bloody hell
Mar. 30th, 2010 11:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
winterbadgerThis situation truly warrants the "pants" icon.
I had calculated to a nicety how far negative I could go in leave to take my trip next week.
As you can imagine, that didn't involve me taking nearly a week off sick (I can't recall the last time I did this that wasn't recovery from an operation).
So, I have the choice of taking my vacation as planned but taking the time off without pay (which would cost me a very large sum, let's call it X) or cancelling my trip (which would cost me, with nonrecoverable plane fare &c., about 2/3 of X).
This will be at least the third time in the past four years that I've had to cancel an overseas trip at the last minute. Of course, the last time I *took* an overseas trip it wasn't a 100% happy experience either.
*sigh*
I had calculated to a nicety how far negative I could go in leave to take my trip next week.
As you can imagine, that didn't involve me taking nearly a week off sick (I can't recall the last time I did this that wasn't recovery from an operation).
So, I have the choice of taking my vacation as planned but taking the time off without pay (which would cost me a very large sum, let's call it X) or cancelling my trip (which would cost me, with nonrecoverable plane fare &c., about 2/3 of X).
This will be at least the third time in the past four years that I've had to cancel an overseas trip at the last minute. Of course, the last time I *took* an overseas trip it wasn't a 100% happy experience either.
*sigh*
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Date: 2010-03-31 05:26 pm (UTC)cost of trip 2/3X: yes, worthwhile, if I had been able to do it
cost of taking the time off without pay *not counting the cost of the trip*: X
So taking the vacation without having the leave would not be 2/3X + 1/3 X, but 2/3 X + X.
The cost of the trip was pretty much sunk either way (I was able to get a refund from one hotel, and if I book the same travel with the same carrier within a year, I can get a credit worth about two-thirds of the ticket). Taking the extra time off would have cost more _more than the cost of the trip itself_ *on top of* the cost of the trip.