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What’s the expectation where you work for filling the content calendar before vacation?
You feel this in your heart as a SMM
I've been working for a very large nonprofit for almost 2 years. I've finally earned enough PTO to take an epic vacation, 2 weeks. (The company I work for has sick, holidays and vacation all rolled into PTO, so I end up working most holidays to save up for real vacation). I recently found out that the expectation is that I should fill the social media content calendar for while I'm out. So, I'll have to PRE-work to get all that done. I've done this no problem for other short long weekends, but this is two whole weeks, two brands, with 4 platforms. Questions for other SMMs:1- Do you have this same expectation for your work? And/or can you give a quantified expectation (i.e. how many posts / week)?
2- Does anyone know other jobs that expect you to pre-work for your earned vacation? I'd like to avoid them, and SMM for my future careers.
Thanks for anything you want to share!
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I’ve never been anywhere where you could just drop everything for two weeks. Usually you have to work ahead to get things to their next handoff for approvals or for others to do their part. Other folks would cover as things come up while you’re out.
Social media doesn’t really stop. Plan out a couple easy posts, or repurpose high performing content, to make things easier on yourself. I’d assume you’ll be wanted to keep your same posting cadence.
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