Originally posted by Doctor P
You know, Beca, you should not comment about other people's business when you have no clue. You made an assumption that is simply untrue--I did not know about most of these job restrictions when we purchased DVC. The administrative reporting structure of my job changed over the past three years and has been a nightmare. And in fact, the past two years I have attempted to vacation at other times and that is what brought the whole thing to a head. That was when I was told in no uncertain terms that I better not contemplate any vacations when the university was open, and I have no power to change that and will not likely have the power to change it in the future. I have two masters in my job, and each one can make their own rules that conflict. So, one side of the university tells me that I can take A, B, and C weeks off (the side that until three years ago controlled 100% of my employment I might add). The other side of the university says that I can take C, D, or E weeks off. Everyone on the A, B, C side makes it a condition of employment that I have to be there in weeks D and E. The C, D, E side makes it a condition of my employment that I have to be there in weeks A and B. It does not help that I have a new boss on the C, D, E side who never has had a permanent, continuing appointment on the A, B, C side and does not believe in honoring the benefits or vacation schedule of that side of the university since I am the only person on the C, D, E side who also has an appointment on the A, B, C side and everybody knows that the A, B, C side is just lazy and overpaid. Both sides will allow me ONE day here or there. So, what is the common denominator? Week C only each year (and actually, and this IS a choice, it is week C every other year due to family obligations, but the problem does not go away if it is week C every year that we are able to go). And, I have no recourse in this. I can ***** and moan, of course, but there is no formal appeal process. And, the ironic thing, is that because I have worked on both sides of the university for so long in a relatively unique type of position that has been eliminated for all intents and purposes because no one except me was ever able to succeed in doing it, I cannot get a good job doing either half of my job someplace else because I have only a half of an outstanding track record in each place. Trust me, I have looked at other jobs and, though I am very good at what I do, specialists and entry level people are what are in demand. And the practitioner side of what I do is now obsoleter for the most part and could not be retooled, I fear with good reason. So, I'm pretty much stuck riding this thing out another twenty years or so as it looks now. Not a very pleasant prospect.