I relate to this so hard. Like, I wasn’t asking you if I could go. I’ve booked it, I’ve given you notice, if you are still blindsided when I’m gone, that’s on you.
I hit the point in my professional life when I just stopped asking for time off.
I started using phrases like “I will be out from July 15th to August 9.”, “I won’t be in that day.”, “Sorry that conflicts with my schedule.”.
For a while I kept getting random calls for stuff while I was on vacation. That’s about the time I started carrying 2 phones. The work phone and laptop got left at home.
Why 2 phones instead of dual SIM? Leaving the work SIM at home, of course.
You don’t even have to leave the work Sim at home, a lot of phones allow you to just disable the SIM card in your settings. For example my phone has three SIM card slots in the settings. It has the primary sim, Sim 2 and then it has the esim. Granted I only use sim one and Sim 2 is a SIM card for a pay as you go style carrier that way if I ever get in trouble with my current carrier I can just activate it and go.
Back when I was in retail, Sim 2 was my “work sim” , paid for by the company, when I clocked out for the day I just turned it off
Less wear and tear on the phone as well by doing that
It started when the company I worked for had a policy against supplying dual sim phones. I have had my personal number for close to 20 years so I am not letting it up. So I carried two phones. At first I was annoyed but over time I got used to talking on one phone and using the other for notes and reference.
Now that I am self employed having the two phones is a habit with how I work.
I quit a job once when I had a vacation planned well in advance and my manager told me 2 weeks before I was going to go, “Oh by the way there’s this time intensive project you have to have done before you go.” It was something that would either require me to work 12-14 hours a day to get done in time, as a salaried employee, or miss my vacation.
My response was, lol, here’s my two weeks notice. That was just the straw that broke the proverbial camel’s back. I hated that manager, and don’t regret my decision even though it did take a while to find another job
If I give you notice before you have finalized the schedules for that month then it’s not a request. I am letting you know I ain’t gonna be there and you need to sort that out lol.
So I put in a week for around christmas, 30 days prior. My boss comes to me 2 weeks later and says “actually we have to do inventory that week so we need you to stay.” I asked, why dont we do it this week instead and was told essentially “this is when management needs it done” so I said cool do it without me. Came back from vacation, never got in trouble and actually got offered a raise like 1 month later lol. Place was fucking toxic tho so I left.
Can someone put his image over the philly crowd on broad st… my coworkers would love that.
