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Covering Your Coworker’s Vacation – 7 Tips

You are coming back to work, right?

It is not fun covering your coworker’s vacation. You are not being paid more to do the additional work and you still have to do your job. You may think it’s not fair, and maybe it isn’t, but that’s life. Sometimes the odds are in your favor, and sometimes they are not.

When your colleague cannot stop talking about how excited they are for their upcoming trip, all you can think about it is the extra work being dumped on your plate. You want to try to be happy for them, but the thought of your coworker being gone fills you with dread.
Here are some helpful tips to hopefully help you maintain your sanity while your coworker is on vacation. Enjoy!

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