Today I was coming off a lovely 2 week vacation (my first break for more than a week in several years) but on Friday I got a Monday morning meeting invite set for 30 minutes before I usually start for the day. It was just a little taste of work crap to make sure the office was on my mind all weekend.
Today I was coming off a lovely 2 week vacation (my first break for more than a week in several years) but on Friday I got a Monday morning meeting invite set for 30 minutes before I usually start for the day. It was just a little taste of work crap to make sure the office was on my mind all weekend.
My strategy is to not look at work emails outside work time.
You can neither attend nor be stressed about a meeting that occurs earlier than you start work, if you don’t know it exists.
I have a minimum amount of availability I have to maintain because servers and network hardware crashes don’t care about holidays.
That’s what oncall rotations are for. If you’re not oncall, don’t be available outside your regular working hours
When servers go down everyone is on call. Both of us.
My first tech job was somewhere like that.
Never again.