When You're Gone #2: Vacation

It can be safely assumed that, if you plan a vacation, every report, quarterly meeting, project deadline and company party - anything that affects you - will be scheduled during that time.

Consequently, when planning vacations of a week or more, you have only a few options:

1) Hope that your company is one of those that never plans in advance, so you don't know about everything due.

2) Hope that your supervisor(s) are the kind who don't look at their calendars and notice what you have due.

3) Pretend that you didn't know that anything was due.

4) Kill yourself getting everything ready before you go on vacation, thereby assuring that everything presented under your name will be premature, outdated by the time it is presented, unpolished, and easily attacked in your absence. You will also be volunteered for several new tasks because of by your combined attributes of Responsibility and Non-Presence.