[RKDinOKC]

Oh yeah...

Good Morning and Happy Hump Friday!

I've got enough vacation to take off for vacation the rest of the year. Would be nice if they paid you for the vacation you didn't use.

When my friend was working at Apple, after 7 years you were forced to take off for a full contiguous month. It was called a sabbatical. And you could cash in any accrued vacation to have extra monies. If you didn't take your sabbatical by Thanksgiving of you seventh year, you weren't allowed in the Apple building until January 2nd of the next year. They would actually have security remove you from the premises. They claimed it was to help prevent job burn out. Apple has since stopped that practice.

My friend started his sabbatical right after a speaking engagement in London and toured Europe. His airfare to Europe and back was also paid for by his Apple expense account. He got robbed in Budapest they made him suck a bunch of money out of an ATM and took his souvenir fancy Swiss watch.