Actually, that is the official policy for U.S. Gub'ment employees; we are explicitely told that we not "required" to travel outside of duty hours unless absolutely necessary. (E.g., if you have a meeting that ends at 1700 in L.A. and another that starts the next day in D.C. at 0800, you don't have many choices. Except to try and get one or both rescheduled, and if you aren't senior enough, that can be difficult.) If we do travel outside of normal hours, we are due compensatory time for the time beyond the normal scheduled work day. Very sane and rational policy. Of course, when the employee tries to pull the policy out for reference in a discussion with the boss, they may well be told: "it is absolutely necessary because I said so. You travel on my schedule or you don't go at all and I'll find someone else." Fortunately, not in my agency.
One like me who has the opportunity to travel to interesting places and do interesting work learns not to take too much advantage. I get my couple of days extra time here and there, and add to my list of places to revisit once retired... Stan On Dec 16, 2006, at 4:15 PM, John Francis wrote: > On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 07:04:42AM -0800, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: >> >> It's simple: "I only fly for business on business hours." Told my >> boss that outright ... and he agreed. Sometimes he even paid for my >> personal time. > > That's always been my position. And of that meant I had to fly > on Friday to be at a destination on Moday, you bet that my personal > time (including meals and a rental car) was a chargeable expense. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
