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[quote=Anonymous]Gov't attorney here. If I'm just taking a day off but will be around town, I'll check email once or twice and reply if something urgent comes up (although it has to be something truly urgent to get more than an "I'm out today, but will look into it tomorrow" type response). If I'm going to be out for more than a couple days, I make sure that everyone in the office knows I'll be out and that there is someone else who can cover for me on all my cases if something crazy happens. I also make sure I have an out of the office auto reply on my email and similar message on my voicemail. Usually when I'm taking consecutive days off, it's for a family vacation or something where I'll be travelling, watching the kids, or for other reasons will generally not be in a position to work. I try to make that reality clear to my supervisors before I leave for vacation, so that people don't expect me to be working through the vacation. My feeling is, if I'm going to be working, I shouldn't be using time off, and if I'm using time off, it's because I don't plan to be working. [/quote]

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