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Subject:Re: Increasing your corporate value (long) From:Bill Swallow <techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Mon, 6 Jun 2005 23:36:40 -0400
> That's fine. Take a vacation. Most managers are in the 5+ weeks a
> year category anyway...that's a week every other month, now tie in
> the X days a year personal holidays.
Wow, I want to live in your world. ;-) I get 3 weeks maximum.
> However, don't cloak a vacation under the veil of something
> else...call it what it is...why not? Afraid it will look bad? I
> wonder why. When someone says "I'm going to a professional conference
> in Maui...does anyone not know what's going on?
John, do you go to conferences? The location is irrelevant save for
what you do after 5pm.
> Scheduling a conference, where you are going to learn something..as
> long as it revolves around tee time/court time does not cover
> learning.... that's not business...that's waiting for something to do
> between.
And what of scheduling a conference around bar hopping? That's what
usually happens in less exotic locations.
> OTOH, if it is in Maui, or wherever, and the event is scheduled and
> attended 8 hours a day, you have my appologies.
Perhaps some research before commenting is warranted.
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