Tokyo Summer Olympic Games 2020 News

[Benolympique 2,398]

I have my vacation during the Olympics

[Agger 1,662]

I just don't have a job  (well, still hoping to have when we get to summer, but we'll see)

[rybak 3,217]

28 minutes ago, Agger said:

I just don't have a job  (well, still hoping to have when we get to summer, but we'll see)

Same here, sadly, its reason why I'm able to host TAISC 

[heywoodu 15,135]

1 hour ago, dcro said:

Meh... I can wait before asking for any holiday request all the way through early July basically.

There's a chance that would be possible in my job as well, but I don't want to take the risk that one of the other three people in the datacenter team beats me and books a holiday on exactly that timeframe leading to my supervisor saying "Hmm, two of you away at the same time is a problem, so no"  

 

In this case, smaller risk is better and since this is the first time I actually have an actual job during the Olympics, I don't want to deal with it wrong and miss out  

[rafalgorka 1,517]

2 hours ago, Benolympique said:

I have my vacation during the Olympics

I have the same! It is always like that for me since my first serious job in 2004 ;-) Both winter and summer.

 

This year I have even planned 3 days extra after the closing ceremony, just to sleep and recover to CET timezone ;-)

[CCB 565]

18 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

There's a chance that would be possible in my job as well, but I don't want to take the risk that one of the other three people in the datacenter team beats me and books a holiday on exactly that timeframe leading to my supervisor saying "Hmm, two of you away at the same time is a problem, so no"  

 

In this case, smaller risk is better and since this is the first time I actually have an actual job during the Olympics, I don't want to deal with it wrong and miss out  

This week will be the week of truth for me. Wednesday I am officially going to ask for time off during the Olympics. Because I don't have a replacement within the company (a new job), I am a bit afraid of the answer. Otherwise I have to watch sports at night and work during the day (thank God we work from home most of the time ). Then it will be two tough weeks.

[Quaker2001 251]

"Hey boss, I think I need to work from home the last week of July and the first week of August.  Hope that's okay!"

[Federer91 2,793]

No surprises that the whole forum are having their annual leaves during the OG   Thankfully, i have the luxury of waiting for now and submitting my leave much closer to the Games in case they do some shenanigans. 

[heywoodu 15,135]

27 minutes ago, Federer91 said:

No surprises that the whole forum are having their annual leaves during the OG   Thankfully, i have the luxury of waiting for now and submitting my leave much closer to the Games in case they do some shenanigans. 

The only shenanigans I can see are them cancelling the Olympics, or even moving it to next year, but not moving it up by a month or so  

[OlympicIRL 5,532]

I am also taking 2 weeks off work to watch the Olympics. I made sure to get that request approved at the start of January . I didn't book the day of the Opening Ceremony but I will probably book it closer to the time when the excitement starts taking over. Not sure what kind of ceremony there is going to be anyway