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I went to Key West paid a grand for a hotel for 4 nights and woke up the first morning with the flu, was in bed the whole time. Sucked. Last year I went to Austin for 4 days, both of my kids got sick and neither one of them slept at the same time for the entire time. Basically spent the 4 days in the hotel room trying to keep them alive, then the bonus was by the time I got home I had contracted whatever they had and spent the next few days sick as a dog.
When we went to Costa Rica for my bachelor's party and got robbed by hookers, that kind of put a dampener on the whole event, as we lost several thousand dollars worth of stuff, passports etc.
Not crappy, but not fun.
Just this past July 4. I had caught up on all my work and was ready to split for a week. My team was at a conference the week prior. They got two hot leads from it right as I was taking off. I had to work the whole time while off. My family was at the water park and beaches having fun while I was working on RFPs. It thoroughly sucked!
Recently read an article in Time about this issue. Some companies are beginning to almost mandate vacay time and actively not contacting the person when they're away. That being said, I don't think it's too much to ask to reply to emails once a day while on vacation. It's not like you need to have a computer.Sadly, this is now too often the norm. I would like to strangle the life of whatever techno-dorks came up with the ideas of "constant connectivity" and "increased corporate efficiency" and all of the other buzzword mumbo-jumbo. Will be interesting to see what effect "this" has on the workforce long-term. I think the email nonsense started in the early 1990s, but only in the last 10-15 years reached its current dismal excess. So we have not yet had a "generation" of workers who coped with this stuff for say a 35-40 year career.
I am sure someone will pop in soon and talk about "failure to plan" or "failure to delegate," etc. Maybe that applies in certain settings, but sometimes no amount of "planning" or "delegation" will suffice.
I say the people who avoid these vacation hassles fall in one of two categories: (a) you really ARE the boss-boss, and you can tell everyone to screw off until you get back; or (b) you are such a low-level person that no one really cares that you are on vacation.