Take a few afternoons off for life admin

[Davidpuddyy]

I want to take 4 half days off for life admin:

buying a house so need to see solicitors and banks.
need to speak to the sons schools about stuff
general life admin that I need to sort

i took 2.5 days off during Easter a total of 5.5 days since the start of the year.

Am I being lazy - I don’t want to run about trying to fit things in and then come back to a a dozen messages on the teams chat wondering where i am.

I would see if as a waste of my precious annual leave
But if it suits you go for it

i make a list on a Sunday night of all the ‘life admin’ I have to do and aim to do 1 or 2 every lunchtime

Did you miss the fact she's taking annual leave?

Learn to read properly.

Depends on the job and the employer. I very very rarely have any problems booking leave now, I put it in, my manager presses "yes". All that's expected of me is to make sure there is at least one of the team still working.

Previous jobs I had to fight tooth and nail to be allowed to take any time off and it was awful.

I’d be less annoyed with you doing the half days than you taking regular long lunch breaks and sorting all the house bits out without using your leave.

It's your annual leave, use it how it best suits you! Who cares if others get annoyed - if your work approved it, then that's that.

It's no different to taking time off for decorating, as many do

I’ve only ever heard it used on here! That and the ‘mental load!’ 🤷‍♀️

Both phrases have been in common usage for quite some years now. I'm surprised you haven't come across them

I’m surprised you missed where I said I’ve only ever heard them on here…I’ve never heard them used in real life.

So maybe they changed their mind, which is good but what's the point of the post then?!
Should I use my annual leave to take time off to do admin - err yes. Makes fir such an interesting conversation, right?!

No, their post was about jacking off work so I responded to that and their earlier admittance that they were going to just go awol.

@AthWat just feels like a waste of annual leave! Two days gone on life admin so looking at whether Op could get it done without ‘wasting’ AL

no idea what the specific life admin tasks are but lots of places have longer hours for online chats, longer phone opening hours etc so may be options to go things differently

Well they want to do it; that's the whole premise of the post. They are not asking for advice on how use less annual leave.