‘Er…’ 11/18/2004
I seem to find myself at more and more of an impasse these days.
Work has suddenly become all consuming, but I find myself rapidly losing even a sembelance of interest in the project. I was given a 2 month extension, on time, half of which is going to be consumed by the company’s requirement that I utilise my annual leave, or lose it. No big deal you say? Well, I have 23 days of annual leave left. And there’s no way in hell I can finish it, unless I disappear for the entire month of December, which isn’t going to happen.
Hence the impasse. I have work to do, and a project to finish, but I also need to take a vacation, something I haven’t had since 1999, and finish off the leave. The company doesn’t allow more than 3 days to be carried over, and there is no mechanism for the leave to be compensated with cash. I had this same problem last year, except that it only involved 13 days. So the M.D. who treats everyone like employees said, just carry it all over. Which compounds my problem. Because I will now have 55 days of leave to finish in 2005.
I suggested selling my leave to the other colleagues in the project who have finished their allocation, but the lack of laughs around the meeting table suggested that this wasn’t a solution.
So I have reached my ‘er…’ point.
- Posted in : General
- Author : thesnark
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