- May 18, 2001
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Call me an idiot for not knowing my benefits at work.
This is my 5th year working for this company. At 5 years, my company grants employees an extra week of vacation per year. My 5 year anniversary is around August 1st, so I assumed that at best I would get my extra week of vacation then, or at worst my extra week would be granted at the start of next year.
Not so. I just found out that the extra week gets granted at the start of my 5th year.
This is the perfect medicine for 4 extremely crappy work days in a row.
EDIT: I knew there had to be some sort of catch to my good fortune yesterday. So I decided that I would use three days of vacation next week and sent my manager an email with the request. She's the type that immediately replies to every email, so when she didn't answer for an hour I knew the news couldn't be good. She basically gave me the "if you are confident project X will be complete on time, then go ahead and go. But its up to your best judgement" answer, knowing fully well that because of her inept decisions project X will still be ongoing years after the earth finally explodes.
What really galls me is that I have taken maybe 5 sick days in the last 5 years, I haven't had any vacation time in over a year, I always get to work on time, I never leave early, and now that I have gotten this extra week of vacation it looks like I won't be able to take it at any time in the foreseeable future.
The moral, kids, is to never graduate college. Stay there forever. Bah, the purpose of my life seems to be to serve as a warning to others.
"Thanks for the five years of hard work, Ned. Here is a extra week of vacation. Of course, you can never ever use it, but we wanted you to know that we care." Bastards.
This is my 5th year working for this company. At 5 years, my company grants employees an extra week of vacation per year. My 5 year anniversary is around August 1st, so I assumed that at best I would get my extra week of vacation then, or at worst my extra week would be granted at the start of next year.
Not so. I just found out that the extra week gets granted at the start of my 5th year.
This is the perfect medicine for 4 extremely crappy work days in a row.
EDIT: I knew there had to be some sort of catch to my good fortune yesterday. So I decided that I would use three days of vacation next week and sent my manager an email with the request. She's the type that immediately replies to every email, so when she didn't answer for an hour I knew the news couldn't be good. She basically gave me the "if you are confident project X will be complete on time, then go ahead and go. But its up to your best judgement" answer, knowing fully well that because of her inept decisions project X will still be ongoing years after the earth finally explodes.
What really galls me is that I have taken maybe 5 sick days in the last 5 years, I haven't had any vacation time in over a year, I always get to work on time, I never leave early, and now that I have gotten this extra week of vacation it looks like I won't be able to take it at any time in the foreseeable future.
The moral, kids, is to never graduate college. Stay there forever. Bah, the purpose of my life seems to be to serve as a warning to others.
"Thanks for the five years of hard work, Ned. Here is a extra week of vacation. Of course, you can never ever use it, but we wanted you to know that we care." Bastards.
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