Vacations

Vacations are supposed to relax the body, mind and soul. Well at least suppose to be an escape of thinking about work. But no matter where I’ve worked, this is never the case. Before you go, you need to work extra hard to clear off any loose ends before you head out, then when you return you get all the phone calls, emails and work that you would be doing if you were on vacation piling up. In the end you still make up all the work you would have done in that time, which leads to overtime and extra stress.

I think that if you go on vacation and you still have to do everything that you would have while there, then that’s not a vacation and so it shouldn’t be called that. Vacation means you aren’t in the office and when you get back any of the work you would have had to do is taken care of.