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You know your work life balance is bad when ...

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When the hotel in the client city sends you a Christmas card

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Actually: when they send you a Christmas present to your home address and you recognise the odor of the hotel

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When you take out your computer in the waiting room at urgent care.

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Was laying on a gurney in the ER after what I thought was a heart attack (flase alarm) got my laptop out waiting to be discharged. Nurse saw me and was like WTF are you doing.

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Here I’ll go first: ..when your dog doesn’t know you

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😢

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What is this "life" you're talking about? Is there an engagement code for that? 🙄

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You overhear your daughter playing with the family in her dollhouse, and the first thing she does with the daddy is make him leave the dollhouse to “catch a flight”

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Wow my heart just threw up a little

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when instead of home keys you try using hotel key to get in your house.. 🤦‍♀️.. it happened to me for real. Adding to this when you can’t remember your home address while ordering uber as you have been out of town for more than a month and just remember hotel names. 🤦‍♀️

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I’ve gotten into my condo elevator and typed the floor I was in at the hotel ....

When the doorman at your NYC building doesn’t know you and when you answer “I’m Jen’s husband in apt xx”, he replies “Jen doesn’t have a husband” and calls upstairs to confirm who I am

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This happened to me over the holiday when our poor doorman had no idea there are women consultants. He thought my husband was an independently wealthy single parent.

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When you are in consulting

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Yes

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You make slides drunk from a Vegas hotel while on PTO...

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I so hope you threw in a couple Vegas Easter eggs

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This thread is the reason I’m quitting

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This comment of mine really blew up 😂😂

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When you use the acronym WLB

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@BA2 Work Life Balance?

When you moved into your apartment in august and still don’t know the names of the surrounding blocks

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At home, you pick up the phone on your nightstand to order room service.

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We still have a POTS line for two reasons:

1) When our kids were young, my wife did not want to give up real 911 service where they would reliably know our location.

2) Now she works from home and does conference calls and webinars regularly, and does not trust the quality of VoIP or cell service.

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True story: I took my kids to a Halloween party. When we arrived I got a “quick question” call from the client. We all stayed in the car for the next hour. Happy Halloween kids!

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Got a call from a partner in China while at a New Years Eve party at about 11:30. I wasn’t on on the project just advising.

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When you spend time in the client bathroom commenting on Fishbowl.

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I’m currently using my bathroom breaks to run in place for a couple of minutes to get me steps in. Gotta sit and ppt for 12 hours and still be healthy. 🙄😬🤫

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When you have to put your local grocery store in google maps because you forgot where it was

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Shit guys, all these posts about health issues: please take care of yourself

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When you have to block time on your calendar to use the bathroom

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When you WFH in west cost (to take care if few personal things that involve visiting govt offices before 5:00 pm) but have client in east coast and you dial into the call before brushing, 5:00 am. You also can’t log off early because now that the client is gone, your east coast team hogs all your time well into the evening. Nothing on that to-do gets done.

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When ordering an Uber home in your home city and you manually enter your hotel address.

When you get into your hotel room late Sunday night, settle into bed, think “ahhh..I’m home” and immediately go through the following progression upon realization: ..😴.........😳.....😱...🤯....🤦🏼‍♀️

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when you wake up in a hotel room and forget what city you are in

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Has happened a few times. It can be a terrifying feeling of WTAF am I??

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