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Posted on 08/07/2007 7:52:15 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Can I stay home today?
I vote yes.
I’m not sure I own a body part that’s not aching. I have ~got~ to get back to thepool...
For now, off to Fangorn.
So,if’n I were to take out a co-worker izzit too late for Santa to take back my presents?
I’m just askin’ ‘cause it may be important to know.
One of those days?
You’re good people, 2J. Bless ya!
Honest Santa, she needed killin’...(that convincing enough?)
It’s just that this woman is obsessing about something scheduled for April.
APRIL! fercryinoutloud...
Does we have a mutual coworker? ‘Cause it sounds like we does...
And just for grins another co-worker brought in his insufferable Jingle-Fricking-Bell-Croaking-Frog...
Isn't April when you're already booked on that cruise... uh yeah... that cruise... to Antarctica. yeah... that's it... had to buy the tickets two years ago... yeah...
Mornin' folkses!
[sip]
As for the frog, pretty much any toy that place Christmas music is worthy of death in my book...they don't make 'em in unannoying format.
Aren’t Christmas frogs just the thing to put you in the right frame of mind this Advent season?
To wit. NM is a big place. It takes a long time to drive anywhere from anywhere. Time spent to drive for work purposes during normal duty hours is covered under regular salary. Time spent to drive for work purposes outside of duty hours is supposed to be charged as "travel comp time", which is an hour-for-hour time off. But time is $$.
Our work areas are nowhere *near* the airport in El Paso. We're usually 1.5-3 hours' drive away. Usually, we'll spend the last night of the trip in El Paso so we can catch an early morning flight back to the east coast. An 0600 flight out puts you on the ground in MD between 14-1500. Duty hours, more or less. And the difference in lodging allowances between our usual duty location and ELP is $17. (ELP is more expensive).
New policy sez, that if your duty location is not ELP, and you stay in ELP that night before the flight, the $17 comes out of pocket. But here's the kicker. In order to save that $17 you have to drive from the duty location to ELP to catch the flight - a drive that puts you on the road at 0400 or earlier. Unfun! Plus you get to charge travel comp because these are non-duty hours. Because we're obscenely overpaid gov employees, these hours are worth up to $30 (an estimate) each. So it costs $60 to save $17.
Makes perfect sense to me.
It's cute. Once.
What happens if you take that left turn in Albuquerque?
I go home to AZ and visit family...
I could use a visit to Arizona...
Oooo scary kittehs.
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