That sickly, stomach dropping feeling...

[selenay]

It tends to happen when you realise that you've booked time off for a convention that you're really looking forward to and then realise that you forgot to put a training course in your work diary. OK, so I booked the convention tickets before the training session appeared, but I only booked the time off work last week and I failed to notice that my course(6th February) coincides with the day after the con (running 3rd to 5th February). I always book the day after a con off so that I don't have to make the trip home on the Sunday night after a weekend with very little sleep and then get up early on the Monday morning for work.

And this training centre is the 44 miles in either direction from home training centre. I can either leave the con early on the Sunday to stand some hope of getting to the course on the Monday or I can get up stupidly early on the Monday, check out at around 7am (or possibly before - it's actually further for me to drive from the con than it would be from home) and attempt to get to the training session on time.

Dilemmas.

Or I can talk to my manager to find out whether it's too late to postpone the course until the next time they run it. Not sure that the manager will go for that one. Particularly as it's my own damn fault for not putting the two events together in my head.

Comments

[paranoidangel]

Damn that whole work thing it's always getting in the way :)

I was thinking that we will need to book the hotel at some point, so it's probably just as well we haven't done it yet.

[selenay]

*g* I'd been thinking about that on the way home from work which was when I started putting the dates together. I need to work out exactly what I'm doing about the training course before I book rooms, but hopefully I'll get something cleared up tomorrow.

[gmul.livejournal.com]

I think your best bet would be to find a hotel or something near the training centre which will allow a late check-in. (E.g. a Travel Inn or whatever they're called this week should have no trouble with you arriving at midnight - I've done it before.)

It will mean leaving the con a little earlier than you might like but at least you'll have been there and be able to get up not too early in the morning...

I don't think asking your manager if you can postpone would be good plan, especially if you might need them to be extra nice to you for visits to the physio and stuff in the future.

Just my 1p worth.

[selenay]

Thanks for the suggestion - it wasn't something that I would have thought of. I've had a look and there seems to be something in the area of the training course that I could get a room in for the night so it's definitely a possibility.

I'll have a look at the info on the training course before talking to the manager. He didn't really think it was urgent when it was being booked, but that's never any guarantee. And getting time out for physio has already been stated as a Not Going to Happen thing. Unless I can find a physio near work who has clinics at a time that I can make, the PT won't be happening. Oh, well.

We're ignoring the fact that it's two days into the week and I've already done an hour and a half of unpaid overtime which will be closer to three by the end of the week. Somehow, that never seems to matter when it comes to asking whether I can leave half an hour early for a doctor's appointment...

Not that I'm feeling resentful at the moment :-)

And I've got my 2006 diary up and running so that it can be in my bag and important things like this can be marked in to avoid these little hiccups in the future *g*

[gmul.livejournal.com]

He didn't really think it was urgent when it was being booked, but that's never any guarantee.
Quite. It'll be really urgent and important but somehow you won't get to use whatever you've learned in time to not forget it. Such is life. :-)

Somehow, that never seems to matter when it comes to asking whether I can leave half an hour early
Yeah, funny that. Sometimes it is noticed though.

[selenay]

It'll be really urgent and important

Ah, apparently not. I emailed Da Boss to let him know that I was cancelling some of my holiday and he told me to find out whether I can get moved to a later running of the course. Huh. So I've gotta call the course leader, but it's looking oddly good.

Sometimes it is noticed though.

I can but hope :-) At the moment I'm just hoping that they don't decide the travel time to an off-site meeting this afternoon is actually my 'lunch hour'. 'Cos I'd kinda like to eat something today. My old company would have decided that the commute was in my own time so I'd have to make the time up. Not quite sure how that's handled here yet. I get to find out in an hour when I attempt to pop off for a bite to eat :-)

I can get up stupidly early on the Monday

[sazzle-02.livejournal.com]

But Sel, you'll still get a longer lie-in than you usually do, what time do you and PA get up to queue????

Re: I can get up stupidly early on the Monday

[selenay]

*g* Well, at SG-10 I think our earliest get up was 7.30am. We've given up on the stupidly early arising times :-)

My usual rising time for work is 5.30am. Anything later than that really is a lie in for me...