I had wanted to take this Friday as a vacation day (I have over three weeks accrued vacation), to get up to colgaffneyis show in Perham early. However, my supervisor would not allow it–I was needed to provide DBA coverage that day. I had thought of taking Monday off, so I could at least sleep in and recover from the trip. But late this morning he e-mailed me:

“In response to your request for Aug 17th or 20th off…. could you take off Friday Aug 24th ?? Till we get R__ officially back, i believe either you or J__ need to be onsite Monday – Friday… I am out this Friday and there is a lot going on this week…”

After some thought, consultation with mia_mcdavid, and consideration that my important vacation requests for October were still pending, I replied:

“I had not yet posted anything to roll call about Monday, so I can work that day.

However, I have no particular interest in taking the 24th off. Fridays are not an interchangeable commodity in my life.”