You know you need a vacation when...

[cosmolinguist]

We're going to be on vacation from the 16th to the 25 of September.

The other day I blocked this time out in my calendar. The most accessible way to do this involves inputting the start and end dates.

Today I was asked about a meeting for a random Tuesday in October and when I went to see whether or not I was free, I saw that whole day I was showing as "on leave." And the Monday before it. I'm not aware of any reason I'd have time off then!

Zooming out and every day was showing as on leave. Every day that month.

I investigated and, instead of making the vacation last until the 26th of September, I'd somehow gotten it to be the 26th of December.

My burned-out brain just wants an extra three months off, heh.

Comments

[otter]

sounds like a good idea to me

[cosmolinguist]

Yeah me too, I was a little sad to have to go back and fix it. :)

[barakta]

Outlook is shite for UI. I do each leave day separately cos I hate how it visually displays multi-day things.

Yay for holiday and catching the December blooper!

[cosmolinguist]

I hate how it displays multi-day things too, it's really inaccessible for my team as well. This is part of a workaround that usually works much better for me...I don't know how I managed to not only get the month wrong but get it so wrong, like not even off-by-one, for the end date!

[sfred]

Sounds like a great plan!

[cosmolinguist]

Yeah I wish I could just have the rest of the year off! But I've done two reports and have to get the third done by the end of the year, and I haven't even started it yet, so probably not best to be off work until it's supposed to be finished. ;)

[sfred]

<3

[silveradept]

Sometimes our brains tell us what we really want, regardless of whether that's something we can achieve or have.