Ok, due to my deployments, and generaly just not having the time to take off of work due to exccessive work loads now that I am back, I ended up with 115 days of vacation.
Thats right, 115 Days.
Now, at the end of the fiscal year, Oct 1, The Army takes all your leave back except for 60 days. Any thing over 60 is Use or Loose. Simple, either take leave or loose it on the roll over.
Anyway, yesterday morning I go into work and ask the Firts Sergeant when is the soonest I can sign out and take some time off. He tells me, right now! Takes me inside and has me fill out the proper forms for leave and thats that, 30 whole days off.
This all took place about 0700, about 1000 hrs my commander calls me at home. He proceeds to tell me that he wants me to relax and enjoy my time off. BUT,, I need to come in to the office first thing in the morning. Oh yeah, enjoy your time off by comming into work.
Not quite sure how that is supposed to work!!
Thats not too bad, I don't mind going in and finishing up one of the cases I am working on. What realy gets me is I am supposed to be on vacation and they want me to come in not just first thing in the morning, but a couple days a week to continue working. WHAT THE HELL!!!!!!!
Obviously, some one needs to look up "Vacation" in the dictionary.
va·ca·tion Audio pronunciation of "vacation" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (v-kshn, v-)
n.
vacation
n 1: leisure time away from work devoted to rest or pleasure, or relaxation, especially one with pay granted to an employee.
2. A holiday.
3. A fixed period of holidays, especially one during which a school, court, or business suspends activities.
4. Archaic. The act or an instance of vacating.
intr.v. va·ca·tioned, va·ca·tion·ing, va·ca·tions
To take or spend a vacation.
Anywho, I am going to try and enjoy this as much as possible, however, I am off to work now.
Vacation is what you take when you can't take what you've been taking any longer.
The Lion
No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.
Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
Vacation used to be a luxury, however, in today's world, it has become a necessity.
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