Woo. So, my sister is graduating from USAF Basic Training Friday, in San Antonio. I will be heading down to see this with my parents and my aunt.

I wasn't going to go with them; short on money right now, for a several reasons, till my mother was like, "Well, I was gonna pay for you..." (I guess being responsible for getting four people from Ohio to San Antonio for less than the cost a single person would pay to fly otherwise has its rewards.)

So I'm going. Which means I had to wrestle the days off.

Found a guy who wanted extra hours, and who had a schedule that'd permit him to pick up my days... except... he's a new hire. Which, even though in training, and in the company manual, they said new hires can pick up all the hours they want, they just can't trade days off for the first six months... (It's a training issue, they want them getting exp.) And even though I picked up days for senior agents like a week out of training, the GM was all like, "Nope. Can't do it! You're a senior agent" (since when!?) "and they're new hires."

So, Jody (one of the supervisors.) went and dug up the manual, printed out the page that says new hires can pick up shifts... to which the GM responded by highlighting the part that says "At management discretion."

Finally, Jody called me into her office and said, "Those days are my shifts, I can do whatever the hell I want with them."

At which point we sat down and hashed out shift coverage so I can head off to San Antonio.

Also, it is my Friday today. And I don't have to be back at work until the equivalent of my Friday again; I essentially have a week off. And I am gonna spend four days or so in Texas, being away from work, and, more importantly, irritating coworkers.

Yay. First vacation, first trip out of state except for training, since last March, the last time I saw Jenna.

I feel.... relieved.