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  • On Vacation = Don't Call Me!

    I'm on vacation. Last day of work was Thursday 11/4 (was off at 5pm) and next day of work is Sunday 11/14. I even sent out an email letting everyone in my department, all of the managers, and the receptionist know that I'm on vaction.

    Of course, my IP phone (that I use for work) is still sitting next to my couch because I haven't bothered to unplug it from the router. And I've had coworkers try to call me three times.

    It wouldn't be so bad except that I NEVER work Fridays or Saturday, so I don't know why they're trying to call my work phone anyway. *sigh*

    NOT HERE - GO 'WAY!

    Needless to say, I didn't answer!

    Going to Chicago Monday night, staying downtown, coming back Friday around midnight. Taking the train out & back, but my awesome conductor-friend is out on medical so I'm bummed that I won't see him... I specifically got tickets for his train even though the times aren't as good as I'd like because I wanted to see him, but got an email last week letting me know he's off for a month. Hopefully can meet up with him on Wednesday or Thursday for lunch or something.
    "Good morning, and in case I don't see ya, good afternoon, good evening, and good night!" - The Truman Show

  • #2
    There's nothing more annoying than having to deal with work stuff...when you're 500 miles away. That's why my phone is off when I'm on vacation. I'm not about to interrupt time off with office stupidity. I don't care if the server has destroyed itself, or people aren't getting their emails. I also don't care if someone can't figure out how to save a spreadsheet. I'm on vacation--either figure it out yourself, or call in the 3rd party tech that charges $150 an hour.
    Aerodynamics are for people who can't build engines. --Enzo Ferrari

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    • #3
      And, furthermore, no place of work should explode simply because one employee is not there. Have a minor difficulty perhaps, but if someone else can fuck something up that badly? Or at least have the sense God gave a goose and not touch it? :facepalm:
      Now, I know, some things need to be touched-- but that's why people prepare for vacations, with maintenance scheduling and what have you.
      "Is it the lie that keeps you sane? Is this the lie that keeps you sane?What is it?Can it be?Ought it to exist?"
      "...and may it be that I cleave to the ugly truth, rather than the beautiful lie..."

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      • #4
        I once had a call at home from the pressroom! On a Saturday (I wasn't working Saturdays anymore by then). To this day I don't know where they got my number. They had a question about an ad I had put through, and lucky for them I was a) home (actually standing right by the phone, how weird is that?) and b) remembered the ad & was able to answer the question. Normally once it's put through I don't remember much about it, at least not without looking at the order again.

        A co-worker once had a guy from one of her accounts call her at home on Thanksgiving! He had missed the deadline for Sunday's ads (Wed.) and wanted to know if there was anything she could do...from home, on a major holiday, 24 hours past the deadline. Idiot.
        When you start at zero, everything's progress.

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        • #5
          My vacation call story, in script form:

          *bring bring*

          Me: Hello?

          Manager: Hey, Tay, I need you to come in today. We're super short-staffed.

          Me:...I can't.

          Manager: I wouldn't ask you if we didn't really need it, I know you're on vacation.

          Me: I mean I really can't, I am in a bed in my Aunt's house in Pennsylvania. (You all know, but just to recap, I work in Texas.)

          Manager: Oh! Okay. That makes sense. Bye!

          http://www.customerssuck.com/?p=7499
          Now appearing in comic form!

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          • #6
            I had this happen back in September with my secretary job - short version is that my family was going to northern Arizona for an Oktoberfest event that weekend, and we were about an hour away from arriving at our cabin when I get a call on my cell phone from someone at church asking if I could come down and open the building for them.......because they needed to get some equipment out of the pastor's office, and I was one of the few people who had a key to her office door.

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            • #7
              Reminds me of one of the times I was visiting my husband (boyfriend at the time.) I was living in Wisconsin, he was living in Texas, we would fly to see each other a couple times a year. One time when I was visiting him, one of my "friends" from work (I use "friends" in quotes because she sucked up to me since I was a supervisor and she was a call center agent and she kept trying to get "inside info" from me about management stuff) called me to ask me what the hell was going on with the recent lay-offs. Umm...excuse me? I'm 1500 miles away, haven't been to work in 5 days, won't be back to work for another 6 days, I don't know a friggin' thing about any layoffs! For all I knew, *I* had been laid off! I remember sitting on my boyfriend's kitchen floor crying after I got off the phone with her 'cuz I didn't know if I was going home to a job or not. (thankfully, I did not get laid off, but I didn't know until I got home -- thanks for ruining the last half of my vacation since I was worrying most of the time.) I told her off pretty harshly when I got back to work.

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              • #8
                I had one time when I was on vacay from work some co-workers asked me if my phone was "broken" when I came back from vacation. I told them no and they said the DM had told them to call me coz they needed me for something. (something retarded...I even forget what it was) and that she was PISSED off that I didn;t answer the phone and she wanted to have a word with me. She wasn't even our DM...she was acting DM until our regular one came back from vac.

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                NEVER underestimate the stupidity of the customer

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                • #9
                  I think I have this beat. I turned my phone on after being on holiday for all of 20 hours. There was a voicemail, but before I could listen to it the phone rang. It was work asking if I could please work that night. I told them I was on holiday, my first since I had started there 11 months prior. Then I got the begging and assurances that I would get an extra day off at the end of my leave. Sorry, no can do. When I was asked why, I informed them I was currently sitting in Narita airport waiting for my connection flight to Brisbane where I would be staying for three and a half weeks before I flew back to London, where I would arrive the day before my next shift at "very little helps" Gatwick. Sorry, can't come in to work that night, or any night for the next 4 weeks.

                  There is a plus to working nights, no jet lag when you travel half way around the world.

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