skip your own awards ceremony?

[womet]

I would skip it. It's your day off. It's not like you're going to hide in your office with the door closed so that you don't have to attend. How do they know that you don't have something scheduled for that day off?

[bliss]

This just made me think of The Office and their awards. LOL.

I'd skip it. You have epic plans that day. Like sleeping in, staying in PJs longer than you should and more.

[bliss]

Yes.

Do you feel guilty because you're technically not OOT? What if you scheduled a vacation and were gone for 2 days before the ceremony? Would you still feel guilty?

I don't think it's important careerwise. Especially if it's during the day ceremony and not like an event/company party thing at a hotel or whatever.

[womet]

Aug 20, 2012 14:11:46 GMT -5 @jimbooo said:

ooops! I forgot to state (if it's not implied) that I'm one of the people getting the awards! Still ok to not go?

I think it's okay. I would make sure that someone knows that you won't be attending and make arrangements to get your certificate/plaque/Oscar.

[dexteroni]

It depends on how much importance your workplace puts on attending this sort of thing. Mine was way into people being present at crap like this. The president of the company would stop by your desk and ask why you weren't at a party, let alone an actual work-related event. He took non-attendance as a sign of non-appreciation. It was messed up, but that's how things worked there. So if that's how your company is, then yeah, go. But if it's more normal, and I would guess that 90% of workplaces are, I wouldn't go.

[dr.girlfriend]

Is there a reason you have a day off while all other 50 people don't? If it's a special accommodation (working a 4-day week or something) I would make an effort to show up for this. If it's a planned vacation or you work Saturday instead of Monday or something, I would skip it unless you're super-duper gung-ho about your career advancement.

[chessie]

I would skip, those things don't mean a lot in the end.

[mayflowers22]

I'd skip.

[UMaineTeach]

Award Ceremony Story:
I have a Dr. who is very hard to get into and I was having a serious problem.
I took the appointment available.
Turned out that it was in the afternoon on a 1/2 day of school. Great, easy to be late for a meeting!
Oh, it's the School Board Awards meeting and I need to miss literally just the awards and will be back in time for the real meeting? Great! Let me know who wins! Enjoy the Cookies!

Oh. It's me. I won. Awkward.

So the superintendent visited me at lunch and read the write up of my awesomeness to me in the break room with about 5 people eating lunch. Yeah.

[whitepicketfence]

If you don't have any real plans for your day off, I'd probably try to attend. Otherwise, I'd skip it and not feel guilty.

[aurora]

Aug 20, 2012 14:34:09 GMT -5 @jimbooo said:

Aug 20, 2012 14:30:33 GMT -5 dr.girlfriend said:

Is there a reason you have a day off while all other 50 people don't? If it's a special accommodation (working a 4-day week or something) I would make an effort to show up for this. If it's a planned vacation or you work Saturday instead of Monday or something, I would skip it unless you're super-duper gung-ho about your career advancement.

It's the special four day work week. I think i better go. I am gung ho about my career advancement, meaning I will attempt (and hopefully succeed) a big promotion in 2 years.

With this information, I would probably try to go if I didn't have other plans, though personally I wouldn't enjoy it and would grumble about it in private. Is there any chance you could switch your day off to another day that week?

[lindyanne]

Does it come with a good banquet? Lol

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I'm very much a joiner and have often changed my schedule for work, but I would probably skip unless there was a fun lunch or something.