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How to get away with quiet vacationing
« on: August 06, 2024, 12:35:50 pm »

How to get away with quiet vacationing - and sneakily enjoy a secret vacation while convincing your boss that you're hard at work

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By Bethan Sexton
6 August 2024

A new workplace trend is sweeping social media which promises to teach employees how to take a vacation without the need for any PTO.

Quiet vacationing is the latest craze in corporate culture, particularly beloved among Millennials and Gen Z.

The trend follows on from the likes of 'quiet quitting' and 'bare minimum Mondays' as disgruntled workers find ever more creative ways to seize back control of their work life balance.

It involves employees convincing their bosses they are hard at work despite the fact they are relaxing poolside, hitting the beach or even just indulging in their hobbies.

Tactics include blocking out diaries with fake meetings or sending a few strategically timed emails.

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13714339/micro-vacationing-work-hack-quiet-vacation-trend.html
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Re: How to get away with quiet vacationing
« Reply #1 on: August 06, 2024, 12:51:48 pm »
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Re: How to get away with quiet vacationing
« Reply #2 on: August 06, 2024, 12:52:25 pm »
Sometimes it seems it is more work to not work than to just work.
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Re: How to get away with quiet vacationing
« Reply #3 on: August 06, 2024, 01:07:38 pm »
Quote from: rustynail on August 06, 2024, 12:52:25 pm
Sometimes it seems it is more work to not work than to just work.
Yep, but it is much more fun.
There is work - work, and then there is fun - work. Fun work is better, just for the hell of it ...
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Re: How to get away with quiet vacationing
« Reply #4 on: August 06, 2024, 01:10:27 pm »
Quote from: 240B on August 06, 2024, 12:35:50 pm
How to get away with quiet vacationing - and sneakily enjoy a secret vacation while convincing your boss that you're hard at work

DAILYMAIL.COM
By Bethan Sexton
6 August 2024

A new workplace trend is sweeping social media which promises to teach employees how to take a vacation without the need for any PTO.

Quiet vacationing is the latest craze in corporate culture, particularly beloved among Millennials and Gen Z.

The trend follows on from the likes of 'quiet quitting' and 'bare minimum Mondays' as disgruntled workers find ever more creative ways to seize back control of their work life balance.

It involves employees convincing their bosses they are hard at work despite the fact they are relaxing poolside, hitting the beach or even just indulging in their hobbies.

Tactics include blocking out diaries with fake meetings or sending a few strategically timed emails.

(more)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13714339/micro-vacationing-work-hack-quiet-vacation-trend.html

This is no new phenomenon.  I made this exact claim 20 years ago, watching my millenial employees, and their worth ethic.
So I can imagine how bad it is now.
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Re: How to get away with quiet vacationing
« Reply #5 on: August 06, 2024, 01:18:39 pm »
When standing weekly meetings get cancelled, if the meeting organizer doesn't delete them from participants' OutLook calendars, I don't delete them from my OutLook Calendar.

I appear busy as I re-claim another 30 or 60 minutes of my life, sanity, and serenity that is no longer wasted in that meeting every week.

Most meetings are unproductive because there is no agenda, no decisions are made, no action items are assigned, and there is no follow-up of previous action items.

If someone is going to waste my scarce time on this Earth, I want that someone to be me.

« Last Edit: August 06, 2024, 01:43:19 pm by DefiantMassRINO »
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