Hours of Relaxation, Minutes of Work
Phoenix late April travelog #4
Arizona Grand Hotel - Friday, 28 Apr 2023, 9pm
I don't like to take my work computer when I'm traveling on vacation. ...Or, to be more precise, I don't like to do work when I'm on vacation. Often I have my work computer with me on vacation because work and leisure trips end up being jammed together. Preferably the work laptop remains shut while I'm on the leisure part of the trip. It's a curse of modern corporate America that we workers feel we can't truly take leave from our jobs, even with the paltry amounts of leave we get.
Normally I hold the line against that expectation/guilt-trip of always being available. When I'm out I'm out, I don't answer email, check reports, etc. Today, though, I broke down and opened my work laptop for 30-45 minutes. Some work emails and Slack messages were getting too noisy to skim and ignore on my phone, so I logged in to address one or two important, time-critical things. Then I shut it and went back to 99% ignoring work and 99% having fun.
Today we were at the pools in the morning and afternoon. I grabbed a picture (above) showing the tall water slides beyond the lazy river. In addition to riding the lower, twisty water slide a number of times today I rode one of the tall slides twice. I was a bit hesitant at first because as an engineer I could visualize all the ways things could fail. But then I reminded myself that the actual death/injury rate has to be really low otherwise I'd have read about it in the news. 😰
Arizona Grand Hotel - Friday, 28 Apr 2023, 9pm
I don't like to take my work computer when I'm traveling on vacation. ...Or, to be more precise, I don't like to do work when I'm on vacation. Often I have my work computer with me on vacation because work and leisure trips end up being jammed together. Preferably the work laptop remains shut while I'm on the leisure part of the trip. It's a curse of modern corporate America that we workers feel we can't truly take leave from our jobs, even with the paltry amounts of leave we get.
Normally I hold the line against that expectation/guilt-trip of always being available. When I'm out I'm out, I don't answer email, check reports, etc. Today, though, I broke down and opened my work laptop for 30-45 minutes. Some work emails and Slack messages were getting too noisy to skim and ignore on my phone, so I logged in to address one or two important, time-critical things. Then I shut it and went back to 99% ignoring work and 99% having fun.
Today we were at the pools in the morning and afternoon. I grabbed a picture (above) showing the tall water slides beyond the lazy river. In addition to riding the lower, twisty water slide a number of times today I rode one of the tall slides twice. I was a bit hesitant at first because as an engineer I could visualize all the ways things could fail. But then I reminded myself that the actual death/injury rate has to be really low otherwise I'd have read about it in the news. 😰