Tammi's World

NOW ya did it!!!

OK. Maybe it's just me. Maybe it's just that people don't understand what the word means.

The word I am talking about? Vacation.

According to Dictionary.com the best way to define it is:

1. a period of suspension of work, study, or other activity, usually used for rest, recreation, or travel; recess or holiday: Schoolchildren are on vacation now.
2. a part of the year, regularly set aside, when normal activities of law courts, legislatures, etc., are suspended.
3. freedom or release from duty, business, or activity.

I've been planning this trip for months. MONTHS. My customers all know and actually told me to leave THEM alone they needed a vacation from ME.

It's the folks I work with. Seriously. Today is Thursday - now, taking the fact that I did go into the office on Friday, let's look at the past three days. I have had no less than 20 phone calls. From the corporate office - who I sat and talked with Friday, explaining I'm down here on Vacation. From the plant....always apologizing but they just need to know....

ARRGGGHHHHH. I turn the phone off. I have 5 or 6 messages when I turn it back on. Finally....yesterday I called the one girl back and....well....I....ummm....sorta kinda lost my temper. This is the woman who won't answer her phone even if she's sitting at her desk during her afternoon break, yet she's pissed that I'm taking my first vacation in over a year! Oh no Oh no Oh no......

Just kinda aggravating, if I may say so. So this is what I'm gonna do. Today? I'm headin' south. Gonna hang out with friends and the phone can blow up for all I care. I'm done. Over it. Finished.

There is nothing that can happen in the next 48 hours that I can't fix on Monday.

Seriously - there really is no such thing as a mattress emergency.

Posted by Tammi at January 24, 2008 07:01 AM | TrackBack