S/O working on vacation

[Anonymous]

We are all wired differently. Some people need, or prefer, to fully unplug during PTO. I don't happen to feel I need that to have a break from work and if I can work a couple hours a day and keep up with a few things and make my return easier, I'd much rather do that.

I'm not a breakfast person so while my family eats, I get in some work time and then we get on with our vacation day together.

Some of the suggestions here (deleting your inbox upon return) might work well for some jobs but it definitely would not for mine. Everyone has to figure out what works best for them so when someone says, "People should just....." It just doesn't work that way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are all wired differently. Some people need, or prefer, to fully unplug during PTO. I don't happen to feel I need that to have a break from work and if I can work a couple hours a day and keep up with a few things and make my return easier, I'd much rather do that.

I'm not a breakfast person so while my family eats, I get in some work time and then we get on with our vacation day together.

Some of the suggestions here (deleting your inbox upon return) might work well for some jobs but it definitely would not for mine. Everyone has to figure out what works best for them so when someone says, "People should just....." It just doesn't work that way.

Sure it does. If you died or were fired your work would get figured out. People want to pretend otherwise because that’s what our society and your anxiety (your “wired”) comment leads you to believe. Even the attorney’s example above can be better managed. Her inbox can be delegated to her backup while they are out.

No one is indispensable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are all wired differently. Some people need, or prefer, to fully unplug during PTO. I don't happen to feel I need that to have a break from work and if I can work a couple hours a day and keep up with a few things and make my return easier, I'd much rather do that.

I'm not a breakfast person so while my family eats, I get in some work time and then we get on with our vacation day together.

Some of the suggestions here (deleting your inbox upon return) might work well for some jobs but it definitely would not for mine. Everyone has to figure out what works best for them so when someone says, "People should just....." It just doesn't work that way.

Sure it does. If you died or were fired your work would get figured out. People want to pretend otherwise because that’s what our society and your anxiety (your “wired”) comment leads you to believe. Even the attorney’s example above can be better managed. Her inbox can be delegated to her backup while they are out.

No one is indispensable.

Attorney here and nope. I’m not giving someone else my ECF login credentials. Also, at my agency we don’t have a backup or a secretary or dedicated paralegals. Thanks DOGE cuts. I do my own administrative work. If I’m out for two weeks and something comes in, I just deal with it when I’m back. Not hard and doesn’t require pretending that nothing happened while I was away. Deleting one’s inbox is so odd to me. What would I say at argument - sorry judge, I never read the other side’s filing because it came in while I was away so I deleted it? My backup read it for me, too bad she’s not here instead of me? That’s not how law works.