That merits quite a bit of anger, especially if it's been planned all year and everyone else knew months before. There's no good excuse for them not to have told you so you could keep that time free, and the fact that they haven't actually told you is just...so not on.

Want gyoza now.

Was it homemade?

That sounds legitimately angering.

Strega - I think that anger - possibly fury - is totally merited.

A little angry. or irate. 8 weeks should be a decent amount of warning, but not if others knew they wanted you to go for a year.

and 10 days is long enough that it will cause some plan shifting , esp if most business trips are shorter. ( when DH was traveling 3 days was average, 5 days was long)

8 weeks should be a decent amount of warning, but not if others knew they wanted you to go for a year.

I was going back & forth on that. Two months advance warning isn't technically "last minute," but in the scheme of this project it sorta is.

I think finding out via that email is what's eating at me. If they'd come to me, even today, and offered some "Because of X & Y & Z we really need you there" explanation or whatever? I'd still be unhappy, but not quite so furious. So I guess I should practice my responses to "Oh, sorry, I thought we told you" during the drive in tomorrow.

Thanks guys. And hooray for venting. Sigh.

My work irritation is minor in the face of that. They want my home and cell phone number. I really don't like giving them out workwise. Certainly not both of them. I don't want work calls at home. My outgoing message is not sensible, and it's not about to be. I also don't answer the phone for days or check the messages on whim. I also like the freedom to be unreachable by cell, but having it be a work contact number erodes that. If they want that, they should give me a phone. Which they don't do, it seems, even for permanent staff.

I once had an office put my MOTHER'S home phone on our contact sheet. Bitch, I gave you that once in a particular instance as a courtesy, you do NOT pass that shit around.

Buy a $10 to $20 virgin mobile (0r Go phone or whatever) Get the high per minute price with a really low number of minutes required. Use that phone only for work. Leave it at home and check it for messages with the minimum frequency that will keep you from getting into trouble at work.

They want my home and cell phone number.

Ew. There are people at work who certainly know how to reach me, but mostly for non-work reasons. It's not remotely official.

Do you know if they're likely to actually use them? I mean, if it's strictly an ICE thing I would probably give them one phone number.* But "I would rather be able to call and talk to you personally at any hour, in case I happen to think of something, instead of just making a note about it, or emailing, or leaving you a message at your work # like sane person." That's not okay.

* Alternatively, I might give them a number that I had inadvertently mistyped. That might still be the rage talking, though.