My motto is "Life isn't worth living without vacations." I get three weeks of vacation plus 4 floating days a year. I usually do Disney Saturday to the following Sunday, so that I am only gone from work a week. But last year I discovered that I could be gone for nearly two weeks and, as miko said, no one was going to die. We have our annual user's conference in Orland and I took a few days of vacation before and a few after. Now, I was working in the middle, but I was out of the office and the daily stuff still got done. This is good because I have been telling everyone here for the last 4 years that in October of 2004 I am taking two straight weeks off (It's my birthday-that-shall-not-be-named Hoopla!). They usually encourage us to only take one week at a time, but others have done it, no one will die, and I've proven that I'm not THAT needed (I'm not sure that's a good thing, but if it means I'm on vacation, great!). I have my cell phone with me, but I let it go into voice mail if it is work. That way I can deem if it's really an emergency or they're just calling cause they know I'll have the answer and that's easier than figuring it out themselves. I do not like to be bugged on vacation, and I avoid bothering any of my employee's when they're on vacation. Emergencies only!
