It's Not Time Off if the Work Just Piles Up

[canyonwalker]

I enjoyed taking this past Friday and Monday off from work, making a four day weekend. Hawk and I used three of those days for a fun trip to the Pacific Northwest, and I used the fourth day as a relaxing-at-home day. But here's the unfortunate thing: there's a cost to having taken this time off. The cost is that a lot of my work responsibilities simply got pushed a few days later, stacking up my schedule with nearly nonstop meetings Tuesday and Wednesday. When you take "time off" but the work still all needs to get done, it's not really time off.