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[quote=Anonymous]I work for a global company and we have one week per year when our global CEO comes to the US and it’s a huge dog and pony show with important business presentations. The date has been on the calendar for a while (it’s in October) but my CEO just decided he wanted to add a section on a project I am working on to highlight the results.

To be clear, I am not attending the meeting, but it’s all about the grueling prep and the deck will change 500 times between now and then. It’s an unwritten rule that no one should travel in the 2-3 weeks leading up to the actual meeting as we have reviews of the full presentation and make tons of edits. Of course I have a trip planned for a long weekend away with DH for our 10 year anniversary exactly 2 weeks before the meeting.

Spoke to my boss about it (who reports to the CEO) and she said she will not tell me I can’t go and to cancel, but if it were her she would not be away. That said, it’s not even clear that I will be needed the 3 days I would be out - I won’t be in any meetings, I would just be making updates behind the scenes.

Given all the above, would you cancel or still go? I am torn because I hate to cancel for a what if situation, but optically not sure it looks good if I go (should I care?).

Before anyone asks, we can get a refund on the trip but the hotel is booked solid for the rest of the year so can’t reschedule.[/quote]

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