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Obviously you can’t pick the wedding dates yourself, but I’d say it’s generally ok if they are spread out. I had a junior last year who took off every Friday (and the weekends) in June for weddings and that was annoying because she wouldn’t always finish things before leaving, so it’d usually be Tuesday before she’d get back around to it. (Litigation)
Mentor
I took like every other weekend for like two months when I was a bridesmaid in like four weddings. It’s fine. Senior is psychoooo as are most other people in this thread. I tried to minimize disruptions, but I am still constantly staffed and get excellent reviews and no one cares lol
Mentor
take off what you need, and let the senior be cranky.
I have a 2nd year who has taken 3 Fridays/Mondays in 2 months and I always end up doing extra work on the weekends. He offers to find cover but that shit doesn’t work for a long weekend. I never bother juniors on vacation but hate that somehow I have to cover every other long weekend for him. Not going to staff him again. Period.
A16, yes, I am the one name calling on an anonymous forum. It’s not unreasonable to be annoyed at this for doing this 4 times over 10 weekends. I have a life too and someone has to pick up the slack.
It’s obviously annoying for everyone but what can you do? I wouldn’t miss a dear friend’s wedding just because it annoys my co-workers and I wouldn’t expect my juniors to either. It’s a busy year for weddings due to COVID so we all have to be understanding of each other.
Not if the person covering isn’t able/willing to jump in fully to a matter that’s been going on for awhile. Agree with the suggestion to work during the day before the wedding starts, if needed / if it’s not a destination wedding. For me, all 10 weddings I’ve gone to this year have been destination (out of state) so I had to fly/drive Friday and Sunday… super annoying.
I’m a third year (and also have lots of friends getting married). It’s unavoidable when you’re in the wedding party, but if you’re not, sometimes you have to travel early AM or late PM and then work in the hotel all day leading up to the ceremony. Aside from travel and the wedding itself, you unfortunately need to be available. It sucks, I know.
Mentor
Everyone is psychotic on this thread holy crap
Coach
Honestly it sucks more for myself- no one really covers if it’s just a day and there’s so much to catch up on after a weekend full of activity. But no one else should care if you give advance notice
Yep, this seems like the right answer
Maybe it ends up being extra if you’re always taking one workday but the whole weekend off? I mean, it sucks because weekend should be a weekend but if they constantly need to find other people to cover weekend work when it comes up, maybe that’s the problem? Or maybe they just are perceiving the frequency of the asks as “always being on vacation” even though it’s only in small chunks.
Yes, and there is often work over the weekend in this job, unfortunately. As the most junior person on my teams, I work at least some every weekend unless I expressly tell my teams in advance that I cannot for some reason. (Obviously doesn’t mean I work the whole weekend.)
“Apparently you are good at taking vacation” was the comment.
I took one Friday off for a family wedding where I was a bridesmaid, had told them more than two months ahead of time, reminded them two weeks before and week off. Thursday night client decided we were closing on Friday, I offered help that night and didn’t hear from team until 3am asking me to do work—they had told me not to worry bc they knew in advance so I figured they were taking that into account and being nice—ofc didn’t see email until next morning and missed the 6am deadline. I know I messed up but I am struggling to see what else I could’ve done differently considering the whole situation.
That was the only day I took off until this week when I am taking Thursday-Tuesday off.
How can someone send you an email at 3 am and expect you to be available? You aren’t a robot
Am I the only one who barely works on Fridays if there’s no deadline, even when I don’t have a specific reason to take off?
That senior's just being a jerk. The seniors I've worked with have always been very understanding. I just took yesterday "off" to drive up to a wedding venue for the rehearsal dinner and the wedding today. Ended up logging on from the Airbnb yesterday between noon and 5, and got some solid research in and put out a couple small fires. I'm a 4th year, and every senior associate I talked to yesterday for work mentioned something like, "Aren't you at a wedding?! Why are you online?"
Coach
What kind of comment and how many days are you taking per quarter?