Let everything you do and think about at work, stay at work. I take it to extremes though, like not even drinking the same energy drink that I drink at work when I'm at home. Anything that reminds me of work is removed so I can seperate the two worlds and be stress free and not bothered by it when I'm at home.
I take a hard line on this too. Recently I went on vacation and made it generally known I was turning off my email on my phone and would not be answering any phone calls. Some people took that the same as if I left a big steaming pile of shit on their desk.
Unfortunately, the reality is the second anyone knows that you're available on weekends or vacations for any reason or for any duration no matter how brief then its like the floodgates open. You make one exception and then for some reason your availability is expected from then on out and if you try to retract that availability people will think you owe them an explanation. It's impossible to unring that bell. Believe me, I fell into that trap before with a previous employer. So now I have an iron curtain separating my home and work life.
I see a lot of younger employees falling into the same trap I did and it's hard to watch. You need to set hard boundaries or people are going to walk all over you.
Let everything you do and think about at work, stay at work. I take it to extremes though, like not even drinking the same energy drink that I drink at work when I'm at home. Anything that reminds me of work is removed so I can seperate the two worlds and be stress free and not bothered by it when I'm at home.
This is a great idea!
I need to incorporate this rule in my life.
I take a hard line on this too. Recently I went on vacation and made it generally known I was turning off my email on my phone and would not be answering any phone calls. Some people took that the same as if I left a big steaming pile of shit on their desk.
Unfortunately, the reality is the second anyone knows that you're available on weekends or vacations for any reason or for any duration no matter how brief then its like the floodgates open. You make one exception and then for some reason your availability is expected from then on out and if you try to retract that availability people will think you owe them an explanation. It's impossible to unring that bell. Believe me, I fell into that trap before with a previous employer. So now I have an iron curtain separating my home and work life.
I see a lot of younger employees falling into the same trap I did and it's hard to watch. You need to set hard boundaries or people are going to walk all over you.
This has been the only way I stay sane. If only health care providers can do it too.