ODIN guy tried to fix
ODIN guy tried to fix my computer with his magic CD and it still doesn't work. Now he says my hard drive is going bad and they'll just do a box swap, but it won't be until tomorrow morning. For those keeping score at home, that's 8 hours of your tax money that I just wasted because it took all day for ODIN to confirm that yes, my computer is indeed broken, just like I told them at 8:45 this morning.
Almost exactly a year ago, I had a hard drive on my old work computer go bad. Last August, I got a new computer at work, but now, less than nine months later, it's broken.
I don't know why, but computers hate me.
so - with the question of you getting paid to play golf, unless you took the morning off and either used vacation time, didn't get paid for those hours, or made them up later, than you did get paid to play golf.
Hmm. I took vacation time. So yes, I will get paid for those hours, but it comes out of my vacation time. So they aren't specifically paying me to play golf...but I am choosing to use some of my 20-days-a-year of vacation time to play golf.
When I think about it that way, it seems like a waste of my vacation time, considering the fact that I suck at golf!
You are lucky that you only have to work 40hrs a week to the exact minute. Most of us have to work 40hrs of *billable* time and still only get 10days of vacation and 7 holidays. In addition to the 20days of vacation, how many holidays do civil servants get off?
I'm bitterly jealous! I'm the one who chose this job.
yet somehow my 4 weeks of vacation a year doesn't seem like nearly enough.. I'm all about the European system of 6 weeks of summer holiday, plus national and religious holidays off.