The trick is to use your PTO all at once and be out for a week or so - everything falls over and it reminds your boss how you’re the only thing keeping it all together.
The key to a good career in IT is to not have everything run too smoothly. If your systems have 100% uptime, it’s easy for people to forget that you exist and are needed. The occasional bug reminds them that their lives would collapse without you.
The trick is to use your PTO all at once and be out for a week or so - everything falls over and it reminds your boss how you’re the only thing keeping it all together.
The key to a good career in IT is to not have everything run too smoothly. If your systems have 100% uptime, it’s easy for people to forget that you exist and are needed. The occasional bug reminds them that their lives would collapse without you.