Pre-holiday 'could give a rats arse' time

[Four Cofffee]

I am off on 2 weeks holiday in the morning, and frankly not really looking forward to it. Holiday is great ( 2 weeks sailing in the Med) but the run up at work has been st.

I am hoping the holiday feeling arrives tomorrow but I have had to juggle so much work and delegate important stuff I would rather have not done that it has rather taken the edge off it. A client we should have done work for in May let it slip untl June and was supposed to send out a key email today, has fecked off home without telling me if she did it (despite my request that she told me when it went out).

Then a student I promised to help gather data for her research is still (as I type) emailing me questions and work and has to gather all her data (unsupervised) and have her dissertation while I am way. Then a simple builk email that a client should have sent and which should have gone last week became my responsibility this afternnon, and suddenly became uregent and had to go today.

I have had to download my hard drive to the lap top and take out a gmail account so that I can put the wheel back on if/when it all comes off.

To cap it all, I am having to hold a business meeting on the way to the airport in the morning with suitaces and wife in the car outside.

Roll on 2pm when I can turn the phone off.

Does anybody else get that pre-holiday feeling that perhaps it is more trouble than it is worth? Pass me the Jack Daniels.

[LaserTam]

I know what you mean, I have had that before. Constantly worried that everything is covered off, delegated etc etc. The arrival at the airport is the moment when 'well not much else I can do now' pops in my mind and I begin to look forward to whats to come. Enjoy your sailing, I am jealous.

[Four Cofffee]

I usually cermimoniously turn off my phone as we get in the car to get to the airport but this time it will have to stay on until the last minute. Still getting emails asking for (literaly) last minute changes to one project.

[davidjpowell]

Self-employed one man band. Clients pay a retainer for services, so have to stay in touch. Must have wireless internet at hotel.

Fortunately clients are understanding and will only pass on urgent things while I am away. Do get it in the neck when she spots the laptop in the room. Unit I point out who and what paid for the holiday....

[tankplanker]

I tend to get my emails while I'm on holiday, I'd rather deal with any problems/issues straight away rather than let things fester, does mean I've got to take a laptop or make sure I can get on the internet with my smart phone (I can access my email via webmail). I also give out my personal mobile number to one or two key people on the project in case of real emergencies. I do this so that I can go on holiday - if I didn't I wouldn't get approval to go on holiday during a project and with projects lasting up to 18 months I wouldn't have a wife for long.

[LuS1fer]

I'm more the "hate returning from a 2 week holiday to find 2 weeks work due that day" type. Makes you wonder why you bothered going.

[MoonMonkey]

I was the same as the OP just before going to Florida at Easter. Mad busy with work etc etc. However, once we tipped up at Manc airport, dumped the bags and turned the phone off it was quite easy to get into the holiday sprit. Especially as the kids were so excited..!!

[bonsai]

Couldn't give a rat's arse.

[hondafanatic]

I often wander if holidays are worth the effort. Tthe two weeks leading up to a long holiday create so much fking stress that it normally takes a few days to switch off.

However, I always find on my return that I'm never missed, nothing has changed, everything got done without me and I have a mountain of unopened mail to sort through.

I'm just a number at the end of the day.

Anyway, have a nice time.

[LuS1fer]

hondafanatic said:

I often wander if holidays are worth the effort.

Where do you wander?

[hondafanatic]

LuS1fer said:

hondafanatic said:

I often wander if holidays are worth the effort.

Where do you wander?

Pppppft ppppft pffffffft. A wandering minstrel I, a thing of... beeoooooolerum... gale force eight imminent.

[Deva Link]

davidjpowell said:

Self-employed one man band. Clients pay a retainer for services, so have to stay in touch. Must have wireless internet at hotel.

Fortunately clients are understanding and will only pass on urgent things while I am away. Do get it in the neck when she spots the laptop in the room. Unit I point out who and what paid for the holiday....

I do 30-60 mins of work a day just to keep on top of things and manage email - otherwise I'd come back to 1000+ emails.

The only reason I get in the neck is when wifey wants the laptop to check Facebook or Skype one of the kids etc.

[bazking69]

I'm always running around like a blue assed fly on my last working day before holiday making sure everything is done, everyone is briefed and anything that could be a remotely grey area has a post-it note on it with instructions!!

For me, it has to be done before I can leave and switch off for the holiday.