Aren't you excited? I mean, it's a new year full of hope and possibilities! Or maybe, just maybe, it's time to use time...
If you are anything like my coworkers, by the time Christmas came around, you didn't have any Vacation time to use for a paid day off. But now... Now that it is 2010, your Vacation and Sick days have been replenished!
Here is a little advice from the OHW Five Star Guru. Now that you have time to use, don't burn a hole in it. I can understand if you have young children and you might run through your time taking care of them when sick. But to take a day off because the weather is bad, not severe? Hardly! Under these circumstances you go to work and relax; I call it an In-House Vacation day. Also, DO NOT take a day off because the weather changed and the first hot day of the season is upon you. This is work, not Middle School. And c'mon, calling out of work because you don't want to get out of bed is a definite time guzzler. Place your alarm across the room so you have to get up to turn it off.
If you follow these simple tips, you just might have enough time saved to take off on Christmas Eve or something. Get like me, and you'd have a two week vacation awaiting you this year.
From all of us at Or Hardly Working, Happy New Year and stay tuned!
