When is a weekend not a weekend?

This week’s guest post comes from Violeta-Loredana Pascal, who runs a Romania-based PR agency. Lori has chosen to share with us her belief that a weekend should be a time for relaxing and not one that is interrupted by the pressures of  work. She also shows us how taking a perfect weekend break is not always as easy as it looks.

Bran

Bran, Romania

We all need some time off. We all feel the need to take a break, whether its a shorter or a longer one. The most easy way to get your batteries recharged is to take a weekend getaway – whether in your country or in another one. The idea is to change the scenery, to enjoy some time off work, to relax and have some fun outside the office, with family and/or friends.

I’ll start with a confession: yes, there are some weekends when I work when I have to finish something. But when I decide to take a weekend off and travel, people at work know that I don’t like to be disturbed.

Is that possible? Hmm… Usually yes, but here’s a real story involving me and my then to be husband Andrei.

I remember the first weekend getaway I had with Andrei. We went to the mountains (somewhere near Bran), but didn’t manage to enjoy ourselves too much. Why? Because a colleague bothered my boyfriend all day, asking for advice or even guidance to different IT procedures.

This was all Saturday (we left Saturday morning and were scheduled to get back in Bucharest on Sunday evening), and at the end of the day his colleagues told Andrei that he couldn’t solve the situation. So here we were Sunday morning rushing back to Bucharest; only to find out that in the meanwhile the problem was solved. Of course the colleague forgot to give him a call and let us know that. Not very nice, wouldn’t you say?

As you can see it’s not a very happy situation. And yes, we were disappointed when we found out that the person called over and over again to ask different questions but didn’t bother to send at least a text message to let us know everything was solved. Thankfully over the years we’ve had many weekend getaways when we could enjoy ourselves without work related stress.

Have you have similar weekends where you have tried to escape work and it has followed you on your getaway?

About the author

Loredana_PascalVioleta-Loredana Pascal is passionate about public relations, communications and image (she has a PR agency, PRwave INTERNATIONAL). Lori also loves reading, writing and of course travelling, and she shares her travel experiences on Travel – Moments in Time. Follow Lori on Twitter @TravelMoments.

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4 Responses to “When is a weekend not a weekend?”

  1. Poi #

    This reminds me of my job before this trip, on call 24/7. At a bar with friends and having to step outside and talk to people who couldn’t uderstand out of office hours for emergency situations only, not fun. No more though :)

    November 18, 2010 at 3:04 pm Reply
  2. Thanks Poi. I share your frustrations (and Lori’s too). Having been on-call at weekends before it never ceased to amaze me what some people thought was worthy of an ‘emergency’ call. Glad you’ve managed to escape.

    November 18, 2010 at 8:17 pm Reply
  3. I know (have friends) how it’s like to work 24/7. But as you Poi, point out it’s a very big distance from “We have an emergency” to a real emergency situation. Unfortunately in time some people that offer 24/7 support think that the calls with “it’s an emergency” can be ignored for hours – or the entire weekend – not considering them as real important issues.

    November 18, 2010 at 8:54 pm Reply

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