I’m not expected to be on call or anything when I’m on vacation. I just have a need to know what’s going on but my wife and I went to West Palm Beach for our anniversary, and I decided that it was not worth invading that for whatever minutiae would come up. When I got in this morning, my admin was like what do you know and I’m like huh? Turned out one of my people had a meltdown on Friday and decided to quit without notice and he did text me. So it’s a good thing. I didn’t bring my phone because that would’ve bugged me for the next three days. Nothing burned down. I have to do termination paperwork and an indeed listing but valuable lesson there’s nothing that can happen that can’t wait for me.
This is in response to a post I saw on this sub about a manager whose style is from 1992. As a Gen X I guess I might fall into that, i’ve decided that I let my time off, be as precious as I let my peoples time off be and then I’m much better fully rested than just stressed about work but in a nice hotel.