Re: Extra Federal Holiday of Leave
Me, I am only a mentor and coach for the less experienced, not a formal supervisor, still takes a lot of energy and a fair amount of focused personalized attention. Got my own project workload and assignments beside coaching others on learning how to do theirs. My own project workload takes more hours to meet deadlines than end up being available, especially when unplanned unforeseen admin leave pops in between me and duedates assigned by project managers. the deadlines don't change just because admin leave got handed out when I needed that time to meet the deadlines.
I plan my worklife around deadlines, take official holiday days and sandwich in use or lose piecemeal between now and end of year use or lose deadline. extra unplanned timeoff runs the risk of substituting for use or lose, in which case I get the "lose" end of the stick, if I'm not watching like a hawk to make sure I make up the lost real work hours some other way to get work done on time, like work longer or later or on weekend, tallying up the credit hours, since they carry over, unlike A/L. anyway, the wind finally stopped blowing 65 mph nonstop today after 2 days of nonstop wind, and settled down into steady rain with no wind with heavy dark gray cloud cover. a nicer day than its been the last 2 days-so to speak. I met this weeks deadlines yesterday so today was a little more relaxed. more deadlines to catch up with over the weekend and clear out of the way by Monday so I can focus on additional upcoming deadlines. and sneak a few hours of A/L in there somewhere too along the way. rest of the month will be like that too into midJan. I left 3 days of use or lose on the table a couple years ago through miscalculation, in part due to unforeseen unplanned admin leave. promised myself wouldn't let that happen again.
"life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards" - soren kierkegaard
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