I'm missing something, somewhere

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Shared on Fri, 02/12/2010 - 06:16

This past Tuesday I took a vacation which became a "work from home day" as I entertained roughly a dozen phone calls and had to log into the network from home to work on some issues going on in my department.  That was an unfortunate way to spend a vacation day, but whatever.  Today I have another vacation day scheduled, except as I sit here typing this I am getting ready to go into work.  WTF?

Apparently the last thing I remember yesterday was being in on a conference call with my boss and being volunteered to be in another one for today.  As I reminded my boss that I was off he kind of went "oh crap...oh well, I just said you were going to be there".  Umkay.  So I said ok fuck it, I will come in at 9 for the call on my own time.  I had running around to do so that would just be part of it.  He told me I was a hell of a guy.  I corrected him and downgraded that to idiot. 

So as I'm getting ready to leave yesterday I get a call from a manager downtown.  He told me he'd be out at the facility tomorrow, I expressed my regrets at missing him and tried to get off the phone.  Ha, no such luck.  I was told he had to get information on the one end of SAP for this project he was working on and he absolutely had to have it by tomorrow.  He then asked who else had as much knowledge in this area of SAP as I did, and I told him basically "oh, everyone.  You can dial an extension at random and whoever answers will know just as much as me.  You'll be fine".  He wasn't buying that and I wound up staying late having a conversation with him about what he was trying to accomplish and we threw around some ideas for solutions.  Then I offered to help him Monday and got the "need it tomorrow" line.

So I told him since I'd be in for the conference call I would do his thing prior to that.  He told me he owed me lunch. I  told him he owed me more than that, like a trip to Crazy Rock where I'd be eating steak off a stripper's bare hooters. 

So that in a nutshell is my vacation day for today.  I am definitely going to talk with my bosses about not having this happen ever again, and also see about not getting charged for one of these vac days I burned this week.

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Submitted by Fish66 on Sun, 02/14/2010 - 11:46
Three things: 1 Office Assistant 2 Change the Voice mail greeting 3 "Don't answer the PHONE" Yeah, I learned the hard way too ;)

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