I am one of those poor unfortunate souls who feels the need to have a “reason” to take the day off from work.
Because of that, my vacation days tend to pile up ― luckily, California doesn’t have a “use it or lose it” policy like many states do so my unused days off get carried over to the next year.
Every time I do request a day off, though, I tend to overexplain myself: “I’m going to Palm Springs with my sisters!” I’ll say in my email request to my manager. “We have some family from out of town coming over and I need to prep so I’ll be taking a half day, if that’s OK with you.”
But as Twitter user @localanxiousbae’s recent viral tweet points out, in most cases, that’s really not necessary.
“Normalize not telling your boss what your day off is for,” she wrote in October, to the acclaim of people who, like me, need to chill with their overaccountability at work. (So far, the viral tweet has over 519K likes and 78.2K retweets.)
