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Comment by gertrunde

15 hours ago

Quote from my partner's manager before a vacation:

"If I see you log on, I'll disable your account."

I had a colleague at my previous company where we had to log her out of everything and ask IT to keep her logged out until their vacation was done every single time. Her water broke during her pregnancy leave and she still replied to someone asking her a question in Slack near real-time, after which we made her uninstall Slack from her phone altogether lol

Some people are just workaholics and need interventions to actually take a proper holiday.

Humm he means figure out everything you’re signed in to before going on vacation and log off?

Personally I’m sure I’d forget to sign out of something.

  • No, they don't mean "you should log off everywhere" literally; rather, "don't open Teams/Slack/${our_corporate_chat_software}".

    • Do these things even close on mobile? I'm pretty sure I'm always on on everything. I'm good at ignoring them though.

  • Probably more Teams autostart and suddenly you appear in the online list when you are officially on vacation.