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How does your office cope with spring break?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
It’s spring break and that means thousands of metro Atlanta students - and their parents - are taking time off.
Does you office resemble a ghost town this time of year?
There are clear benefits - less traffic, the boss may be away and shorter lines at local lunchtime eateries.
But it may also mean more work for your cubicle mates left behind. If you’re still at the office, do you work harder or less when it’s spring break?
Comments
By muffin
April 7, 2008 10:23 AM | Link to this
The boss is away this week but I will still be here plugging away. My co-workers, on the other hand, are a different story. Every single one of them will take advantage of his not being here and call out sick or have sudden “doctor appointments” and have to leave early or come in late. And one person has already brought their kid to work in order to avoid paying for day care.
By RCH
April 7, 2008 10:35 AM | Link to this
Thank God most of us work out of the home. I tend to hear the little ones more in the background around holiday breaks. Visitors are not allowed to loiter at our business so the parents are proactive and find sitters many of them who are teenage girls out of school themselves. Children at the workplace are a distraction and should not be there.
By Scott
April 7, 2008 11:00 AM | Link to this
“Most of us work out of the home”
Who do I have to kill to be able to work “out of the home”?
By RCH
April 7, 2008 11:18 AM | Link to this
Scott, I meant to convey at my company, not everyone else’s. Sorry
By Tabby
April 7, 2008 11:22 AM | Link to this
working here, spring break…what is that again..we are still working as hard as ever
By DYJ
April 7, 2008 11:23 AM | Link to this
It’s only day one and I have gotten so much done because of fewer meetings and phone calls. Less noise and distraction. This is a great time to work!
By Scott
April 7, 2008 11:42 AM | Link to this
Then I want to work at your company, RCH!
By KLK
April 7, 2008 11:45 AM | Link to this
Like the holidays, it is a good time to whittle away at the to do list b/c there are not so many distractions. I like to take most of my vacation when everyone is here and have a reason to get away from the craziness. The traffic was not that great this a.m., but will see how it is on the way home tonight. I will be on break Thurs and Friday and will join the rest for some R&R. Spring break somehow “benefits everyone” in some shape or form.
By Maria
April 7, 2008 12:34 PM | Link to this
There’s only one person at my office who has a school-age child. Everyone else is either past that stage in their life (the CEO and VPs are 60 and up), too young for that stage in their life (lots of early / mid-20s people who aren’t anywhere close to getting married or having kids), electively childfree, or gay. It’s a good place to work!
My vacation starts at the end of next week. This week has my permission to pass by quickly.
By Karen
April 7, 2008 1:33 PM | Link to this
This is my first time going through spring break on my job and it is a ghost town..everyone that is here is just walking around doing absolutley nothing..The boss is out as well, and I am caught up on all of my work, now I’m just sitting boared out of my wits…doing nothing is the hardest part believe it or not.
By sharon
April 7, 2008 2:21 PM | Link to this
muffin sounds like the office busybody
By Peri
April 7, 2008 2:44 PM | Link to this
It has been lovely at the office! It’s like being in the office during the days directly before and after the Christmas holidays.
I will bring my 14-year-old to work with me a couple of days this week to do some filing for me. For payment, I’ll take her out for nice leisurely lunches. She actually enjoys coming to help me out in the office and, since so many people are out, having here here isn’t a distraction to my co-workers.