Schedule go boom
Nov. 11th, 2011 12:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bktheirregularI get 22 days of leave from work in a calendar year. My normal annual schedule involves taking two weeks at Christmas and New Year's to see my family, then one or one-and-a-half weeks in the summer, working around bank holidays so there are a few more days in the event of illness and the like.
Needless to say, I did not account for two and a half weeks in New York watching out for a brother recovering from rather serious orthopedic surgery. That kind of blew up my vacation schedule.
Unfortunately, I'd gotten my Christmas tickets to New York in March - you have to buy that far ahead to get decent prices. Oh, and those tickets are probably not refundable.
Oh, and I can't get an advance on vacation days from next year, either, according to the accounting office. Oh, and I can't even take a day off for illness unless I get a doctor's note. And not just any doctor, either, but a doctor from IKA, the national health service.
No good deed goes unpunished, right?
Needless to say, I did not account for two and a half weeks in New York watching out for a brother recovering from rather serious orthopedic surgery. That kind of blew up my vacation schedule.
Unfortunately, I'd gotten my Christmas tickets to New York in March - you have to buy that far ahead to get decent prices. Oh, and those tickets are probably not refundable.
Oh, and I can't get an advance on vacation days from next year, either, according to the accounting office. Oh, and I can't even take a day off for illness unless I get a doctor's note. And not just any doctor, either, but a doctor from IKA, the national health service.
No good deed goes unpunished, right?
