Does this piss off anyone else?

[Beer Snob-50]

the company i work for has instituted a policy where we must send an e-mail out to everyone in the company when we take a vacation day.

other departments have done this on a regular basis already and leave cell phone numbers where they can be reached. bullshit!! i am on vacation. i don't give a flying one about what is happening in the office while i am away!

[Serendipitous]

1. My company is quite the opposite.

Only a select few "special people" can email the whole company.

Though, the big boss is ANAL about making sure we have the time blocked off in our calenders, set up our "out of office reply" and outgoing voice mail message.

[Beer Snob-50]

2. we don't have voice mail

but i wouldn't anwere that either.

[JackBeck]

3. We just mark the office's Microsoft Outlook calendar.

I'd be pissed if I got called on my vacation. And it happened only once.

[Orsino]

4. Some executive was probably inconvenienced one time...

...and decided, as god is his witness, that he'd never waste time trying to reach someone on vacation.

[Jimbo S]

5. Had this policy at my first job

Had to distribute a memo indicating which days I would be off and how to be contacted in an emergency.

Current job doesn't require this. Sometimes my boss takes a vacation and doesn't even tell *me*. :<

I prefer the policy of the first job. That way everyone is in the loop, I'm not wasting time looking for someone who is out, that person's responsibilities are covered by the rest of the team and so on. I work in a technical position and if someone needs my expertise, then I need to be contacted. It's part of being on the management team.