antiASKHOLE

Bravado's Resident Asshole

Don't Miss Me too Much

Hey everyone,

So my wife just had our baby girl yesterday and now I am on 4 weeks paternity leave. They are both healthy and relaxing, thank God.

What that means for you all, is that you won't see me on here for a month or more as I am shutting things down to focus on family.

I do have one question before I go and log off tomorrow for my break.

This is my first time having the luxury of taking a paternity leave and with the last two boys, I barely had a week off and couldn't even enjoy myself.

How did some of you disconnect from work during that time and then what did you do to prepare yourself to get back to work at the end of it?

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oldcloser

Arsonist

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You are already pre-programmed to work. What you're about to do is the part that matters. If you're already planning your re-entry, you're missing the moment. Tune that shit out. Hold that baby. Serve your wife... anything she wants. That's the important stuff. You'll plug n play right back into the grind.

Happy for you!

HVACexpert

Politicker

sales engineer

Congrats! I got number two coming end of June.

If you prepared your team for this and made sure you had coverage you should be fine. Did you set your out of office and your VM output?
I would say focus on your family for the first 3 weeks, I wouldn’t open the computer or check email or anything. Then the week before you go back try and take an hour or two to try and catch up and start going through emails.

Doesn’t matter if work has an emergency still not as important as family, they can handle it.

Congrats again and enjoy the time off!

Filth

Politicker

Live Filthy or Die Clean

A. Congrats B. damn you and your pat leave, my first girl is coming in near weeks and I don't get shit outside of PTO and an understanding org. I'd feel better if it was a set time. C. You'll probably want to pick random times to clean up your inbox so you don't feel underwater going back but nothing more than than and no more than once a week. D. CONGRATS!!

poweredbycaffeine

WR Lieutenant

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I deleted slack, disconnected my inbox from my phone, and literally put my work computer in a cupboard along with my second monitor and all desk accessories. I forgot all about it about 10 days in.

braintank

Politicker

Enterprise Account Executive

Uninstall all works apps from phone.

Lock your laptop in a drawer somewhere.

Congratulations and enjoy!

jefe

Arsonist

🍁

CONGRATS!!!!

Taking notes for when my first comes this summer

Sunbunny31

Politicker

Sr Sales Executive 🐰

HUGE congratulations to you and your wife!

You've gotten some great suggestions here about disconnecting. Seriously do that. Your family will benefit from having you 100% available. Your wife is going to need some serious support and you managing the boys is going to be a big part of that. Even getting them out of the house and doing dad things with them during the day will be super helpful. Make sure you get your wife whatever she needs OR doesn't need but wants. The support you give now will not be forgotten and it's fantastic that you are going to have a whole month!

Enjoy!

Pachacuti

Politicker

They call me Daddy, Sales Daddy

Congrats on the new addition! Enjoy the time.

I think you’ll be fine. Don’t overthink things. Take each day 1 at a time. You’ll be back slinging’ sales soon enough.

IndianaShep

Politicker

Director of Sales and Marketing

Uninstall everything. Everywhere.

CuriousFox

WR Officer

🦊

CONGRATS 🥳❤

Notmyrealname

Politicker

Congrats @antiASKHOLE

detectivegibbles

Politicker

Sales Director

LETS GO!! CONGRATS!

Turn off all notifications or delete/disconnect work related apps.

Preparing...time block. I hate feeling behind. Assuming wifey is up for it and her needs/baby needs are taken care of, ask for an uninterupted period of time the day before to get everything fired back up.

Other than that, don't think about any of it. Enjoy!

punishedlad

Tycoon

Business Development Team Lead

First off, congratulations anti! Love this for you and your family. Four weeks is a generous chunk of time. I can't give provide a ton of advice on *how* to disconnect, aside from putting a conscious effort into it.

If your work email is on your phone, turn off notifications and resist the urge to open the app. Turn on "do not disturb" if you have to and only let calls through from the people who matter most (and that's not anyone you work with).

As far as preparing to go back, maybe at the start of week 4 check that email. See if anything pressing has happened in your absence. Change your OOO response to reflect that you'll be back next week. Doesn't hurt to go into your CRM and put together a game plan for day/week 1 once you're back.

It's a great excuse to get back in touch with prospects/check in with them since it's been a month since you've outbounded.

Mobi85

Politicker

Regional Sales Manager

Congratulations to you all and enjoy your time.

Maximas

Tycoon

Senior Sales Executive

Congrats on the baby girl,just don't think of work till at least 2 days prior to getting back to it .
Just focusing and taking care of your wife and daughter is a valuable task enough not to remind you with any work tasks till your vacation gets closer to an end!

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