work this week).
Nope, I don't allow passive-aggressive bullshit, even when I'm on vacation, thanks...
Posted by lsefton at December 23, 2003 08:31 AM