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Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
I use a different strategy - I schedule about 8 to 10 weeks of vacation a year and then only take the five are convenient given what's going on in the office (or, in a busy year, the three that are convenient).
This way, everyone is always feeling bad about interrupting my plans, appreciative for how out of the way I go for them, and secure in the knowledge that they have a lawyer who would do anything for them.
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Now THAT is a cunning tactic. Well done.
I usually book months in advance so I can try to make acknowledgement of my vacation time a pre-condition (or sorts) to my being staffed on new matters, but there is one partner I work for who, when told 6 months in advance (when I am not in fact doing any work for him) that I have a vacation planned will invariably start looking shifty and say "well, I don't know ...." Seriously. This is the same partner who invariably calls 2 minutes (always
exactly 2 minutes) after my stated pre-vacation departure time and has 3 or 4 completely bullshit things that I have to do before I can leave. He also has a habit of calling my desk at 9:30 am sharp for absolutely no reason other than to make sure I am there in case he needs to call me. Major control issues, non?
BR(if no one is irreplaceable at bonus time, why do our vacations get cancelled?)C
