Question from a gen z-er: how do you go about putting personal appointments (eg cosmetic) on your work calendar? Do you just say its a doctors appt?

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I take time when I need it and it’s not PTO, I do enough and meet my metrics.

And I just mark it as busy, with my calendar showing free/busy.

I also live in Europe where we have half decent workers rights so none of this ever really comes up. If some MD is going to leave me to chair a meeting whilst he takes his kid to school, I’ll happily take time to do what I need to do.

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Just mark it private. The appt shows blocked on your calendar with no visible details.

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As a GenX, I make an appointment for myself, schedule 15-30 minutes on either end for travel, and likely make up the time the same day. I bill by the hour though, so if you ask for 40 hours of billability, I will cover the 40 in the week, and then the 10-15 of overhead that I wind up with... I have no shame in saying I'm not available for 2 hours, and neither should you. This job takes crazy hours some days (and that 40 billable may be another 20), so when I need to go to the RMV, or get my teeth cleaned, or talk to the plumber - I'm going to schedule it into my week and you can all schedule me later. The beauty of post-covid life is that we aren't 100% tied to an office. The cell phone and pager before it let your boss invade your 7:00 dinner time for an overseas conference call. Feel no remorse when life needs to take it's claim on your work schedule.

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I block it off as “Personal Appointment.” As long as your work is getting done and you tell your teammates you’ll be out for a bit and will return, you should be fine. Within team chats I have usually been able to say where I actually have to go, but I acknowledge some teams may have people less capable of being adults.

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And do you consider this pto or just make up the hours later

You can mark it as private, and make up the hours as needed elsewhere.

For where I am at, if it isn’t going to be an all day thing, I just block out the times as busy. If I did have to label it, then it would be something vague like personal. Wouldn’t consider it PTO, again where I am at, can’t speak to what your company expects.

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