vertical week off 

A vertical week off is a block of five to seven days of vacation occurring every seven days in a consecutive series of weeks, rather than the five to seven days occurring consecutively in the same week, or a horizontal week. The distinction is evident from the direction taken by selecting, with pencil, pen or mouse, the days of choice from a spreadsheet or paper calendar.

Trying to avoid having work pile up if new cases were ignored for nine consecutive days, the clerk took one extra day off for five weeks by selecting each Thursday from the vertical column of the calendar app.
Clerk said: “It’s a Vertical Week Off so the in-box won’t get full.”

I said: “I hope you aren’t planning to rent a vacation retreat with that vertical week schedule. Maybe you could just take the work with you.”

vertical week off by Muttageek July 14, 2020