Today was the first day of my vacation. I’m working more than on a normal day. FML

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Unless there is a raging fire and you have unique knowledge critical to resolving it, I'd push back. Vacation is vacation.

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My last Friday. You have my sincerest condolences.

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This is on you. You have to set and manage boundaries. There are lots of threads in FB on the topic.

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How long did you schedule off? Also what year are you?

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I have recently started taking an extra day at the start of holidays purely because it ends up being so difficult to go on leave for any period longer than a day. This time I managed to finish at 4pm on my ‘decoy’ day off, which I felt was a bit of a result..

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