I’m currently pregnant and have had an influx of doctors appointments lately. Our policy is to always throw on our drs app on each others calendars so we are all aware of when someone will be OOO. Why is it whenever I send a cal invite for one of my apps, my team declines it? I make sure to always mark it as “free” so it doesn’t block anything on their calendars…

Because they’re declining invites, I’m getting pings asking where I am during meetings. Wtf lol.

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People are lazy AF and can’t be bothered to check that you’ve toggled it to “Free”

Congrats on the incoming roomie!

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Congrats on your pregnancy! If this isn’t the most accurate and succinct description of what it’s like to work a corporate job I don’t know what is.

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There’s definitely a gap in practice here. Maybe the team declined it because it can be annoying to have other people’s availability blocks cluttering up their calendar? But you can/should also put a block on your own calendar during those times indicating you’re OOO, which should then let your status show as unavailable and autoreply as needed.

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Good idea! I’ll make sure to do this moving fwd. even though I still get pings when I’m offline 😂

Weird but I feel like people don’t like it on their calendar in the middle of the day, I have done the “all day” reminders where it sits at the top and say “X APPT 10am -11am”

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I do a time block but not longer than 2 hours, because my team works in 3 different time zones

I don’t like having other peoples stuff on my calendar. I already have too many meetings booked. Just throw on a status/auto reply and make sure your boss/direct report knows. Everyone else can f*** off, you’re literally creating life.

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Recently informed my team thinks it’s annoying when the whole time is blocked. Can do a 15 min block then block personal calendar. I’ve had it happen too despite free and optional.

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You can send one to yourself (and accept it, obviously)

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Not a you problem. Ignore them and focus on you and baby!!

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Set an ooo while at the appts

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Also, if they do put you in a meeting when you are already booked for a doctor’s appointment just decline that meeting with an explanation.

It’s usually client or other agency meetings, I’m fine if internally I decline, but if we have meetings with partners or clients that’s why I throw on the block, then still get pinged because I’m not in the call and other agencies/clients have questions. Then my team is like.. where you at?” …

You have to do 2 invites. The Free one, and then one that books the hours as busy. You don’t send out the second one.

Having this same problem now that I’m back to work 😩 I have people scheduling over blocks I set on my calendar for appts and also pumping…

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