a guy calls me up and needs me to go to work.You got to imagine this:I didn't work for two years -nada,nothing,nix,zilch.Now with me having to go to a wedding today and six days till christmas I got to run around arrange flights attend a wedding at the same time and be at the airport at 5 in the morning tomorrow.Live is strange.

You never know when it hits you. I had almost the same situation last year, I was in college back then and I got an intership position at an IT Dept. of a financial company right three weeks before X-Mas (so I figured my first pay would fall on X-Mas week,yay), I was without a job for too long before something showed up on horizon, and then when I got the position offers flooded my uni's email account, I had to take a week leave w/o pay of course to go to all the interviews I had, there were three interviews on a single day with 12 overall, the result was drastic, not a single potential employer called me with the results, all my follow up calls weren't clearly answered and I lost a week pay at the company I was working with, which on X-Mas was overkill, I should've known better and not going to any of the interviews in that end of the year, but none of the interviewers came forward to offer to postpone the interview process untill January, they wanted me to come in right now, and none of them came forward with a single offer afterwards. And I was confident I'd get a better job, most of them were for system administration - the questions were basically around one question how do you pull multiple files with ftp and only one was for network administration of an NT domain of 120 users, and I was floating around on this one.

I think those human recources guys enjoy jerking people around.For me they are in the same scum category with politicians,used car salesman and M$ chairmen and others - I don't want this thread go x-rated.Anyway those guys are good friends the hotel is right at the beach and the last time I was there they even paid to fly my wife there and covered all her expenses,too.Could be a lot worse.What gets me is the timing.Nothing to do all year and when you got to be somewhere they hit you.

I wish I didn't envy you guys.

I work nights at a University library, and due to the wheels of civil service turning ever so slowly, they hired just enough people so that I could take vacation... oh, about three weeks ago? So when Christmas break hit, it was either take vacation, or I have to go in 7 hours earlier then is decent as we're not open nights over the break. So I'm sitting here at 2am on a Thursday morning having gotten up for the day at 9pm wondering why I didn't at least go to Blockbuster before it closed. Three weeks off and nothing to do... well at least I saw the Two Towers last night. Between frantic and bored #$*@less, I'll take frantic.

Cheers,

Finegan