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OT: Maui sucks
LOL I couldn't resist. In all seriousness I do have to work here.
I am only here for 48 hours. Not a lot of time for fun. Good news is
that I may be able to do both jobs today and have tommorow.
Andrea's really mad at me.
I have a question for the masses. Speaking of traveling for work. As
most of you know my aunt passed in July and I had several other deaths
in the family since, most notable is Andrea's Dad. Anyhow... I didn't
have the money to go to the funeral of my aunt, one of my mother's few
siblings, I was close. I asked the company to put the tickets on my
company card and I would get a loan to pay it off a week or so later.
The travel dept said that was fine as long as I paid it in 30 days.
Well Accounting paid the tickets off by default and they weren't
supposed to. I had the loan I was going to pay my bill with amex when
Andrea's Dad passed (about two weeks later) and obviously I didn't
make the payment that week. I didn't even look at my card so I had no
idea that it had been paid by the company by mistake. At the wake I
get this super nasty phone call from my supervisor questioning ethics
and basically accusing me of stealing from the company.
It wouldn't wait till later I had to talk to him at that point despite
the fact I was at a wake. I explained it, they grudgingly accepted
the explanation, and made it sound like they were going to cover for
me--even though I did nothing wrong. Which made me angry but I let it
slide.
Now... I get an email inviting me to a holiday party at headquarters.
They are going to fly myself and my wife to Pennsylvania, put us up in
a hotel for the weekend, rent a car for us and all that for a 5 hour
Christmas party... All of the field service techs are invited... so
that's like 30 techs and spouses (60ish total) flying from all over
the country for a 5 hour party. Am I angry? Am I insulted? Yea.
Did I expect the company to pay for my family to go to my aunt's
funeral. No. I didn't and I still don't. What upsets me is the fact
that the company is willing to have all these people travel to PA and
I got read the riot act over a misunderstanding and I didn't get an
apology. It's not like I was watching a football game when they
called... I was trying to say goodbye to another loved one.
Should I go? Should I be upset? Should I not hand them my resignation?
Just venting sorry...
On 11/28/06, Jan Folkson <jfolkson@optonline.net> wrote:
> Dude, you just need to get lei-d.
>
> - Jan
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> >> It's horrible I am in agony.
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