Today, it's only day three of my annual vacation. Rest and relaxation? Afraid not! For the past days, I've been haunted by the constant thought of how much work will be piled up when I get back. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, after a two week holiday, I'm returning to work exhausted. I had nightmares about work every single night. FML
Today, I was looking forward to languishing on the beach for a few days of a “much needed vacation” when I literally got called back into work on my way to the beach. FML
Today, it's the first day of a long-needed vacation after weeks of stress and overtime. I'm having such intense period cramps, I'm bathed in sweat. FML
Today, as I was leaving for a 2-week vacation after working my ass off for 2 years, my area manager handed me a project. It's a 3-week job, and he told me he needs it when I get back. FML
Today, I’m unemployed with no children and hardly any social life, so you’d think my life was a constant, boring holiday, when in fact I'm so busy every day that I think I might have to designate myself a “day off” just to recover from the stress. FML
Today, I returned to work after a much-needed vacation. I got a lot of weird stares from my co-workers, and my boss eventually came over and told me to go home. Why? My work week starts tomorrow, not today. FML
Today, it's the end of hard month: renovations, on top of kids' vacation, on top of cancelled camps, on top of cat with diarrhea. The thing waiting for me this weekend is the work assignment my boss gave me an hour before business closed on Friday, and wrapping up contractors shoddy work. FML
Today, it's the last day of my three-week vacation, during which I couldn't go anywhere due to COVID and lockdown. I just learned that some of my colleagues are infected and I will have to fill in for two department superintendents at the same time when I go back to work tomorrow. FML
Today, over half of my coworkers have called out for various reasons and my manager is on her third week of vacation. My coworkers keep calling out. I'm the only closer. I just want a day off. FML
Today, I'm so excited and can't wait to join work after my maternity break, but the thought of being away from my baby is just killing me. FML
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Lost Reggie 22
Worse, this is probably intentional by your employer to discourage time off
poopface82 25
The lesson is: never go on vacation.
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Lost Reggie 22
Worse, this is probably intentional by your employer to discourage time off
poopface82 25
The lesson is: never go on vacation.
Nazmazh 18
My cousin told me why he seemingly suddenly quit his job the one day - The dramatic *glass-shattering realization* moment was that he was writing a post-it note to remind himself of something for later - Starting with "I need to..." but in his busy, juggling way-too-many-things haze, looked back down at the note and realized he'd written "I need to quit". The background was, of course, that he was going out of his gourd with how constantly stressed and overworked he was. But you get somewhat accustomed to that, especially when it's gradually piled on. So yeah, it was probably a thought rattling around in the back of his mind for a while leading up to this. But that was the moment when he fully realized just how bad things had gotten. My point is, OP, take the fact that you can't even disconnect yourself from the stress of looming work when taking a vacation as a sign that you are not in a healthy state, and that you should be seriously making plans for something to change. Sure, it's probably not as easy as just saying "Screw this. I'm out!", so that means looking at things realistically - Assuming your bosses aren't the type who would react well to you asking for a reasonable rebalancing of work responsibilities, What do you need to do to get yourself out with as little stress as possible? How many months' savings do you have? How long could you go without pay if you do reach that "I literally cannot do this anymore" breaking point? Actually, even if you're stuck there for some time while job-searching, is there anything you do have control enough over to scale back to give yourself more breathing room? Either way - Take care of yourself, OP. If you were to drop dead from stress at your desk, your job would barely wait until the next day to start replacing you, if that long. And they'd probably more upset by the fact that having your body removed would disrupt everyone else's ability to work for that day than the fact that they had to replace you.