Well off on Vacation

Well after a disastrous week at work, being asked to update a system with one day notice for a job that requires several days testing before moving to Prod it failed as I predicted (I have never failed before). I told my boss I was considering resigning at the end of Sept. He wouldn't accept my resignation and told me to calm down (He's currently away as well) and said he will be speaking to that dept when he gets back and I get back from the UK (Some of you might not be aware but I flip easily when projects don't go as planned). So I have know idea what is going to happen when I get back.

But tomorrow afternoon I am off to the UK and should arrive sometime Monday, assuming everything goes right (I'm not holding my breath). I will be in London until Aug 12 at which time we head to Dover to get on the cruise ship.

then

Aug 15 - Greenock-Glasgow, Clydeport, Scotland
Aug 16 - Belfast, Northern Ireland
Aug 17 - Liverpool, England
Aug 18 - Dublin, Ireland, Dun Laoghaire Harbour
Aug 19 - Cobh-Cork, Ireland
Aug 20 - Arriving in Dover, England

Fly out back to Ottawa Aug 21.

Cheers All and have a nice Summer

Greatwhite

Hope you have a stellar trip. I have a family member working in a small production shop that makes items that gets tested before going into full scale production, his sentiments echo yours to the "T", lazy workers, don't give a poop if things don't come out as per customer requests and design. And they wonder why they are floundering. Shop foreman has his son "working" there, if you could call a couple hours a day whenever he decides to show up, the company owner has no cahoonas to launch some of these lazy buggers.

Have a safe and fun vacation!

sounds like a great trip for you and the family...Hope the weather holds up fo you guys...

I hope that you have a great trip.

25th Anniversary cruise for wife and I, well actually 26th now. We were originally suppose to go on our 24th but covid delayed it 2 years.

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Originally Posted by Bo D

sounds like a great trip for you and the family...Hope the weather holds up fo you guys...

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Have a great holiday Sir. :)

Have a great trip!
Sounds like you needed a break from work.

Safe travels!

I've never needed a break from work before, never failed on a project, but when people don't understand that you have to plan and test things and then give you the information and for testing and going live on the same day, they didn't even include our dept and my boss in the decisions for availability. My Boss (Long time friend) just sent me a text to calm down and enjoy my vacation and not think about work. (Guess he doesn't know yet I packed my Laptop). Not use to going away for 2 weeks. I usually just go away for long weekends or occasionally to NB, NS, but rarely very far.

I'm made to do work not travel.

Going to try and have a good trip hopefully the buffet has lot's of shrimp and maybe muscles or clams.

If I don't enjoy the trip the wife will probably divorce me. So I will try. But not doing one of these again.

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Originally Posted by Deer Hunter

Have a great trip!
Sounds like you needed a break from work.

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Sounds like a good time. Enjoy the scenery and try out a few pubs. Life’s short, have fun and stay safe.

Brutal how work has taken over our lives and our ability too disconnect and enjoy the simple things.

I’m finishing my week off tomorrow.
It was good to get away from work.
Enjoy yourself.

Bon voyage have a good one GW.

Take care and have fun

Did you get to fish?

Vacations ? I remember them well . Work hard all year and as a reward get to take time off to do absolutely nothing or do whatever turns your crank ! Now that I'm retired and supposedly on permanent vacation there's nothing to look forward to, every day is a work day/vacation day. I swear I got more out of my time off and/or vacation back when I was "punching the clock" ? LoL ! Enjoy your trip !

Actually he is back by now i think............maybe a trip report is missing?:)

Yes, hopefully it went well, haven’t seen a report?

Yes we got back. So I'm not a big fan of cruise ships. I found the food only a bit better then McDonald's. I'm not into comedy show, dance bars or gambling. Played in the casino for 3 hours broke even and found it boring. At a hotel I could go check things out in the evening meet people maybe go fishing.

Wife and I were in London for 3 nights. So we toured London for 3 days. From London we went to Dover. I really would like to have stayed there for 2 days, when we walked down from the hotel to see the ship I saw people fishing for Mackerel off the shore, that brought back memories of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.

In the UK your allowed to walk down the street drinking a beer. I loved that.

I think next time I would rather fly and then jet set around a few countries.

I would like to go to Finland, Sweden, and Norway maybe try to squeeze in Denmark.
Stay in hotels and find private companies for excursions.

I also didn't like being away for 14 days.