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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm sympathetic to the scheduling issues. My vacation is determined by all sorts of factors like school breaks and the things I'm going to see, plus if I bent around every busy period at work I'd never get to go. Similarly, big work events happen when they happen and I can't plan them around every other due date and deliverable.

I don't complain about being too busy, but I will tell you I'm too busy for specific low priority things. Sometimes people working on those low priority things get mad about it. [/quote]

I’m not talking about the usual holidays. Everyone realizes how the calendar and schools work.

I’m talking about people who schedule big trips when they’ll be completely offline in the weeks before a huge deadline or all hands on deck event.

Examples:

-two week safari the week before your big federal grant proposal is due.

-silent retreat off the grid the week before your annual gala.

-Even if you’re accessible in terms of location/connectivity, making a big deal about how you don’t want anyone to contact you until you are officially back online…48 hours before the team presents its new product to the decision makers…and you are running point or second chair.

In my neck of the woods, these are highly credentialed women with big jobs.

The men who drop balls and disappoint are quickly labeled as slackers and never make it into big roles. [/quote]

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