All through December, I didn’t utilize a single vacation day, in spite of the seemingly good idea that you could parlay them into the weeks with holidays, and get yourself a five or six day weekend if you played your cards right.  Frankly, I didn’t see a point in using my vacation time during a period of time in which work is at its least busy.

Throughout my career, I’ve always loved working during the holidays.  During the weeks of Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years, Atlanta traffic diminishes drastically, and it’s almost daresay relaxing to commute to work in the mornings.  Furthermore, anyone who works in an office environment understands that there are people whose lives have no purpose other than to use vacation time during a holiday period, because it makes them feel like sneaky geniuses when they manage to get nine straight days of no work for the cost of three vacation days during Thanksgiving.  When people disappear from the office, oftentimes so does the work.  When there is no work to be done, then it is an easy day.  Why would I want to burn my hard-earned vacation for easy days?

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