Does anyone else have trouble taking time off because they have too much to do? I’d love to take time off but unfortunately, I don’t know how feasible it is because I have a ton of work to do.
I hate this company, and the fact that I am still here I hate even more. It would literally take me half a year to recover from working at Teradata.
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You guys sound like the beta gang. Pathetic.
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You pull that in CSS, you’ll be fired. My director texted me when my wife was in surgery... how critical was it? The format of my excel file was not to her liking. I debated telling her I could not, but knew darn well the repercussions if I dare set a boundary. I documented it all, and eventually reported her to HR. Guess who got defended with no proof, and who was forced to leave with pages of proof documenting her trail of unethical behavior?
@4xji+1aI1JxBg, ah......thats a PIP for you then.
I have seen it happen several times in CSS. In our team, you are "on 24/7" no matter what. We were told once that "just because you are off or after hours, it does not mean our customers are"
Honestly, if you are here whining about the fact that you can't take a vacation or enjoy an uninterrupted vacation then you need to grow the F up and learn how to have hard conversations. My boss called me while I was on a vacation once, I did not answer. Then the person texted me and emailed me. I responded that I was on vacation and they would need to find someone else to help them. They had forgotten, were apologetic, and did not bother me again. It was an honest mistake on their part. As a manager, I add all my team members' vacations to my calendar and I would never bother them. Push back on your manager and be assertive, add your vacation to their calendar yourself if you have to, let them know you will be unreachable. If you are taking your laptop to do work on your vacation, that's on you. You need to set boundaries because unless you are super close to finding the cure for cancer, take a damn vacation. Life is too short.
a lot of CS is "dongus centric" and I'm not necessarily referring to just having one. Priorities are to get the convince others no matter what it takes.
The only reason we have unlimited vacation was to remove the need to pay it back when they started mass laying off people. The program is a massive farce, and leadership has been on a quest to ensure that work/life balance is destroyed. CSS is an always on organization per DH. Can't say that DH's brain is ever really on...what an incompetent dongus along with the rest of the CS org including all but ONE AMR director in the Retail group. The rest should be fired.
Bringing this back to LAY OFFS....A colleague actually worked right up to her major surgery and from her bed immediately after, and this was about 4 years ago. Oh yeah and she was blind sided with a lay off for all of that dedication - TAKE THE TIME OFF!
And here I was coming onto this site thinking I could hear about layoff's. Instead you get whiners who don't know how to take leave and want the world to know about it
I remember when they were introducing the unlimited time off and one of the hr robots let slip that they viewed someone who took all of their vacation to be “taking advantage”
Right..... and I have a bridge to sell you. Team reminded this week at least a month notice of vacation and absolutely no promises it will get approved. End of year and January time off?? Hahahaha “we” conveniently forgot about that as soon as we said “no, you must work”.
But we have unlimited vacation according to HR. So take what ever you can
"Take vacation, don’t bring any work." and then listen to your Director continuously huff and sigh about how hard things were because of you taking a vacation? The pain you get after you return to work makes it not worth taking a vacation to begin with. Even worse when your vacation was not enjoyable because of the continuous calls, messages, emails, or the dread of knowing what it will be like when you return.
I don’t get what you’re on about. Take vacation, don’t bring any work.
Remember when the ELT gave us 2 days off at the beginning of January "to recharge"? Our manager told us not to take it then and use it later instead. These are the same Directors who would never even acknowledge when a question was asked about the SSEs being soon let go. So the conveyed idea was that we should not take the time off and we would lose it when were eventually cut.
I never had one uninterrupted vacation day with Teradata. It sure wasn’t worth it.
Yes. Work insane hours to go on vacation. Take laptop on vacation then work more insane hours to recover from being off. I spent every day in a fight or flight response because of the workload and expectations.