Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Take a day off and you just want another

It must be the "I have to use up my vacation before the end of the year" syndrome. After taking two-week long vacations and a day here and there I came into December with five days of vacation left and the "use it or lose it" policy in effect. Does that sound like a bad thing? In the old days people use to hold over vacation and build up months worth of time off which hung over the employer's payroll like a day of reckoning was about to become a cataleptic event if half the staff decided to take a six month sabbatical at the same time. Those days are over and a lot of companies are working harder than ever to contain their expenses. So here I am almost scrambling to stay out of the office in spite of the expectations of co-workers needing some work from me. Then they take off for a couple of days?!? I just threw that in, common gripe among the bottom of the food chain in any industry. Yesterday's day off had me thinking about more of the same so I am eager to sprinkle a few more nuggets of off time through the last couple of weeks of the year. My plan, Thursday and Monday for a four-day Christmas weekend, then next Thursday for a three-day New Years weekend followed by the depression of having no vacation to begin the new year. All part of the work life routine.

Clocks count the minutes
Fortune are the days away
Returning rested

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