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[quote=Anonymous]Would love advice from any senior level executives specifically.

Started a new job last spring and just found out we have an annual board meeting every April. This year’s happens to be the last week.

We had been planning a big family trip during my kids’ spring break, which is about 2 weeks prior to the meeting. Our CEO told everyone not to take any vacation the week before the meeting as it would be all hands on deck to prepare. From what I have heard from others, it’s generally 2-3 weeks of intense prep.

I know I will be involved in the prep but don’t have any sense in exactly how much - I will be creating a presentation on one topic out of many.  I don’t mind doing some work on the trip to update my slides, but of course also don’t want to be stuck in a hotel room all day for multiple days.

Would you even ask your manager about taking 3 days off (again 2 weeks before the meeting) or no way? The complexity is that it’s my parents who are arranging the trip and my mom is not well, so it might be the last time she can travel. It also happens that our break lines up with my sister’s kids’ break for the first time in many years which is how it became a larger family trip. And pushing this particular trip to a later date isn’t possible for a few reason.

Ask or don’t ask? Since I am new in the role I certainly don’t want to come off as someone unwilling to do the work for a very important meeting, but at the same time if it’s the last extended family trip we can take with my mom am I really prioritizing work?[/quote]

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