[ ] Accept Meeting [X] Decline with Comments

[mbarrick]

I got asked today "if it would be a problem" to fly to Vernon for a software demo. Yes, it is a fucking problem. Spending eight hours of my life travelling on wingèd tin-cans one step removed from Mexican buses with with old-women holding chickens sitting in the back, just to attend a four-hour demo for software I don't give a shit about? I think not. If I don't give a flying fuck, I'm not fucking flying, thank-you-very-much.

Comments

[valerian.livejournal.com]

You have *got* to be kidding. Why would they even want you to go to this when you'll be leaving the company in less than 80 days???

[sebastian6.livejournal.com]

But how do you really feel about it?

[tnkgrl.livejournal.com]

I have a very large, very sharp, well-used, double-edged axe behind my bedroom door that you're welcome to borrow anytime :)

[evilyn13.livejournal.com]

hahaha what a waste of time for a four hour demo!

[ladyvermath.livejournal.com]

You should go to the Demo! Book the most expensive flight (ya ok if possible, considering the location of the event) rent a limo and get plastered. Make sure that the room / hall what have you has a jumbo camping cooler filled with ice and beer. Once all who are to attend are present and comfortably seated, lift up the lid and toss one at them proclaiming “Heads Up!” or “Incoming!” and so on. I say if you are going to go out go out with a BANG!

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

Only problem with that it then they would deny my expenses... and even worse I wouldn't be able to stay out at the Red Room Sunday because I'd either have to leave Sunday night or get up stupidly early Monday.

Besides, I have to go there the following week anyway (which is another reason for being irritated about this request: I'm not going all the way to Vernon twice inside two weeks).

Oh yes and....

[ladyvermath.livejournal.com]

Preferably not so... plastered that you break a bottle over your head and need stitches.

Re: Oh yes and....

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

ROFL. It takes more than a cooler of beer to get me *that* drunk.